Your Letters
What these students have been put through is appalling
Published 3 July 2009
I was interested and not surprised to read the negative report about the Richard Rose sixth-form in The Cumberland News on June 19.
We’ll soon need a north Carlisle bypass
Published 3 July 2009
I live some 200 metres past the only access road to the proposed 900-home eco-village in north Carlisle.
Heartfelt thanks for your generosity
Published 3 July 2009
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the children of Stanwix School in Carlisle, their teachers, their parents and the Friends of the Stanwix School for the very generous support they have given to our church, St Michael’s.
Overwhelmed by people’s support
Published 3 July 2009
Can I through the columns of The Cumberland News thank all those people who have sent cards, messages and good wishes following last weekend’s production of Peter Pan the musical by the StagedRight Youth Theatre.
Bus company must up its game in north
Published 26 June 2009
I recently used Stagecoach’s Explorer Day Ticket to go to Keswick via Caldbeck and on to Bassenthwaite, using the Ospray bus.
Modern transport for 21st century
Published 26 June 2009
The ‘news’ that a bicycle is the fastest method of travel around Carlisle will come as a surprise to many, but not to those who cycle regularly.
Well done to participants in great gala
Published 19 June 2009
I should like to congratulate all of the organisers and participants of the Gala Day in Aspatria.
Nation will get through tribulations
Published 19 June 2009
Recently there has been frustration, mixed with shock and anger, over the surprising results of the county council and the European elections and much of that has been associated with the scandal of the politicians’ expense accounts.
Letting producers fail will cost us all
Published 12 June 2009
As a lay person who has lived in Cumbria for only six years and has very little knowledge of the farming world, I am amazed at the resilience and fortitude of the hard-working farmers and their families who have endured, over the years, unimaginable attacks on their profession – and then picked themselves up and diversified.
Help appeal to improve comfort for cancer patients
Published 5 June 2009
Having been diagnosed with cancer almost four years ago, I have undergone several cycles of chemotherapy at Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary.
Fun has been risk-assessed to death
Published 5 June 2009
Years ago, when I first came to live in Brampton, I could take a walk in the woods at Talkin Tarn with my children, and they were able to run freely, and play hide and seek with a sense of a freedom to roam.
Name change to blame for demise?
Published 29 May 2009
It was very good news to see (The Cumberland News, May 22) that the empty pub at the top of Warwick Road in Carlisle is to be rescued from four years’ dilapidation and restored to heights previously unknown.
True identity of honey bee is revealed
Published 29 May 2009
I WAS delighted to see your article about a proposed bee-keeping course at the University of Cumbria (The Cumberland News, May 22).
Thanks for response to vulnerable
Published 22 May 2009
We are very grateful to you for highlighting our work at Community Projects Carlisle (The Cumberland News, April 10).
Encourage right people into politics
Published 22 May 2009
Because of the national exposure of the scandal of many MPs’ abuse of their expenses and allowances, it seems that many local voters are considering “not bothering” with the upcoming local elections.
Following the rules on expenses is no excuse
Published 15 May 2009
Discovering what has gone on in the House of Commons, besides running the country, makes very disturbing reading.
Minister’s visit ‘missed opportunity’
Published 15 May 2009
WHEN our unelected “New” Labour rail minister, Lord Andrew Adonis came to Carlisle a few weeks ago as part of his grand tour of the privatised, fragmented national rail network, it was a missed opportunity. n I RECENTLY came across a Wetheral Parish Council report I wrote 10 years ago when both we and Brampton Parish Council were exhorting Northern Spirit, which then held the franchise, to stop more trains at our stations. n MR Bell should not be puzzled by the Carlisle to Newcastle train timetable. LAST week’s Cumberland News featured some fairly negative letters regarding the proposed windfarms in north Cumbria. n DENMARK is the world leader in wind energy, producing well over 20 per cent of its electricity from wind power and this is set to increase. n IT IS nice to know that Karen Telford finds 400ft-tall wind turbines beautiful. n YOUR correspondents who complain regularly about wind turbines should think ahead to what life would be like without electricity.THANK-YOU for your article bringing to our attention the statement by seven church ministers attacking the BNP (The Cumberland News, May 1).I AM writing in response to the story “Fears as town health campus plans are dogged by delays” (The Cumberland News, May 8). I SEE that the on-going fiasco regarding the car parking at Talkin Tarn is getting worse than ever. I WISH to correct a statement made in a report from Brampton WI (The Cumberland News, May 8) which said that I was presented with my commemorative Land Army medal at Buckingham Palace. This was not so.LAST Friday, May 8, a small audience attended a UKIP meeting at the County Hotel in Carlisle.
Creature comforts can be dispensed with at times
Published 11 May 2009
The fine achievement of the two Brownie leaders from Wetheral and Carlisle in reaching over 5,400 metres in the slopes of Everest and the comments they made about an unreliable satellite phone and a single loo for 88 trekkers (The Cumberland News, May 1), took my mind back to being a student in the early 1950s.
Women’s pay plan ‘weak’
Published 10 May 2009
Women in Cumbria are paid 15.5 per cent less than men for doing the same or equivalent work. This is despite the fact pay discrimination was made illegal nearly 40 years ago.
