Sir, Carl Bendelowmistakenly believes (Herald, 4th February) that reusing emptyproperties will address affordable housing needs in Eden and be lesscontentious than building affordable housing on new sites.

SO, Cumbria County Council is “staggered” by the vehement opposition to its plans to close six household waste recycling centres across the county, including that at Kirkby Stephen. Residents of Upper Eden in particular are staggered, too, that the council should have come up with proposals that would have led to an increase in fly-tipping and resulted in people making more car journeys in order to recycle their unwanted items.

In Hull a seven-year-old boy was branded a racist and a bigot for asking the simple, harmless and obvious question of another child at school whether he was “brown because he was from Africa”.

WITH March on our doorstep the new house and garden open season is only a month away. Preparations in thegardens are well on the way and hopefully with some decent spring and summer weather all the hard work will produce quite a spectacle.

Sir, Every day across the whole of the UK somebody finds out they have cancer. It could be a mother, father, brother, sister or grandparent, so we are now signing people up for gift aid.

Sir, Carl Bendelowmistakenly believes (Herald, 4th February) that reusing emptyproperties will address affordable housing needs in Eden and be lesscontentious than building affordable housing on new sites.

SO, Cumbria County Council is “staggered” by the vehement opposition to its plans to close six household waste recycling centres across the county, including that at Kirkby Stephen. Residents of Upper Eden in particular are staggered, too, that the council should have come up with proposals that would have led to an increase in fly-tipping and resulted in people making more car journeys in order to recycle their unwanted items.

In Hull a seven-year-old boy was branded a racist and a bigot for asking the simple, harmless and obvious question of another child at school whether he was “brown because he was from Africa”.

THEATRE Hullabaloo is bringing its production, Angel a Story of Unexpected Friendship, to Kirkoswald village hall on Friday, 9th March.

A THINLY-veiled sense of menace descended on Penrith Players’ Auction Mart Lane theatre with their production of Harold Pinter’s classic The Birthday Party.