Charity shops have vital role but where are our entrepreneurs..?

SIR – Further to the debate regarding charity shops in Whitehaven, personally I think they are doing a splendid job for the just causes that they serve and competition between traders is nothing new.SIR – I read with interest the pontificating of both Coun David Moore and the Rev John Bannister on the need to divert the £11million Pow Beck Sports Village to make up the shortfall of £10 million that the new Con/Dem Government has taken away from this community to complete the West Cumberland Hospital re-build. SIR – Whilst fishing off the north pier at Whitehaven a bloke shouted from the south pier that I was using the wrong bait. It seems I can’t even enjoy a day off work without pier to pier observations.SIR – I’d like to express my thanks to all those who attended the public meeting we held on Friday night with a view to forming a supporters’ trust for Whitehaven RLFC, and to all those who have registered their interest via www.trustinhaven.co.uk over the past couple of weeks.SIR – A distinctly hollow echo reverberates from Chris Huhne’s ‘no public subsidy’ assurances for nuclear. We are fully aware that the recent Sellafield ‘profit’ of £47million is wholly public money. A genuine assurance from Chris Huhne would include all public subsidies, for instance, profligate use of resources. SIR – May I use your column to say a very big thank you to people I don’t know, who came to my aid when I had a very bad fall outside Wilkinson’s a month ago and finished up in the hospital. Thank you also to the ambulance team and all at the hospital too.

Last updated 8 September 2010
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Time to rethink how big money is best spent in the community

SIR – Now that the board of Whitehaven Rugby League Club have voted to put the club into administration, is it not time to reconsider the proposed investment of a reported £11 million into the creation of a new stadium?

Last updated 1 September 2010
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‘People do not have to live aboard The World to be rich’

SIR – Are You Rich...? I had the good fortune of visiting your beautiful port a few days back. My husband and I were among those aboard The World.

Last updated 1 September 2010
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Management urged to think of consequences of safety scheme

SIR – I would just like to say to senior management to stop and think of the consequences when sacking people like Walton Rudd. We know there are redundancies but we don’t need one of the Americans bragging that he is over for three years “to sort out the dead wood” and 2,000 employees were to lose their jobs.

Last updated 25 August 2010
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Flashback to the working harbour

SIR – I was interested to see the older pictures, donated by Workington Library, and especially the one of the coal wagons near the former Quaker Oats factory (the erstwhile Pattinson’s Mill), (Whitehaven News, June 24).

Last updated 25 August 2010
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Don’t build new offices – just focus on bringing in tourists

Last updated 18 August 2010
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Role of trades unions in helping workers receive a fair deal for all

SIR – Last week’s letter from Mr Parke accurately reflected the sense of injustice arising from recent dismissals at Sellafield for what have hitherto been regarded as minor transgressions.

Last updated 12 August 2010
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Show support for true heroes

SIR – Last Friday night at the Whitehaven RL Recreation Club Ground an excellent night was had by all as David Seeds was enrolled into the Vice Presidents Legends Hall of Fame, which is an honour most deserved to him.

Last updated 11 August 2010
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Whitehaven RLFC ‘dying on its feet under the current regime’

SIR – The inevitable has happened, and Whitehaven RLFC now find themselves in the bottom tier of professional rugby league.

Last updated 5 August 2010
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Town looked great for judges

SIR – How brilliant to see Copeland claiming three of the North West region’s eight heritage awards in the national Green Flag awards for parks and open spaces. Nice to be up there alongside Tatton Park! And a great tribute to the work of our parks department and local community.

Last updated 4 August 2010
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Recycling business is down to the owner

SIR – I write in relation to the two letters on recycling that were included in last week’s News.

Last updated 29 July 2010
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Nuclear economics is bad for the taxpayer and bad for safety

SIR – Do you feel sorry for the 800 persons in so-termed ‘surplus jobs’ at Sellafield? I suspect not – and why should you. The vast majority of those Sellafield workers who have applied will leave the company with more money than they’d earn between now and their retirement.

Last updated 29 July 2010
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Sorry cycling’s gone off track

SIR – I would like to thank the Egremont Crab Fair Sports Committee for including cycling in the sports for the last four years. I have raced at every one, as has at least one other member of my family.

Last updated 28 July 2010
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Family’s picture poser

SIR – I have been researching my family tree on my mother’s side for the last two years. I have traced the family back to 1760, but I have been told that we originated from the Cumberland area from around the 1500s.

Last updated 28 July 2010
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Can you help these folk find their roots?

SIR – My great aunt Miss Maude Walshe (my grandfather’s younger sister) moved to Ravenglass in the mid 1930s after the death of her aunt, Margaret Twentyman of Dean, with whom she had lived for over 30 years as housekeeper.

Last updated 22 July 2010
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The principle of local justice – by the people, for the people

SIR – The recommendation to close both Whitehaven Courts – the Magistrates’ Court and Whitehaven County Court – was made by the Regional Director’s Office of Her Majesty’s Court Service (HMCS) based in Preston.

Last updated 21 July 2010
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The best of our community

SIR – Last Thursday I went to the charity show in aid of the shooting tragedy, in the Civic Hall, at Whitehaven. It was the best show I have seen for a long time, in fact, better than some shows on television.

Last updated 21 July 2010
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Gosforth WI

IN the absence of Anne Williams, Beneta Livesey presided opening the meeting by welcoming visitor Helen Stanton.

Last updated 21 July 2010
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Why the cadets who serve our town are worthy of this honour

SIR – So Brian Parnaby is “concerned” that the Freedom of Copeland was awarded to local cadet organisations and wants to “put it into perspective” (“Criticism of cadets’ honour”, The Whitehaven News, letters, July 8).

Last updated 14 July 2010
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