Each week The Whitehaven News is bursting with local news, views, pictures and features, and we pride ourselves on giving our readers a packed product week after week.

But this is not without cost - and today the price of your newspaper goes up to £1.20. This is so we can continue to focus on providing the quality of content that you have come to expect.


We are a trusted source for community news and information and it is important that we continue to invest in the time and effort that goes into providing all that you value supported by all your advertising and services information that fills both your weekly edition and our increasingly popular digital offerings.

Our campaigns form an important part of what we do and the price you pay for your newspaper each week goes a long way towards ensuring that focus continues.

This newspaper has strenuously championed the need to retain full health
services that the West Cumberland Hospital. We continue to support patients, staff and health campaigners in their dedicated battle to ensure the hospital is fully functioning and to maintain a 24-hour consultant-led maternity department.


In association with our sister paper the Times & Star and supported by Sellafield Ltd, we are running our Lifeboat Appeal, which aims to raise £150,000 towards a new £2 million Shannon class lifeboat to serve the west coast from Drigg to Port Carlisle.

We played a key part in two major campaigns that had successful outcomes earlier this year - joining the calls for a magistrates court to be retained in West Cumbria and, along with sister titles across Cumbria, helping to stop huge budget reductions to the county's police force through the Fight the Cuts.

In the wake of December's devastating Storm Desmond, we joined our sister titles in launching the Spirit of Cumbria campaign to highlight the heroic efforts of our flood-hit communities and to promote businesses. Our efforts underlined the vital role our newspaper plays in the community, with the success of the campaign built on partnership, bringing together organisations from across the county, all of whom offered distinct skills and capabilities. This campaign led to an awards event in the summer, where many volunteers and hard workers received well-deserved recognition.

Through our news pages, our leader columns and our letters pages we highlight the issues that matter to all those people who want to make West Cumbria a better place to live. We ask questions of powers-that-be and hold them to account.

Together with our readers and through the links we have with our sister CN Group titles across the county, we are a powerful lobbying voice and have proved we can be a force to be reckoned with.

We are proud of our ability to reach a large audience through both print and digital offerings.

As well as being a trusted voice for change, we also celebrate all that is best about our local schools, businesses and our people. We are pleased to have launched the West Cumbria Community Heroes Awards again this year, as well as the countywide Golden Apple education awards and CN Group Business Awards.

Within our paper every week we offer dedicated pages for Egremont and Cleator Moor, publish a 12-page Cumbria Live entertainments and lifestyle section and carry a breadth of local sports news - and if you're after a new job, home or car, look no further.

In addition, regular pull-outs include Cumbrian Weddings, Business, West Cumbrian Futures, Homestyle, Eats and Lifestyle.

Local newspapers are nothing without their loyal readers – and to make sure you get the best value in return, we are offering discounts for those who subscribe to have their paper delivered. Our subscription rates for The Whitehaven News offer 20 per cent off - meaning you pay the equivalent of 96p per week. And for a limited time, we are offering a six-month subscription for just £19.99.

Subscribers also get automatic membership of our Read & Save scheme. Our links with big-name retailers mean you can pocket huge savings on everyday essentials such as supermarket shopping and DIY costs along with treats including trips to the cinema, eating out, holidays and much more.

Please call our freephone number 0808 144 8144 if you wish to subscribe or discuss the packages that are available.

When you subscribe, it means your delivery is guaranteed and you will never miss an edition of your newspaper.

As always, we want to hear what you think of our products so feel free to get in touch by emailing me at deanne.shallcross@cnmedia.co.uk