RED faced council looses documents AN INVESTIGATION into why key county council documents were thrown away is due to be held. Cumbrian County Council faced fierce criticism from Councillor Stan Collins, who represents Upper Kent, as he demanded answers from the council s audit and assurance committee this week after it was revealed a number of the authority s paperwork had been lost. Why were documents belonging to Cumbria County Council mistakenly thrown away? , asked Councillor Collins. “The loss of documentation is something I referred to at past meetings as well. I will be asking that we investigate how and why we came to lose a substantial amounts of documentation which were important?