Shop doctor to offer Millom a repeat prescription

THE author of a report that criticised shoddy signs and poor facilities is set to return to Millom.

Last updated 18 May 2012
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Drigg turbine faces thumbs-down

CONTROVERSIAL plans for a wind turbine on land at Moorside Farm, Drigg, have been recommended for refusal. (2 comments)

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Coast path plans waste of money, landowners claim

LANDOWNERS have branded plans for a new coastal footpath linking Whitehaven with Allonby, a “waste of money”.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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New-build 'will fail if we oppose power lines’ - MP

MP Jamie Reed has hit back over negative reaction towards power line proposals for connecting Copeland’s planned ‘Moorside’ nuclear station to the national grid. (4 comments)

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Memorial service for Scott, 45

A MEMORIAL service is being held in St Bees for a former Whitehaven Grammar School pupil.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Copeland Council bosses go back to the floor

COPELAND’S chief executive, Paul Walker, hit the streets with the council’s waste collection team on its rounds yesterday as part of a ‘back-to-the-floor’ exercise. (4 comments)

Last updated 17 May 2012
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New head: I’m keen to improve St Benedict's

RAISING standards at St Benedict’s School’s is the aim of its new headteacher.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Tories want voters to have say on elected mayor

COPELAND Tories are making a new demand for the borough to have an elected mayor who would usurp the powers of the leader. (3 comments)

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Opinion split on high-level nuclear waste dump

OPINION is divided on whether to push on with plans for a £4billion repository to bury highly radioactive waste in West Cumbria, latest figures show. (10 comments)

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Whitehaven card shop to learn fate soon

THE future of Whitehaven’s Clinton Cards store will be “confirmed shortly’’.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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The £16m cost of Sellafield visitor centre – and today it stands idle

OVER the years some £16 million of taxpayers’ money has been lavished on a Sellafield centre built to woo people to the nuclear site – and now it stands empty. (5 comments)

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Whitehaven Musical Festival results

Last updated 17 May 2012
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News round-up

Last updated 17 May 2012
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News round-up

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Two new directors for BEC cluster

TWO new directors have been elected to the Business Cluster board of Britain’s Energy Coast.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Five cars in crash

A FIVE-CAR crash caused a major road to be closed in Whitehaven on Tuesday morning.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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House break-in

A HOUSE in Frizington has been broken into.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Bingo to raise funds for jubilee

A BINGO is being held in St John’s Hall, Cleator Moor, on Tuesday at 7pm to raise money for a community jubilee event.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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Fancy that, pigeons raise £10k for Leon

A YOUNG boy’s fight to be able to walk unaided looks set to become a reality after undergoing two successful operations in America.

Last updated 17 May 2012
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