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Hundreds take to the road for charity
Published 20 November 2008
HUNDREDS of people tested out the new A595 Parton to Lillyhall bypass on Sunday in a charity walk for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Fundraisers’ cakes banned by hospital
Published 20 November 2008
EFFORTS by a voluntary group to help their local hospital have taken a knock-back after a ban on selling home-made cakes has been issued by health trust bosses. Comment on this story
How green is our valley?
Published 20 November 2008
ESKDALE Youth Hostel is celebrating the installation of its new wood fuelled biomass heating system.THE new owners of an Eskdale hotel have gone green with a bio-fuel heating system that only uses local timber.
Christmas arrives early but Wizzard disappears in a flash
Published 20 November 2008
MORE than 250 people turned up at Blackberry Way (the Civic), saw My Baby Jive (the mayor!) and as things hotted up on the dance floor, the Firebrigade was only sang about, and not summoned. It sure was a Wizzard night!
Woolaghan-Atkinson
Published 20 November 2008
MARRIED at St Mary’s Church, Cleator, were Jill, daughter of Billy and Christine Atkinson, of Frizington, and Luigi, son of Thomas and Angela Woolaghan, of Cleator Moor.
Lancaster-Casson
Published 20 November 2008
A HONEYMOON in Dubai and Maldives followed the wedding of Mark Lancaster and Katie Casson.
Housing bodies to join forces to create better buying power
Published 20 November 2008
FIVE Cumbrian housing associations are joining forces to make savings during the programme to modernise thousands of properties.
Business in brief
Published 20 November 2008
BARCLAYS has appointed a new face to its commercial banking team in Cumbria. Paul Ashton, 35, joins the bank from rival Clydesdale.
House raffle takes off
Published 20 November 2008
THE Cleator house raffle has attracted ticket sales from as far as Singapore, New Zealand and Switzerland.
Egremont Fur and Feather Show is a 60th success
Published 20 November 2008
EGREMONT Fur and Feather Society’s 60th annual open show took place in Egremont Civic Hall, on Saturday, November 8.
No council tax if we take nuclear dump?
Published 20 November 2008
A PARISH Council wants to see all council tax in Copeland abolished “in perpetuity” if the borough becomes home to the nation’s underground nuclear dump.
Sellafield handover – for £1
Published 19 November 2008
MINUTES after getting the keys to Sellafield next Monday for a nominal £1 “golden share”, Nuclear Management Partners will say how it aims to open the purse strings to help local communities.
Help light up the castle
Published 19 November 2008
MUNCASTER Castle is asking children to help it create a giant illuminated Christmas card, as part of its light show.
We can all light up a life
Published 19 November 2008
HOSPICE at Home West Cumbria’s Light up a Life services are being held to remember loved ones.
Town pays tribute to fallen
Published 19 November 2008
AMONG last week’s Remembrance Sunday events was this moving ceremony in Egremont, attended by deputy mayor Henry Wormstrup.
Repository work won’t affect toads
Published 19 November 2008
NATTERJACK toads need not worry over plans to build a big bund to take massive amounts of spoil at the low-level radioactive waste repository near Drigg.
Age Conern to offer advice and free food for older folk
Published 19 November 2008
FREE vegetables are being offered to Copeland’s older folks in an attempt to banish worries about food prices this winter.
Man, 37, dies suddenly
Published 19 November 2008
AN inquest has been opened on an Egremont man who died at home. Paul William Dalton, 37, of Croft Terrace, died on November 15 and was identified by his mother, Barbara Dalton. No cause of death has yet been established and West Cumbria coroner, John Taylor opened the hearing and adjourned it .
Murder trial farmer admits sleeping with farm helper
Published 19 November 2008
THE Cumbrian farmer accused of murder has admitted having sexual relationships with two women in the month after his wife died.
Firms in court over death fall
Published 19 November 2008
SELLAFIELD Ltd and contractors PC Richardson & co will be in court before a Crown Court judge today (Thursday) charged with failing to impose appropriate health and safety measures following the death of steeplejack Neil Cannon in 2003.
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