Readers' letters

A humbling experience for runners to be helped by Cockermouth

Published 30 October 2008

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.

No public debate about stadium

Published 30 October 2008

I FELT I needed to write in order to express my concern about the absence of a public debate on the proposed new sports stadium for Allerdale.

Treasured experience of Great Cumbrian Run

Published 30 October 2008

IT’S BEEN over a week now - and my body still feels a little stiff here and there - but I will always treasure the experience of taking part in the Great Cumbrian Run for the first time.

Heed the warnings of financial collapse

Published 30 October 2008

THESE days it is a very small world. This has been all too well demonstrated by the sudden near collapse internationally of the banking system.

Puzzled over police parking priorities

Published 30 October 2008

I WAS interested to read an article in the Whitehaven News about the crackdown by the police and council on illegal parking.

Fury over log cabin plans

Published 30 October 2008

THE great majority of the residents of Great Clifton are in favour of the building of new low cost housing in the village.

Be more tolerant about street theatre

Published 10 October 2008

WHAT a spoilsport the mayor and a few shopkeepers are becoming about street theatre in Keswick.

Get those yapping dogs debarked

Published 10 October 2008

I WOULD like to present the owners of persistent yapping dogs with an award, YDOA (Yapping Dog Owners Award).

Super stadium is a super idea

Published 10 October 2008

ALL three sports together would have been a good thing in a Workington super stadium.

Heartless council needs to rethink parking attitude

Published 10 October 2008

ARE you proud to live in Workington? Well, after reading this you may not have the same feelings about your Allerdale Borough Council.

Mamma Mia's embarrassment factor

Published 10 October 2008

THE RETENTION and success of Mamma Mia! for three months at Dunmail Park’s Plaza Cinema has by all accounts been gender divisive with an estimated average male attendance as low at 15 per cent, due to what can only be described as an acute embarrassment syndrome.

Unitary authority by any other name

Published 10 October 2008

MINE was the ‘guilty hand’ that removed the tatty array of sheet-posters from the Netherhall corner railings in Maryport last Sunday; and I offer no apologies.

Undemocratic decision by Allerdale

Published 10 October 2008

IT IS of great concern to me that the Derwent Valley task group, made up of Allerdale borough councillors, have expressed their desire to see a combined stadium for Workington Reds and Workington Town RLFC, despite the necessary financial information not being provided to Workington Reds.