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All fired up about Halloween
What on earth has happened to Halloween? This once puny little festival has become the equivalent of the seven-stone weakling who discovered weight-lifting and steroids.
Last updated 31 October 2011
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We deserve medals!
Thousands more train seats are being added to ease overcrowding on the West Coast Mainline between Cumbria and London.
Last updated 31 October 2011
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Francis Dunnery: So close to Batman theme
Most of us remember the first of Warner Brothers’ Batman films, the one starring Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader with Jack Nicholson as The Joker.
Last updated 24 October 2011
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A queer shan if we can’t act in our own voices, eh!
Language evolves. Words disappear and change.
Last updated 24 October 2011
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Fishcakes, pet?
Come Dine With Me’s trip to Cumbria has ended in tears.
Last updated 17 October 2011
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Roxanne Pallett to be schoolgirl at 28
It's more than a decade since Roxanne Pallett left Carlisle’s Trinity School.
Last updated 17 October 2011
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Anyone know a joke?
Cumbrians like a laugh, don’t we? Venues like The Sands Centre in Carlisle are regularly packed out by the country’s best-known comedians.
Last updated 17 October 2011
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Rory Stewart and Tim Farron are Top Trumps
Top Trumps used to pit dinosaurs against each other.
Last updated 10 October 2011
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See through the pea souper
There was good news last week when two Carlisle men admitted to a brutal attack at a city taxi rank. Their victim was punched to the ground and stamped on.
Last updated 10 October 2011
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Penrith’s cruel hoax on telly comic Mark Watson?
What has comedian Mark Watson done to upset Penrith? This is the question Watson has been asking himself as he prepares to play at Penrith Leisure Centre next month.
Last updated 10 October 2011
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‘Thou shalt not barge’
Shoppers in Carlisle and Whitehaven have been joining people from the rest of the country in creating an online version of the Bible.
Last updated 10 October 2011
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Neil Marshall ascends to the Throne – but where are Dave and Barry?
Switching from film to television is sometimes seen as a step down for an actor or director.
Last updated 3 October 2011
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The signs are not gud
What are they teaching our signwriters these days?
Last updated 3 October 2011
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Even Helen Skelton can’t book up sales to stop annual Peter-ing out
Once upon a time it was eagerly pulled out of hundreds of thousands of Christmas stockings.
Last updated 26 September 2011
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The Lakes: Long to rain over us
Tourism officials in Jersey have spent much of 2011 advertising the island as “The warmest place in the British Isles.”
Last updated 26 September 2011
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An udder one bites the mast
People around Moota and Eaglesfield were understandably annoyed when they lost their mobile phone signal.
Last updated 26 September 2011
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Sinister goings on at Bells of Lazonby
The days when left-handed children were beaten and forced to use their right hand are long gone.
Last updated 19 September 2011
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Champion gurners aren’t just made, they’re born
The dust is settling on another Egremont Crab Fair, with Tommy Mattinson from Aspatria claiming a record 13th World Gurning Championship.
Last updated 19 September 2011
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Diplomatic incident narrowly avoided at world sheepdog trials
Forgive and forget. Let bygones be bygones. And whatever you do – don’t mention the war.
Last updated 19 September 2011
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Statistic that takes the biscuit
“An area the size of Wales.” This has long been the unofficial measurement used to describe certain events, notably the destruction of rainforest.
Last updated 12 September 2011
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