Article in Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 7th April 2012

"it was heard the council had received a request from Marianne Birkby, on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland. This was requesting support for the proposal that west Cumbria should withdraw from the process of exploring the suitability of the area for the disposal of radioactive waste. "In the 1990s Nirex investigated the Gosforth area as …