News round up

Asda website gives new Carlisle store summer opening date

A new Asda supermarket looks certain to open in Carlisle this summer after an opening date was posted on the company’s website.

Last updated 30 January 2013
Published by http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk

Carlisle College reveals plans for £5.3m arts complex

Carlisle college photo A new £5.3 million arts complex is poised to transform a derelict pocket of Carlisle city centre.

Last updated 30 January 2013
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Potholes putting drivers and walkers at risk near Longtown

Longtown pothole photo People are being put at risk by potholes on a country road, a motorist claims.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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25 years of north Cumbria school's African visits

Tanzania exchange photo June 1988: Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? hit the cinemas and future chart-topper Adele came kicking and screaming into the world.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Bipolar help group 'must be saved', says Cumbrian woman

Hazel Hindle photo A woman who attempted suicide two years ago has spoken of why a support group gripped by a funding crisis must be saved.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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North Cumbrian shop bucks internet trend

Brampton shop photo Around the world, stores are closing because of the rise of internet shopping.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Carlisle man, 30, on GBH charge

A man was due in court today after reports of a fight in a Carlisle street.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Direct action recommended over eyesore Carlisle garden

Overgrown garden photo A notice, insisting the garden of a house in north Carlisle that is littered with rubbish, timber and overgrown bushes is tidied up, has been ignored.

Last updated 25 January 2013
Published by http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk

Protests at nuclear waste store meeting in Carlisle

Nuclear store protest photo Anti-nuclear campaigners protested in Carlisle as trade union leaders gave their backing to a study into the possibility of an underground atomic store in Cumbria.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Carlisle airport decision delayed for a week

Carlisle Airport photo A decision on the future of Carlisle Airport has been delayed another week.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Concern over Carlisle hospital's £6m funding gap

Cumberland Infirmary photo Doubt hangs over how a £6 million funding gap caused by the crippling private finance debt that has hit Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary will be filled.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Wolf's Tooth ascent in Antarctica 'nailed' by Cumbrian adventurer Leo Houlding

Leo Houlding photo Climber Leo Houlding has “nailed” his perilous ascent of one of the Antarctic’s most formidable peaks.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Cumbrian waste companies boss to face trial on charges of illegally dumping waste

A trial date has been set for the boss of two waste management companies charged with illegally dumping waste.

Last updated 25 January 2013
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Second consultant's opinion saved ex-Carlisle mayor's life

p1lizmmw This time last year Liz Mallinson was so convinced she would die from cancer, she was planning her own funeral.

Last updated 22 January 2013
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Cumbria chief constable to report on use of CCTV to tackle crime

blawsonmw Cumbria's top police officer is to draw up a report on the effectiveness of CCTV following moves to strip back the service.

Last updated 22 January 2013
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Longtown workers’ 114 years of service recognised with medals

impmedalsmw Three people have been rewarded with medals after spending a combined 114 years at one workplace.

Last updated 22 January 2013
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Carlisle council gives assurances over CCTV repairs

All of a council’s CCTV cameras will be working properly before a contract to maintain them ends.

Last updated 22 January 2013
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Heads Nook poised to get its own swimming pool

A north Cumbrian village is to get a new attraction – its own swimming pool.

Last updated 22 January 2013
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Plans to turn church near Carlisle into home

Kentigern As places to live go it would have several distinctive selling points. It’s got bags of character, plenty of history – and not many people could say their home was a House of God.