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A new breed of Cumbrian mums
School is finished for the day and Jamie, 11, Alan, seven, and six-year-old Joseph bound in through the back door at Croft House Farm at Mealrigg near Aspatria.
Last updated 12 March 2010
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There is still a vision to regenerate Carlisle, says city council leader
Fierce critics of Carlisle Renaissance – and there are plenty of them – may now be cheerfully convinced they’ve successfully seen off a costly mistake.
Last updated 5 March 2010
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Workplace bullying in Cumbria seems to be on the rise
Derek Lavery is an easygoing, non-confrontational person. He thinks this is why he was bullied. During the last six years of his working life in Flimby he was repeatedly targeted by workplace bullies.
Last updated 26 February 2010
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Can a splash of colour give Carlisle the boost it needs?
Walking through this forest of shutters and boarded-up windows, there is a temptation to feel that nothing but a bulldozer could improve the southern end of Botchergate.
Last updated 19 February 2010
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With 1995 fresh in our minds, Carlisle United are going back to Wembley
Wembley felt like a reward. Fifteen years ago, Carlisle United’s debut under the twin towers was payback for more 90-minute bursts of misery than my sanity allows me to recall.
Last updated 12 February 2010
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Are we fighting drugs and alcohol in the wrong place?
When it comes to tackling health problems prevention is always said to be better than cure. And a major threat to the health of young people today is substance abuse – drinking and drug taking.
Last updated 5 February 2010
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Is a Cumbrian village pub the model for all others to follow?
The demise of the great British boozer has been well documented. Statistics confirm a story told thousands of times, on city streets, in towns and villages.
Last updated 29 January 2010
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It is vital the arts are respected in Cumbria - Melvyn Bragg
Carlisle’s bid to become UK City of Culture in 2013 has provoked a big reaction, if not necessarily one the city council would have wished for.
Last updated 22 January 2010
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Why Rory Stewart wants to be MP for Penrith and the Border
It isn’t easy to fathom Rory Stewart as a conventional or even natural politician. A humanitarian, a roll up sleeves and get things done kind of guy, yes... but an obediently party-line MP?
Last updated 15 January 2010
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Why Cumbria police will not be looking for a partner
It has been tried before, and we came very close to it. A super-force of thousands of officers covering a huge area of the north west. It promised to be bigger, better and more cost-effective.
Last updated 8 January 2010
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Cumbria movers and shakers give their hopes for 2010
Some well known local people give their hopes for 2010.
Last updated 31 December 2009
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Unity will bring us a happy new year
AS 2009 exits like a lion – a pretty bad tempered one at that – only the brave, delusional or blindly optimistic could raise a glass in wholehearted welcome to 2010.
Last updated 31 December 2009
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Christmas message from the Bishop of Carlisle, The Rt Rev James Newcome
A cleric was recently quoted in the press as suggesting that we should no longer wish each other a ‘Happy’ Christmas.
Last updated 24 December 2009
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Could coal be the fuel of Cumbria again?
It was at the heart of Cumbrian communities, shaping lives and landscapes over centuries and when the last pit, Haig Colliery, was shut in 1986 people mourned the end of a thriving industry.
Last updated 18 December 2009
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Cumbria's selfish drivers can tear apart lives
Sergeant Paul Brown has seen his fair share of carnage on Cumbria’s roads over the years but one incident stands out - when a crash victim was left abandoned by a drink driver, howling in pain.
Last updated 4 December 2009
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You can’t beat nature
There is no answer to the Biblical downpour that has ravaged Cockermouth, Workington and Keswick, according to flood experts. It will be a miserable Christmas for thousands of people.Roger Bettes is a technical director of flooding at Oxfordshire-based HR Wallingford, which advises the Government and industry on managing rivers and water.
Last updated 27 November 2009
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Do you know it’s happening again?
For many people Ethiopia conjures a vision of helpless mothers and children near to starvation looking desperately into a western camera for help.Some days I’m pretty much an office person: meetings, reading reports, emails, writing reports, meetings, team briefings, a lot of work on funding proposals to donors – they pay for the work we do and range from governments to people like your readers who give a few pounds to Save the Children.So why would anyone choose to do this kind of work? “It must be depressing always dealing with disasters” is a common response from people who, perhaps understandably, see the problem and not the people.
Last updated 20 November 2009
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How the poppies you buy help our war heroes
This year we have commemorated the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two and news bulletins constantly remind us of the war in Afghanistan.
Last updated 6 November 2009
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I couldn’t adjust outside the navy
Ian Winter signed up with the navy aged 17 in 1977. Five years later, on board HMS Hermes, he was sent to the Falklands.
Last updated 6 November 2009
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Cumbrian man who wishes he could hibernate
There’s a difference between the ‘Monday morning blues’ and when you have to force yourself to go into work, hyperventilating and sweating with fear.
Last updated 30 October 2009
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- Tory election hopeful calls for Carlisle City Council to be scrapped
- £7 million private hospital in Carlisle given the go-ahead
- Weekly bin collections may be cut as Cumbrian council bids to save money
- There is still a vision to regenerate Carlisle, says city council leader
- Plans shelved for Carlisle village's motorway noise barrier
- University of Cumbria to axe 60 courses in effort to overcome £20 million deficit
- Thirty nine jobs to go as Cumbrian packaging factory announces closure
- New row erupts over parking in Carlisle's historic quarter
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