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service and fair dealing. One such company is Carrs Billington Agriculture, which is a joint-venture business, owned by Carrs Milling Industries PLC and Edward Billington & Sons of Liverpool.

Billington group, the company is recognising 20 years at the current purpose built unit on Penrith Trading Estate with an open evening to its customers in February.

Carrs Billington traces its history back to Quaker Johnathan Dodgson Carr who started a bakery in 1831 in Carlisle to create employment in the area and to make good, cheap bread to feed the poor. The world famous Carrs Water Biscuit is still available in supermarkets today.

Visit today will find all the products you expect to find at a good agricultural merchant, such as cattle, equine and poultry feed, but you can also discover chicken feeders and drinkers and incubators. If you prefer to tend your garden they carry a wide range of Over the years the bakery added wheelbarrows, grass seeds for flour milling to their business which patching a lawn or you could lead to feed mills and the supply of re-seed a complete paddock Many will be aware of Carrs Billington animal feed to farmers and along with pest control and Agriculture through seeing the green smallholders. The company has many other items to assist the and orange feed lorries travelling developed and expanded over the keen gardener. To keep you around Cumbria, or driving past the years and added to its product protected against the elements offering and now prides itself on there is a plenty of clothing to depot on Haweswater Road, with the farm machinery looming down on you. being a one stop shop to farmers choose from with fleeces, I doubt that many readers have whilst still maintaining it’s founding waterproof jackets, wellies and ventured inside, but to farmers, Carrs ethics throughout all of their 26 fashionable ladies clothing.

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Contents

Carrs Billington Country Store

Pages 2 & 3

Introduction

Pages 4 - 7

World Marmalade Festival

Pages 8 & 9

Let’s toast to a Happy Loaf

Page 9

The month of romance

Page 10

Friday Singles to April Festivals

Page 11

Some Mother’s Do Have

Page 12

The Stoneybeck is back

Page 13

Some thoughts for 2015

Page 14

Get Your Legal Affairs in Order

Page 15

Cumbria Oak

Pages 16 & 17

Andy ‘The Technician’ Neen

Pages 18 & 19

Young voices with opinions

Pages 20 & 22

New plate, make it a date

Page 21

An update from the Wainwright Society

Page 22

Peaks & Pathways

Page 24

Medals for mum

Page 25

Old Flame or New Flame

Page 25

Eden FM Country and Farming

Pages 26 & 27

The Towing power at Waltons

Page 27

Community Focus at the Village Hall

Pages 28 & 29

Sport in Focus with Eden FM

Pages 30 & 31

Resin Drives 2015

Page 32

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Welcome to the February edition of your Cumbrian Local The Haggis is passed, next up it’s Pancakes!

With Easter early this year, Shrove Tuesday falls on Tuesday 17th February, preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent),but February is also a busy month for the Chinese Community.

On 4th February, in this the 4712th Chinese Year, we enter the year of the Sheep, however, the first day of the 2015 Chinese New Year is on February 19th in China’s time zone. It marks the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system and a new moon. The exact new moon time is at 07:48 a.m. on 19th February 2015 in China’s time zone.

A warm welcome to your February Cumbrian Local! With about 20 local stories, by about 20 writers, supported by over 30 businesses and delivered by local people through your door, I really hope you enjoy this 66th Cumbrian Local Publication, which you may notice is a little different to those produced in 2014.

Rarely in the office in January, I have been out and about quite a lot, as far as Manchester for one client, with regular meetings now in Carlisle, as well as those in the Eden Valley. One of my highlights in January was being invited to attend as speaker at the Penrith Rotarians meeting on 26th January. They meet every other Monday in the George Hotel.

I chose primarily to talk about the Eden FM Radio project, from when the idea was conceived to where it is now. The underlying theme was, as I explained Continued on page 6

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Continued from page 5 and as it has always been these past 5 years, about communication in the community, affordable advertising for businesses and free advertising for local charities and voluntary groups. It was an honour and I am looking forward to helping the Penrith Rotarians not just to promote the activities they do and the achievements in fundraising, but in some way spread the word to all about what they do as a voluntary group. My thanks to the Penrith Rotarians for inviting me along to speak.

So back to February, we do have a bit of a romantic theme going. It is the month of romance when ‘Roses can be expensive and singles may be feeling blue; everything costs money, but not your Cumbrian Local free to you!’

So is romance in the air for you? We have some snippets of ideas for those that may be planning a big occasion to celebrate. There will also be more in next month’s Cumbrian Local on wedding ideas. There is always so much going on. If you have an event to promote, make sure you get a free listing on the website and promotion via Eden FM 107.5, your local community radio station and only community radio station in Cumbria, everyday.

On Thursday 12th February, Carrs Billington celebrates 20 years at their Penrith store and you will see on pages 2 – 3 the new Country store format, which welcomes everybody, making the point that you don’t have to live in the country to shop at Carrs Billington. On Friday 13th as a reminder, there is a singles gathering at the Crown Inn, Pooley Bridge.

This involves a free Cocktail with Fizz when you arrive and if you so wish, darts singles.

Saturday 14th is more of a doubles event at the Crown.

Local Penrith traders and many businesses go orange from Wednesday 25th February in the week leading up to the Dalemain World Marmalade Festival that takes place on the weekend of 28th February & 1st March.

You’ll find more details about this on the Penrith Totally Locally facebook page at www. facebook.com/TLPenrith.

Don’t forget that big date in March when your mam, mum, mummy or mother, might fancy something orange if you fancy spending a fiver or more locally. March 15th is Mothering Sunday. Get in tune with Mother’s Day on page 12 with Caroline. I took a trip into Five, the gift shop at Brewery Lane, New Squares for an eye opener over Christmas and I’ll be back in there again very soon.

From now until the April issue of Cumbrian Local, you will be presented with various opinions on the May elections. I hope these articles are of interest to you as I have asked those writers to put across different views, but also try and translate that what happens at a national level, impacts at a local level. The percentage of non voters in previous national and local elections suggests a number of concerns. Whether people choose to vote or not, the elections will take place, but for your voice to be heard you have to make that choice.

A huge thank you to all our advertisers, volunteer writers, photographers and the team that is Cumbrian Local and Eden Fm from design to delivery.

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Historically the people of Penrith will be the first people to vote for the first Penrith town council to be elected. There is a prompt on page 20 encouraging those that would like to represent a local voice to come forward.

Whilst on the subject of voices coming forward, Eden FM 107.5 Community radio will be searching for local singing stars this summer in what is hoped to be a huge event for local bands, duos and individual singing artistes, when it looks for the number one as voted by its listeners and the people who want their local voice or voices to be crowned the best of 2015. The heats start in the Spring and the final is on Saturday 11th July 2015. Full details about entering this competition will be at www.edenfm.co.uk.

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Are we ready for Spring? Our new Eden Farming and Country article by Kevin Beaty, in association with his Eden FM radio show is on page 26 and preparation for lambing is one of the subjects. Another new feature from this month in association with Eden FM sport is our sports section by Ben France on pages 30 and 31.

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Thank you for taking the time out to read your local community magazine. It will be back next month, out from 12th March, more local stories and St Patricks Day on 17th March and St Georges Day on 23rd April will feature along with the Easter bunnies and British summertime beginning on 29th March.

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So your thoughts on Valentine’s Day? Saint Valentine’s Day, also known as Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is on 14th February each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world. St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus.

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Men - Christmas Eve (24%), Valentine’s Day (14%) and the Anniversary of the day you met (14%).

For the ladies, Valentine’s Day (22%), the Anniversary of the day you met (20%) and Christmas Eve (15%).

In 18th-century England, it evolved into a time when lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”).

Just for the ladies, what would be your ideal gift for Valentine’s Day? 27% said holiday, 17% went for car, 15% went for spa; this was closely followed by jewellery 13% and I thought roses were expensive!

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69% of single men will spend Valentine’s on their own, where as 32% of single ladies do.

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Some Mother’s Do Have……wonderful children, troublesome children, they may even look after other people’s children, and some aren’t mothers at all (like me), but nonetheless hold a special place in someone’s heart. It is to all these wonderful women, who care for us, love us and are our lifelong cheer squad that we thank for challenging us, being daft with us, teaching us many things that we may not see the benefit of until we are older. Did I really need to learn to sew when I was six? Was cooking a roast dinner by eight years old a necessity? At thirteen I was shown, by my mother, how to do the oil and water on a car – apparently 4 years of training in car washing, tyre pumping and fluid checking was essential to prepare me for becoming a car owner.

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Our mothers are a special breed, and it is right that we take one day a year to thank them for all they have done, all they are doing, and all they will do for us, no matter how grown up we think we are. So, as you flick through the pages of this magazine, why not treat your mother (or, mum, mam, mater, mama etc) to something a little different, and with a distinctly local flavour.

The GCA Greeting Card Market Report 2014 reinforces what a huge and successful industry this is with £1.29 billion spent on single cards in the last year - more than tea and coffee put together.

More cards are bought per person in the UK than in any other country – 31 per person, an astonishing 884 million single greeting cards were bought from retailers of all shapes and sizes in 2013.

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The average retail price (ARP) of a card is £1.44 compared with £1.34 in 2012.

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The value of the Christmas singles market is £130m.

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Mother’s Day remains the largest Spring seasons card sending event, with a value of £50.4m and an ARP at £1.71.

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And the UK public continues to show its romantic side with Valentine’s Day value of £40.2m with an ARP of £1.86, the highest of all the card categories.

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Would you like to be a local voice in your Community?

On 7 May 2015, District, Parish and Town Council elections will take place in Eden, in addition to the Parliamentary General Election. Councillors are elected to District, Parish or Town Councils to represent their local community so they must either live or work in the area and meet certain criteria.

Becoming a Councillor is a rewarding and privileged form of public service as you will be in a position to make a difference to the quality of other people’s daily lives and prospects. It isn’t easy and requires commitment and hard work. If you care about the area that you live and work in and the issues facing local people you could be a councillor; you don’t need any special qualifications but you should have or be able to develop skills, knowledge and attributes such as communication, team working and the ability to engage with your local community which would help you in your role.

This year is important as Penrith will have its first Town Council so it would be good to see an elected representative body to take things forward.

Councils need people to get involved and you could be the fresh new talent that the District, Parish or Town Council is looking for. For more information go online at www.eden.gov.uk/ democracy/elections/becoming-a-councillor

Some thoughts for 2015 As a local publication, we hope to develop in our 5th year. Local stories are important to the community and affordable advertising for local businesses must continue.

2014 was a tough year for many businesses, but it was also a tough year for those in voluntary groups delivering their services with reduced funding. I appreciate the need for the North Area Ambulance to open a charity shop in Penrith to raise funds, but I still do not understand that in a region that generated 2.2 billion pounds in 2013 from 34.2 million visitors, why 999 services like the Great North Air Ambulance and Mountain Rescue have to raise so much money in order to save lives. It’s a thought for 2015.

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Dyslexia is not an obvious difficulty; it is hidden. As a result, dyslexic people have to overcome numerous barriers to make a full contribution to society.

The new campaign for Eden FM Radio and Cumbrian Local in 2015, working with Dyslexia Action and volunteers from the community, is to open a ‘Catch up centre’ for children and adults in Penrith with learning difficulties. The centre will offer support for North Cumbria and the Eden Valley. A date for your diary is that there will be an open day to discuss dyslexia with families and individuals on Saturday 28th March in Penrith. Full details will be in the March Cumbrian Local and announced on Eden FM 107.5

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Get Your Legal Affairs in Order

by Nicola Broyan, Butterworths Solicitors

The beginning of a New Year is traditionally a time to make new plans and get your private and legal affairs in order.

On your essential “to do” list should be making a Will or updating/ reviewing your current Will. In Nicola Broyan addition if you are over 50 years of age the making of a Power of Attorney is highly recommended.

Making a Will and creating a Power of Attorney will go a long way towards peace of mind for you and your relatives. You can both be certain that your assets will go to who you want and the responsibility for that will be in trusted hands.

Lasting Powers of Attorney Talking about what would happen if our faculties ever deserted us is not an easy subject, but the fact of the matter is that one in three over-65’s develop dementia.

If that were to happen you can’t just assume that the people you trust can just walk into a bank and access your money, even to pay for your care.

Unless you have got a Power of Attorney already, loved ones need to apply through the Court, which can be a

lengthy process and costly.

A Lasting Power of Attorney (which replaced the old Enduring Power of Attorney) is a legal document whereby you (while you still have mental capacity) can nominate a trusted friend or relative to look after your affairs if you ever lost capacity.

This doesn’t mean that you are losing control, you are just planning ahead and can chose whether it can be used before, or only if, you lose mental capacity.

There are two types of Lasting Power of Attorney, one for finances and property, and the other for health and welfare. Everyone should consider making a Lasting Power of Attorney and here at Butterworths we can guide you through the paperwork and make the undertaking a lot less daunting.

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Andy ‘the Technician’ Neen

by Lee Quinn

A break with the norm, I normally ask a presenter at Eden FM to put an article together for me in the Cumbrian Local. This month, I have chosen to bring to the front of the line, someone who joined the Eden FM project back in June 2011, before the studios were built and five months before our first 4 week transmission was aired. Andy came along as someone who enjoyed his music and as someone who, from an early age in 1973, set out to be a local DJ.

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Of course he might have come along just to be nosey, but before I tell you about Andy’s role at Eden FM Community Radio station, there’ll be many who will recall going to a party, a disco, an event or function organised by Andy. There is a building just at the front of Ullswater Community college, which back in the early 70’s was a youth club and a young Andy Neen, aged 10 joined it. Then the committee which ran it then became the boy behind the turntables. A self built twin turntable record deck at that.

As he got older, he recalls working in Charlies Night Club, this now the Indiagate Restaurant in Burrowgate. He also worked as a DJ in the Red Coach, which then became Toppers, of course the Dog Beck today. Like a DJ’s tour of duty, you could have come across Andy working the turntables in the Blues Club where the original Penrith FC ground was at Southend Road. The Glen Dowlin club at Yanwath was a regular slot for Andy, but he recalls one of the most popular

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being ‘Stricky Night’ which was every Thursday at the Strickland Arms, Great Strickland.

Once Andy hit 17, he passed his driving test and became a mobile DJ. Some of you may remember the name ATN Roadshow, which then became the perfect search engine that is Mobile DJ Cumbria. Now with a collection including a mobile disco and events equipment and with 40 years experience, this young lad has been instrumental in dealing with the set up and continual technical problem solving at the Eden FM radio station and as the Senior Technician, Andy is now in his 4th year.

As the Deputy Chairman and a director of Eden FM, in his role, Andy does ‘Technical’ I do ‘Commercial’. We jointly manage and direct the station together. Two lads, who both set out, age 11 as DJ’s at opposite ends of the country. I focus on the commercial development of the business. Andy behind the scenes, keeps the engine running and manages the indoor and outdoor events. We both get to drive the train like all the volunteers in the team.

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What will we make of 2015?

Very few years can properly be described as momentous, many are important, all are memorable to at least someone but truly momentous years are a rarity. 2015 marks significant anniversaries of a good number of these, indeed come May we may well have made this year itself one of great import to our area.

I consider myself a student of history, believing in that old maxim ‘If you don’t know where you’ve been, how can you know where you’re going?’ With that in mind I think it would be worthwhile examining some of these great events and ask what we can learn to better inform the decisions we have yet to make.

1015 – Cnut’s Viking invasion of Britain. King Cnut, forever remembered as the King who tried to hold back the tide, should instead be lauded for what was actually an attempt to highlight the limitations of his kingly power. We might take some lesson from the propensity of a populace to expect the divine in their leaders, for disappointment tends to follow.

A thousand years on from the beginning of his invasion, Cnut, who was a successful king, should be remembered for presiding over an age of peace and prosperity in a land ravaged by fighting between disparate peoples. I think we should also draw that tensions may rise and people may differ and in the past this has meant blood but it takes a better kind of person to seek unity over discord.

1215 – Magna Carta. If a king such as Cnut was willing to recognise and accept his limitations then it follows that those subjects under the King must be protected from those limitations. Feudalism as a system of society generally does not invoke thoughts of equality but ironically I believe it to be a fine nursery for hatching legal rights, for if a King’s power rests on his nobles then those nobles must confer a form of consent. King John was particularly ignorant of this and Magna Carta represents the first serious challenges and limitations to Royal authority. Today of course consent is not the preserve of the aristocracy but of us all as citizens and as those barons fought King John for their prosperity then so must we fight today. Today our weapons are not swords and arrows but words, ideas and the weight of our votes but that does not mean our vigilance should be any less attentive than the archer on the battlements.

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1265 – De Montfort’s Parliament. In the midst of the Second Baron’s war, Simon de Montfort, enemy of Henry III, seized power in England. Unsteady in his position he called a parliament of not only Knights and Barons but also Burgesses from the towns. This might be considered the first true English parliament and debated a number of radical reforms. De Montfort was dead within the year but the concept of the commoner as a political actor took hold and for that we should be thankful. The power of the aristocracy now no longer dominates the ordinary person.

1815 – Waterloo. Napoleon’s final fling as European Warlord was ended by a multinational alliance and Wellington and Blucher’s victory ensured an era of peace on the continent. Despots have frequently fallen to European cooperation, that and the Russian Winter. Britain has often maintained a policy of ‘Splendid Isolation’ feeling that the continent should be none of our concern. However, this has always been tempered by an acceptance that British interests are never served by a bellicose and belligerent enemy across the channel with Europe beneath the heel.

Against Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Britain has known that to stand alone would be to kneel defeated. It should be recognised today, as it was then, that our prosperity is only as strong as our bonds of friendship.

The anniversaries of Agincourt and the battles of 1915 of course also deserve mention but I am drawn to the dates above for what they mean in a year of elections. I will be running in May for election to both the Penrith Town and Eden District Councils and as I do so I keep in my heart and mind the long journey we have taken to get such democratic opportunities.

We recognise the limitations of our leaders and hold them to account. We give our consent to exercise authority according to the will of the people. We have the right but also the duty of participation.

And we engage with our neighbours to compete and cooperate and share and advance our prosperity for we are better together and together we have peace.

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Not A Wasted Vote When it is discovered that I, an 18 year old, am interested in politics, I am met with surprise. This rapidly evolves into shock when eyes then fall to my party’s rosette. In fact the youth wing of my party now has over 3000 members and is reported to have doubled its support amongst students and young people since the last election.

Voter turnout among 18-24 year olds is notoriously low. In the 2010 General Election, overall voter turnout was 65%, and only 44% for 18-24 year olds. It’s not that politics per se is seen to be irrelevant but that the act of voting is perceived to be largely redundant, that the conclusion is already a done deal.

However, in Scotland’s 2014 referendum, overall voter turnout was 84.59%. Scotland buzzed with debate and interest from across society, even including the 16 and 17 year olds who found themselves enfranchised. When voting was seen to matter, not only did individuals vote but society engaged with the debate.

Of course all of us in my group are fervent euro sceptics with a strong belief in restoring democracy and rescuing our legal system from the interference of Brussels. But these aren’t always the primary reasons our members joined. A belief that the education system is failing to give each and every student equal opportunities, that the availability and wages of jobs are being adversely affected by uncontrolled immigration and that EU quotas have proved the death knell of the UK fishing industry are just some examples of issues that directly affected a group of young people who decided to do something about it.

Whether your politics are red, blue, yellow, green or the bright purple, be sure to use your vote to make your voice heard. Join the debate.

If you happen to agree with my group that the way forward for education is to appreciate both the academic and the vocational through the introduction of selective education and more apprenticeships, then you’ll know where your vote will be. If you believe our democracy is too important to surrender to the EU, that our small businesses are too valuable to allow EU directives to strangle them and that it is the right of a sovereign nation to control the number and quality of those who wish to compete in the UK job market, then put you’ll know where your X will be on that ballot paper.

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The Wainwright Society names its m beneficiaries for 201 The Wainwright Society recently announced that there would be two main beneficiaries of funds raised by the Society in 2015: namely, Animal Rescue Cumbria and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs Association (LDMRSDA).

Animal Rescue Cumbria (ARC) was originally formed in 1972 by a group of like-minded ladies to provide suitable homes for unwanted pets, in support of which they embarked on numerous fund raising activities to provide food, shelter and veterinary care. In 1974 the group recruited Alfred and Betty Wainwright.

Wainwright was elected Chairman of the organisation, and under his guidance Animal Rescue Cumbria was registered as a charity. Through the generosity of Alfred Wainwright, a fund was established with a view to creating a Rescue Centre, and after much effort Kapellan was acquired in 1984 and a year later was operational.

Although Wainwright supported the charity financially in its early years, this ceased following his death in 1991 and ARC has been self-funding since then. Next year is the 30th anniversary of the Animal Shelter at Kapellan and the Society is pleased to raise funds to support the work of taking in unwanted dogs and cats and helping to re-home them.

Seven years before the formation of SARDA (the Search and Rescue Dogs Association) in 1965, Wainwright dedicated Book Three, The Central Fells, of his Pictorial Guides to ‘THE DOGS OF LAKELAND willing workers and faithful friends, and an essential part of Lakeland life.’ Although Wainwright was not, at that time, thinking of mountain rescue dogs, he was clear that working dogs played a vital part in life on the fells.

Since the formation of SARDA, rescue dogs have been an important integral part of the mountain search and rescue service. In 2015, the 50thanniversary of the formation of SARDA, the Society is

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Money will be raised by the Society through sales of its 2016 Calendar and from donations by members taking part in the annual charity Challenge.

If you would like to know more about The Wainwright Society, log on to the website at www.wainwright.org.uk or email secretary@wainwright.org.uk If you would like to know more about the Society, log on to the website at www.wainwright.org.uk or email publicity@wainwright.org.uk Derek Cockell Press & Publicity Officer, The Wainwright Society.

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Elter Water

Peaks & Pathways by Nick Wells

Your Elter Water walk begins at a car park near to Skelwith Bridge, just below Crag Head, you can use a map to locate it. Cross the road from the car park and go over a stile to walk down a woodland path, cross a stile and follow the gravel path leading to the River Brathay. At the T junction turn right and follow the path beside the river to Elter Water.

Go through a gate and continue through deciduous woodland, the path rejoins the river and continues alongside it. Cross a small bridge over a stream and continue along the path to Elterwater village, go through a gate and turn left over a bridge on the road leading away from Elterwater and towards Coniston. Pass the Youth Hostel and turn right up the minor road opposite the grounds of the Elterwater House Hotel, the road downgrades to a stony track as it climbs the hill. Pass a signpost to Little Langdale and follow the path up between a fence and a wall to a gate. Shortly after the gate the scene opens out to give views ahead of the Langdale Pikes, turn left through a gate and head straight across a field, then follow the path down and left to a stone squeeze stile and ahead to another stone stile. Walk along the right hand edge of a field.

Go through a farmyard into Little Langdale and turn left onto a road.

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After about 100 yards, turn right through a kissing gate into a footpath that leads down to the River Brathay, cross the river over a narrow footbridge and turn half-right to follow the footpath to a gate. Go through and continue to another gate, go past the house to another gate and turn left onto a small road signposted to Colwith and Skelwith, when the road turns right in front of farm buildings go left through a gate onto a public bridleway. Follow the way markers through the farmyard to a gate, then go through a field to another gate.

Follow the wall along the left hand side of a field to another gate, you need to take the left fork to follow the permissive path down through Colwith Wood back to the river and to Colwith Force. Follow the path close to the river, down to a stile, where you turn right onto a road.

After about 100 yards cross a bridge over a small stream and immediately turn left over a stile to pick up a footpath.

Cross another stile and head up a steep woodland path, another stile brings you to some more glorious views of the Langdales. The path crosses a field to an iron kissing gate beside farm buildings, cross the farm road to another gate and go along a path between stone walls to a stone squeeze stile.

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Cross a stream and walk over a field to another stile and a gravel path that crosses a farm road and leads through a farmyard, you are now on a section of the Cumbria Way. Go through a gate and follow a broad track down between stone walls, through a gate and over a small stream. Continue to an iron kissing gate, over a bridge to another one and along a road past some cottages. Go through a gate, across a field to another gate then left onto a road and follow the road down to Skelwith Bridge. Cross the bridge and immediately turn left following a public footpath sign to Elterwater.

The path goes through the entrance of the Kirkstone Slate Galleries then loops round to the right and behind the shops, and through their yard.

Continue along the path, through a gate over the meadow beside the River Brathay. By a bend in the river turn right onto the footpath you started with, go over a stile, up through the woods to another stile, then cross the road back to the Car Park.

You can also listen to my Lake District walks on Eden FM 107.5 every Friday between 2pm & 4pm.

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Kevin Beaty talking preparations for lambing with Martin Squires from the Green Veterinery Surgery in Skelton

The Farm and Country Show on EDEN FM’s regular farm vet Martin Squires from The Green Surgery in Skelton came in to talk about getting ready for lambing time. He explained how staffing has reduced on sheep farms as a result of profitability and a lot of lambing takes place indoors as it easier to watch the sheep with lower staff numbers. It is important to get the lambing shed ready and disinfected. The 75% of the foetal growth occurs in the last 6 weeks of pregnancy so it is extremely important to get the diet correct with increased concentrate feeds to give the ewe more energy. Low energy can lead to twin

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The Farm and Countryside Show has been featuring the current Dairy Crisis. Milk prices have slumped by up to 1/3 for many farmers who are now being paid less than the cost of production. Margaret Wilson, a local farmers wife called into the show to explain how this was affecting her business with over £100,000 wiped off the income of the farm in the past 6 months. Rob Harrison, the Nation Farmers Union Dairy Chairman told us that the global market was to blame and that it was difficult to see prices rising for the next 12 months. Local MP Rory Stewart held a crisis meeting at Newton Rigg on 31st January where he said he would press the government to help the industry in 3 ways; faster farm payments and flexibility on tax, government help for processors to expand capacity and increase exports and to push government and local authorities to buy locally produced dairy products.

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By Paulo Resende Situated in the newly refurbished Threlkeld Village hall, that took seven years of local funding and a big help from the National lottery we finally opened on the first of March two thousand and fourteen.

The Threlkeld Coffee Shop is conveniently located just off the A66, at the end of the old rail way track from Keswick to Threlkeld, we are on the Coast to Coast cycle route in the popular walking area around Blencathra.

Our light, airy, brand-new coffee shop has stunning views of Cloughs Head and the old mine, indoor and outdoor seating, and is a great place to stop for locally sourced food and Fairtrade teas and coffees.

The profits from the Threlkeld Coffee Shop are used for the benefit of the local community, we already have some projects in motion, like the youth club at Wednesdays evenings, the army ants for the little ones on Fridays, and other projects on the way.

The Coffee shop created four permanent and two temporary jobs, all conveniently filled with residents off the village.

Style of Food:

Soup made fresh every day, Panini’s, sandwiches, homemade cakes, and Italian style coffees.

In their own words: The coffee shop is brand new, with great facilities, free parking, and an excellent staff all residents of the village with great knowledge of the surrounding area, we are always happy to help the walkers and cyclists that pop in for directions and best routes to climb the mighty Blencathra.

We also support local artists with some of their art work in exposition, at the moment we have paintings

by Allison Critchlow, mosaics by Julie Gibson and cards from several artists. We also support events like C-Art, with Julie Gibson making mosaics on site.

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Nunwick cc pre season and Nunwick 8’s

by Adam Collin After a successful 2014 campaign for both senior teams, the club is starting to look ahead to the 2015 season.

We have our AGM coming up where we discuss future plans on & off the field and vote in our new captains and official positions.

2015 is already shaping up to be a busy and exciting season at the club, firstly we have entered the national village cup, which allows teams from all over the country play for a chance to play in a Lords final live on Sky sports!! We play Burneside at home on the 17th May. We also will play in the county cup along with our regular fixtures in the eden valley league system. We again have our successful junior set up running U11, U13 & U15 teams in the Cumbria junior league set up along with coaching for primary school kids on a Tuesday night.

We are very pro active off the pitch doing fund raising, and this year we are hosting a brand new tournament called Nunwick 8’s tournament. This is a brand new 8 a side competition where 6 teams will play 10 over matches on Sunday June 7th. We also have made It into a fun filled family day with a host of attractions on during the day, such as rodeo bull, bouncy castle, gladiator joust, face painting, football zorbs and a 8 man working hot tub along with a bar and hot food!! Please follow us on Twitter @ Nunwick8s and facebook Nunwick 8’s tournament.

There is also a brand new match kit coming out this year, we have a new online club shop and we will again be hosting county junior matches throughout the season.

2015 is shaping up for a very busy, very exciting, very productive and hopefully very successful season. Stay tuned as we have that much going on, on & off the pitch all year round if you blink you will miss it!!

Here’s to a successful 2015 from Nunwick CC.

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© John France Unfortunately the Bonny Blues haven’t had a match down at Frenchfield Park since we beat our local rivals, Celtic Nation, 3.0 on 27th December.

We’ve had 2 impressive away victories at Whitley Bay and West Allotment Celtic, 3.0 and 3.1 respectively.

We’ve a lot still to play for, we’re in the last 16 of the league cup where we play Morpeth Town at home and in the quarter final of the Cumberland Cup away at Cleator Moor Celtic.

The club have organised a supporters coach for our last away match of the season, Bedlington Terriers on Saturday 18th April, price is £10 per person. More information contact the club or Facebook and Twitter.

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Golf Caddy Oliver Briggs talks to us about his recent tour down under with golfer Paul Spargo.

NOW THE BALL IS ROLLING: A GOLFING BREAKTHROUGH DOWN UNDER The Australian Masters is one of the Australasian PGA Tour’s three flagship tournaments.

Good performances at one of these three annual events can provide a golfer with the ranking points to springboard to higher and more lucrative tours.

Paul Spargo had played in Australasia for years acheiving relative success.

However, he had yet to elevate himself to the heights which his talent and reputation so deserved.

After working for Paul during the 2013 season, I was desperate to return to Australia in late 2014 for these three events and to help Paul fulfil his potential.

In our first week back together, Paul secured a tie for 5th at our second crack of the Australian Masters whip. This provided Paul with enough ranking points to reach the final of the Asian Tour qualifying series - the opportunity to play on the world stage.

Paul was the centre of media attention all weekend and we were the feature group on television during the final days of the tournament.

Acheiving this level of success whilst under the pressure of being broadcast live around the world is why we work in professional sport.

The exhilaration is completely addictive.

Paul now has the opportunity to feed this addiction on a weekly basis as he successfully secured his Asian Tour playing rights for the 2015 season.

Rotherham uniteds return to the championship!!

by Adam Collin The comeback and penalty saves in May now seem a distant memory as we are now past half way of the football season.

Rotherham United are holding there own in the championship and have a 5 point cushion above the relegation zone.

Our season has been a bit mixed as we have had spells of 6 games where we didn’t loose but followed up with a couple of bad defeats.

The championship is a massive step up from league 1, where you visit big clubs, big stadiums which are generally 80% full!! Teams have large budgets and can attract players from the premier league and abroad which makes the standard even higher.

On a personal level I have been very pleased with my own form especially my triple save away at Norwich which has got over 100000 hits on YouTube!!!

We feel as a club we belong in the league and that we can stay in the league and the manager has put a squad together now which looks strong and able to cope with the fast paced clinical style of the championship!! I hope in May i am still saying the same things!

Temple Sowerby Cricket Club is a friendly and well-run and organised club with tremendous team spirit and support from the local community.

Our senior side are current champions of the Eden Valley Premier Division. Our aims for this forthcoming season are to reinstate our second team and also to improve and increase our popular junior section, which offers coaching for all children aged between 5 and 16.

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