In our view

Fight for Carlisle must now intensify

If Carlisle had been counting on a quiet week, following long local council election campaigns and resulting change of administration, all such hopes will now be dashed.

Last updated 11 May 2012
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Wins tempered by low voter turnout

Carlisle's city council enters a new era of Labour control today, after 12 years of Conservative rule.

Last updated 4 May 2012
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Set the default to opt-in to save lives

Committing to donate organs after death is more than making a gift, more than offering hope to the desperately ill – it is a simple, inarguable responsibility to the living.

Last updated 27 April 2012
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Stead’s excellence puts city on map

It is a good business rule of thumb. The companies that succeed, no matter how gloomy the economic climate, are those with strongly-driven work and performance ethics.

Last updated 20 April 2012
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Victory for listening

Finding comfort, safety and friendship in older age is something we all would hope for. Those who found all they’d wanted in Aspatria’s Park Lodge care home have reason for celebration today.

Last updated 13 April 2012
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Don’t let ambitious plans be relegated

The next three weeks will go a long way to deciding whether Carlisle United win promotion to the Championship. By August the club could be playing in the second tier of English football for the first time since 1986.

Last updated 13 April 2012
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High speed internet is now a necessity

Infrastructure means more than roads and bridges. In 2012 Cumbria needs connections far beyond the next street and town. We need links with the world. And the infrastructure for that is super-fast broadband.

Last updated 5 April 2012
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Controversy will haunt Carlisle Airport

Not a single aspect of the interminably long-running Carlisle Airport saga has passed without controversy.

Last updated 30 March 2012
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Costly bureaucracy we can’t understand

If you were to define public service restructuring as same old organisation, new name, new budget and licence to spend as if going out of fashion, you might not be far wrong

Last updated 23 March 2012
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Vulnerable children have been let down

It was the despairing plea of a youngster that alerted The Cumberland News to deep problems at a Carlisle children’s home.

Last updated 16 March 2012
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Fuel tax is driving people to poverty

If it feels as though daily life in Cumbria is growing harder thanks to squeezed budgets than elsewhere in the country, there’s good reason for that suspicion. It is.

Last updated 9 March 2012
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Let Richard Rose's Russ Wallace be an inspiration

Inspirational teachers shape lives, leave lasting impressions and make the difference between tolerated schooldays and a hunger for lifelong learning.

Last updated 2 March 2012
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Time for hospitals trust to move on

For a job that was not a job – since she left it last June – former hospitals chief executive Carole Heatly has continued to collect a handsome £19,000 a month.

Last updated 24 February 2012
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Democracy’s great ...but not too often

It’s an old itch, it’s been there for a long time, but it refuses to go away.

Last updated 17 February 2012
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Zero tolerance for Carlisle’s racists

Emboldended by drink, fired by hatred, a racist mob terrorised cafe workers in Carlisle – because they believed they could.

Last updated 10 February 2012
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Wannabe Olympians doing Cumbria proud

The cream of Cumbria’s crop – sportsmen and women driven to win glory for their country. They’re already deserving of our bursting pride.

Last updated 3 February 2012
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It’s a democracy and we have questions

In reality, it’s all over bar the shouting. Like the idea or loathe it, police commissioners are on their way.

Last updated 27 January 2012
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Whatever happened to saving vital services?

When wasteful public spending became the hottest issue on the national agenda, it was widely accepted some serious trimming would be necessary.

Last updated 20 January 2012
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Why were the views of residents ignored?

Anyone with an eye to the fury surrounding Impact Housing Association’s Carlisle hostel for the homeless will wonder today where local views fit into any plan likely to affect their lives.

Last updated 13 January 2012
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