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NEW FIGURES reveal that Copeland Borough Council has helped 135 homeless individuals or families in the last year. A total of 449 people sought the council’s advice on housing and homelessness matters in 2020/21, and of the 135 who needed to be re-housed, 103 have moved into long-term accommodation. The Housing and Homeless team works every day with individuals, families, support agencies and landlords to prevent people from having to leave their homes, and helps to find alternative accommodation for those that do have to leave. Copeland Council goes over and above the statutory hom...

A new deputy police crime commissioner who is looking forward to ‘cracking down on crime and anti-social behaviour’ is set to be appointed. Andy Pratt has been announced as the preferred candidate for the role of Deputy PCC by newly elected police and crime commissioner for Lancashire, Andrew Snowden. Pending a confirmation hearing at Lancashire’s police and crime panel, Andy Pratt will take up his role in the Summer. Andy Pratt said: “I am delighted to be Andrew’s preferred candidate for the post of Deputy PCC. “Following a career devoted to service in Lancashire, it is...

Have your say on document helping to improve Copeland shopfronts Lowther Street in Whitehaven A new public consultation has been launched into a document that will help improve the quality of shopfronts within Copeland’s towns and villages. Copeland Borough Council is in the process of developing a Shopfront Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to help ensure attractive and effective shopfronts are provided and maintained. The six-week consultation launched yesterday gives residents, businesses and interested parties the opportunity to comment on a draft of the SPD before a fi...

Hopeful: Councillor Paul Turner is pleased the secondary school catchment areas for Gosforth, Seascale and St. Bega’s primary school pupils is now up for review, after years of calling for change After three years of campaigning for change, residents of rural villages are celebrating the news that “unfair” catchment areas for their children being reviewed. For many years, pupils of Gosforth, Seascale and St Bega’s primary schools have been forced to attend secondary schools that they did not choose, due to their catchment choice of West Lakes Academy, in Egremont, being filled by ...

Anthony Head’s teenage obsessions: ‘The Rocky Horror Show ignited something in my core’ (From left) Anthony Head, Simon and Garfunkel, Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Show and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Composite: Rex/Getty (From left) Anthony Head, Simon and Garfunkel, Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Show and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Composite: Rex/Getty The Buffy and Gold Blend actor, who stars in the new film School’s Out Forever, on his love for Judi Dench, Lord of the Flies – and playing Dr Frank-N-Furter Thu 21 Jan 2...