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Workington's United Club have claimed the Division Two title in the L&L Property Contractors Snooker League.

L&L Property Contractors Snooker League took another break this week as cup action prevailed with the Eric McMullen Memorial Handicap TKO Trophy penultimate qualifying round taking centre stage. 

Owner of Oddfellows Arms in Caldbeck says rural pubs feeling squeeze this Christmas

Recently we have been gifted a wealth of political insights, designed to shape the political agenda which perhaps revealed more than intended.

Submitting... First Minister and outgoing DUP leader Arlene Foster. Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye Asked on the BBC’s Sunday Politics show yesterday if it was likely he could still count Mrs Foster among his friends, Mr Stalford said: “I hope so. I know that people say there are no friends in politics but that is a myth, that is not true. “We are all good comrades – we are all Democratic Unionists together and I hope is the spirit in which we can take the party forward.” When asked...

Deputy First Minister Michelle ONeill will lead a party delegation to meet Chief Constable Simon Byrne on Monday to discuss what she describes as a “crisis of confidence in policing”. Ms ONeill said she is not calling for Mr Byrne to stand down after he issued an apology to the families present at a memorial service for those killed in the Sean Graham bookmakers massacre on Friday. Speaking during a press conference on Saturday night, Mr Byrne also said one of the officers present has been...

When a friend dies, it is often the small things one misses; the details rather than the big picture. In the days since Norman Houston died, many people, often those in public life whose work brought them into close contact with him in Washington, DC, have rightly paid tribute and expressed sympathy online. The artist Colin Davidson, whose large-scale portraits hang in the Lyric Theatre, summed it up in his Twitter tribute, writing of Normans "empathy, selflessness, decency, warmth, professiona...

Seamus Heaney celebrated hope and not old divisions Choice of poet as face of centenary of North has proved controversial Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 01:24 Susan McKay Seamus Heaney: He hated what the division within the North did to people: “open minds, as open as a trap”. Photograph: Pat Langan   No good was ever going to come of this. One of Seamus Heaney’s most intense pre...

Be advised my passports green. No glass of ours was ever raised Mr Heaney, who was from a Catholic nationalist background, famously wrote the poem An Open Letter in 1983 as a response to being included in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry. However he was pictured with the Queen at a state dinner in Dublin in 2011. Speaking in an interview with BBC journalist Mark Carruthers shortly before his 2013 death the Bellaghy poet described his own identity as "Ulster-Irish or Irish-Ulster...