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There’s still a way to go before I can tell my neighbours I’m gay and not get ‘faggot’ painted on my car

Cumbria Pride photo 2 Richard Kavanagh describes himself as lucky – because he’s been beaten up only twice.

Last updated 31 January 2012
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Cumbrian woman aiming to fast-track people into love

Keswick woman desperately seeking 15 single guys and 15 single ladies aged 24 to 35.

Last updated 23 January 2012
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Cumbria's Blue Peter star Helen Skelton to tackle South Pole trek for Sport Relief

She has run 78 miles in 24 hours through African desert. She has kayaked the length of the Amazon. (25 comments)

Last updated 13 December 2011
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'I refuse to let anything drag me down' says Cumbria Woman of the Year Val Armstrong

Radio is an intimate medium. Broadcasters’ voices rouse us at the start the day, offer thoughts or cheer for the afternoon and keep us company in the middle of the night. (6 comments)

Last updated 1 December 2011
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There's nothing cowardly or courageous about suicide

Whatever caused Wales football boss Gary Speed to take his own life, the desperation he must have felt at the end is something Les Floyd can identify with. The 37-year-old from Warwick Bridge was on the brink of suicide four years ago. He now shares more positive thoughts on a blog and has almost 50,000 followers around the world on Twitter. Here he shares his reaction to the news about Speed’s death.

Last updated 30 November 2011
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‘We are the boys and girls well known as Minors of the ABC...’

A wave of nostalgia is engulfing Cumbria, sweeping along a generation.

Last updated 12 November 2011
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War changed Cumbrian family forever

Sometimes, picking through the faded photographs and crumbling documents, Rex Hadwin wonders how well he really knew his father and his grandfather.

Last updated 10 November 2011
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Making sure we get the big picture

The sunny woodland where Derrick Bird took his life. The hunt for Raoul Moat. The floods which devastated west Cumbria. Things are currently moving on at the BBC. The Beeb needs to cut 20 per cent from its budget over the next five years in response to the licence free being frozen.

Last updated 10 October 2011
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Cumbrian artist's new exhibition: Life on the Afghanistan frontline told by soldiers

For four weeks last winter in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Carlisle artist Derek Eland lived with British troops at frontline army bases. He shared their dangers, and their stories.

Last updated 6 October 2011
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Bonny Babies 2011: Girls aged one to three years

Here are the finalists in the girls aged one to three category of this year’s Bonny Babies competition.

Last updated 21 September 2011
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Bonny Babies 2011: Boys aged one to three years

Here are the finalists in the boys aged one to three category of this year’s Bonny Babies competition.

Last updated 20 September 2011
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Bonny Babies 2011: Babies under one year

Here are the finalists in the babies under one year category in this year's Bonny Babies competition.

Last updated 19 September 2011
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Cumbrian rugby player writing comedy with Phoenix Nights star Dave Spikey

A Tesco Extra supermarket, Chorley, Lancashire. Aisle 17: beers, wines and spirits. (3 comments)

Last updated 7 September 2011
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I had given up. I wasn’t thinking about next week or next year, just ‘am I going to be here tomorrow?’

A nebuliser and inhalers sit on the table on the small living room at Ute Addison’s Upperby home.

Last updated 1 September 2011
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Brampton film club audience know more than buttons

Audiences at Brampton Film Club don’t like gratuitous violence. They’re not keen on repeated bad language either.

Last updated 31 August 2011
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Carlisle United super fans from Switzerland

Here’s Stuart Lowthian describing a day in the life of a Carlisle United supporter: “We played Plymouth away and at half-time the floodlights went out. (1 comment)

Last updated 30 August 2011
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Should utility companies pay for digging up roads?

Roadworks are in danger of replacing the weather as Britain’s favourite conversation topic. Across the country, streets which saw vehicles flow freely are transformed overnight into traffic jams. Cumbria is certainly no exception.

Last updated 24 August 2011
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Music festivals: Do they help or hinder Cumbria's venues?

How times change. In 1984 veteran DJ and champion of alternative bands John Peel was chased out of the Sunset Leisure Centre in Silloth because the crowd took such a dislike to his eclectic range of music.

Last updated 18 August 2011
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Writers only work with quality material

Maybe one day Frank Evans will be regarded alongside Del Boy Trotter, Basil Fawlty and Harold Steptoe.

Last updated 15 August 2011
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'Bootcamp' fitness training comes to Cumbria

Blue skies, fluffy white clouds, warm sunshine. It’s a lovely day. Or at least it was until Corporal Ian Hesketh got hold of it.

Last updated 27 July 2011
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