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Usain Bolt Bee by Molly NattrassSolway from Holm Cultram Abbey School Buzzwww.solwaybuzz.co.uk October/November 2012 Solwaylocal news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news BuzzFREE PAPER Issue 109 FREE PAPER Page 6 What a crafty lot! Page 7 Have you seen this man? Christmas Page 8 Fancy Heroes raise £500 is Saved! Page 15 Junior Golfers The Silloth Santa back to the social club for a successful year with the under way. Plans for the Silloth airfield are also well Dash and Switch On of a family party. The money Jubilee Celebrations to their new October Halloween on schedule. This is not to be the Christmas Lights have raised will go towards repairs credit are supporting the Bonfire & Fireworks on the missed. heralded the start of the of the lights and new lights new group while they get evening of 26th October at Ho Ho Ho Xmas season proper, for for 2013. many years in our town. The The family light switch thought of no lights and no on party will be on the 30th visit from Santa to our lovely of November so get it in your town has proved too much diary and wrap up warm. for many of us. We would like to take It is with great Xmas joy this opportunity the thank that it can be announced present and past committee PUBLIC that a new committee has members for all their hard been formed and the lights work and enthusiasm it has MEETING will be up and the sacred been appreciated. They will in the family Santa dash will go not be holding the auction ahead! this year to raise funds but Santa will be coming to we are planning a raffle Golf Hotel Silloth this year kids! The and will be selling tickets on Santa dash will kick off from throughout the town. If you the Discovery Centre at would like to help in any Wednesday 2pm on Saturday the 17th way please get in touch with of November. The theme Vicky on 016973 32516. 3rd October this year is anything to do Let’s give the kids and Santa with christmas so we are a warm welcome and have looking forward to seeing a lively family fun day out at 7pm the costumes. We will come at the Santa dash looking through the town collecting forward to a great turn out Say NO to from everyone on our route this year as always. and this year cross the bridge A hardworking dedicated Nuke Dump into West Silloth returning group of people have ensured the central streets have looked bright and fun-filled during the period. Even with Protestors Message to the best will in the world all things move on and peoples abilities change. Regretfully, Allerdale Councillors this has happened to the group who have done this work so well in the past. They had to declare they were not able to arrange for the lights this year. They put out a call to other groups and individuals in the town to see if help was available. See Pages 2, 3 & 4 Silloth Tourist Action Group (STAG) have had The Solway Buzz is a FREE community paper with a circulation of 5,400 copies for the area around Abbeytown, Skinburness, Silloth-on-Solway and Mawbray Page 2 local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news A Nuclear Waste Repository in Silloth - Updates Silloth Town Council Resolution The following resolution was presented to Silloth Town Council by councillor Bill Jefferson and passed unanimously by Silloth Town Council at their meeting on Monday 3rd September. “Silloth Town Council request Allerdale Borough Council Executive and Cumbria County Council Cabinet to withdraw their expression of interest in siting a nuclear waste repository in Allerdale at their scheduled meetings of the 11th October 2012. We have no confidence in the right of withdrawal at future stages in the process. We believe that the geology of the Solway Plain is not suitable for such an undertaking. It appears to us that there is overwhelming support for our position in the communities we serve and in other parishes on the plain as well as in the Solway Coast Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Please do not expose our people to further risk and worry by continuing.” Nuclear Waste disposal in The Partnership could start. West Cumbria? An article by received expert geological For further information the West Cumbria Managing submissions arguing that all about the Partnership’s report Radioactive Waste Safely of West Cumbria’s geology and the MRWS process visit Partnership. is unsuitable and further www.westcumbriamrws.org. In last month’s Solway progress is not worthwhile. uk. Buzz it was suggested that the However, it also received Managing Radioactive Waste contrary expert advice Safely process has identified stating that further progress Silloth as one of the most is worthwhile because not How You likely sites for a nuclear waste enough is yet known to be repository. able to say that all of West Can Fight It! This is misleading. It is Cumbria should be ruled out. Our local councils, also misleading to suggest In its Final Report Allerdale and Cumbria, will that these discussions have the Partnership said it is vote on the 11th October as been taking place in secret. inherently uncertain at this to whether or not they take In July the West Cumbria stage whether a suitable site plans forward for a High Managing Radioactive Waste can be found, that more Level Nuclear Waste Dump Safely Partnership completed geological work is therefore which would be 23 square its Final Report on the issues required, and that it should kilometres of underground that would be involved in be done as soon as possible. workings centred on the taking part in detailed studies However, there was a Black Dyke/Parkhead area, and investigations to see difference of view in the just outside Silloth. if there is anywhere in the Partnership about whether A group of concerned Allerdale and Copeland areas this work should be done residents from Silloth suitable for a repository. before or after a decision attended a meeting in The Partnership about participation in the Cockermouth on Thursday included all the councils in search for a site. 6th September. We were told Cumbria and organisations The Partnership also by Professors Smythe and like Cumbria Tourism, the considered other issues Haszeldine (both specialists Chamber of Commerce and including what impacts – in geology) why the Solway the National Farmers Union. both positive and negative - a Plain is not a suitable site The red outline shows the area within which the repository would be sited The underground Over a three year period repository might have. It said for this purpose. They gave workings will require over 20 sq km, just over half of the 39 sq km of the red outline. There is the Partnership looked at ‘we are fairly confident that very detailed presentations little or no leeway for lateral movement. They have to be sited in the middle. reports and literature, heard an acceptable process can which can be summed up from experts, commissioned be put in place to assess and by stating that the local excavated from underground Workington) mark.fryer@ Moor North & Frizington) independent research mitigate negative impacts, geology is not suitable. There will be the equivalent of allerdale.gov.uk timothy.knowles@cumbria. and invited reviews by and maximise positive are too many geological three of the largest pyramids Michael Heaslip (St. Johns, gov.uk independent experts. It met impacts’. However, it said faults, several large ones and because it has no Workington) michael. Elizabeth Mallinson roughly every six weeks in a huge amount of work to and hundreds of small ones commercial value will be left [email protected] (Stanwix) elizabeth. public. identify and quantify impacts and too much water. The in the area creating a blot on Carl Holding (St. Michaels, [email protected] The Partnership also would be required if there is result of this combination the landscape. Workington) carl.holding@ Tony Markley (Solway placed a high priority on a decision to take part in the could be the escape of highly How can you stop this allerdale.gov.uk Coast) anthony.markley@ involving the public. The search for a site. radioactive water into the happening? Carni McCarron-Holmes cumbria.gov.uk final part of this work was The Partnership did local environment within The decision to go on (Ewanrigg, Maryport) Oliver Pearson (Old Barrow) probably the biggest public not come to a view about months of the first waste with this rests in the hands of carni.mccarron-holmes@ oliver.pearson@cumbria. consultation that has ever whether or not Allerdale being stored. the 17 people who are named allerdale.gov.uk gov.uk taken place in Cumbria. This and/or Copeland should Do you want this nuclear below complete, with their Alan Smith (Cockermouth) Gary Strong (Penrith) included: take part in the search for dump on your doorstep? email addresses. It is not the [email protected] gary.b.strong@cumbria. • paid for articles on two a repository site. That is a Apart from the potential full councils of Allerdale Philip Tibble (Clifton)philip. gov.uk separate occasions in local decision Allerdale Borough serious health hazards what and Cumbria who will be [email protected] Sign the petition which newspapers; Council, Copeland Borough about: making the decision, only Cumbria County Council we plan to present before • a six-page article in Your Council and Cumbria 1.