Your letters

Beauty is in nature

The stage is set for the annual switch-on of Cockermouth’s Christmas lights on Sunday, and what a difference a tree makes.

Last updated 18 November 2011
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Magazine was not balanced

I RECENTLY received my Your Cumbria magazine like every other household.

Last updated 17 November 2011
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Making all the old mistakes

SHAME on you Mark Green (The old guard invade I’m a Celebrity, News & Star, November 3).

Last updated 16 November 2011
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MPs have no place at service

I’M writing this on the eve of Remembrance Day.

Last updated 15 November 2011
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CAN it really be true that we as a nation are so supine and brainwashed by the medical neo-puritans that it was impossible to find someone to contribute to the Talking Point article (News & Star, Wednesday, October 2) on minimum alcohol pricing that thought it a bad idea?

Last updated 14 November 2011
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No freedom of choice

IT seems almost perversely ironic that the very week leading up to the day we remember the millions who gave their lives in the defence of freedom, and the freedom to make our own decisions, we had a Labour party member demanding that a future Labour government pass a law to make everybody have their pay and conditions agreed by a union, (News & Star, November 8 ).

Last updated 12 November 2011
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Look for ways to be happy

That brief “Indian summer” has gone. Contagious gloom is everywhere.

Last updated 17 October 2011
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Let the questions begin

Having read Steph Johnson’s article (News & Star, September 12) regarding the proposed move of Fire Control from Cockermouth to Warrington, a number of questions need to be answered.

Last updated 15 September 2011
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Thanks for nuclear dump protest

Many thanks to all the 1,530 people who signed the No Nuke Dump petition.

Last updated 14 September 2011
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I found school bi-plane

In 1957 when I was a lad of 12, I attended the Nelson Thomlinson School in Wigton, where myself and my chum Geoffrey Harrison, from Raughton Head, discovered the fuselage and wings of a bi-plane in the loft of the building next to the caretaker’s house.

Last updated 13 September 2011
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Why it’s a (clean) dog’s life

Many of us, myself included, are often quick to criticise today’s youth but on my train into Carlisle recently there was a young lady with two lovely Siberian huskies lying beside her on the floor.

Last updated 5 September 2011
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The day elephants invaded

THE News & Star (August 27) brought pleasant memories for me (Elephants in Carlisle).

Last updated 1 September 2011
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Should we move market?

I TOTALLY agree with your contributor (News & Star, August 27).THIS letter is in response to your article regarding the comments made by councillor Brian Dixon about the hardship faced by many facing Conservative-Liberal Democrat cuts (News & Star, Monday).

Last updated 1 September 2011
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And Labour’s alternative is?

COPELAND MP Jamie Reed is absolutely right to be critical of the Prime Minister’s recent visit to Cumbria, along with the claims that the county is leading the country in NHS reforms (News & Star, Monday). I WAS very disappointed to read Dr Calvert’s negative views about the potential advantages of offering men a routine blood test for the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) level (News & Star, August 4).WHATEVER your views on the EU, when we voted to stay in the Common Market 36 years ago, we thought we were voting for a Free Trade agreement.

Last updated 24 August 2011
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