News round up
Call for CHA tenants to have a vote on firm’s Liverpool switch
Published 26 August 2008
A TENANTS group has voiced fears that 6,000 housing association tenants in Carlisle could find their homes managed by housing chiefs in Liverpool.
Three years of chaos coming to city centre roads
Published 26 August 2008
MOTORISTS in Carlisle are being warned they could face up to three years of disruption as £110 million is spent in the city centre on education and an upgrade of underground sewage systems.
Double delight at GCSE results
Published 26 August 2008
IT WAS double delight for at least four sets of twins who picked up their GSCE results yesterday, in a record year for Cumbrian schools.
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Published 26 August 2008
PUPILS at Longtown’s Lochinvar School collected their GCSE results from the function room of a nearby hotel following the closure of their school.
Victim’s cousin: get tough on knife crime
Published 26 August 2008
A COUSIN of Wigton stabbing victim Xenon Charters has joined the campaign to halt Britain’s rising tide of knife crime.
Brooks is given deadline to prove he’s too ill to contest legal case
Published 26 August 2008
FORMER Gretna Football Club owner Brooks Mileson has been given 10 weeks to prove that he is medically unfit to fight a legal action brought by Carlisle United.
Cattle breeder to pursue £68k damages from bankrupt AI firm
Published 26 August 2008
A PEDIGREE cattle breeder will continue his fight for almost £68,000 in damages after the Carlisle boss of the business he sued was declared bankrupt – and the firm’s assets transferred to a new company.
Outrage at traffic warden attack
Published 26 August 2008
CARLISLE City Council has labelled an attack on a woman traffic warden “unacceptable” after she was assaulted by a biker on the city’s busiest shopping street.
Thieves steal from baby Hassan’s grave
Published 26 August 2008
THIEVES have stolen ornaments from the grave of murdered baby Hassan Martin.
Weather halts Keswick Show for a second year
Published 26 August 2008
FOR the second successive year Keswick Show has been cancelled because of the weather.
Call for witnesses to blaze
Published 26 August 2008
POLICE suspect a fire which caused major damage to a house near Keswick could have been deliberate.
Electrical theft probe
Published 26 August 2008
POLICE in Carlisle are appealing for information after £1,600 of electrical equipment was stolen from a house in Cant Crescent, Upperby.
Inheritance settlements
Published 26 August 2008
SUSAN Quincy Mawdsley, of The Mary Mount Hotel, Borrowdale, Keswick, who died on October 13, 2007; left estate valued at £1,205,470 gross, £1,170,398 net. She left her estate to relatives. Probate has been granted to son Geoffrey Thompson Mawdsley, of Braithwaite.
Theatre by the Lake celebrates 10th year with world premiere
Published 26 August 2008
KESWICK’S Theatre by the Lake, which celebrates its 10th birthday in 2009, has pumped an estimated £30m into the local economy.
Find out about work on sewers
Published 26 August 2008
RESIDENTS from the Warwick Road area of Carlisle will have the chance to find out more about work on sewers at a meeting next month.
Residents divided on plans for windfarm
Published 26 August 2008
PLANS to site a windfarm close to a north Cumbrian village appear to have divided the community.
Soldier is fined for threats
Published 26 August 2008
A CARLISLE soldier who became involved in an argument with a bouncer in Botchergate has been fined £300.
Andrew to sing in city ahead of tour with choir
Published 26 August 2008
SINGER Andrew Johnston is about to embark on a five-day Norweigian tour – but not before giving his Carlisle fans a special preview.
Villagers do their bit to help keep Alice, three, in wonderland
Published 26 August 2008
THREE-YEAR-OLD Alice Tyson has touched the hearts of many, but none more so than friends and neighbours in the village of Moorhouse.
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Published 26 August 2008
A SCHOOL in Longtown that has been at the centre of a community battle to ensure its future could be knocked down - at a cost of £160,000.
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