Carlisle is one of the best connected towns in the country via motorway and the railway and has a half hourly services to London
Hmmm - I'll share that with colleagues who work there, it'll brighten up the start of the week.
Drive south down the M6 for an hour and you'll reach Lancaster...
Manchester and Glasgow airports are two hours away, Newcastle over an hour on a poor single carriageway road.
Anyway, if Stobart meet the criteria for funding, why shouldn't they benefit?