We shall rue the Government’s treatment of farmers

THE excellent Agenda article on the current high cost of fuel provided much food for thought (The Cumberland News, July 11).

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Unrest in the air

CONTINUING claims and counter claims about the safety of Carlisle Housing Association homes, thousands of which are said to contain asbestos, show few signs of reaching imminent resolution.

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“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.

Anne Pickles

Had I been told about competitive creativity, I wouldn’t be looking for duvets day excuses now

If I’d known as a child there might be mileage in competitive creativity, things could have been very different. Had someone told me county agricultural shows were precisely the places for cultivating imagination and nurturing eagerness to succeed, who knows around which exciting corner life might have turned.

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We shall rue the Government’s treatment of farmers

THE excellent Agenda article on the current high cost of fuel provided much food for thought (The Cumberland News, July 11).

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