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           <title>Comment: Action is needed on Cumbria's child poverty</title>
           
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  NEWS this week that poverty is rife in Barrow and Furness does not necessarily come as a major surprise, but nonetheless its findings should not be overlooked.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:17:38 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Flood costs could put thousands at risk of bankruptcy</title>
           
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  The floods hit Cockermouth in 2009, but others were there before us and many have been since.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:15:21 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Cultural partnership will boost the local economy</title>
           
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  The concept of ‘cultural tourism’ has blossomed in the Lake district in recent years.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:57:20 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Cold calls can be a good thing</title>
           
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  IT’S part of the daily norm: there are ‘phone calls selling us dodgy carbon credit schemes; ‘phone calls telling us we qualify for an energy initiative or a recorded ‘information’ call about writing off debt.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:55:30 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: South Lakeland must avoid the bovine TB 'nightmare scenario'</title>
           
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  BOVINE TB is a devastating illness in cattle and there is undestandably much concern over the news that the disease has been discovered in South Lakeland and north Lancashire.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:12:18 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Red tape relaxation should encourage community events</title>
           
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  Recently I was delighted to read the Minister for Sport and Tourism Hugh Robertson MP’s written statement to the House of Commons.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 17:10:06 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Evidence needed to back up cycling plans</title>
           
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  APROPOSAL to make the Lake District National Park a world-class destination for cycling has to be generally welcomed.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:15:14 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Too little freedom in a world wrapped in cotton wool</title>
           
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  T here is no doubt that the southern Lake District, if not always the base for children’s author Arthur Ransome, was certainly his spiritual home.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:13:52 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Return to traditional district names prompts interesting debate</title>
           
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  ALTHOUGH the historic Westmorland county was abolished as administrative area in 1974, the name has remained in one form or other as a nostalgic link with the past. The fact this newspaper retained its traditional title is a case in point.
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           <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:25:01 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: The case for the introduction of medical assistance to die legislation</title>
           
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  I wish to draw readers’ attention to a subject which we will all face sooner or later - the subject of death and dying.
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           <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:22:44 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: The Lake District's huge affordable housing challenge</title>
           
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  THE lack of affordable housing in the Lake District has been an issue for years but appears to be growing even more acute.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:11:11 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Take the opportunity to go walking on the fells</title>
           
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  As a youth worker in the 1980s running a drop-in centre for unemployed young people in Millom, I was amazed to discover that many of the young people had never had a trip to the stunning mountains and lakes on their doorstep.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:09:59 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Christian Viewpoint: Easter isn't the end of Christ's story</title>
           
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  What happens next? If you’re anything like us you’ll hate those TV programmes, which leave you on a cliffhanger wondering what happens next!
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           <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:17:31 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Steamboat museum work deserves praise</title>
           
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  IT MAY seem only now that real progress is being made to ensure the redevelopment of the Windermere Steamboat Museum - yet there has been much going on behind the scenes since the attraction closed its doors in 2006.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:15:53 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Compulsory microchipping in all dogs cannot come too soon</title>
           
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  I was delighted to hear the Goverment's recent proposals to introduce compulsory microchipping in all dogs from 2016.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:14:29 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Christian Viewpoint: Resurrection story goes back to the very start of Christianity</title>
           
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  Christ is risen! That’s what Christians have been celebrating this past weekend.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:07:14 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Tipping should be the customer's decision</title>
           
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  IN A hospitality rich area like the Lake District, tipping has inevitably become an important source of extra cash for thousands of restaurant and hotel staff.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:05:26 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Churches should be left unlocked</title>
           
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  Open for Prayer &amp; Visitors, proclaims a notice outside the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity and St George at New Road, Kendal.
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           <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:04:18 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Local food producers must be supported</title>
           
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  When you sit down for a meal in a local gourmet restaurant, or a traditional snack in a Cumbrian pub or café, how often do you consider our county’s food heritage and how the ingredients of your chosen dish became embedded in our dining culture?
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           <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Comment: Welcome boosts to Cumbria's tourism trade</title>
           
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  CUMBRIA’S tourism businesses are probably looking forward to the coming visitor season with some trepidation after a disappointingly wet summer last year and the prospect of the current cold snap continuing through the Easter holiday and maybe well into April.
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