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How to be a last- minute lover

val008 Finding a restaurant Organising a last-minute romantic experienceBuying flowers Last-minute gifts

Last updated 12 February 2011
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The other Wainwright

griffin5 Harry Griffin was a rock climber and a fell-walker. Thankfully for his readers, Harry was also a gifted communicator. He had a rare knack for describing Lakeland to anyone, regardless of their ability to scale its heights.

Last updated 5 February 2011
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Has the football world gone mad?

Steve Pattison photo The question has been asked before. But never has it been accompanied by quite so many screaming, flashing pound signs. (3 comments)

Last updated 2 February 2011
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Fascinating finds on Carlisle Northern Development Route

by11 Carlisle has been called ‘the 2,000-year-old city’ in publicity campaigns aimed at attracting tourists.

Last updated 2 February 2011
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Withnail and I - memories of a cult Cumbrian film

Withnail photo Just before the lights go up for the final time at the Penrith Alhambra, an emotional audience will watch the end of another era. The end of a friendship, between Withnail and I.

Last updated 25 January 2011
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Is it safe to store radioactive waste underground in Cumbria?

The tremors from the earthquake which hit Cumbria three weeks ago are still being felt. Not in the ground, but above it. (2 comments)

Last updated 5 January 2011
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Christmas at Eden Valley Hospice in Carlisle

hospice111 When Louise Wallace is driving home for Christmas dinner with her family, other faces will linger in her mind. (1 comment)

Last updated 22 December 2010
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Cumbrian man taking on the big boys in F1 racing

Paul Brooks photo The Red Bull Formula 1 car is a formidable beast. Powered around the world’s most glamorous race tracks by new F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel, the car is more than 200mph of lean muscle.

Last updated 6 December 2010
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Don’t call me unpatriotic after World Cup bid defeat

Andrew Jennings photo Andrew Jennings is coming out fighting after many suggested that the Cumbrian journalist should share responsibility for England’s failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

Last updated 3 December 2010
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‘Write about me’ said Lisa... so I did

clarke100 You know those disclaimers at the front of novels, explaining that any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental?

Last updated 1 December 2010
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Award-winning Cumbrian wildlife snapper only took up hobby after operations

Swan photo Until six years ago Christine Redgate had rarely picked up a camera for anything other than holiday snaps and family gatherings.

Last updated 29 November 2010
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New book sheds light on supernatural Cumbria

Helen Ivison photo A schoolteacher is killed on the road and reappears in her classroom. Long-dead children can be heard laughing and playing. A man visiting a graveyard vanishes into thin air. A tall woman in white who fell from a window to her death still wanders the streets in search of her lover.

Last updated 25 November 2010
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Media man launches 11th Cumbrian DVD

leitch333 There’s the fascination with how things are and how they used to be. How people change and how they stay the same.

Last updated 23 November 2010
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STRESS BUSTERS

stress555 Wednesday was National Stress Awareness Day. If there’s one thing millions of people are already well aware of, it’s stress.

Last updated 4 November 2010
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Benefit reform sweeps clean all before it – good and bad

dc tommy10 It seems everyone is struggling to make ends meet at the moment. As child benefit is scrapped for high earners, with the prospect of more benefit cuts to come, it was revealed this week that people at the other end of the age scale are also suffering financially.

Last updated 8 October 2010
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Carlisle exhibition celebrates Girl Guides

Girlguiding photo "Some people still think Guides is just about a few tents in a field and learning embroidery. But things have moved in," says Julie Wooding, Learning and Access manager at Tullie House, where a new exhibition looking at the Girl Guide movement today has opened. Rosalind Gibb reports.