| Hot work: Sunday’s Race for Life event JONATHAN BECKER
WOMEN taking part in the Race for Life in Carlisle have criticised organisers for failing to provide water at the end of the course. Four thousand women made their way around the Sheepmount and Bitts Park on Sunday in 30C sweltering temperatures but found there was no free water at the end – just a complimentary carton of cranberry juice. Runners were asked to take their own water to Sunday's event or pay £1 for a bottle at the end of the course. Moyra Fisher, who works for Cumbria County Council, said: “I think there should have been a water station at least half way round on such a hot day and at the end. “They always used to give out water after finishing the race. “Cranberry juice leaves the mouth a bit dry and you can't really pour it over your head to cool down." Participant Kate Stark, of Carlisle, said: “I think given that it was so hot they should have had a water station half way round and at the end.
Hooray for our heroic women
Today we salute the thousands of women who took part in this weekend's Race For Life. More than 4,000 mothers, sisters, children and grandmothers from across north and west Cumbria took part in the 5km fun run. Each one is a hero for battling through the soaring, sapping heat; each one determined to complete the course for their own personal heroes. It showed the people of Cumbria at their big-hearted best. The national event was designed to raise money for Cancer Research UK. But is has become an annual festival of remembrance and a celebration of life. This year was the ninth time the Race for Life has been staged in Carlisle and it was the biggest ever. More than 683,000 women nationwide have signed up for the race this summer. This year the organisers aim to raise a massive £46 million to continue research into cancer, and Carlisle is expected to raise about £230,000.
Louis Winnick, 85, pushed low-income homeownership
MANHASSET, N.Y. Louis Winnick, an economist who helped guide the investments of the Ford Foundation and promoted low-income homeownership, has died. He was 85. Winnick died Saturday at a hospice in Manhasset, on Long Island. The cause of death was mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer that his daughter Pamela Winnick attributed to exposure to asbestos when he worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. Winnick was born in Romania and went to Brooklyn when he was 1. He graduated from Brooklyn College and earned a graduate degree in economics at Columbia University. He worked for the New York City Planning Commission and the Housing and Redevelopment Board before joining the Ford Foundation in 1962. He served as deputy vice president in the national affairs division from 1968 to 1986.
Victims free to sue decades later
VICTIMS of childhood sexual assault, medical negligence and workplace accidents could now sue for damages decades after the event, following a landmark High Court decision that will force former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark to defend claims he led the 1971 pack-rape of a 16-year-old girl. Carol Stingel was "over the moon" yesterday with the court judgment clearing the way for her to sue the Aboriginal leader despite 35 years passing since the alleged attack. It will be the first time Mr Clark has had to respond to the rape allegations, as no criminal case was ever mounted and he has waged a constant battle to strike Ms Stingel's claim out of the Victorian courts. The decision significantly expands the number of cases that can now proceed even if the legal time limits for taking court action have expired.
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