Politics
Colourful cost of market seats
Published 18 July 2008
SIX new seats in Cockermouth’s Market Place cost £60,000, it has been revealed.
Play area upgrade on way
Published 17 July 2008
A £50,000 REVAMP of Cockermouth’s Memorial Gardens will begin in September.
Council to keep museums
Published 17 July 2008
ALLERDALE council should hold on to its three museums, its executive recommended and that current arrangements for the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, the Helena Thompson Museum in Workington and Maryport Maritime Museum should continue.
HAVE YOUR SAY Curwen Place is council’s choice for town centre precinct
Published 11 July 2008
CURWEN Place is the new name of the pedestrian area outside the HSBC bank on Pow Street.
Marketing strategy aims to promote Workington
Published 11 July 2008
A £25,000 MARKETING campaign has been set out for Workington town centre, two years after the opening of the multi-million-pound redevelopment.
Council workers strike
Published 11 July 2008
ALLERDALE council is hoping to keep service disruption to a minimum during a two-day strike by local government workers next week.
Plans unveiled for new fire station
Published 4 July 2008
PLANS for a new fire station in Workington were unveiled in Parliament this week.
Bedrooms plan to beat visitor slump
Published 26 June 2008
A PLAN to build 15 bedrooms at the Lakeland Sheep and Wool Centre has been backed by Cockermouth Town Council.KESWICK’S mayor Roger Purkiss has added his voice to calls for solutions to the falling lake level at Derwentwater.AROUND 400 homes in the Little Broughton area are now part of Allerdale council’s new purple bag recycling scheme.A BLOOD donation session will be held on Thursday, July 3, at the Evolution Centre, Highfield Road, Cockermouth, between 2pm and 7pm.
Parking rules in Market Place ‘causing confusion’
Published 19 June 2008
A COCKERMOUTH man who got a parking ticket in the town’s Market Place has claimed it was unfair because new signs were unclear.
Welcome for call centre jobs
Published 19 June 2008
A WEST Cumbrian regeneration boss has welcomed the possibility of 400 new jobs at Lillyhall.
Allerdale welcome for underground N-dump
Published 19 June 2008
PLANS to dispose of radioactive waste underground have been welcomed by Allerdale council.
Questions over ‘huge amount’ council spent on consultants
Published 19 June 2008
A VETERAN Labour Allerdale councillor wants to know how much the authority has spent on employing consultants.
Scrapping Border TV ‘marginalises county’
Published 19 June 2008
CUMBRIA will be “marginalised” if ITV scraps Border Television, the county council claims.
Taxman brings 400 jobs to West Cumbria
Published 12 June 2008
FOUR hundred jobs could be created at a new call centre at Lillyhall near Workington within the next few months.
Town Navy Club bids for longer opening hours
Published 12 June 2008
MARYPORT Navy Club has re-applied for a licence to extend its opening hours.
Longer restaurant hours
Published 12 June 2008
AN INDIAN restaurant in Keswick has applied to extend its opening hours.
Concern over our ‘log cabin roundabout’
Published 12 June 2008
A RESIDENT from Bridgefoot has said that if plans get the go-ahead for 60 holiday cabins at the Melbreak Hotel it would become known as the “log cabin roundabout”.
Fears over plans for 100-site caravan park
Published 12 June 2008
WINSCALES residents fear that if a 100-site caravan park is built in the area it will bring litter, noise and disturbance.
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