News round up
Lawrence still can’t get enough of volunteering after 50 years
Published 5 September 2008
WITH more than 50 years of unpaid work in the community under his belt, Lawrence Marshall knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a winning volunteer. The 73-year-old Silloth man was the runner-up in the Volunteer of the Year award at last year’s Cumbria Community Awards.
Firefighters devastated at death of Carlisle mum
Published 5 September 2008
THE firefighters who rescued Melanie Witson from her burning Brook Street home were devastated by her death six weeks later.
'I’m no monster,' says Brampton mum who killed sons
Published 5 September 2008
A mother who was cleared of murder after killing her two young sons while mentally ill has spoken for the first time, saying: “I am not a monster.”
£250m Canadian investment hinges on Carlisle airport
Published 5 September 2008
A Canadian company considering a £250 million investment in Cumbria says an airport in Carlisle is crucial to its decision.
Plumber jailed for attack on love rival
Published 5 September 2008
A plumber who lost his job and then his girlfriend was jailed for three years after he admitted setting up his own cannabis factory and attacking his ex-partner’s new lover.
Anger at felling of Bitts Park trees for flood defence bank
Published 5 September 2008
Carlisle residents are angered by the felling of trees to make way for city flood defences.
Men leave £3m to relatives
Published 5 September 2008
Ronald Brough, of Langfauld, Langrigg, Aspatria, who died on May 24 left estate valued at £1,830,809 gross, £1,828,309 net. He left his estate to relatives.
Kids’ blood helps DNA discovery
Published 5 September 2008
RESEARCHERS working on blood samples from 3,000 infants in west Cumbria have made a major breakthrough that could help unravel the mystery surrounding several inherited diseases.
Reward for finding thug who shot cat with crossbow
Published 5 September 2008
A Carlisle businessman was so disgusted by the ordeal of Marmite the cat – who was shot with a crossbow arrow – he has launched a reward fund to help catch the culprits.
Pupils welcomed with open minds to new academies
Published 5 September 2008
It could have been a logistical nightmare but hundreds of pupils from two different schools came smoothly together to create the Richard Rose Central Academy yesterday.
Residents’ vision of new estate leads to delay in planning bid
Published 5 September 2008
An application to build a 700-home estate, business park and supermarket in Morton has been delayed.
Finishing the endurance test is a fitting tribute to soldier
Published 5 September 2008
The best friend and sister of a Cumbrian soldier killed in Afghanistan are pushing themselves to the limit to raise money in his memory.
A game of two halves – and three brothers
Published 5 September 2008
Arthur Hodgkison will be cheering for both sides at a Youth League match in Carlisle tomorrow – he has a grandson on each team.
Carrs trail makes list of best-loved country walks
Published 5 September 2008
THE Miller’s Way – created to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Cumbria-based Carrs Flour – has been added to a prestigious list of the UK’s best-loved cross country walks.
Funding bid over £2m plan for Green
Published 5 September 2008
A £2 MILLION regeneration plan for Silloth Green is a step closer with a lottery funding bid to be lodged this month.
House prices continue to slide
Published 5 September 2008
THE typical Cumbrian home has fallen in value by £3,432 since the county’s housing market peaked in March, official figures show.
NHS bid to save money
Published 5 September 2008
MANAGEMENT consultants are being paid to look at where cost savings and efficiencies can be made in Cumbria’s health service.
No charges for man, 37
Published 5 September 2008
A MAN arrested on suspicion of assaulting a female traffic warden on Carlisle’s busiest shopping street has been released without charge.
Daffodils poem in new ‘best of’ guide
Published 5 September 2008
LEAD pencils, gurning and daffodils – that’s what Cumbria is best known for, according to a new guide chronicling the quirky and the quaint in English counties.
Help shape the future
Published 5 September 2008
CUMBRIA County Council wants residents to influence the decisions which affect their lives.
Have your say
- £250m Canadian investment hinges on Carlisle airport
- Residents’ vision of new estate leads to delay in planning bid
- Remove the road from castle view
- Sainsbury’s store plans scrapped
- Teenagers say city feels unsafe and are ashamed of its looks
- CueDoc site is favoured for city's super surgery
- Our visit revealed city out of control with no appreciation of its history
- £20 a day to park in Carlisle city centre
- Eco-village with 800 homes could be built in city
- 11,000 patients affected as three city GP surgeries consider merger
