Last updated 19:43, Thursday, 10 July 2008

CUMBRIA’S hospitals will have a new chief executive following the appointment of CAROLE Heatly, currently chief executive of Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has been appointed chief executive of North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which manages the West Cumberland Hospital and Cumberland Infirmary.A WORKINGTON man claimed that a small housing development in West Cumbria may be at risk because of his driving ban.PLANE spotters will be out in force for the annual Open Day and Fly-In at Kirkbride airfield, near Silloth, next weekend.A NAIL cutting service for older people is running at Maryport community resource centre on Selby Terrace.

She will take up her post in October.

Carole replaces Marie Burnham who left the Trust in June.

She started her NHS career over 25 years ago, as a registered general nurse and then as a children’s nurse in Edinburgh.

She spent most of her clinical career in accident and emergency services in Glasgow before moving into hospital management in 1990.

Mike Little, chairman of North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Her enormous commitment and drive will be essential as our own Trust continues to build on its success and moves forward to becoming an NHS Foundation Trust.”

Jonathan Hill, of Scaw Road, High Harrington, lost his licence for six months under the totting-up process after being spotted by police using a mobile phone at the wheel.

Whitehaven magistrates fined him £60, gave him three penalty points and rejected his argument that disqualification would cause him exceptional hardship.

Hill, 24, appealed against that decision at Carlisle Crown Court before Judge Paul Batty, QC, and two magistrates.

Hill said he had bought a plot of land at Dean, near Cockermouth, and a contractor was building two four-bedroomed homes for him there.

He hoped to have them on the market next year. He was acting as project manager and was picking up supplies for the builders. He had just bought a van to do that work.

He said that if he lost his licence he would have to stop the project and put the land up for sale as no-one else in his family was able to drive.

But Judge Batty told Hill that he had not persuaded them to change the original decision. It was surely possible for the builders to pick up their supplies on the way to the site.

Hill was ordered to pay £192 costs.

The event, organised by Solway Light Aviation, will take place on Sunday, July 20, in aid of the Great North Air Ambulance Service.

The Air Ambulance is scheduled to be at the event, which will also feature Russian built Yak trainer jets, an Isaacs Fury replica 1920s fighter, a Skybolt aerobatic bi-plane, RAF Hawk, Czech built Albatross jet trainer, and Jet Provost ex RAF Trainer.

The service, which has been set up by Age Concern, is for those who find it difficult to bend and need help to cut their toenails.