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HAVE YOUR SAY End of the line for 44 phone boxes
Published 4 July 2008
BRITISH Telecom is planning to remove 44 phone boxes across Allerdale which they say are little used by consumers.
Students’ Open University successes
Published 4 July 2008
WEST Cumbrian students were celebrating after graduating from their Open University courses.
Obituary Eleanor Harrison
Published 4 July 2008
ELEANOR Harrison, who will be remembered by many people from her years as a teacher in West Cumbria, has died at the age of 91.
Rally man Matthew’s £30,000 charity ride
Published 4 July 2008
EAGLESFIELD Paddle School helped to raise more than £800 for a former pupil’s 960 mile charity ride.
Martin is hang gliding for Britain
Published 4 July 2008
MARTIN Sandwith, 34, a roofer from Workington, has been selected for the British Paragliding and Hang Gliding team to compete in the Bleriot Cup against France.
Plans unveiled for new fire station
Published 4 July 2008
PLANS for a new fire station in Workington were unveiled in Parliament this week.
Top team joins police hunt for county’s loan sharks
Published 4 July 2008
CUMBRIA police have teamed up with a new elite squad of investigators from Birmingham to target loan sharks across the county.
Obituary Graham Connett
Published 4 July 2008
GRAHAM Connett, of Harrington, who for many years was manager of the Remploy factory at Cleator Moor, has died, aged 70.
Shirley has got the blues in art
Published 3 July 2008
AVANT garde artist, Shirley Sutcliffe has painted a picture that should be snapped up by blues music fans.
Sharon’s drugs fightback now helps others to fight back
Published 3 July 2008
FIVE years ago Sharon Stamper was a divorced mother-of-three addicted to amphetamines and anti-depressants, with a no qualifications and a bleak future.
Packed final house at Civic Hall
Published 3 July 2008
THERE was standing room only as Maryport people turned out to say goodbye to the town’s Civic Hall.
