READERS have responded to the story on ghost signs in Carlisle city centre. Carlisle is a place where many fascinating echoes of its past are still there for everyone to see. Readers can take a short stroll anywhere in the city and glance at signs for shops, businesses and services that no longer exist, some for generations. Many ghost signs are admittedly modern and due to the downturn in the high street - this is because shoppers are increasingly getting their goods online and the impact of the coronavirus. Clothing stores Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarche, both on English Street, are just two of the recent casualties whose names stand above empty outlets.
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While Christmas is set to be very different this year, one thing that does not change is the need to be mindful of festive opening times, and changes to local services. Council-run services such as rubbish and recycling collections will be temporarily altered for the next two weeks as a result of the festivities, and supermarkets and other shops will operate different opening hours to normal. Here is a round-up of some of the key changes over this festive period.
Supermarkets: The Carlisle, Penrith, Workington and Whitehaven branches of Morrisons will be open until midnight today and tomorrow. They will close at 6pm on Christmas Eve, and will be closed for Christmas Day.
1/1 A PERSISTENT thief who stole a Christmas tree from a Carlisle supermarket has been freed after a judge heard he turned to crime because he was abandoned as a child and lived on the streets. David Pattinson, 30, was put before the city’s crown court after he stole the £60 tree from a Tesco store in the city on November 10. He admitted the theft as well as stealing perfume worth £300 from Boots in English Street and two offences of breaching a criminal behaviour order, banning him from various city centre stores. Even before his latest spate of offending, Pattinson, of Baird Road, had amassed a criminal record consisting of 132 previous offences – most of them thefts, as well as 19 previous breaches of his criminal behaviour order.