Caring touch puts Riverside significantly above zero

RECENTLY my mother died, as a resident in Riverside nursing home in Maryport, and this letter is in response to your article on the quality of standards of the home (Times & Star, March 5).WHY is it that whenever the phrase “Gypsy sites for Allerdale” is mentioned, the words Maryport and Workington then follow (Times & Star, March 5).JUST who is behind the decision making on Shiver Me Timbers playground?IT’S now entering the fourth month since the Cockermouth floods.FOLLOWING recent criticism of United Utilities for their management of the level of Thirlmere and of attempts to make political capital of the matter, I wrote to them. I give two quotations from their reply.HAVING enjoyed the good fortune of happily married parents, and all the happiness of a contented marriage myself, I remain deeply unimpressed by the Conservative vote-grubbing idea advocated by John Payton that I deserve awarding a tax benefit, too.WHEN I was writing to the various authorities shortly after the event, thanking them for their prompt actions in building Workington North Station and introducing the shuttle train service, I also asked them as to the possibility of having the station as a permanent feature of the Cumbrian coastal line.THE loss of the bridges across the river Derwent has brought into focus just how fragile the transport infrastructure is in West Cumbria (or the county as a whole)!

Last updated 11 March 2010
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