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'Code Red' cold weather alert issued - and snow on way
Published 6 January 2009
THE Met Office has issued a Code Red cold weather alert for Cumbria.
That was 2008 that was!
Published 5 January 2009
From Whitehaven's Royal visitors to the wheelie bin storm that reverberated around the world - our photographers have been snapping away at all and sundry over the last 12 months. Here is our selection from the pictures that sum up the year gone by...
Pounds make prizes!
Published 2 January 2009
POUNDS could make prizes for Credit Union savers with the introduction of a new scheme.
Village hall celebrations
Published 31 December 2008
CROWDS of villagers turned out to mark the completion of a £40,000 village hall refurbishment near Millom.
Council targets highways over erosion
Published 31 December 2008
LEGAL advice is being sought before county councillors make a decision on whether to agree works on a crumbling coastal road.
County’s road deaths toll is lowest for eight years
Published 31 December 2008
THIS year’s death toll on Cumbria’s roads is the lowest for eight years.
Vandals
Published 31 December 2008
VANDALS have caused £250 damage by smashing at porch window at a house at Cleator Moor on Tuesday last week.
Unknown baby remembered
Published 31 December 2008
MILLOM Mayor Pauline Altree has laid a wreath on the grave of the town’s ‘unknown baby’.
Charity finds homes for abandoned dogs
Published 31 December 2008
TEN dogs have been re-homed over December thanks to kind-hearted West Cumbrians.
Special Christmas deliveries
Published 31 December 2008
THE NUMBER of children with Christmas day birthdays shot up in the county as North Cumbria NHS Hospitals reported six special-day arrivals, three of them born at The West Cumberland Hospital.
Taking the plunge
Published 31 December 2008
A CHRISTIAN teen-ager will be taking the plunge and getting baptised in the sea.
Christmas sparkle gives hope for town’s shops
Published 31 December 2008
WHITEHAVEN’S traders are doing their best to weather the recession and be positive about the future.
Man, 59, dies on Xmas Eve
Published 31 December 2008
SELLAFIELD process worker Gilbert Brown collapsed and died in Whitehaven town centre on Christmas Eve.
Consortium shows interest in Haven RL
Published 31 December 2008
NEW directors are believed to be interested in taking control of Whitehaven rugby league club in advance of a crucial shareholders meeting.
Police cells full on Boxing Day
Published 31 December 2008
POLICE in West Cumbria are pleased, overall, with people’s behaviour during the Christmas .
Former Bishop of Carlisle dies at 76
Published 31 December 2008
THE former Bishop of Carlisle, Ian Harland, (above) has died following a lengthy illness.
Failing school improves – but can still do better
Published 31 December 2008
IMPROVEMENTS are starting to be made at a West Cumbrian school which inspectors said was failing its pupils – but officials say there is still much to do to ‘raise the standard of education to an acceptable level’.
Woman sold alcohol to boy, 15
Published 31 December 2008
A WHITEHAVEN shop worker has received an £80 fixed penalty notice for selling alcohol to an under-age teenager.
Six-figure salary for deputy police chief
Published 31 December 2008
THE new second-in-command of Cumbria Police will pick up a six-figure salary, and benefits.
Bishop of Carlisle slams Labour government
Published 31 December 2008
THE Bishop of Carlisle has joined four senior church figures from around the country in a national newspaper article claiming the British Government is “morally corrupt”.
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- 'Code Red' cold weather alert issued - and snow on way
- That was 2008 that was!
- Pounds make prizes!
- Bishop of Carlisle slams Labour government
- Six-figure salary for deputy police chief
- Woman sold alcohol to boy, 15
- Failing school improves – but can still do better
- Former Bishop of Carlisle dies at 76
- Police cells full on Boxing Day
- Consortium shows interest in Haven RL
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- That was 2008 that was!
- Kids' deadly game on frozen Cumbria lakes
- Lake District death fall woman named
- The 2008 picture album
- OBE for Whitehaven's Kerry
- Cumbrian man found dead on train tracks
- Carlisle couple add to New Year’s Day babies
- Drugs raid couple are fined
- Elbra beat Kells to win Cumbria Cup
- Lake District death fall woman named
- The 2008 picture album
- That was 2008 that was!
- 'Code Red' cold weather alert issued - and snow on way
- Carlisle couple add to New Year’s Day babies
- OBE for Whitehaven's Kerry
- Kids' deadly game on frozen Cumbria lakes
- Man, 59, dies on Xmas Eve
- Hardy swimmers brave chilly sea for New Year's Day dip
- Police cells full on Boxing Day
