Friday, 09 May 2008

Council will be called to justify actions

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HAVING followed, for over a year, via this newspaper’s columns and elsewhere, the story of Carlisle City Council’s readiness to proceed with plans to redevelop Rickergate against the wishes of its residents, I wish to express my view.

Anne Pickles

These birds are my kind of pet

Had it been possible to text a dog for a walk, I might have considered keeping a pet.If she did, she didn’t let on. In fact her expression conveyed she considered my excitement over pheasants a touch overdone – and embarrassing.

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Don’t suffer in silence

ONCE was the time when domestic violence was accepted as a hidden crime. Not entirely condoned perhaps but tolerated as a matter solely between man and wife, partners in private conflict.

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ROGER Liddle, chairman of Cumbria Vision, has expressed concern about the criticism in the editorial of the News & Star (April 18), that the agricultural aspect of economic life in Cumbria had been overlooked in the new Cumbria Vision strategy set out at its Economic Summit 2008 conference.WHY is the general public berated for wasting energy and for failing to spend in the High Street? IN REPLY to the OAP’s tax plight as mentioned in the News & Star (May 2), I have to keep reminding myself that a Labour Government is in power.

Ross Brewster

Chorister with a bag full of cool

COURAGE comes in many forms and Andrew Johnston, the chorister who sang for 12,000 fans at Brunton Park on Saturday, has it in spades.

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London’s gone Boris bonkers

It’s official! London is an idiot city. I have suspected it for years, but I thought I was alone in my low opinion of a population which travels underground like moles in total isolation from their fellow men despite being squashed together like the proverbial sardines.

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