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Are apprenticeships the way to tackle youth unemployment and rising uni fees?
Sammi Whitten stayed on at school into the sixth form, but soon decided that it wasn’t for her. So the 17-year-old, from New Ousby near Penrith, left Ullswater Community College and signed up with RWP Training.
Last updated 3 February 2012
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Mixed views on whether Scotland should go it alone
Nothing much changes when you cross the Scottish border. No passport control. No chance of being turned back if your surname doesn’t start with ‘Mc’. (4 comments)
Last updated 27 January 2012
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Closure of Cumbrian waste sites will lead to fly-tipping rise - claim
It opened less than three years ago at a cost of £1.2 million. Now it could be set to close – and Jane Timbers is furious. She visits Townfoot Household Waste Recycling Centre in Brampton twice a week with plastic, cardboard and other recyclable materials not collected from her kerbside in Low Row.
Last updated 20 January 2012
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Cumbria's village pubs and shops finding new ways to keep trading
Visit Richard Jakeman’s pub now and you can buy a pint and a paper, or a sherry and some stamps. Richard and his wife Hilary own the King’s Arms in Stainton and when they are not behind the bar they are in the garage adjoining it, serving customers in the post office and shop.
Last updated 6 January 2012
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We aren’t abandoning Cumbria's town centres yet
With eight days to go until Christmas, shop cash tills in our town centres ought to be ringing like festive sleigh bells. But with more than 2.6 million people out of work and others enduring a pay freeze, store bosses could be forgiven for being less optimistic this year.
Last updated 16 December 2011
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Cumbria police take to Twitter to try and get across drink-drive message
Experience can be an expensive lesson learned. Leaving a mobile phone in a bar, getting a parking ticket and trusting the weather forecast.
Last updated 9 December 2011
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Are the Government's measures really enough to help Cumbria's first time buyers?
Charlotte Stead is 34, left university without any debts and has a good job as curator of Keswick Museum and Art Gallery. Once upon a time that would have made her the typical first-time buyer. But for Charlotte buying a house is something she can only dream of.
Last updated 25 November 2011
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Will hospitals takeover solve the cash crisis?
In the words of their own chief executive, North Cumbria’s hospitals are in the midst of a ‘financial crisis’. The realisation that they are £1.3m short of October’s projections is the latest shock – prompting a raft of urgent cost-cutting measures.
Last updated 18 November 2011
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Olympic torch relay sparking great interest in Cumbria
Joy elation and excitement are just three emotions you might expect from those who will get to share in a unique Olympic experience next summer. But the overriding reaction in one Cumbria village was one of shock.
Last updated 11 November 2011
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‘We have to get away from the idea the poppy appeal is just to help old people’
Think poppies and the image for most of us is of old men with stiff moustaches squaring shoulders stooped by their years and marching to their memories as they lay a wreath.
Last updated 4 November 2011
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Why Cumbria needs Europe – but perhaps not the Euro
The dream was one big happy family, living together in peace and harmony. There have been no continent-splitting wars during the EU’s existence. But harmony is perhaps overstating things.
Last updated 28 October 2011
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Jobhunters in Cumbria encouraged to go it alone - with some success
A mobile ecological car valeter, a caravan maintenance engineer, a karaoke and mobile disco operator and a complementary therapist...
Last updated 21 October 2011
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Making sure some of Cumbria's neediest do not go hungry
It’s supposed to be the season of plenty. But in a time of recession, it seems more and more of us face having to go without. Recent shock figures revealed that Britain has seen a sharp rise in the number of people receiving food handouts.
Last updated 7 October 2011
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The Cumbrian lord picking up the pieces after the riots
Cumbria’s new Home Office minister was appalled by August’s riots. Fortunately the looting and burning did not scar Lord Henley’s home county.
Last updated 6 October 2011
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How Cumbrian athletes are going for paralympic gold
Anna Nicholson remembers how she felt travelling to an athletics event for disabled students in Penrith two years ago. “I was nervous. I wasn’t sure about going, I always thought I was awful at sport,” she recalls.
Last updated 23 September 2011
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Barnardo's charity shows Cumbrian parents how they can improve themselves
Kathy only realised the desperate state her family was in when Steve hit two of their children – 13-year-old Freddie and nine-year-old Sally – in a drunken fury.
Last updated 16 September 2011
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Cumbrians caught up in aftermath of 9/11 remember attacks
In September 2001 George and Theresa Chambers were in New York as part of a cruise holiday.
Last updated 9 September 2011
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Why red tape means Brampton WI won't be making cakes
Ladies in Brampton have been making cakes and preserves and selling them at the town’s Moot Hall nearly every Wednesday since May 1960. (13 comments)
Last updated 2 September 2011
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‘Health and safety slips off the tongue quite easily if people don’t want things to happen’
Ladies in Brampton have been making cakes and preserves and selling them at the town’s Moot Hall nearly every Wednesday since May 1960.
Last updated 2 September 2011
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Degrees of success
It wasn’t that long ago when there were serious fears that the University of Cumbria would go bust. The new and ambitious institute had over-reached itself and was millions of pounds in debt.
Last updated 26 August 2011
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