Your Letters
Fluoride in water too clumsy to work
Published 10 October 2008
IN your article concerning the introduction of fluoride into local drinking water (The Cumberland News, October 3), Eric Rooney, the dental health consultant for Cumbria, makes a number of statements that deserve further scrutiny.
If artists miss out, how about pensioners and patients?
Published 10 October 2008
MY HEART bleeds for those poor young English artists whose sign was desecrated and who must continue starving in their garrets (The Cumberland News, October 3). n THE only sad thing about the Welcome to Scotland sign erected as a ‘work of art’ south of Carlisle being vandalised was that somebody beat me to it.
Facing up to global warming means accepting change
Published 3 October 2008
Hopefully Rebecca Willis read The Cumberland News last week and realises that the Lake District is going to change regardless of her predictions (‘As the storm clouds gather’, September 26).
If Cumbria is badly served by television news then we can create our own
Published 3 October 2008
Anyone who doubts the ability of news services in the North East to service Cumbria adequately cannot have been encouraged by a recent Look North broadcast.
Culture would flourish if it had a home
Published 26 September 2008
I write this in response to your article ‘No theatre for 45 years... is Carlisle a cultural desert?’ (The Cumberland News, September 19).
Don’t throw away 20 years of hard work at the lake
Published 26 September 2008
I was fortunate, no privileged, to have been involved with the development of Crofton Lake some 19 years ago.
Charity should be left as a private decision
Published 19 September 2008
I have never swum in a shark-infested ocean, but I imagine it is very similar to walking the length of English Street in Carlisle these days.
Modern harvesting to blame for mess
Published 19 September 2008
The problem with wet summers like this one is not so much the crops (as yet), but the softness of the ground, ruined if modern harvesting machines are brought onto the fields.
No superstore - we need leisure complex
Published 19 September 2008
Regarding the new Tesco store at the Viaduct, I think the company is being greedy as it already has a big store at Rosehill and what we are lacking in Carlisle is a bigger leisure complex with a decent swimming pool and even an ice rink
Run-down Carlisle needs investment
Published 19 September 2008
As yet another bar in Carlisle closes (Suede) the amount of commercial properties now to let or for sale in the Warwick Road/ Lowther Street area of the city is increasing daily, making our city centre look very run-down.
Windfarms a threat to tourism in the county
Published 19 September 2008
Windfarms now pose one of the biggest threats to the unspoilt beauty of Cumbria’s landscape.
Reminder of Greystoke gives us an excuse for thanksgiving
Published 19 September 2008
I was very pleased to note Jeremy Godwin’s reference to Greystoke College in The Cumberland News (September 12).
Preservation society helped lay foundations of discord
Published 19 September 2008
THE article Going Underground (The Cumberland News, September 12) brings back memories for me because, along with Hugh Little, I served on Carlisle City Council from 1962-1965 when all the plans for the inner and outer ring roads for the city were being discussed.WINDFARMS now pose one of the biggest threats to the unspoilt beauty of Cumbria’s landscape.AS YET another bar in Carlisle closes (Suede) the amount of commercial properties now to let or for sale in the Warwick Road/ Lowther Street area of the city is increasing daily, making our city centre look very run-down. That, in itself, does not help those businesses left, leaving them with less passing trade.REGARDING the new Tesco store at the Viaduct, I think the company is being greedy as it already has a big store at Rosehill and what we are lacking in Carlisle is a bigger leisure complex with a decent swimming pool and even an ice rink.THE problem with wet summers like this one is not so much the crops (as yet), but the softness of the ground, ruined if modern harvesting machines are brought onto the fields.I HAVE never swum in a shark-infested ocean, but I imagine it is very similar to walking the length of English Street in Carlisle these days.FROM your article on the Cumbria County Council pantomime (The Cumberland News, September 12), it would appear that the council is to be ruled, for possibly the next seven months, by a Barrow/ west Cumbria Labour comradeship – hardly representative local Government for this great county of Cumbria.A FEW weeks ago at the Olympics, a boxer commented after a first-round beating: “I will be glad to get back to my family” (who incidentally were sitting at the ringside watching him). His training cost was £140,000.WHILE on a trip to Canada I saw various totem pole structures on which people deposited their chewing gum after use – and noticed that the pavements were refreshingly clear of gum.THIS year, the summer has not been kind to us.
Greystoke was place for church colleagues
Published 19 September 2008
THE report of the Solway History Society’s annual church trial (The Cumberland News, August 22), said that Greystoke Church had been twice a theological college, having been built for that purpose originally.
Tanks were hardly a secret
Published 19 September 2008
I WAS most surprised to read the assertion in Laurie Kemp’s article (The Cumberland News, August 29) that “few people today know the incredible story of the canal defence light”.
As standards rise again, well done to education staff
Published 19 September 2008
I WOULD like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the staff of all Cumbria’s secondary schools for their continued hard work and congratulate them on their excellent end of year results. THANK-YOU for Steve Matthews’s review of Mary Scott-Parker’s Carlisle Grammar School (The Cumberland News, September 5). NOW that the Liberal Democrats on Cumbria County Council have at last done the decent thing and supported the Labour Party, which is, after all, the biggest party on the council, can we expect the same from them on Carlisle City Council? I WAS incensed to hear that it is proposed that motorists should have to pay to park in Rickergate in Carlisle.HAVING read the article ‘£250million Canadian investment hinges on airport’ and the associated editorial comment (The Cumberland News, September 5,) it immediately raised a number of questions in my mind and, I would have thought, should have raised these same questions in the reports. n HAD anyone heard of World Biofibre Technology Inc. before it hit the front page of The Cumberland News with promises of £250million to invest in Cumbria – if only there was an airport? Editor’s comment: n Our first contact with Peter Jardine came in an e-mail letter to the editor in which he briefly outlined his company’s plans for investment in west Cumbria and how an airport would be crucial to those plans.
Sacrificing trees is a shame – but flooded city is worse
Published 19 September 2008
I CAN well understand why members of Friends of the Earth are dismayed by the sight of old and beautiful trees being chopped down in Carlisle’s Bitts Park (The Cumberland News, September 5).
Sacrificing trees is a shame – but flooded city is worse
Published 12 September 2008
I can well understand why members of Friends of the Earth are dismayed by the sight of old and beautiful trees being chopped down in Carlisle’s Bitts Park (The Cumberland News, September 5).
Tanks were hardly a secret
Published 12 September 2008
I was most surprised to read the assertion in Laurie Kemp’s article (The Cumberland News, August 29) that “few people today know the incredible story of the canal defence light”.
Greystoke was place for church colleagues
Published 12 September 2008
THE report of the Solway History Society’s annual church trial (The Cumberland News, August 22), said that Greystoke Church had been twice a theological college, having been built for that purpose originally.
