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Award-winning Cumbrian wildlife snapper only took up hobby after operations
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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Cumbria wakes up to snow chaos
A severe weather warning for Cumbria was lifted on Saturday morning after heavy snowfall hit the county during Friday night. (49 comments)
Last updated 28 November 2010
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Cumbria’s got Christmas all wrapped up... simples!
If you’re looking for inspiration for your Christmas shopping then there’re lots of things made locally that will add a more personal touch to your gifts this year.
Last updated 27 November 2010
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Gillian McKeith’s phobia isn’t unusual – but why is she fainting?
TV nutritionist Gillian McKeith is both entertaining and irritating the nations through her antics on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! But should we be more sympathetic about her insect phobia?
Last updated 26 November 2010
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New book sheds light on supernatural Cumbria
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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Why horses are helping at school
When Paula Mallinson-Roberts arrived at St Michael’s School with her two horses, Gypsy and Blue, the pupils naturally assumed they would get to ride them.
Last updated 23 November 2010
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Knitting is not just for grannies
Knitting is officially cool. The younger generation are picking up needles like never before. And it’s not just women either. So what’s the big attraction? 23-year-old knitting fanatic Fiona Roberts explains
Last updated 23 November 2010
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Cumbrians to enjoy a right royal knees-up
Plans are already underway in Cumbria to celebrate next year’s royal wedding. Proud royalists across the county are thrilled at the news that Prince William and Kate Middleton are finally engaged.
Last updated 23 November 2010
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Sherlock Holmes in Carlisle mystery
It is 1903 and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson step off the Euston train at Carlisle station.
Last updated 23 November 2010
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Media man launches 11th Cumbrian DVD
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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Cumbrians going wild about Harry
Last updated 18 November 2010
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Can you Degg it?
Jakki Degg knows more than most about life in the public eye. After all, it’s ogled quite a lot of her over the years.
Last updated 18 November 2010
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MEET THE FLOODIES
Keeley and Ashlyn Holliday swam out of their home; Emmeline Long boarded a Cockermouth Mountain Rescue dinghy and Dani Cleeland watched the filthy, foul, floodwaters swamp the town from an upstairs window.
Last updated 16 November 2010
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‘You’d have to be sick to listen to our radio station’
If a bottle of Tixylix could talk, it would probably sound like Dave Ogden. He doesn’t say too much: there’s a bit of an introduction to Wild Thing by The Troggs; a mention of the awful weather, then it’s into You Were Made For Me by Freddie and the Dreamers.
Last updated 11 November 2010
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That's a bonny name
It's not as easy as naming your child Tom, Dick or Harry any more as our recent Bonny Babies competition reveals.
Last updated 4 November 2010
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STRESS BUSTERS
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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All the time in the world
It was love at first sight when Andrew Parker and Pam Grossick met. But the long distance relationship between Scotland and Saudi Arabia that followed has meant their wedding planning has been less straightforward than normal.
Last updated 2 November 2010
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‘I couldn’t wait for the party to start’
It’s traditional for the bride to arrive at the church late but on Kate Webster’s wedding day she couldn’t wait to get there.
Last updated 2 November 2010
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Love wrapped up in a box
The charity Operation Christmas Child, which provides presents for some of the poorest children in the world, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. And it has always been well supported in Cumbria.
Last updated 1 November 2010
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Wild at heart in Ennerdale Valley
Ten years ago the Wild Ennerdale Partnership was set up to help return the west Cumbrian valley to nature. Now the project has won a national commendation.
Last updated 1 November 2010
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