Agenda
City on the verge of a supermarket boom
Published 5 September 2008
The country may be heading into a recession but Carlisle is on the verge of a massive development boom. As schemes and debates over the Renaissance project rumble on, a multi-million pound trolley dash is gathering pace.
The summer that never was
Published 29 August 2008
If there is any consolation to be had, it is simply this: the summer of 2008 has not been as wet as the summer of 2007.
Going for London’s gold
Published 22 August 2008
On Sunday afternoon the Beijing Olympics will close, and three Cumbrian athletes – Sir Chris Bonington, Joss Naylor and Laura Park – will unfurl the 2012 Olympic flag at the top of Scafell Pike. With the 2012 games taking place in London, will Cumbria reap any benefits? Stephen Blease reports
What the top celebrity chefs think of our produce
Published 15 August 2008
“If you love good food, Cumbria has a real treat in store with a richly-stocked larder bursting with meat, game, fish, fresh fruit and vegetables.
Why Cumbria must give the world food for thought
Published 15 August 2008
Recently, the winners of this year’s ‘food Oscars’ were announced. A clutch of the hard-won, much-desired Great Taste Awards went to Cumbrian producers, two of them picking up the top three gold star award.That shift from field to fork started with the BSE crisis of 1996 and was spurred on by the disaster of the foot and mouth epidemic which devastated Cumbria in 2001.
‘There’s good and bad in every culture and community... all we want is to be treated the same as anyone else’
Published 8 August 2008
In 21st century Britain there is a big push towards multiculturalism, towards breaking down generations-old barriers and encouraging different religions and cultures to live together as one.One person who is more than keen for this development to go ahead is Mrs Miller, a 27-year-old, married mother-of-one. Coming from a settled family in Carlisle, she had always socialised with gypsy children as a teenager.
Should people pay insurance to go walking in the Lakes?
Published 2 August 2008
The fells and valleys of Cumbria are one of the county’s greatest assets – and one of its greatest dangers. Every year thousands of people venture onto them in search of some of the most stunning views in England.
In Princess Diana’s footsteps
Published 25 July 2008
“We were playing a game by the railroad track on the hillside, we had to hop up the hill, we each took our turn.The innocent, eye-prickling testimony of a six-year-old girl blown up by a mine as she played with her friends was part of Rae McGrath’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning acceptance speech.
'We've changed the face of education'
Published 18 July 2008
It's almost three years since soon-to-retire Roger Alston was asked if he could spare some time to review Cumbria’s schools. He was given two objectives by county council chief executive Peter Stybelski – cut the number of surplus places and improve secondary schools standards.
The class of 2008 onwards
Published 18 July 2008
FROM September, Carlisle will have just four secondary schools – Trinity, Newman and two new academies.
'I've never experienced anything like these fuel prices. I worry every day...'
Published 11 July 2008
On the quiet country roads around Kirkbride, John Stamper of RI Stamper Haulage is giving driving lessons. Stamper’s drivers already hold HGV licences. In many cases they have years of experience.
Facing a net loss on the Solway
Published 4 July 2008
Into the water he goes, making waves. Squelching through wet sand at Port Carlisle, his haaf net balanced across his back, Mark Graham reaches the brown sea and wades straight in.
Sixty years on, it’s time to give the NHS a facelift
Published 4 July 2008
When Nye Bevan set out his groundbreaking vision for the National Health Service 60 years ago tomorrow, he had three underlying principles.
'Sarah’s wasn’t a wasted life. She filled it with courage, purpose, belief and dignity'
Published 27 June 2008
Maureen Feely doesn’t yet know when she will be able to accompany the daughter she calls her one and only to her last resting place at Wetheral Church. But she waits for that final journey in unshakeable certainty that no memory of her courageous girl will ever be laid to rest.
Should windfarms be the last resort?
Published 20 June 2008
Cumbria could be in line for 200 more wind turbines and a lot of hot air has been expended arguing over them. Casting aside the 'not in my back yard' debate, we find out if windfarms really are the solution to energy problems.
Preaching to the converted house... or pub... or bus...
Published 13 June 2008
A bus with stained glass windows trundling over fells and through leafy county lanes, or a housing estate semi with a spire? Both could be the new venues for singing hymns and saying prayers instead of that chilly echoing building at the end of the street.Already courses across the country have been the launch pad for churches to be established on housing estates, one specifically for pensioners and even a mobile church on a bus.
Could this super youth centre solve Carlisle’s teenage crime problem?
Published 6 June 2008
Antisocial behaviour by young people, say police, is the biggest concern for neighbourhoods in north Cumbria. Adults regularly complain about teenagers hanging around the streets in the evenings causing trouble – or looking as though they might.
101 ways to be a farmer’s wife
Published 30 May 2008
Christine Brass, 55, is a weddings and events organiser at Sharrow Bay hotel on Lake Ullswater and does jobs on the farm such as book-keeping.
Time for another term
Published 23 May 2008
The lounge of the George Hotel in Penrith is where we find a changed man. David Maclean has been altered by illness, by experience, and by time. If a week is a long time in politics, how do we describe a quarter of a century?
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