A humbling experience for runners to be helped by Cockermouth

I WANTED to say an enormous thank you to all the people in Cockermouth and nearby who helped all the fell runners on Saturday night.

Then and now in pictures

old 1 PHOTOS: Click here to see what parts of Workington used to look like and to share your memories of the town.

Fuller's football

Edmo's wish comes true

WELL, the worst-kept secret in West Cumbrian football was finally made public late last week.

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From the people I have talked to about this I think Allerdale has become a lauging stock. I think it has got to the point now where no one would be suprised at anything that happens now.

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Come along and help save our maritime museum

THANKS to Viv Paterson’s vigilant reporting (Times & Star, November 21) over 20 people turned up at 11.15am on Monday concerned at Allerdale council’s proposal to close Maryport Maritime Museum and store the contents in Workington.THE recent talk of the shops in Maryport, Whitehaven and Workington in bygone years prompted me to wonder was the pharmacy in Maryport the one run by Mr Briggs?THE Ellenborough Village Group recently staged a Family Tree Exhibition in the old school, now the Dales, and raised over £400 for charities.LAST Saturday I was enjoying my daily commute to work, travelling along the coast road from Allonby to Maryport. It was a beautiful, still, chilly morning and the views of Criffel and the hills of Galloway looked stunning in the crystal clear early morning light.DIANNE Standen is right (letters, November 21). Cockermouth Main Street needs bus shelters if the town values quality of life for its residents and visitors. It does not need a third bridge. IT WAS wrong for Councillor Elaine Woodburn of Copeland council to suggest that the new hospital should be built at Whitehaven (Times & Star, November 21).THE “People’s Friend” sent me a free copy of their magazine dated December 6-13, 2008, because a photograph of me, aged 15, is to be published in that issue.THIS photograph (above) was found in our store on October 20. We have had the photograph since then in the hope that someone would come forward and claim it, but as yet we have had no enquiries.I ENJOYED Viv Paterson’s Talk of the Times (Times & Star, November 21).I AM completing a book on football in Cumbria, and would like to thank everyone who has contacted me and supplied photographs and team line-ups.ANOTHER crazy planning decision by Allerdale council to add to the Great Clifton debacle.YOUR article on grab carts (Times & Star, November 7) brought to mind when I was a young boy at Maryport in the 50s and early 60s.I CANNOT understand the nit-picking and moaning regarding Cockermouth’s All Saints Rooms.

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Gateway plan is a vote of confidence

AN ECONOMIC crisis never deters developers who are willing to play the long game with their investments.

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It’s the “Last Waltz” for people’s John Travolta

YES, I know there’s a humanitarian crisis in the Congo, that the world is in recession, that people are losing their homes.

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