Fourth placed in the Grand National 25 years ago, Hallo Dandy is paraded in front of spectators by Larry Poland as Gordon Richards throws open the gates of his Greystoke stables to boost funds for the famous race.

Caning is to be banned in the county’s primary schools, whilst governors and headteachers of secondary schools are being urged to abolish corporal punishment there as well. The new measures were approved by the education committee, by a vote of 21 to five. However, some members of Cumbria County Council felt that there should be a total ban on caning in Cumbrian schools. “I hope that the governors will take note of our advice and realise tat if they go ahead and allow children to be beaten, it will be their responsibility and not ours if parents bring a prosecution,” said Mr. Shaun Halfpenny (Lab., Ulverston).

Caning is to be banned in the county’s primary schools, whilst governors and headteachers of secondary schools are being urged to abolish corporal punishment there as well. The new measures were approved by the education committee, by a vote of 21 to five. However, some members of Cumbria County Council felt that there should be a total ban on caning in Cumbrian schools. “I hope that the governors will take note of our advice and realise tat if they go ahead and allow children to be beaten, it will be their responsibility and not ours if parents bring a prosecution,” said Mr. Shaun Halfpenny (Lab., Ulverston).

SHAP

A union will pay a bill of nearly £2,000 for Glasgow-to-London jobs marchers to spend a night at the luxury Shap Wells Hotel when they pass through Cumbria. A leading official of the National Union of Public Employees has defended a decision to give 80 unemployed marchers and officials a taste of the high life at the big two-star AA and RAC recommended hotel. In contrast, their night in Penrith will be a spartan affair, sleeping on the floor of a gymnasium at Ullswater High School. Organisers of the march say it is a protest against the “suffering, indignity and stress” that unemployment brings to people and their families.

APPLEBY

Councillors decided this week that there was nothing they could do to help residents of Appleby’s Glebe estate, who are seething with anger at the way adjoining land is being developed. Builders have begun the construction of 30 properties at the southern end of the Bank Nursery site, which involves a longer route through the narrow Glebe roads for construction traffic. This breaches a condition imposed by Eden Council that work should begin from the north. However, councillors decided the chances of enforcing the condition were “slim”.

GREYSTOKE

If Greystoke trainer Gordon Richards has his way, the Grand National will be saved. Mr. Richards threw open his Greystoke Castle stables in aid of the £4.5 million fighting fund which has been set up to save the famous race. Racing enthusiasts from all over the north of England flocked to the yard in their hundreds, with the star attraction proving to be Hallo Dandy, fourth in this year’s Grand National, who was paraded in front of admiring spectators.

50 YEARS

PENRITH

Several people in Penrith and district saw the second Russian satellite, Sputnik II, on its final circuits of the Earth. One observer with binoculars described it as “like a small full moon with a band around the middle” and another who saw it through a telescope detected a “small tail”. Mrs. Mildred Braithwaite, Salkeld Way, Langwathby, said that she, her husband, two sons and a neighbour had seen it whilst standing in their garden. The satellite is reported to have disintegrated over the island of Barbados in the West Indies.

HUTTON-IN-THE-FOREST

Mr. W. M. F. Vane, MP for Westmorland, has been appointed as joint parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. Mr. Vane, who is 49 years of age and lives at Hutton-in-the-Forest, has been Conservative MP for Westmorland since 1945, when he succeeded Mr. Oliver Stanley.

KESWICK

At the annual meeting of the Keswick and District Wildfowlers’ Club, the secretary, Mr, Gordon Graham, Underskiddaw, reported that the club had held more clay bird shoots thanks to the kindness of Mr. J. W. Harrison, Fieldside Farm, Keswick, and Mr. Wilson Jnr., Bassenthwaite. The club was purchasing a number of Canada Geese eggs to hatch and rear at a convenient place near Bassenthwaite Lake. These would be an added attraction to Keswick, to both visitors and residents and the club hoped that all sportsmen would refrain from shooting at these grand birds until they were firmly established.

BAMPTON

Miss Elizabeth Newton, Moorend, Knipe, Bampton, the oldest resident of the parish and one of the most respected personalities in the district, celebrated her 90th birthday. Miss Newton finds nothing wrong with today’s younger generation. “We enjoyed ourselves,” she said “and I am glad to see the young ones today enjoying themselves.” She added, however, that the present younger generation did not pay such attention to church duties as in past days, which was a pity, but nevertheless she found the 20th Century young people courteous and helpful. Miss Newton has always moved with the times and says, if she had electricity, she would like a television.

APPLEBY

The Roman Catholics in the Appleby district are to achieve their ambition of having their own church in the town, for work has begun on the Church of Our Lady of Appleby, which is estimated to cost £10,500 and is situated at Garths Head Road. Before a large congregation the foundation stone was laid by Bishop T. B. Pearson, Bishop of Sinda, Asia Minor. The foundation stone held a casket, which contained a certificate signed by Bishop Pearson, coins of the realm and medals of Our Lady of Lourdes and the Pope.

100 YEARS

KIRKBY STEPHEN

The following pupils of Mr. A. Loveday, Kirkby Stephen, have obtained passes in the recent London College of Music examinations: Miss Mary Alderson, Stainmore; Miss Lena Dent, Brough; and Miss Kate Grisdale, Warcop.

NORTH WESTMORLAND

The annual meeting of the North Westmorland Liberal Association was held at Tebay, when Mr. Leif Jones, Liberal MP, was present. He referred to the death of the famous Liberal statesman Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, and a tribute was also paid to the late Alderman Joseph Graham, Appleby, a prominent figure in the association.

PENRITH

Penrith Jubilee Cottage Hospital has received miscellaneous gifts from the following: Mrs. Formby, Beacon Lodge; Mrs. Dawson Scott, Brent House; Mrs. Fell; Miss Fearon, Wordsworth Street; Mr. Bolton, Leeming; Mr. Heywood Thompson, Nunwick Hall; and Mrs. Watson, Wordsworth Street.