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I’m too young to be a great aunt, let alone older than a jazzman!

It happened in a life-changing instant. Like finding your first grey hair or not immediately remembering your own phone number.

Last updated 14 October 2011
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Bridge vandals: Morons with no memories

Navvies bridge photo Three weeks. It took just three weeks before the brand new, spotless Navvies footbridge was vandalised. (3 comments)

Last updated 13 October 2011
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Save indie bookshops from turning into Swindon supermarkets

Monty Python star author and traveller Michael Palin has taken on a new role – to save the independent bookshop.

Last updated 13 October 2011
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Patients must come first now

The bids are in, the decision has to be made: who is going to run north Cumbria’s hospitals?

Last updated 13 October 2011
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Should we really look through morose-tinted spectacles all the time?

Optimism is one of our biggest failings. Looking on the bright side, while whistling a happy tune, is a weakness, a hindrance, it’s holding us back... from facing miserable reality.

Last updated 11 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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Country retreats

eshott810 Sharing a garden pergola with a tipsy bridesmaid on a balmy autumn evening, it was easy to understand from where Doxford Hall had won its reputation for spinning magic.

Last updated 8 October 2011
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I love rugby. Mostly for the parties

We were a visibly happy little bunch as we gathered at Carlisle Rugby Club for a couple of sherbets and a sausage roll apiece.

Last updated 7 October 2011
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Cash crisis sweeps Springfield, home of The Simpsons

Doh! So now it really is official: the world’s economy is truly in meltdown.

Last updated 6 October 2011
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Pale is still interesting

So orange is the new black then?

Last updated 6 October 2011
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It’ll save me how much? And cost me?

Perhaps I’m being cynical (it has been known...), but my first reaction to the news that we’ll all soon be able to drive at 80mph on motorways was that it was a backdoor method of getting extra taxes.

Last updated 6 October 2011
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Dave, a letter of advice on your recent conduct (don’t worry, I’m not cross)

An open letter to David Cameron from a woman in no need of an apology. (4 comments)

Last updated 4 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

Mis-spelled road sign photo What are they teaching our signwriters these days?

Last updated 3 October 2011
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Junction 34 for Yorkshire (formerly Cumbria)

Soon, signs welcoming motorists to this wonderful county will feature a line through Cumbria, then another through Lancashire, with the final location being Yorkshire.

Last updated 29 September 2011
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