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quickly. It was dark hours before theannual Cumwhinton Bonfire and as usualit was another enjoyable occasion, evenwith the unwanted rain.

Throughout the darkness, the fire lit thefaces of the surrounding crowd and thefireworks swept away the sensation of therain.

It was only when walking back home thatI began to be aware that I was cold andwet and my little boy was covered in mud.Still for me that’s one of the best parts ofwinter; the cold and the wet.

It makes you wrapping up warm in frontof the fire with a cup of hot chocolate sowonderful.

So tonight as you sit down with thismonth’s magazine pop a couple of extramarshmallows on your chocolate andenjoy your escape from the cold.

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ISSUES IN YOUR AREA

91 Bus Service to Caldew School Most of the chil-dren who liveoutside the catch-ment area ofCaldew Schooland were travel-ling with us onthe Alistair Cookcoach last term,were offered ac o n c e s s i o n a r yfare place on the

official bus. This demonstrated that there was ademand for a regular and reliable service. Forothers, I was very pleased that Stagecoach haveestablished a combined school and regular pas-senger 91 Service from the Carleton estates viaLondon Road, Denton Holme and on to Dalston.I travelled on the bus every morning for the firstweek to be sure that it served the needs of thechildren using it.

I would like to record my appreciation to AlistairCook, to the Stagecoach staff, the LEA transportteam and Caldew School staff, for making thispossible. I am currently having dialogue with theschool to explore the possibility of setting up awider ranging service across Carlisle, for thosewho also live outside the catchment area, andpresently do not have access to a school bus.

Winter Maintenance/GrittingAlong with otherC o u n t yCouncillor col-leagues, I haveserved on a panelset up to helpestablish theC o u n c i l ’ sresponse in theevent of severewinter weather aswe saw last year,

and for routine winter maintenance. The CountyCouncil are producing maps covering the CarlisleDistrict. These will show the three priorities ofroads across the area for gritting and snow clear-ing and the location of grit bins and heaps. Thiswill apply to all adopted roads. We will be consid-

ering this at the next Local Committee meeting.Parish Councils, (in the case of much of theCarleton area it is St Cuthbert’s ParishCouncil), have the opportunity to provide inputfrom their local knowledge. The bins are pro-vided and replenished by the County Council.

Unfortunately, the roads in the estates atCarleton are still not adopted, so the Councilhave no legal obligation to treat them.Technically this is still the responsibility of thedevelopers. In some cases, I believe that insome locations, there are surfaces which arepotentially hazardous not only for the residentsbut also for the Council vehicles such as refusecollection. I have identified a steep slope atPennine View Close as one example and havebrought it to the attention of the HighwaysEngineer. Please let me know of any others.

Autumn LeavesThe large number of trees in parts of the estatesare very attractive at this time of year. Butwhen the leaves fall, they pose a problem, cov-

ering residents’ gardens, open spaces and road-ways. Also the gulleys get blocked. There is lit-tle point in the Council clearing these until theleaf fall is complete. Following complaintsfrom residents who have difficulty coping withthe amount of leaves on their property, it seemsthat this is a private matter and not the respon-sibility of the Council.

Happy Christmas.

For those in the Dalston Ward, please feel freeto contact me at;

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Produced and published by Trevor Allison

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17 Gilbert Rd, Cummersdale.

Dear Residents,

As this is the last publication of the CarletonDirectory before Christmas, together withmy Councillor colleagues, we would like to

take this opportunity of wishing you a HappyChristmas and New Year.

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Can the Economystand the shock?

GEORGE OSBORNE’s long anticipatedspending review was delivered to a

packed House of Commons on the 20th ofOctober. Broadly speaking it was wellreceived for being consistent with what hadbeen said earlier and the timetable foradjustment, and for being very little differ-ent from what Labour would have had to dohad they stayed in office.

However it did not answerthe big question – can theeconomy stand the shock?To determine this it is worthlooking at what happened inthe past in the 1990,s, 1980’sand when we were in a muchdeeper hole in the 1970’s.The sheer scale of the deficitthis time is much larger butwe are wealthier too andwhat really matters is not theamount but the scale of theadjustment the economy willhave to make. This totalmanaged expenditure isexpected to fall by 3.3% inreal terms by 2014-15 but bycontrast the cuts following the IMF rescuein 1976 amounted to 3.9%. in one year.

Another measure tells a similar story. Theproportion of GDP spend by the govern-ment will fall under these measures by 6.5%over 5 years, from 47.5% to 41% of the total.In the squeeze and recovery in the 5 yearsafter 1982-83 it also declined by 6.5%. Inthe 5 years after the ERM debacle of 1992 itdeclined by 5.5%. Even if these cuts all gothrough the share of the state will still bebigger than when it was in 1997 whenlabour came to power.

The key message I want to make here how-ever is that during these past times whenthe economic backdrop was tough, this wasa good time to be a stock-market investor.Once we had bitten the bullet and peopleunderstood the government were seriousabout restoring public finances the econo-my and the stock markets responded well.

UK Growth for 6 years in the 1980’s aver-aged 3.6% and in the 1990’s averaged 3.5%.This time however there is far greater glob-al uncertainty and a mountain of personaldebt so we will probably not bounce backquite as far or as fast. But it still makessense to consider that growth will be possi-

ble and that with interest rates continuingat record lows and returns on bank savingsand deposits poor; other investments mayprovide better returns.

However they also may be more riski-er so it is vitally important thatIndependent Financial Advice is takenbefore considering an investmentespecially in the Stock-Markets andremember Stock-Market Investmentscan go down as well as up.

So much of economic management turnson confidence – whether the glass is halfempty or half full and for months politi-cians have been softening us up and talkingabout how bad things are and now that thenews is out in the open, confidence is likelyto pick up partly because people feel theworst and partly because the worst formany will not be as bad as they feared. Thedevil you know is always less scary!

A second positive is the Bank of Englandafter a shaky start has handled the crisisvery well and is determined to keep interestrates low and to even print more money ifnecessary to ensure that the economyremains on a recovery footing.

The third and probably the most positive isthat this wake-up call has made the countryas a whole realise that it has to save more,invest wisely and work a bit harder and byunderlining and reinforcing this messagethe spending review has done a good joband I would hope that most people willagree and that we can start to feel goodabout UK Plc once again.

As always I would urge anyone who needsto consider any area of financial planningto get in touch with an IndependentFinancial Adviser and ensure that theyfully understand any investment or con-tract that they are purchasing.

As this is the last finance article before thefestive season I would like to wish all read-ers a very Merry Christmas and a Happyand Prosperous 2011.

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The future is bright and they are in demandacross the country at festivals and gather-ings. They are currently looking at record-ing an EP for release sometime next yearand have some interest from managementwho hope to take them on a nationwidetour.

They are currently looking for gigs and fes-tivals to play anywhere in the country (orindeed out of it!) and their material can beheard by typing “thekeepsmusic” into atwitter, facebook or youtube search whichwill bring you to them.

Caldew CallingCouncillor Nicola Clarke

Hello again everyone,

I CANNOT BELIEVE we are now nearingthe end of another year. Time has gone

so quickly. I am also glad to see that theshops seemed to have delayed theirChristmas Gift selections and seasonalgoods by a good month, for as you know Ipay particular attention as to when‘Christmas’ is introduced into our shops.

Certainly over the last few months I havenoticed how expensive everything seems tohave become, but most of all the increasein the cost of food and produce. I still havemy three grown up children at home, so Iam conscious of watching how much weseem to spend.

My eldest daughter Georgina often comesshopping with us and she has encouragedme to use a shopping list again – I did dothis in the past but it has become one ofthose things that has slipped away, onlybecause I became used to shopping in oneparticular store and so this became some-thing of habitual purchasing.

So, back to the list I have gone, makingsure I only buy the things I need (I amseduced by the occasional buy one get onefree). I am shopping around for food andhousehold goods now and I find I am get-ting real value for money because I ambeing more selective. Let’s hope theGovernment can apply the same principlewhen spending our money!!

I promised last time to give you an update ona special community scrutiny meeting thatwas held in the Harraby Community Centreabout “The Together We Can” project. Thiswas a community empowerment pilotscheme set up for Harraby and included asection of Botcherby as part of the Urbanarea and Longtown as a Rural Parish.

The meeting was well attended by localParish and District Councillors as well asCouncil Officers from the City and CountyCouncils, including the Chief Executive MsMaggie Mooney, and most importantly, thelocal residents who have and still are con-tributing towards shaping and being thestrong voice for their respective communi-ties.

I have to say, it was highly enjoyable andterrific to hear about all the achievementsthat everyone spoke about, as well as thechallenges that had presented themselvesthroughout the last eighteen months or so.The meeting was scheduled only for half aday, but truly we could have spent thewhole day discussing how funding wasmet for certain projects, how peoplelearned to budget for projects, the deci-sions around developing projects, thesupport and advise needed fromOfficers Local Councillors, Police,Volunteer Groups and H o u s i n g

Associations to helpempower commu-nities, and how dif-ferent communi-ties could shareideas and success – whether they werefrom Urban or Rural Parishes.

This has been such a worthwhile project Iwould hope that it can be repeated, in a costeffective way, at some time in another part ofthe City in the near future. Thank you to theHarraby Community Centre and local resi-dents, who made us all very welcome andlooked after everyone brilliantly with a splen-did lunch.

After the event I spoke to many of the officerswho had attended the meeting from the Cityand the County Councils and they were‘buzzing’ with excitement from it – this wasbecause they had direct communication fromthe residents themselves, officers could get agood sense of service provision and whatCouncils can provide, but most importantlywhat local residents desire from their LocalCouncil.

This meeting was a good example of how local-ity working brings all the elements of a com-munity together, for me it is the way forward,out there talking, listening and working togeth-er directly with community representatives.

This week a colleague asked me if I was goingto take advantage of an offer to visit Brussels

with one of our MEPs, to observe part ofthe operation and process. If I did attendit would be at my own expense (that’s as itshould be, but all well and good if I hadthe money to spare – me being a workingmum!!), however, my own thoughts onhow useful European Parliament is at alocal level, is I am afraid, not suitable forprint in any publication!

European Parliament in my opinion coststhis Country dearly and it must learn toreduce its running costs as we are havingto do in the UK, and other EU countries.Let’s hope that this Government will putmore pressure on the EU to provide uswith a value for money service and tell uswhat this will mean for areas like Carlisleand the North West.

As there will not be another publicationbefore Christmas, I would just like to wishyou and your families a very HappyChristmas and New Year and I look for-ward to writing for you in 2011.

NICOLA

Cllr Nicola Clarke

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(NB;- These are the personal views ofNicola Clarke and in no way reflect theviews of Carlisle City Council or theConservative Party)

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The present population of5 billion plus people of the world

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The future is bright and they are in demandacross the country at festivals and gather-ings. They are currently looking at record-ing an EP for release sometime next yearand have some interest from managementwho hope to take them on a nationwidetour.

They are currently looking for gigs and fes-tivals to play anywhere in the country (orindeed out of it!) and their material can beheard by typing “thekeepsmusic” into atwitter, facebook or youtube search whichwill bring you to them.

Caldew CallingCouncillor Nicola Clarke

Hello again everyone,

I CANNOT BELIEVE we are now nearingthe end of another year. Time has gone

so quickly. I am also glad to see that theshops seemed to have delayed theirChristmas Gift selections and seasonalgoods by a good month, for as you know Ipay particular attention as to when‘Christmas’ is introduced into our shops.

Certainly over the last few months I havenoticed how expensive everything seems tohave become, but most of all the increasein the cost of food and produce. I still havemy three grown up children at home, so Iam conscious of watching how much weseem to spend.

My eldest daughter Georgina often comesshopping with us and she has encouragedme to use a shopping list again – I did dothis in the past but it has become one ofthose things that has slipped away, onlybecause I became used to shopping in oneparticular store and so this became some-thing of habitual purchasing.

So, back to the list I have gone, makingsure I only buy the things I need (I amseduced by the occasional buy one get onefree). I am shopping around for food andhousehold goods now and I find I am get-ting real value for money because I ambeing more selective. Let’s hope theGovernment can apply the same principlewhen spending our money!!

I promised last time to give you an update ona special community scrutiny meeting thatwas held in the Harraby Community Centreabout “The Together We Can” project. Thiswas a community empowerment pilotscheme set up for Harraby and included asection of Botcherby as part of the Urbanarea and Longtown as a Rural Parish.

The meeting was well attended by localParish and District Councillors as well asCouncil Officers from the City and CountyCouncils, including the Chief Executive MsMaggie Mooney, and most importantly, thelocal residents who have and still are con-tributing towards shaping and being thestrong voice for their respective communi-ties.

I have to say, it was highly enjoyable andterrific to hear about all the achievementsthat everyone spoke about, as well as thechallenges that had presented themselvesthroughout the last eighteen months or so.The meeting was scheduled only for half aday, but truly we could have spent thewhole day discussing how funding wasmet for certain projects, how peoplelearned to budget for projects, the deci-sions around developing projects, thesupport and advise needed fromOfficers Local Councillors, Police,Volunteer Groups and H o u s i n g

Associations to helpempower commu-nities, and how dif-ferent communi-ties could shareideas and success – whether they werefrom Urban or Rural Parishes.

This has been such a worthwhile project Iwould hope that it can be repeated, in a costeffective way, at some time in another part ofthe City in the near future. Thank you to theHarraby Community Centre and local resi-dents, who made us all very welcome andlooked after everyone brilliantly with a splen-did lunch.

After the event I spoke to many of the officerswho had attended the meeting from the Cityand the County Councils and they were‘buzzing’ with excitement from it – this wasbecause they had direct communication fromthe residents themselves, officers could get agood sense of service provision and whatCouncils can provide, but most importantlywhat local residents desire from their LocalCouncil.

This meeting was a good example of how local-ity working brings all the elements of a com-munity together, for me it is the way forward,out there talking, listening and working togeth-er directly with community representatives.

This week a colleague asked me if I was goingto take advantage of an offer to visit Brussels

with one of our MEPs, to observe part ofthe operation and process. If I did attendit would be at my own expense (that’s as itshould be, but all well and good if I hadthe money to spare – me being a workingmum!!), however, my own thoughts onhow useful European Parliament is at alocal level, is I am afraid, not suitable forprint in any publication!

European Parliament in my opinion coststhis Country dearly and it must learn toreduce its running costs as we are havingto do in the UK, and other EU countries.Let’s hope that this Government will putmore pressure on the EU to provide uswith a value for money service and tell uswhat this will mean for areas like Carlisleand the North West.

As there will not be another publicationbefore Christmas, I would just like to wishyou and your families a very HappyChristmas and New Year and I look for-ward to writing for you in 2011.

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official bus. This demonstrated that there was ademand for a regular and reliable service. Forothers, I was very pleased that Stagecoach haveestablished a combined school and regular pas-senger 91 Service from the Carleton estates viaLondon Road, Denton Holme and on to Dalston.I travelled on the bus every morning for the firstweek to be sure that it served the needs of thechildren using it.

I would like to record my appreciation to AlistairCook, to the Stagecoach staff, the LEA transportteam and Caldew School staff, for making thispossible. I am currently having dialogue with theschool to explore the possibility of setting up awider ranging service across Carlisle, for thosewho also live outside the catchment area, andpresently do not have access to a school bus.

Winter Maintenance/GrittingAlong with otherC o u n t yCouncillor col-leagues, I haveserved on a panelset up to helpestablish theC o u n c i l ’ sresponse in theevent of severewinter weather aswe saw last year,

and for routine winter maintenance. The CountyCouncil are producing maps covering the CarlisleDistrict. These will show the three priorities ofroads across the area for gritting and snow clear-ing and the location of grit bins and heaps. Thiswill apply to all adopted roads. We will be consid-

ering this at the next Local Committee meeting.Parish Councils, (in the case of much of theCarleton area it is St Cuthbert’s ParishCouncil), have the opportunity to provide inputfrom their local knowledge. The bins are pro-vided and replenished by the County Council.

Unfortunately, the roads in the estates atCarleton are still not adopted, so the Councilhave no legal obligation to treat them.Technically this is still the responsibility of thedevelopers. In some cases, I believe that insome locations, there are surfaces which arepotentially hazardous not only for the residentsbut also for the Council vehicles such as refusecollection. I have identified a steep slope atPennine View Close as one example and havebrought it to the attention of the HighwaysEngineer. Please let me know of any others.

Autumn LeavesThe large number of trees in parts of the estatesare very attractive at this time of year. Butwhen the leaves fall, they pose a problem, cov-

ering residents’ gardens, open spaces and road-ways. Also the gulleys get blocked. There is lit-tle point in the Council clearing these until theleaf fall is complete. Following complaintsfrom residents who have difficulty coping withthe amount of leaves on their property, it seemsthat this is a private matter and not the respon-sibility of the Council.

Happy Christmas.

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As this is the last publication of the CarletonDirectory before Christmas, together withmy Councillor colleagues, we would like to

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GEORGE OSBORNE’s long anticipatedspending review was delivered to a

packed House of Commons on the 20th ofOctober. Broadly speaking it was wellreceived for being consistent with what hadbeen said earlier and the timetable foradjustment, and for being very little differ-ent from what Labour would have had to dohad they stayed in office.

However it did not answerthe big question – can theeconomy stand the shock?To determine this it is worthlooking at what happened inthe past in the 1990,s, 1980’sand when we were in a muchdeeper hole in the 1970’s.The sheer scale of the deficitthis time is much larger butwe are wealthier too andwhat really matters is not theamount but the scale of theadjustment the economy willhave to make. This totalmanaged expenditure isexpected to fall by 3.3% inreal terms by 2014-15 but bycontrast the cuts following the IMF rescuein 1976 amounted to 3.9%. in one year.

Another measure tells a similar story. Theproportion of GDP spend by the govern-ment will fall under these measures by 6.5%over 5 years, from 47.5% to 41% of the total.In the squeeze and recovery in the 5 yearsafter 1982-83 it also declined by 6.5%. Inthe 5 years after the ERM debacle of 1992 itdeclined by 5.5%. Even if these cuts all gothrough the share of the state will still bebigger than when it was in 1997 whenlabour came to power.

The key message I want to make here how-ever is that during these past times whenthe economic backdrop was tough, this wasa good time to be a stock-market investor.Once we had bitten the bullet and peopleunderstood the government were seriousabout restoring public finances the econo-my and the stock markets responded well.

UK Growth for 6 years in the 1980’s aver-aged 3.6% and in the 1990’s averaged 3.5%.This time however there is far greater glob-al uncertainty and a mountain of personaldebt so we will probably not bounce backquite as far or as fast. But it still makessense to consider that growth will be possi-

ble and that with interest rates continuingat record lows and returns on bank savingsand deposits poor; other investments mayprovide better returns.

However they also may be more riski-er so it is vitally important thatIndependent Financial Advice is takenbefore considering an investmentespecially in the Stock-Markets andremember Stock-Market Investmentscan go down as well as up.

So much of economic management turnson confidence – whether the glass is halfempty or half full and for months politi-cians have been softening us up and talkingabout how bad things are and now that thenews is out in the open, confidence is likelyto pick up partly because people feel theworst and partly because the worst formany will not be as bad as they feared. Thedevil you know is always less scary!

A second positive is the Bank of Englandafter a shaky start has handled the crisisvery well and is determined to keep interestrates low and to even print more money ifnecessary to ensure that the economyremains on a recovery footing.

The third and probably the most positive isthat this wake-up call has made the countryas a whole realise that it has to save more,invest wisely and work a bit harder and byunderlining and reinforcing this messagethe spending review has done a good joband I would hope that most people willagree and that we can start to feel goodabout UK Plc once again.

As always I would urge anyone who needsto consider any area of financial planningto get in touch with an IndependentFinancial Adviser and ensure that theyfully understand any investment or con-tract that they are purchasing.

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DearNeighbours

THE CLOCKS have changed and it hasreally brought on the sense of winter

quickly. It was dark hours before theannual Cumwhinton Bonfire and as usualit was another enjoyable occasion, evenwith the unwanted rain.

Throughout the darkness, the fire lit thefaces of the surrounding crowd and thefireworks swept away the sensation of therain.

It was only when walking back home thatI began to be aware that I was cold andwet and my little boy was covered in mud.Still for me that’s one of the best parts ofwinter; the cold and the wet.

It makes you wrapping up warm in frontof the fire with a cup of hot chocolate sowonderful.

So tonight as you sit down with thismonth’s magazine pop a couple of extramarshmallows on your chocolate andenjoy your escape from the cold.

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