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Mayor and MP issue Sellafield Ltd statement
Published: 09/05/2019
Mike Starkie, Mayor of Copeland, and Trudy Harrison, Member of Parliament for Copeland, have issued the following joint statement in response to Sellafield Ltd's Programme and Project Partners announcement today.
"We welcome the announcement of the Lot Partners on Sellafield Ltd’s Programme and Project Partners (PPP) framework, through which a significant portion of the site’s supply chain services in project and programme management, engineering and design, civil and process construction will be procured over the next 20 years.
Copeland Borough Council line-up unveiled
Published: 08/05/2019
THE line-up of borough councillors who will serve Copeland for the next four years has been formally unveiled.
Copeland Borough Council’s 33 elected members today attended the Copeland Centre to sign their declarations of acceptance.
Following Thursday’s election the political makeup of the Council stands at 19 Labour councillors, 10 Conservative and four independent.
Joining newly re-elected Mayor Mike Starkie, councillors have been elected to the following wards:
Council & students aim for BIG recycling impact
Published: 07/05/2019
BIRTHDAY celebrations for Copeland's kerbside recycling service continued this week with the arrival of a very large guest!
The impressive elephant sculpture, made from recycled materials by local artist Susan Jackson and students from Lakes College, was at the Beacon Museum for the bank holiday. The 1.4m-tall piece is filled with used cans and plastic bottles and highlights the fact that since the council launched a revamped recycling collection a year ago, it has collected materials equalling the weight of 650 elephants.
Copeland council bank holiday arrangements
Published: 30/04/2019
COPELAND Borough Council's offices will be closed this coming bank holiday Monday, May 6, as per its usual bank holiday arrangements.
There will be no household waste, garden or recycling collections on Monday and all collections will be one day later than usual that week. If your collection is due on Friday this will take place on Saturday.
The Distington Hall Crematorium and its office will also be closed, but the Chapel of Remembrance will be open from 9am until 4.15pm.
The Beacon Museum will be open from 10am until 4.30pm (last entry 3.45pm).





