News & Star comment

Zero tolerance clear to most

Published 20 November 2008

It seems odd and very sad that we have to make announcements in this day and age declaring that violence will not be tolerated.

Parking fees help nobody

Published 19 November 2008

On yer bike is just one phrase that might spring to motorists lips as they read our report today on Carlisle city council plans to hike parking charges.

Just do your jobs properly

Published 18 November 2008

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls was today adding another layer of legislated paperwork to the already multi-layered confusion that has so far proved to fail children at risk.

United in hope for real action

Published 17 November 2008

In the cold, cruel light of depressing reality, his gesture seems almost futile. But a Carlisle father’s pleas on behalf of Baby P and vulnerable children like him echo the angry frustrations of millions.

Applause for decision on PO

Published 15 November 2008

The announcement that the Post Office Card Account (Poca) will continue to be administered by post offices is a welcome relief at a time when few are escaping worries about job losses and businesses going under.

Don’t waste a worthy idea

Published 13 November 2008

An idea which saves taxpayers millions of pounds while helping the environment is not to be sniffed at – and you can sniff all you want but you won’t catch a pong from the future of Cumbrian waste disposal.

A lack of jobs and new ideas

Published 12 November 2008

Today’s unemployment figures make grim reading. Nationally the picture is the worst it has been for more than a decade and there are few signs of it brightening.

Why wasn’t it seen before?

Published 11 November 2008

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has had a brainwave. He is reported to be urging Gordon Brown that, given the parlous state of British banks, post offices could be extremely useful community resources.

Banks have to pass on rate cut

Published 8 November 2008

Some people may have believed that £37 billion of taxpayers’ money might entitle the British public to receive something back from the banking industry.

We must remember our war heroes

Published 7 November 2008

THE families and friends of those killed in war have Remembrance Monday, Tuesday and every day.

Where did our money go?

Published 6 November 2008

Today’s keenly anticipated interest rate cut was building anger even before it was announced.

Change is now in store for all

Published 5 November 2008

Peel away the showbiz – and of course the money – and America’s electoral democracy is a clumsy, cumbersome, interminably long affair.

Ambition must be at all levels

Published 4 November 2008

The king is dead. Long live the king. Such is the nature of football management and Carlisle United supporters have seen more coronations than most.

Anger shared by the nation

Published 3 November 2008

It’s not unprecedented for controversy to rage about the standard of kit issued to British fighting men and women.

Proof the trend can be bucked

Published 1 November 2008

With a recession emerging over the horizon and a credit crunch already under way, the climate for most companies is not favourable at the moment.

Poppies are for every conflict

Published 30 October 2008

As men who lost their lives to war in Afghanistan are honoured today at a memorial service in Colchester, Cumbria will remember her own fallen heroes.

Safe decisions on motoring

Published 29 October 2008

Any death on any road is one death too many. None would dream of arguing otherwise. But devising a process competently to prevent death and injury on our roads needs careful thought, open debate and widespread engagement.

Time for fell- top insurance

Published 28 October 2008

AS the enormous cost of the weekend’s Mountain Marathon rescue emerges, we might expect organisers and competitors who defied weather warnings to trudge on into disaster to offer shame-faced apology.