News

Confusion over evacuation plans

EXPOSING bus drivers to radiation while taking children and elderly people to places of safety has blown a hole in Sellafield’s emergency plans.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Select committee hears of county’s n-waste options

LAND further away from Sellafield than Longlands, near Gosforth, might prove suitable for burying higher levels of radioactive waste, MPs have been told.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Councillors call for route to be created through Sellafield

COUNCILLORS are to ask Sellafield if a route can be created through the nuclear site to alleviate long-standing traffic problems on the A595.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Hospital smoking ban virtually impossible to enforce – bosses

HOSPITAL bosses say enforcing controversial no-smoking legislation in their grounds has got them stumped.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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MP donates pay rise to child poverty group

COPELAND MP Jamie Reed won’t pocket his £971 a year pay rise.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Police training HQ move under fire

THE controversial decision to switch the Civic Nuclear Constabulary’s police training HQ from Whitehaven to Oxford came under renewed fire this week.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Message from the soapbox over threat to respite care

“RESPITE care is not an option – but a necessity!” That was the heart-felt message that was shouted loud and clear from the soapbox on Whitehaven’s Hub on Sunday afternoon.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Wedgewood Centre to shut

A VITAL Whitehaven centre for abused children is to close at the end of the month.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Public’s help in clean-up campaign

FIFTY-TWO dog-owners have been fined this year after failing to clean up after their pets.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Charged for incident

A MAN has been charged with racially-aggravated threatening behaviour following an alleged incident at the West Cumberland Hospital.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Stephen is Home hero

A WHITEHAVEN housing liaison officer has been short-listed for a national hero award.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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All aboard for next lesson!

PUPILS from Montreal Primary School are among a handful of Cumbrian schools to pilot a new teaching initiative called Adventure learning.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Kicked door

NATHAN John Mann, 21, of Earls Road, Bransty, has admitted kicking a car door causing £100 of damage.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Can we help YOUR good cause?

COULD your charity benefit from a boost? Are you a group of hard-working volunteers who need a helping hand?

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Speech group’s success

A NEW group to support people with speech difficulties has been deemed a “great success’’.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Last of the Wellington miners dies aged 98

DAVID Rogan, the last surviving miner who worked at Wellington Pit, has died aged 98.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Mining poetry

A WOMAN from Cheshire with Whitehaven roots is bringing out a book of 15 poems to commemorate the Wellington Pit Disaster of 1910.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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Court news

A BALD tyre cost Charlene Adair a £65 fine at Whitehaven court. The 22-year-old, of Croasdale Place, Cleator Moor, was also ordered to pay £50 costs and a £15 surcharge.

Last updated 10 March 2010
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