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ello, Hello I am very excited to welcome you to our July August edition of The Guide, not only have we put together another amazing bumper issue for you, full of all things Allerdale but this issue is particularly exciting because it launches our very first photoshoot!

On a grey and dubious looking day local photographer Kerry Clark, our make-up columnist Bridget Foster, a team of stylist from Browns, Dumfries, our model Maddie and I made our way up to the beautiful Kirklinton Hall just outside of Carlisle for our shoot. It was an amazing day which I think is reflected in the photos (see pages 32-39).

So I’d like to say a huge thank you to all involved for making the day a HUGE success – we literally couldn’t have done it without you. I must also say a special thanks to Kirklinton Hall for letting us use the grounds.

I really hope that you enjoy the shoot photos as much as we enjoyed taking them and hopefully this will be the first of many.

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The Guide Magazine| Contents

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KEY FEATURES

6-9 Cockermouth

A Charming Town

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Tom Jones Voice of the Valley

16-18 Ivor Nicholas

Life Through a Lens

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22-23 Maryport Blues

Lulu brings the blues to town

30-31 Alan Carr

Gets Chatty

LIFESTYLE & BEAUTY

Face of The Guide

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Winners Photoshoot

40-41 Wear the summer

With Ashleigh Panther

FOOD

44-45 Alan Spedding Recipe A Taste of the Orient

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Kitchen Re-Porter The Waterfront

MOTORING & SPORT

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Shifting Up a Gear

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WHAT’S ON

62-70 What's On Listings Music, Theatre, Film, Comedy, Other

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Feature | Cockermouh

The Charming town of COCKERMOUTH

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by Candlelight, I was mooching around the toy shop with no great purpose when I overheard someone exclaimed:“That’s what she’s been looking for; she’s been everywhere for it and she couldn’t find it.”

Cockermouth is one of my favourite places in the county, you can keep Windermere, Kendal and Penrith; for me it’s all about Cockermouth.

Julie Watson from Cockermouth Fudge said: “Cockermouth is the high street we used to have thirty years ago, you can get your meat and your bread from independent shops and I truly believe that’s what people want.”

Whether I go to buy or just for a wander I somehow always walk away from Cockermouth with a handful of shopping bags and I’m not the only one.The variety of shops means that you can find just about anything you need. Last Christmas I attended Cockermouth

“Independent retailers are the future. People come to Cockermouth because of this; the people are so friendly and you can buy your bread from the baker, your meat from the butcher and your sweets from the sweet shop.”

ur area features are usually an opportunity for us writers to get out of the office and explore areas we don’t know much about but when we decided to write a feature about Cockermouth I jumped at the chance.

The small market town has always drawn in shoppers from all over west Cumbria, with its beautiful tree-lined Main thoroughfare that boasts a healthy mix of butchers, bakers, iron mongers, cafes, pubs and high quality art and crafts galleries; with side streets full of antique treasure troves and unique gift shops.

Dawn Balmer from Indigo Lounge and Lily & Co said: “Cockermouth draws people in with its lovely local businesses and its friendly people.”

One of Cockermouth's treasure troves is the Kings Arms Lane, originally fronted by the Kings Arms pub, it was built 6 | The Guide Magazine

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in 1770 as a coaching inn. The buildings down this lane, now shops and cafes, were once the stables and coachman’s lodgings until 1888 when they were first converted into retail spaces before being bought by the Luchini family in 1906 for use as an ice cream parlour and cafe. The lane was converted into what it is today in the mid 80s when the development was nominated for a National Civic Trust Award. After the 2009 floods the Lane was developed further and a History Wall that describes Cockermouth's diverse history was introduced.

I stopped to read about Cockermouth’s famous names; Fletcher Christian who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, John Dalton the Atomic Theorists, Royal Astronomer Fearon Fallows and Cockermouth’s most famous son William Wordsworth but I wasn’t the only one, I was surrounded by people all eager to learn more about this quite town.

If you make your way over the bridge, away from the main street and toward the stylish Market Place you’ll find an eclectic mix of more shops and businesses. The recent regeneration on this part of the town has given the older buildings a modern twist with businesses adding a bright, new lick of paint and nodding to the area’s agriculture with the bright seating area formed by recycled tractor seats alongside some more contemporary one, making it the perfect place to sit and soak up the peaceful atmosphere in July / August 2015 | 7

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this quieter part of the time.

This newly renovated part of the town is ironically the home of Cockermouth’s oldest shop, J.B. Banks & Son Ltd Iron Mongers established in 1836. The family ran business has celebrated its long history with the addition of a museum in the original Georgian workshop from 1829. The museum celebrates not only the business but it gives visitors a glimpse into the social history of the town shown through the collection of artefacts on display. Among the artefacts you’ll find car and railway memorabilia, tools and locks including a Tudor lock for the 1500s.

As I left J B Banks and wandered up Castle Gate an unfamiliar smell reached my nostrils, it got stronger the closer to the castle I got. I was later told by a local shop owner that it was brewing day at the famous Cockermouth Brewery, Jennings, which was first established in 1828 between Cockermouth and Keswick before moving to its current location between 1874 and 1881. Jennings ale is unique in that it’s made using only pure Lakeland water for brewing, drawn from the brewery’s own well.

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was built in 1134 mainly from stone from the Roman Settlement, in the village of Papcastle. The castle played a significant role in the War of the Roses, and the Civil Wars of the 1640s. After this it was dismantled on the orders of Parliament, and much of it is still in a ruinous condition. The castle is now privately owned, and unfortunately not opened to the public. The Wyndham rooms were built along the north wall of the outer bailey, and became the home of the Dowager Lady Egremont until her death in 2013.

Perhaps Cockermouth’s biggest claim to fame is as the birth place of William Wordsworth, his house which was nearly turned into a bus shelter in the 1960s, stands proudly at the bottom of the main street.

The house, now managed by the national trust, is a fantastic, educational day out for all the family; it’s much more than a museum as there is plenty to interact with and the view from William’s childhood bedroom window that looks out over the family gardens and over the river Cocker suggests the origins of his love of nature.

I took a detour on my way back to the office, through the village of Papcastle, just outside of Cockermouth and the closet thing that Cockermouth has to Roman history. It is believed that it was known as Derventio during Roman times and is growing in significance with every excavation of the Discovering Derventio which started in 2012 and is due to end later this year.

The decision to excavate the area was reached after the Cockermouth floods in 2009 after the force of the water uncovered Roman pottery and worked stone. The fascinating finds are currently on show in Cockermouth Town Hall and the exhibition is free to view.

Nationally Cockermouth is known for suffering the devastating floods in 2009 and occasionally occurring on lists of “places with rude and funny names” but locally it’s known as the place to shop if you want something different or personal customer service.

Despite the devastation the floods caused the town bounced back and allowed investment and investigation into the towns heritage.

After my day in Cockermouth talking to locals and shop owners I’m itching to go back on pleasure rather than business but I might need to save up first.

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Feature | Go to The Show

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ockermouth Agricultural show will take place on Saturday August 1. This is one show not to be missed, with lots of interesting and exciting activities and events throughout the day, the whole family can enjoy this agricultural show.

The show will be held, as usual, in Fitz Park where you can find everything you’ve grown to know and love about Cockermouth Show. There are various classes in the Industrial Marquee comprising bread, cakes, produce, floral arangements, art, handicrafts, photos and a large section of children’s classes.

The agriculutual roots of this show are prominent and there’s a chance to see some of the finest Agricultural animals in Cumbria like cattle, goats, sheep, poultry and of course the fantastic horses and ponies during the judging.

There will also be a variety of fun activities such as sheep dog demonstrations and a sheep shearing demonstration.

You might even pick up a new skill!

And to add to the fun, you can try your look at a tug of war completion, or take it a step futher and have a go at wrestling with the West Moorland wrestling.

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here are plenty of attractions to keep you amused throughout the day at this years Keswick Show.

Following the success of Keswick Shows return last year and the debut of the Pump Field, Braithwaite Old Bridge as the new location the show will be back on Monday August 31.

After a two year break Keswick Show returned last year and visitors were only too pleased to have it back the secretary, Judith Hildreth, said: “People showed up to support us, we had a great turnout after being off for two years, I hope it will be the same this year but it all depends on the weather” The new location meant it was possible to introduce a fell race, there will also be a variety of traditional exhibits and events such as classes for sheep, cattle, pony and horse showing.

There will also be a poultry tent, craft marquee which includes flower arranging and photography, Judith said: “Keswick show is town and country and it is a great way for people to interact.”

There is a wide variety of kids entertainment such as Bouncy castle, slide and kids pets. Parking is free to all.

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oweswater is holding its 139th annual show on Sunday September 6, held in the beautiful Lorton Valley, close to Loweswater and Crummock, opposite new House Farm in The Lorton Valley, CA13 9UU. There’s something for the whole family to enjoy with games and activities to keep children amused and a beer tent for adults to relax in and enjoy the show.

The traditional format still influences the running of the show; it still revolves around livestock and agricultural classes which include horses, goats, sheep, dogs, poultry and carriage driving.

If you have an interest in tractors or vintage machinery then the Loweswater show is perfect for you; the show includes tractors to view and buy and a selection of Vintage cars some over 70 years old.

There will be catering provided and a craft tent where everybody will be able to try the delicious cakes and jam on sale. This year’s event will also include a parade.

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orrowdale Shepherds meet is taking place on Sunday September 20 and with plenty of activities for you to choose from, you’re never short of anything to do.

This year’s show is 'tradition' based, it is also smaller than last years and includes all of the traditional events that help show what the event is really about.

Traditional activities include Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling, Terrier racing, local craft fairs, children’s pet show, under 11's sport and more.

Anybody can participate in Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling as it does not require any great skill or ability to take part.

The show also includes catering, serving items such as soups, hog roast, cakes, ice cream and a bar to keep you refreshed throughout the day.

This popular event is located at Yew tree Farm, Rosthwaite, Borrowdale, Keswick Cumbria, CA125XB.

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Feature | Tom Jones

Sir Tom brings his big voice to Bitts Park

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t the peak of a career that spans five decades and after a fourth hit series with The Voice, sell-out shows in the UK, Europe and US, it’s been another successful year for Sir Tom Jones.

Here he talks about how his voice has gotten better and deeper with age, how he keeps hits like “Delilah”, “Kiss” and “It’s Not Unusual” sounding fresh and why fans are in for a treat from his headlining and festivals shows across the UK and Europe this summer, including his show in Bitts Park, Carlisle on Friday July 31.

Despite turning 75 last month Sir Tom Jones is looking forward to his latest 40 date European tour, he said: “I’ve got a really good touring set-up; I have a band made up of guys mainly from Nashville for when I work in the States, and I have a UK-based band for doing gigs this side of the world.

Working with different musicians keeps it all exciting and fresh for both me and them. We play songs from my two recent albums “Praise and Blame” and “Spirit in the Room” plus a couple of new ones from my new album coming 12 | The Guide Magazine

out later this year. We’ve also worked out some fun new arrangements on favourite tracks like 'Delilah', 'Kiss' and 'It’s Not Unusual'. It’s important for me to keep reinventing songs with the band. It’s good to come up with different arrangements to invigorate the hit tunes and to keep us all on our toes.”

Sir Tom is still very much in the public eye and attracting a more diverse fan base. Thanks to his role as a respected judge on The Voice, he’s recognized by more and more young people but he’s kept his loyal fans that have followed his career through the decades, he said: “It happens with every generation. Whenever I put out new stuff I’m introduced to a new audience. If new material gets a good reaction they’ll also rerelease back catalogue and often people will appreciate some lesser-known tracks from back in the day, as well as the hits. Now, with The Voice, I go to restaurants in London and get kids shouting at me in the street. Even when I disguise myself in a hoodie and dark glasses, I get shout outs from kids.”

Bits Park is just one if the venues Sir Tom will be playing for the first time, he said: “I have a few days rehearsing with my British band and then off we go. I’m performing at places I’ve never been to before; it’s always good to visit new places.

And I’m doing some festivals, which I always like. It’s so nice to see kids’ faces when they’ve never seen me play live before. At festivals, there are a lot of people who see you for the very first time, which is always great.”

Sir Tom is famous for his big voice that can reputedly break microphones and after years in the business it seems to be unaffected, he said: “My singing voice is still as strong as ever,

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though as you get older, your voice gets lower and so my tone and range has gone from a tenor to a baritone. My lower tones are much richer than they were. What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts.”

Sir Tom shows no sign of slowing down, as well as his European tour Sir Tom is also working on his new album, he said: “We’ve recorded 29 songs over the last year and now we’re in the process of putting together a selection that will form a body of work. Singing to me is like acting.You take on a role and a song to me is a role. It’s like Jude Law doing Hamlet, whose interpretation would be completely different than a performance by Laurence Olivier.”

On top of his tour and new album Sir Tom is also working on his autobiography which will come out around the middle of October, he said: “I’ve had so many offers over the years to do a book, but never felt ready. I kept seeing other people

“I know my voice pretty well and if people like my voice they will like what I record.” writing books about me and often they weren’t very accurate or telling the story very well. It’s really only me who knows the whole story, and once I got into it I really enjoyed the process and I'm really pleased with how the book is shaping up.

The album will sit very nicely alongside the book and reflect musically a lot of what I’m about.”

With a list of famous friends that includes Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley his autobiography is sure to make for interesting reading, Sir Tom said: “Elvis had a great sense of humour and he used to clown about a lot but he loved music. He loved singing as much as I do. After his shows in Las Vegas, we’d go to his hotel suite and sing gospel songs around an electric piano for most of the night. I used to say to him: ‘Elvis you’ve finished your shows and you’re still singing.’ We’d be singing until the sun came up and that’s when I knew I had to leave.”

born and raised — just to have a look around and reminisce.”

Sir Tom Jones will perform at Bitts Park, Carlisle on Friday July 31 2015, with support from The Shires and AJ Brown.

Tickets are still available for the show, priced from £40 and are available to buy online at: www.ticketline.co.uk or by phone: 0844 888 9991.

“As for Frank, the thing that sticks in my mind about him was that he called me ‘Thomas’. I remember going to see Sammy Davis in Las Vegas once and Frank was sitting at the bar in Caesars Palace he said: ‘Thomas, come and sit with me.’ And I thought: ‘Who’s calling me Thomas? Oh it’s Frank Sinatra.’ So I sat with him at the bar, and then when I got up to see Sammy’s show Frank said: ‘Stay, he can wait.’ If anyone can say that it’s Frank Sinatra. Some people said that Sinatra was difficult-but he never was with me, he was always a gentleman.”

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Feature | Carnegie

New Carnegie trust books

“QUALITEE” acts

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he Carnegie Theatre has much to look forward this year. Now owned under the Carnegie Theatre Trust (Workington) it has a prosperous future and a potential for great things.

And it looks like these great things will be coming sooner than you think. The Carnegie has announced its first big act; Lee Nelson will be performing on the Carnegie Theatre stage as part of his Suited and Booted tour on Wednesday November 18. You may have seen the comedian singing on the X Factor last year, hosting Live at the Apollo or perhaps you saw him run across the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury during Kanye West’s performance last month.

The ‘Suited and Booted’ tour will have you bent over with laughter and Lee will be talking about family, fatherhood, politics and the true value of a cream egg.

Lee Martin White, chairman of the trust, said: “We are so excited about the future of the Carnegie and with acts like Lee Nelson so early on it can only get better.”

The much loved historic building in Workington celebrated its 100th birthday last year and it’s known as the perfect venue for plays, live music, dance acts and comedians, something the new trust is determined to see continue. Lee said: “We want people to realise the potential the Carnegie has as a venue, not only for shows but for music, comedy and pretty much anything. We want to encourage people 14 | The Guide Magazine

to come and tell us if there is something they would like to see, and we will try to find a means of getting it on the stage. The more people that get involved the better.”

And it isn’t just the theatre that will be pulling in new acts.

Monroe’s bar used to be the place to go for a night of rock music and a few drinks but in recent years the buzz surrounding the bar has died down and less and less live music acts have been taking to the stage. However, Lee is determined this will change and he’s planning to take the bar back to its roots, he said: “Monroe’s is a fantastic bar, with all the facilities for live bands. In the past it was quite popular with the rock scene but it has become underused.

We want to take it back to the bar that people loved with live music and possibly more.”

The Carnegie is now being run as a charity which means that everybody involved in the trust is a volunteer and Lee wants to urge more people to come and get involved, he said: “We need volunteers, and we don’t mind who you are or what you do, if you can make even a tiny contribution it’s appreciated. We also encourage students looking for work experience to get in touch; we have lots of opportunities, especially for young people.”

The Carnegie Theatre is a true asset to Workington, and the Carnegie Theatre Trust (Workington) want to improve it, bring back Monroe’s bar and give the town something to be proud of. They just need a little bit of support.

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uesday September 8 will see Stage Three of the star-studded Tour of Britain head through Cumbria.

Cycling enthusiasts will line the route of the UK’s biggest professional cycle race with the hope of seeing big names in the world of cycling, such as Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish as they drive through the county.

The third stage of the race will depart from Cockermouth, head along the Solway Coast and through Carlisle before finishing in Kelso, Scotland. Two days later, on Thursday September 10, the competitors will return to the county for what will be the high point (literally) of the 2015 Tour, a summit finish atop Hartside Fell above Penrith.

At 1,904 feet, 575-metres, the eight-kilometre climb, which averages 5% gradient with sections at over 10%, is almost 100-metres higher than last year’s summit finish on the Tumble in South Wales. Hartside Fell will be the only summit finish of the 2015 Friends Life Tour of Britain, and the first to be held in Cumbria.

Race Director of Friends Life Tour of Britain organisers SweetSpot, Mick Bennett said: “The summit finish on Hartside Fell is undoubtedly going to be the key point of the 2015 Friends Life Tour of Britain and one which we are very much looking forward to.”

“We would like to thank Cumbria County Council for the opportunity of what will be a probably be our hardest ever summit finish, and one which we are sure will draw crowds from around the country to the roadside, and of course a large television audience at home.”

This year’s Tour of Britain race is due to be the longest contemporary edition of the race, at 1,451-kilometres. The shortest contemporary edition was in 2005, held over six stages, at 697-kilometres.

The last time the race was held in Cumbria was in 2013, when it started in Carlisle and finished in Kendal after passing through Whitehaven, Cleator Moor, Frizington and the heart of the Lake District, including the packed crowds of Honister Pass.

That stage was described by commentators as the ‘best ever’ stage of the race and generated £4.1m for the local economy.

Having one of “the best” stages is not the counties only claim to fame where the Tour of Britain is concerned. The largest winning margin on a stage, 1-minute 43-seconds, was achieved by Alexander Serovover over Mark Cavendish at Kendal in 2007 Stage Three will begin from Cockermouth, heading out to the Cumbria coastline at Maryport and then along the Solway Coast via Silloth to Carlisle. The race will then cross into Scotland at Gretna and race through Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders to the finish at Floors Castle outside Kelso. Thursday September 10 will see Stage Five start from Prudhoe in Northumberland and follow Hadrian’s Wall to Brampton before heading down the Eden Valley and then into the Lake District National Park, running alongside Ullswater. After racing through Penrith the stage will head to Melmerby at the foot of the eight-kilometre climb to Hartside Pass.

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Feature | Madness Ivor Nicholas

“A mere photographer”

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or almost 60 years Ivor Nicholas knew everything that was going on but as a freelance news photographer he played a background role. Ivor has thousands of photographs of events, royal visits and celebrations in West Cumbria which are now being made visible to the public through his books with Gerard Richardson and his recent outdoor exhibition on Tangier Street.

Ivor grew up in Cockermouth and was a pupil at St Bees school, his father Joe Nicholas was the editor of the West Cumberland Times in the war years. It was a combination his journeys to school and the people he knew in Cockermouth and Whitehaven that roused Ivors interest in photography, he said: “Up until digital came in there was a kind of magic behind photography, I think that was the attraction when I first got into it - my daughter Louise has said she used to watch me in my dark room throwing a bit of paper into a tray of water and the picture would come up – it’s that magic that took hold of me; it kindled my imagination.”

After leaving school at the age of 17 with 9 or 10 o-levels with exceptional marks in both music and art Ivor had to decide what his next step would be, he said: “I had to decide whether to go to university or start making money straight away? I thought, ‘the opportunity might not come again so I better grab it.’ ” 16 | The Carlisle Guide Magazine Guide

“I don’t hold back thoughts that I had ambitions that I wanted to go to Fleet Street but what photographer that was launching in the press photography world hadn’t ambitions to go to Fleet Street?”

Ivor had great success with the local papers with the Christmas dos of 1948 but his first big scoop was a picture of Freddy Mills, boxer and friend of Ivor’s father at Great Gable with his daughter laying a wreath on the war memorial on Christmas Eve, Ivor said: “My father sent it round and it seemed to get everywhere, there was a special link with remembrance, the Berlin Airlift had been on, the war was very much still in people minds.”

Luckily for Ivor there were as many as twenty local outlets at the start of his career and his father was relatively well connected with picture editors all over the country.

Ivor may not have got his first big splash until his late teens but he can remember with intricate detail the day he first had his photograph taken, he recalled: “I was on holiday with my parents; I must have been six or seven years old.

We were in Inverness just before the war and I remember the British fleet was assembled in the Moray Firth, we saw the fleet from the garden. I was very interested in ships and aeroplanes; I took a picture with my mother in front of an aircraft called, The Courageous. On the train back from Inverness to Glasgow all the sailors were on board, I had a

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bit of a sailor outfit on and they made quite a fuss of it in the carriage.”

Ivor worked as a newspaper photographer from Christmas 1948 until he was called up for national service in 1953, he said: “I couldn’t go as a reporter, so I told them in my interview that I wanted to do photography, it was quite daunting to think that my whole career depended on that interview.”

Eventually Ivor was offered a place on an aerial photography course and stationed in Gibraltar where he was employed to take photographs of NATO officials, submarines and royal visitors including the 1954 Commonwealth tour by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Over the course of his career Ivor has seen some amazing things but his two most memorable incidents were the 1957 Sellafield fire and a photograph of convicted criminal Foxy Fowler that featured in the his last book with Gerard Richardson Decades 1950 to 1960.

Foxy Fowler had escaped from Dartmoor Prison and found at Flimby, he wore a coat over his head as he was escorted to court, Ivor was the only photographer to get the shot when he flung it off, Ivor explained: “The press were using plate cameras and I was using a rolliflex so I was able to get two shots and they were only able to get one; they didn’t have time to change the plates.”

“I tried to get the photographs right in the first instance, if your too early you’re not ready for the second one and you miss both opportunities, if you press the button a moment too late you’ve missed it. I think I waited for that. I had an A35 van there so I was able to process it on the spot and say to the others, when they were complaining about having missed it, I’ll have prints ready in a hour if you want to call at my house.’ ”

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Feature | Ivor Nicholas

“As a freelancer I didn’t hunt as part of the pack I always hunted slowly, solo – there was no point in me being where everyone else was.”

This was how Ivor got another of his exclusive shots, after the Sellafield fire of 1957 he was wandering round the site when he saw two white figures at the top of a tower, he said: “I’d got into the habit of taking a photo whether I thought it would come out or not. I told the picture editor at Sunday Express and he said ‘we must have that in Manchester tonight’ because if we could show that people were up there it meant it wasn’t overflowing with radioactivity, so I got in the car and drove down.”

For Ivor the things that stand out in his mind are the things that he didn’t photograph, he described his experience at the Lockerbie Bombing site, he said: “The one at Lockerby that stuck out in my mind was one man’s shoe in the middle of the road, it was a brightly polished brown shoe; someone had been wearing that two hours before, on a plane going to spend Christmas in Canada. That one shoe represented the horror of Lockerbie. That is engrained in my mind.”

Despite his long career Ivor had never exhibited his work until this year; his photographs were used in an outdoor exhibition as part of the Home and Garden show, he said: “The exhibition was of photographs from the 50s and 60s when photography was still regarded as a little bit of magic in those days.”

“The fact they can be enlarged so big and to that quality was a big thrill because it emphasised our technique of 50 years ago was quite good.”

At the start of our interview Ivor said: “I seem to have made my living off peoples misery” but by the end he seemed to have changed his mind, he said: “Looking back I maybe didn’t make my living out of other people’s misery, maybe if I’d have gone to Fleet Street I would have.”

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What's On | What's In A Name

What’s in a name?

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ourists and locals alike agree that Keswick, with its picturesque views, is a great day out but there is less agreement when it comes to the origins of its name.

The first record of the town is from over 700 years ago in 1240, the town was recorded as “Kesewick”. Around 30 years later, “Kesewick” was recorded as a market town, the same market that can be seen today in Keswick’s town centre.

While the marketplace today sells just about everything from fruits and vegetables to dog baskets the market’s main product back in the 13th century would probably have been cheese. Many scholars believe that the name Keswick originates from the saxon words "cēse" (cheese) and "wīc" (special place or dwelling). When put together it becomes “cēsewīc” which translates to cheese farm or place where cheese is made which can be written as “Kesewick”. The name suggests that the market’s main sale was cheese and the name changed over time, losing the second E to become Keswick.

However, some scholars disagree and argue that the idea that Keswick originates from two Saxon words is unrealistic as Keswick was a town surrounded by Viking settlements, the name would not originate from Saxon words, instead they suggest that the name is of Danish or Norse origin.

If the name Keswick does originate from Danish or Norse, then the meaning of Keswick is “Kell’s place at the bend of the river”.The meaning of this may seem a bit strange and wordy but it’s simple. It’s likely that Kell was the name of a respectable man, and the “place” mentioned could mean a house, farm or business where the river bends (the river that is mentioned in the name is unknown). Local people would have built on or around that land in order to be close to this respected person and would have lead to the town of Keswick developing.

Whether Keswick was named after a respected cheese farm or a respected person we may never know. Could it have been named after a person named Kell who had a cheese farm? Does Keswick’s name have anything to do with either of these things at all?

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Feature | Maryport Blues 2015

MARYPORT BLUES

is something to Shout about

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aryports famous Blues festival is back again for its 17th year and the three day event is set to be better than ever with some surprise big names.

The festival will see around 100 artists and bands playing on the different stages and in various pubs from Friday July 24.

The performers playing throughout the weekend are a mix of both local and international, with one band travelling all way from America.

And among these brilliant artists is the legendary Lulu. The Scottish singer will be performing songs from her new blues album Making Life Rhyme which had a blues feel to it. It is said that the album’s roots lie in an invitation to perform a blues set with vintage American session players at BB King's Bar & Grill in New York in February 2013. Lulu fans will be delighted to hear that she’ll also be blasting out some of her classic hits on the main stage on the Saturday night.

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her, and her voice is amazing; that lady can sing.”

Another big name artist is the folksy Sandi Thom, known for popular song ‘I wish I was a punk rocker’. Sandi will be returning to Maryport following her previous appearance at the Blues festival four years ago. She will take to the main stage on the Friday.

Deborah said: “After Sandi played in 2011 I was blown away by her talent. I was taken back by how brilliant her voice was and she really got the crowd going, they loved her and I can’t wait to see what she is going to do this year.”

Sunday will see the bluesy/folk rock group The Boom Band.

The band are from London and have been travelling and touring Britain for many years. They will take to the stage in the late afternoon of Sunday July 26.

There will also be various other great bands such as Maryports very own rock group AWOL who have played all over Cumbria since 2002.

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The popular pub trail, The Trail consists of The Navy Club, Captain Nelson, The Sailors Return, The Golden Lion, The Labour Club, Butchers Arms, Netherhall Rugby Union Club & Her Citi which are situated throughout the town and play host to bands across the weekend. Tickets for the event can be bought via the Maryport Blues website.

Maryport Blues festival brings and electric atmosphere to the coastal town and it’s fair to say that this year there’ll be plenty to SHOUT about. www.maryportblues.co.uk Trail tickets for PUB gigs are £6 per day or £15 for the weekend. Available now.

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Feature | Alauna Vapour Store

MAKE THE SWITCH

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TO VAPOUR

ith vaping becoming the popular alternative to smoking, the availability of products related to this healthier approach is increasing. In Workington, Maryport & Whitehaven Alauna Vapour Stores are there to help you choose the right product for you to succeed in making the switch from tobacco.

Dean Whitehead, owner of the chain said: “We have a huge range of products for everyone. From quality starter kits to the more powerful advanced devices, plus a great stock of accessories.”

Alauna Vapour Store offers all the products you would require for vaping. With a wide variety of E-Cigs,Vaporisers, and a great selection of premium e-liquids including UK, European & American e-liquids and even their own brand. Alauna also offer any advice you need about making the switch.

Alauna’s staff take great pride in helping customers make the switch, with some who have smoked for over 40 years and can’t believe how easy it has been.

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“Some people are unsure about switching as they don’t really understand vaping and don’t know a lot about it but we can offer people experienced vaping staff & friendly advice as well as answering any questions people may have,” said Dean.

Vaping is a process adopted by many people who are trying to quit smoking tobacco but are struggling with their Nicotine cravings. Vapours contain nicotine so help satisfy your cravings without inhaling the toxic tar. They also have the physical act of putting something to their mouth, inhaling and blowing out “what looks like smoke” but which is actually a vapour.

Alauna first started selling these products in Maryport two years ago, and one year later, after seeing its success, Dean decided to expand and open a shop in Workington which also was very popular and late last year he opened his Whitehaven store on Roper Street.

He said: “We can offer people top quality products, great knowledge, and friendly advice about switching to vaping.”

Workington Beer festival

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orkington’s annual Beer Festival is set to return for its fourth year on Thursday September 3 – Saturday September 5 at Carnegie Theatre, Finkle Street, Workington.

This year’s event is set to hold two or three live music acts per night; The revoloutionares, Vicky Dee and The Mustangz(Thursday), D’Bleeding Blaggards and the Holborn Hillbillies, Paul O’ Halloran (Sat) Bag of spanners, the

Hoochie Coochie moonshine band, support and Buzz Elliot (Friday) have already been announced. As usual there will be a wide variety of beers and ciders from around the country available to try but this year there will also be a wine bar.

Tickets cost £5 per evening and £2.50 on Saturday afternoons although it is recommended to buy tickets early rather than chancing it on the night. Hot food will also be available.

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Feature | WW2 Pencils

WW2 PENCIL POINTS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

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t was 1942, War-time Britain; the whole country was feeling the effects of the War and The Ministry of Defence was employing well known firms to produce secret gadgets and special equipment to assist in the war effort.

Keswick Pencil Factory was one of 300 companies that played an integral role in this; equipping the Bomber Command Aircrew and Prisoners of War with a device that would lead them to safety and help save their lives; a pencil.

This was no ordinary pencil, Technical Manager Fred Tee and his colleagues were asked to produce a pencil that had a secret compartment just large enough to hold a tightly rolled map and a tiny compass. These pencils were a vital part of the wartime escape network and so secret that the only people who knew about them were the managers; sworn to silence by the Official Secrets Act. At 5.30pm they would leave the factory as usual and return as soon as it started to get dark for a spot of moonlighting.

They used standard 8mm diameter pencils and drilled a hole inside for most of their length so the map could be slid inside and then the compass ferrule and eraser added.

The maps were printed on very fine, non-rustle paper, tightly rolled and inserted into a cavity in the pencil barrel, four maps were printed in all. No 101 detailing the whole of Germany, and 102, 103 and 104 detailing the escape routes west to the Netherlands and Belgium and the southern route to Switzerland.

to supply equipment and gadgets for MI 6, MI 9 and the Special Operations Executive - everything from miniature cameras, to surgical saws, edible notepaper and forged foreign currency. He was always on the lookout for novel ways to hide equipment that would help airmen evade capture, prisoners of war escape and secret agents get their information safely back to Britain.

It is no surprise to learn that Fraser-Smith was the inspiration behind Ian Fleming’s infamous character Q in the James Bond series.

Fraser-Smith was bombared with requests for devices with secret compartments, and conjured up shaving brushes, popes and pens, golf balls and even shoelaces that concealed escape equipment. His strategy was to approach a well known firm that made a suitable object and ask if they could make a version with some unusual features. Across Britain, designers and engineers took up the challenge.

Some knew they were being employed in a “Q Factor” campaign, others did not, Fraser-Smith once said: “I know the debt we owe to the many fine firms who answered my call on their time and skill to perfect the secrets and cunningly devised gadgets I was ordered to make.”

Every precaution had been taken to ensure that these pencils could not be mistaken for anything other than a regular pencil, even creating a wire structure inside the pencil to ensure that the map was held firmly in place.

Keswick Pencil Museum has recreated 1500 limited edition secret pencils, these replicas have taken several years to recreate as the Pencil Museum needed to source the right equipment to make them.

These pencils were commissioned by a mysterious man from London who claimed to be a civil servant from the Ministry of Supply’s Clothing and Textiles Department. This man was Charles Fraser Smith, a fixer whose real job was

The pencils differ slightly from the original in width and contain a map of Borrowdale rather than one of Germany.

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Cross holder, 93 year old Douglas Newham was presented with a pencil at The Western Lakes Film Festival in July.

Douglas served as a navigator from 1941-1946, taking part in more than 90 missions before he became a civil aviator with the Royal Airforce but he was quite to dismiss himself as anything more than a man doing his job: “Please don’t make out that I was a hero,” he said, “the one thing that stands out in my mind is just how lucky I was to survive.”

Now the chairman of the Royal Air Force Association Cockermouth division, Douglas explained that while he was never given a pencil during his war time service he did know about them and he was kitted out with other escape devices, including a compass disguised as a button, he described finally receiving the pencil as a “great honour”.

This is not the first time that replica pencils have been made; in 1999 500 secret pencils were made to be included in their commemorative wooden boxes, The Borrowdale Collection, to mark the Millennium.

This was no easy feat; these pencils were intended to stay secret until the Prisoners of War discovered the treasure within, so they had to look and feel just like any other pencil you came across.

Any complete pencils left over at the end of the War were sent back to the UK Government along with all the manufacturing instructions and any remaining components, it is believed these are still in the possession of the Government or that they have been destroyed as they were no longer needed.

first replicated, said: “The thing we would like you all to remember most is that when with the aid of our modern tooling and techniques we were not as clever or resourceful as those skilled men who came back in the dead of night to make these very special pencils.”

“They had a need and a will to make it happen and they achieved something that we could not.”

It is not known for certain how many of these pioneering pencils were made but it is certain that they helped airmen and Prisoners Of War find their way home.

It is believed that there are only 10 sets of these WWII secret map & compass pencils left in the world, one of which has been on display in the Pencil Museum since in opened in 1982.

The details had all been part of the Official Secrets Acts and have been lost with the people who did the job, having passed away.

However David Tee one of the Techincal Managers and son of Fred Tee offered some hope; David had a couple of souvenir parts remaining from the original pencils that his dad had kept, so they were able to measure these up to get the original dimensions. There was also a map tie with cotton on a wire mount.

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Feature | WWI

Honouring the dead.

How the First World War changed the recognition of the fallen

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he First World War was a huge period of change, not just in the way the British army fought wars but also the way they treated those who gave their lives. With such a huge death toll, keeping account and properly burying all of the dead was a massive undertaking and something that had never been done before.

Before the 19th century soldiers killed in combat were generally buried in communal graves which were not marked specifically as military burial sites. Only certain leaders or famous heroes were given the honour of a marked individual war grave. In some of the 19th century battles, namely the Crimean War at Sebastopol (1856), soldiers were buried in marked military burial sites.

However, the remains of the individual soldiers in these sites were not separated into individual graves.

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Expeditionary Force was, unsurprisingly, poorly prepared for the scale of its losses and had no effective organisation for dealing with them. In September 1914 a British Red Cross Unit under the leadership of Fabian Ware began to collect information about British fatalities and the haphazard location of graves. The unit was given official recognition by the War Office in March 1915 and later incorporated into the British Army as the Graves Registration Commission.

Graves Registration Units became responsible for recording the burial of the dead (and cemeteries), but it was up to the military unit itself to carry out the actual burial. By 1918, some 587,000 graves had been identified and a further 559,000 casualties were registered as having no known grave.

We all recognise the modern day Commonwealth War Graves Commission head stones that line military cemeteries across the globe. During the First World War soldier’s graves were marked with a simple wooden cross.

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These crosses were removed and replaced with the white headstones we recognise today. Most of these crosses were discarded.

Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life recently acquired one such cross and it is now on permanent display in the First World War display in its main gallery. The wooden cross is kindly on loan from St Kentigern’s Church, Aspatria and bears the name of Captain Henry Bell of 5th Battalion the Border , buried 29th January 1917 at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme France. He was the son of George & Elizabeth Bell of Walmer House, Aspatria. Records indicate that he joined the 5th Battalion on 12 May 1916 as a 2nd Lieutenant and at the end of October attached to 10th Middlesex Regiment. It is noted that he died of his wounds.

This is just one of hundreds of thousands of crosses that would have marked the graves of the fallen. However this is the only example of a cross that relates to a Cumbrian soldier that staff at the Museum have seen.

You can discover this and other artefacts from the First World War and much more at Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life located in Carlisle Castle. Open 7 days a week.

For more information go to www.cumbriasmuseumofmilitarylife.org.

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Feature | Lanercost Alan Carr Festival

Carlisle Gets Chatty

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ith his iconic glasses, goofy smile, unmistakeable voice and the ability to poke fun at himself Alan Carr is arguably one of the country’s funniest comedians and he’s bringing his new show “Yap, Yap, Yap!” to Carlisle Friday July 31 and Saturday August 1.

Alan is embarking on his first major standup tour in three years and it certainly won’t be an easy undertaking as Alan is set to perform at an eye-watering 120 venues, He said: “I adore touring – it keeps me out of mischief! This is the biggest tour I’ve ever done.”

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guests can be frustrating. And occasionally you’ll have a dud guest with nothing to say.”

“But when it’s just you on stage with a mic in front of lots of people who have come specifically to see you, it’s fantastic. You’re the boss. I get such a buzz on stage. It’s a complete adrenalin rush. When you dream up new material and think, ‘Great, I can add that to the set,’ it’s a wonderful feeling. If it works, a new joke always brings a smile to my face. It’s such a thrill.”

“I always leave it three years between tours. I don’t know how Jimmy Carr does it, touring all the time. But I’m lucky enough to have the chat show to keep me busy in between. And it means that if I haven’t been touring for three years, it’s more of an event when I do.”

Alan has a massive and loyal fan base, which is mobilised whenever he

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tours: “Some venues have sold out within five minutes,” he revealed, “people have apparently been sleeping outside to get tickets – oh please, stop it! That’s sweet, but unnecessary.”

“A lot of them want to mother me. I’ve got one of those faces that makes women want to put me on their chest and stroke my hair. Blokes do the same – they always want to nestle me on their chests!”

So what can you expect from this show? “It’s about cohabiting and how it affects you. I talk about my partner. The show is about my life, so he has to be in it. I didn’t want to start lying and saying I still live on my own in Stretford. My partner doesn’t necessarily like being part of the show, but I said to him, ‘Look, it’s paying the bills. See those shoes you’re wearing? Comedy bought them, so stop moaning!’ The show is about manning up.”

I’ve got one of those faces that makes women want to put me on their chest and stroke “I called it, ‘Yap,Yap,Yap!’ my hair. Blokes do the because there’s a lot of waffle out there. With blogs and same – they always want Twitter, everyone has an opinion nowadays. I can’t believe I’ll be to nestle me on their waffling on stage for two hours – chests!

I’m adding to it. It’s my own fault!”

The warmth of his fans gives Alan a real glow, he said: “Twitter can be a nasty, spiteful place.

It makes you think the British public are awful. But Twitter isn’t real. It encourages a certain type of person. The real British public are lovely. People are really warm – they feel they know me, and they’re always bringing me presents! They bring me lots of knickers and ropey drinks for the globe on my chat show.”

Such is his rapport with his fans that Alan has deliberately chosen to perform at more intimate venues on the “Yap, Yap, Yap!” tour, he said: “I could have played arenas and done the tour within a month, but in those big places you can’t talk to the audience. If you mention the jumper of someone in the front row, 11,999 other people say, ‘What’s he on about?’

“With arena shows, the material doesn’t evolve. You don’t want to take the gamble of trying out new stuff in front of 12,000 people. And if you lose the room at an arena, you can’t get it back because it’s so big. Putting a show on in a theatre, everyone there feels they have had a unique night that won’t happen anywhere else.”

What Alan loves is that, “When you’re on stage, the audience transports you and you almost go into a trance.

These people have paid good money to see you, and you can’t let them down. If they’ve had a crap day, they just want to go out and have a laugh – and it’s your responsibility to deliver. You want to perform for them because they’re so lovely.”

The comic has already been warming up for the tour, he said: “It’s had great feedback. I’ve been doing it on and off for the last six months and I think, ‘This is actually quite good’. Now I can’t wait to get out on the road for the real deal.”

Despite his very high profile, Alan appears to be a really grounded and lovely person, he said: “Fame is very nice – I’d never take it for granted. You get lots of great opportunities.

The other day I was asked to present a Pride of Britain Award, and that was great.”

“And I also get marvellous presents. So if the fans that are coming to the show could bring me some awful wine to put in my globe on the chat show that would be very much appreciated!”

Tickets for Alan Carr’s tour, “Yap, Yap, Yap!” are available from The Sands Centre www.thesandscentre.co.uk

This tour is not only different because of its more intimate venues but the contents is much more personal, Alan explained: “This show is very personal. It’s a gamble including so much personal stuff, but it pays dividends. The more personal stuff you put in, the more people go ‘Aaah!’ Also, the audience can smell if you start lying in your act. There’s an honesty in this show that people will appreciate.”

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The Face

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t the start of the year we launched our Face of the Guide competition with the aim of finding a cover model. We were inundated with entries from beautiful girls all over Carlisle, Whitehaven, Workington, Maryport, Cockermouth, Keswick and one rather obscure entry from Vancouver in Canada.

products from pioneering and performancedriven styling line Windle and Moodie from Covent Garden they transformed Maddy from an average festival goer into a fierce rock chick in only a short amount of time. Assisted, of course, by stylist Laura Wilde who completed a great selection of outfits from Ooh La La Carlisle that complimented the hairstyles and theme chosen.

This issue introduces 18-year-old Maddy Carr from Whitehaven as The Face of the Guide and The Guides first photoshoot.

Maddy was a natural in front of the camera, having completed a level three diploma in Performing Arts at the Lakes College she will be starting Carlisle Art College in September and her love of performing was obvious. Even when the wind and the rain came in she was resilient and didn’t falter once the camera was on her. She explained why she decided to enter the competition and said: “It’s what I want to do, I like doing it and I want to gain experience and find out how it all works.”

After making the difficult decision of choosing our winner, we had to find a venue to host the shoot. Festival wear was the obvious theme so we were looking for something outside and versatile; Kirklinton Hall had it all – plush green grass, dishevelled ruins, gypsy caravan and most importantly somewhere for us to plug in the hair tongs.

We had a brilliant day, and despite the bad weather it couldn’t have gone better.

The whole team was amazing! The Guide’s columnist and make-up artist Bridget Foster created a flawless and versatile look that took us right through the shoot and worked for each outfit change.

Maddy, who was the runner up in Miss Cumbria pageant earlier this year, had the competition pointed out to her by one of her older sisters, she said: “It was actually my sister that pointed it out to me and said I should enter but I didn’t think anything of it. I was really shocked when I got the phone call to say I’d won.”

Hair stylists Eliza Brown and Caitlyn Chisholm from Browns Dumfries and Lockerbie did a fantastic job with Maddy’s hair and created something different for the three looks. Using

We could go on about what a wonderful day we had, but we'll just let the amazing photos taken by the wonderfully talented Kerry Clark, do the talking.

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estival season is the perfect time to experiment with make-up; try colour, keep it care free and less serious. The clothes for the shoot had a rock chic, boho feel so we went for a dark smouldering eye which worked perfectly with the styling. I created a smokey eye with a bit of a difference; an undone dishevelled eye with a pop of colour which gave it a more care free and fun feel.

As regular readers of my column will know professional make-up artists always do the eyes before the base as it prevents you making a mess and spoiling the foundation.

It’s important to prep the eyes with a base concealer as the skin on the eyes is very thin and often discoloured.

Preparing the eye lids will even out the skin tone making your eyes look more awake. It will also help your shadow stay in place and show a more vivid colour. I use Urban Decay eye primer in Eden £16 a matt texture with unbelievable hold.

I used shadows from my Urban Decay Vice palette to create this smokey eye. Sonic eye shadow was used as the pop of colour on the socket bone, this added warmth to the look and the maroon red made Maddy’s striking blue eyes pop.

It’s best to choose a pop of colour that will compliment not match your eye colour. Brown eyes can wear any colour but blue, green & hazel eyes need more thought. Urban Decay defy shadow was applied along the lashline and blended upwards and deep into the socket.

Maybelline Black Cake Liner £7.99, was applied along the lash line and in the water line and blended upwards, I kept it very black and dark around the lashes to create a much darker and more modern smokey eye. This eyeliner doesn’t move and is a staple in my kit. Always try and keep a brush separate for blending. Apply the products and blend until you get the impact and the colour you want.

Finish the eyes with mascara. I would avoid lashes with this look as they would give it an “on stage theatre” look but mascara maintains a carefree feel.

Maddy’s eyebrows didn’t need much colour added so I just groomed them with a mascara wand and a bit of hairspray.

As much as I Iove a sculpted brow it’s too much with a dramatic eye, just make sure it’s tidy.

It’s important to clean up any fallen shadow or mess and make sure the shadow is nicely even around the eyes before moving onto the base.

First I applied my Clarins instant concealer, £16. For Maddy’s base I used MAC face and body foundation. In tend to use this a lot on photoshoots as it photographs well and gives a

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“real” skin look. The texture is like water but can be built up to cover.

I set the skin with MAC mineralize skin finish £23 and contoured using a darker shade. I then added Mac Warm soul blusher, £23, to the cheeks. This is a perfect shade to use if you don’t want to focus on the cheeks and just want to put a bit of colour into the skin.

To complete the look I used Mac Lipstick Crème sheen in Party Line; a darker warm shade that suits the majority of skin tones, eye colours and hair colour.

This is a really wearable look for a festival so if you’re rolling round a field or dancing in the sun, you will still be on trend and looking summer festival boho. The smokey eye looks striking with a bit of gloss on top and it’s refreshing to see it look worn rather than perfect.

The black eyeliner is hard to remove so your eyes will still have remains of it the next day; just embraced it. It’s the only time I would ever recommend removing your make up Micellar water or baby wipes - it’s only for a night or two.

I would highly recommend Clarins concealer; it can double up as a foundation and doesn’t crease as you get tired. Make sure you use an SPF so choose a tinted moisturisers or mineral powered, most have a SPF build in them. A pressed mineral power is ideal for festivals: hassel and mess free, protective and compact.

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essy, unkempt, slightly greasy hair is a sacrifice that every festival-goer has to make and it’s a tell-tale sign that you’ve been without a shower for a few days. By day three most of us will have reached for the dry shampoo or resorted to scrapping it into a bun but the stylists at Browns, Dumfries and Lockerbie, have created three looks that encapsulate what festival hair should be from day one to day three.

Classic festival Big, bouncy, messy hair ; this messy look was achieved by using Windle and Moodie Oceanic Spray (£20) & Windle and Moodie matte texture spray (£20) which helped create the texture.

The look was completed by the hat, Doc Mar tins and the universal festival staple, a pair of denim shor ts. This simple yet effective hairstyle is perfect with this casual style.

Boho Hippie Did someone say braids!? Braids are perfect for any festival look and great for the second day at a festival.

If needed you could use, festival favourite, dry shampoo but our stylists didn’t use any additional products, the matte texture spray & oceanic used first create better texture as the days go on! The hair was divided into large section and braided separately before wrapping them round the head and securing with pins.

This look is set off with the head chain - edge it up with knee high boots or for a more summery vibe go with strappy sandals.

Third look - Rock Day three hair is bigger and wilder! By day three your hair is most likely going to need a moisturising spa & deep clean… To disguise this what else can you do but back comb & hairspray into crazy rock hair?

To add some edge, we added black spray chalk, you can get lots of different coloured chalks if you are looking to add a bit of colour!

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We teamed this look with contrasting black fabrics to create the ultimate rock look and paired it with dark lips, chunky jewellery and a bum bag. Complete this look with dark nails and you’ll stand out from the crowd in any field!

Top festival products:

Invisible day and night cream - uv protection, moisturising Matte texture spray Oceanic spray Sculpture hairspray

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Health & Beauty | Wear the Summer your way.

Wear the SUMMER your way

By Ashleigh Panther

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hen you wake up to the sound of the wind and the rain hammering on your window your kneejerk reaction is to curl up tight under the duvet while you dread having to decide what to wear. However, when the sun shines through your window your moods is instantly improved; it’s a little easier to get up. You’re more inspired and motivated by the bright weather!

This motivation is reflected our choice of clothes; we opt for brighter colours, lighter materials. Something that makes us feel, over all, more vibrant.

Most of us just tend to wear the same old things every year; the same yellow skirt, the same flats that are near enough worn through just because it’s a great feeling to throw you winter coat to the back if the wardrobe.

The summer is a great chance for you to wear exactly what you want to. Whether you’re going on a summer holiday or planning a staycation with lots of days out, use this summer to feel great about your wardrobe.

There are some great, easy to follow trends out there but not all of us like to follow the trends some people see them as inspiration while others would LIKE to but don’t have that confidence.

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Don’t sit and look through fashion magazines thinking ‘I wish I could pull that top off ’ or ‘I definitely wouldn’t suit those sunglasses’.

Fashion isn’t about what other people think of you, it’s about how it makes YOU feel. Wear the clothes you want to wear, not the clothes you think you should wear.

High street stores are constantly introducing new products to this season’s lines, with many celebrities coming up with their own collections and expressing their fashion style.

Your challenge is to take items into the changing room that you would normally walk past; too scared to even pick up. It doesn’t have to be a complete change; it could just be one piece that would never have made it into your wardrobe before. But be warned, it is addictive!

Use the determination you feel when you get up in the morning and feel the sun against your face when you go shopping for your 2015 summer wardrobe.

Don’t hold back. Let this summer be the time to let YOUR inner style come through!

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Health & Beauty | Cornerstone

FEELING IS BELIEVING!

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rritation, shaving cuts, ingrown hairs; achieving the perfect shave isn’t always easy but shaving company Cornerstone have the answer.

The relatively new company was set up in July 2014

by Oliver Bridge, having always struggled to achieve a comfortable shave Oliver got to work on a combination quality product line.

Cornerstone has gone from strength to strength in its first 12 months, beating off household brands like Braun and Gillette to the 2015 Best Razor award.

Cornerstone offer flexible, regular delivery of razor blades and shaving supplies straight to your door. It’s a simple, more convenient and all-round better way to shave – making sure men have everything they need for smooth comfortable shave every morning.

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and protect, to the cool refreshing and moisturising sensitive cooling post-shave balm Cornerstone products have been designed to give you the most comfortable shave possible and leave your skin feeling soft, smooth and refreshed.

We’re giving you the chance to WIN a Cornerstone box including it’s award winning razor, pre-shave face scrub, sensitive shave gel and a sensitive cooling post-shave balm. Simply answer the question below and send your answers to info@theguidemediagroup.com Entrants must be 16 or over, and be in to us by 1 September.

Who’s beard is this?

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Food & Drink | Alan Spedding

Thai Green Curry

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nyone who has visited Thailand will know that the difference between a Green Curry in Thailand and one in the West is like comparing black to white, there simply is no comparison. Our Western version doesn`t have the textures or perfumes of the oriental one by a long mile. The photo on the right shows the four essential ingredients needed to give this legendary Asian curry its characteristic signature. Eggplants, Kaffir, Lime leaves, Pea Aubergines and the delicate Aniseed scented Thai sweet Basil.

Words & Photography by Alan Spedding Follow Alan at: www.alanspedding.co.uk www.cumbriafoodie.wordpress.com www.theguidemediagroup.co.uk

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Unfortunately in the UK, we can only obtain these ingredients in Oriental supermarkets or through an online supplier but if you want to re-create the authentic curry then these ingredients are absolutely essential. However, after 25 visits to Thailand, I like to think that my own adapted “English“ version of Thai Green curry is pretty similar to the ‘real deal`. It`s as close as you`re going to get without the fresh Thai produce and hopefully if you try this one at home then you`ll be pretty impressed with the result.

There`s always a better idea though, book a flight to Bangkok and go try for yourself.

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Ingredients

2 Tbsp vegetable / sunflower oil.

3 Tbsp green curry paste 1 Tin of coconut cream or thick coconut milk.

8 skinned chicken thighs cut into pieces. (bones removed but not essential) 2 Tbsp soft brown sugar (substitute for palm sugar) 2 Tbsp Thai fish sauce 2 Tbsp fresh lime juice 1 small purple aubergine cut into chunks (substitute for eggplant ) A packet of green beans. (substitute for pea aubergines) A small pot of basil leaves. (substitute for sweet Thai basil) Fish sauce lime juice, soft brown sugar to balance the taste.

1 Large red chilli and spring onion for garnish.

Method

Heat the oil over a medium heat and add the green curry paste.

Gently fry the paste in the oil, stirring constantly until it becomes fragrant. this takes 1 to 2 minutes but take great care not to burn the paste.

2, Spoon off a couple of tablespoons of the thick cream from the top of the coconut milk and set aside. Pour the rest of the coconut milk into the pan and mix into the curry paste.

3, Bring to the boil and then add the chicken thigh meat, sugar, fish

sauce, lime juice and let it all bubble away gently for five minutes or so until the chicken turns colour and is cooked through.

4, Add the chunks of aubergine and the green beans (cut into 1 inch

pieces.) then continue to cook through for another 3 to 4 minutes. Add most of the basil leaves and then remove from the heat.

5,

Taste the sauce and then add more fish sauce , lime juice and sugar to balance up the taste to suit yourself. there should be a perfect balance of salty , sour and sweet .

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Stir in the coconut cream that you have set aside and then garnish the top of the green curry with fresh basil, fresh red Chilli and sliced spring onions.

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Food & Drink | Kitchen Re-Porter

KITCHEN

RE-PORTER Simon Haslam, The Waterfront Whitehaven shares his foody passion with us.

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imon has worked in some of the Lake Districts best hotels, he took over the Waterfront in 2011 and has successfully turned it into one of Whitehaven’s Best Restaurants. He is passionate about locally sourced, seasonal produce, cooked and presented with love, care & finesse, enjoyed in comfortable surroundings and that’s exactly what you get at The Waterfront.

What is your first memory of the kitchen?

My mum was a home economics teacher so I have loads of memories of being in the kitchen, making cakes or liking a bowl of cake mix. It probably did encourage me to become a chef. We always had home cooked meals; I was probably 15 or 16 before I’d even had my first takeaway.

What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever cooked with?

Probably sweetbread, they pancreas or throat gland from lamb or a calf; they’re absolutely delicious.

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What is your favourite type of cuisine?

Eastern food, particularly Middle Eastern food; I like the way the spices work together.

What is your favourite restaurant to eat at anywhere in the world?

A little one star restaurant in Rome that my wife and I went to about six years ago, I can’t remember what it was called, it was in one of the amphitheatres; it was exceptional.

Who is your favourite celebrity chef?

Ramsey, I like his no nonsense attitude, I think he’s entertaining but I think that Marcus Waring is the best chef in the country right now.

What are you most likely to cook at home?

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In the summer I eat a lot of fish and salads but in the winter I cook a lot of traditional warming foods like stews and braises.

What is your ultimate comfort food?

Do you spend a lot of time in the kitchen at home?

What is your idea of food hell?

I cook one day a week where I experiment with new recipes and different cuts and I eat out once a week.

Banger and mash.

Cucumber, it sounds a bit odd for something with so little flavour but I’m put off things by texture rather than flavour.

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Food & Drink | Healthy Menus are a hit

Healthy Menus are a hit

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hen you eat out, how often do you look at the menu and scan for the healthy options?

How great is it when you find a place that can offer a nutritional, healthy but tasty variety?

Allerdale Borough Council wants to celebrate these businesses by offering them the opportunity to enter their Healthy Menu Awards.

“We’re really proud to be one of just a few businesses to have received Allerdale’s Healthy Menu Award and would recommend that other businesses consider entering the Awards. We are constantly striving for new ways to develop and improve our healthy menus, and just recently we have introduced porridge and muesli as alternative breakfast options.”

The awards are available to all food businesses including cafes, restaurants, hotels, sandwich shops, and take-aways; anywhere that serves food. The idea behind The Healthy Menu Awards is to promote healthier options and encourage people to choose an alternative to their usual choice.

Two other businesses to receive the award in Workington are AL’s Kitchen and Aramark at Eastman’s Chemicals in 2014.

To qualify for the award the business must maintain a satisfactory level of food hygiene as well as provide healthier choices and the options should be available every day.

In May 2015 the Little Chamonix café in Keswick received a Healthy Menu Award, Ellen Botterill, owner of the café said: “I completed a Food & Nutrition degree last summer so healthy eating is really important to me. When I made the decision to open my own café, there was never any doubt in my mind that the menu would be full of fresh fruit and vegetables and lots of salad. Thankfully our customers also love it and are delighted by the fresh, colourful food we serve and particularly our side salads, which are like rainbows on a plate!”

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Councillor Konrad Hansen, Executive Member for Regulatory Services at Allerdale Borough Council said: “The Healthy Menu Awards are a fantastic way of promoting those local businesses who offer a well-rounded menu that incorporates and encourages healthy eating alternatives.

The previous winners have shown that, just by making small changes to ingredient choices, customers can enjoy healthier dishes, which will offer longer term health benefits.”

There is a separate award for any school that would like to be recognised for promoting healthy eating to children; the ‘Healthier Menus for Schools Award’. Keswick School and Workington’s St Josephs have already received the award.

If you think that your menu can offer an abundance of nutritional, healthy and fantastic food then enter at: www.allerdale.gov.uk

Local Fish | Food & Drink

RECOGNITION for locally caught fish

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or centuries Cumbria has upheld a proud and strong fishing industry from ports such as Maryport, Silloth, Muncaster and Whitehaven which remains as the biggest fishing port in North West England.

However, the sad truth is that despite having the freshest fish on our door steps we haven’t been getting a look in. The vast majority of the seafood caught off our coast is transported to foreign markets or sent away to be processed before reaching our plates.

This is all going to change thanks to projects funded by the North and West Cumbrian Fisheries Local Action Group (FLAG). They have come up with a project which means consumers throughout Cumbria will be made aware of genuinely fresh, locally caught fish by the display of the ‘Cumbrian Fisheries’ brand giving people the opportunity to try totally fresh fish.

Eager to sign up to be brand champions were Quayside Fisheries’ Richard Donnan and The Waterfront’s Simon Haslam who have dedicated themselves to promoting and supporting the project.

This project will not only benefit consumers and local restaurants, but the fishermen themselves, John McAvoy is a local fisherman who has been working in our waters for over 50 years, he said: “Local fishermen care passionately about the coastal environment. For us, fishing is not just a job; it is a way of life that has shaped our families and our local communities.”

“Being able to sell using the ‘Cumbrian Fisheries’ brand provides local fishermen with the opportunity to put more locally caught fish on local dinner plates.”

“We are delighted to be working with fishmongers, wholesalers, hotels and restaurants who are supporting us by becoming ‘Cumbrian Fisheries Brand Champions’.”

“By working with Brand Champions in the supply chain, buyers and consumers can have confidence that the fish they are buying and eating has been locally caught and can be traced back to local fishermen.”

Local Chef, Simon Haslam works with fish on a daily basis on his harbour side restaurant, The Waterfront, Whitehaven, he said: “After so much success with local meats and local veg, it’s so refreshing to finally have a scheme that recognises locally caught fish. Our customers are increasingly interested in food provenance as part of their food experience.

We can now clearly promote locally caught fish on our restaurant menu.”

Richard Donnan is a local fish monger and currently runs Quayside Fisheries also based on Whitehaven harbour, he said: “We are delighted to be able to clearly promote and sell locally caught, fresh fish to our customers. Local hotels and restaurants can now buy locally caught fish through us before it leaves Cumbria. That means their customers can enjoy the freshest local fish too.”

So keep your eyes open for the ‘Cumbrian Fisheries’ brand sticker or logo when you decide to eat out and enjoy the freshest, fish available in Cumbria.

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Food & Drink | BBQ Lamb Burger

BBQ LAMB BURGERS

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othing says summer like the smell of a barbeque and as the day’s heat up there’s no excuse not to get the barbie out. You can’t beat a good

The Bistro at Oxley’s is the perfect retreat, situated a short distance from Keswick Light Lunches, Evening Meals, Sunday Roast Join us for Afternoon Tea and enjoy a selection of delicious sweet & savoury treats.

(Pre-booking essential)

burger on a barbie but why not try something a bit different and make your own lamb burgers?

Makes 6 burgers: 1kg minced lamb (it is best not to use lean mince as fat will help to bind the burgers and keep them moist) 3-4 shallots, very finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1tsp ground cumin 20g fresh mint, chopped 1/2tsp ground black pepper 1tsp salt 1. Place the lamb mince in a large bowl and add the remaining ingredients. Mix it all together until just combined.

This is best done by hand but don’t over-work the mixture.

2. Shape the mixture into 6 burgers about 180g each.

3. The burgers can be cooked either on a griddle pan or in a non-stick frying pan but nothing beats the barbeque.

Burgers need about 4 min each side, turning them every 2 minutes to cook them evenly and prevent burning.

Serve with some Greek feta cheese in a lightly warmed or grilled the bun with some mint sauce or a tomatoe salsa.

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For the perfect burger salad use a soft round English lettuce with sliced tomato and a few very thin red onion rings.

Ingredients Serves 4 • 200g mashed potato, cooled to room temperature • 150g salmon, skinned • 50 g natural smoked haddock, skinned • Teaspoon of chopped fresh chives and dill • Juice and finely grated zest of 1 lemon • 4 asparagus spears cut off the tough bottom few centimetres

Method Rub the salmon and smoked haddock with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and cook in a hot oven for 6 minutes, allow to cool.

Blanch the asparagus in salted boiling water for 2 minutes then run under cold water until cooled.

SALMON AND ASPARAGUS FISH CAKES WITH TOMATO VINAIGRETTE

In a mixing bowl, gently flake the cooked fish and mix gently into the other ingredients, shape into 4 even sized balls, and gently squash them into fish cake shapes, First dip in flour then beaten egg and finally into breadcrumbs.

Fry the fish cakes in a little olive oil on both sides until lightly coloured and crispy before placing in a hot oven for 8-10 minutes.

Meanwhile, skin, de-seed and roughly chop 4 ripe tomatoes, mix with 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar, 3 tablespoons sun flour oil, 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, ½ finally chopped red onion and a handful chopped fresh parsley and chives.

Serve the fishcakes with some fresh rocket and summer salad leaves and spoon the dressing around.

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Motoring | Suzuki

SUZUKI

SHIFTS UP A GEAR

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uzuki GB PLC is pleased to announce the availability of a new technology transmission for the S-Cross DDiS ALLGRIP model. The Twin Clutch System by Suzuki (TCSS) is the first transmission of its type that Suzuki has offered to the market and is confident that it will appeal to diesel buyers in the ever growing Crossover market sector.

The new transmission is available from this month on the SZ5 S-Cross DDiS ALLGRIP and will cost ÂŁ1,350 versus the conventional six speed manual.

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TCSS is a six speed automated manual transmission that incorporates hydraulically controlled clutches and a gear change assembly that enables it to be driven in a similar way to an automatic gearbox. The system utilises one clutch for 1st, 3rd and 5th gears and the other for 2nd, 4th and 6th gears. Operating the transmission in this way ensures that whether the driver is accelerating or decelerating, the desired gear is instantly available.

Coupled to the latest Euro 6 compliant 1.6-litre DDiS engine, the new transmission provides even faster gear changes than could be achieved with a conventional manual

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and is an ideal match for the 320Nm of torque available from just 1,750rpm. Gear changes can also be manually operated via paddles behind the steering wheel.

Gear ratios are slightly different for the TCSS equipped model and a full S-Cross specification sheet follows at the end of this release. The marginally heavier transmission / ancillary parts result in a negligible increase in fuel consumption versus the manual ALLGRIP version (1.4mpg) but still attains 62.8mpg on the EC combined cycle.

CO2 emissions are just 4g/km higher than with the manual gearbox at 118g/km.

Automatic Transmission for New Vitara To add further customer appeal to the recently launched Vitara range, a new six speed fully automatic transmission is now available on the SZ5 petrol model in either two wheel drive or ALLGRIP versions and is also a £1,350 option.

The new transmission has a wide gear ratio range to permit precise driver control which also helps provide quick response at low vehicle speeds (for instance, when pulling away from standstill or driving on an incline). The wide ratios

also help the engine to run at lower rpm when cruising too. The transmission has an expanded lockup range to promote good acceleration, high fuel economy, and overall quietness. Additionally, a manual mode is incorporated to enable the driver to change up or down the gearbox using shift paddles behind the steering wheel.

The Vitara’s CO2 emissions are low thanks to the use of high tensile steel and other weight saving measures in the body plus an Engine Auto Stop Start system. CO2 emissions for the petrol engine are 127g/km with two wheel drive / automatic transmission which is just 4g/km higher than for the manual transmission model.

The combination of four-wheel drive and an automatic transmission is typically seen as detrimental to CO2 emissions performance and fuel economy. By contrast, Suzuki’s ALLGRIP system offers CO2 emissions that are remarkably low for a four-wheel drive petrol powered SUV with figures of 131g/km for the new six-speed automatic. This figure is only 1g/km higher than for the manual gearbox and, at 49.5mpg on the EC Combined fuel consumption cycle, records a penalty of just 0.9mpg versus the manual.

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Sport | Workington Town

DERBY DAY WIN GIVES TOWN A CONFIDENCE BOOST WORDS: JOHN WALSH

IMAGE: JIM DAVIS

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erby bragging rights are big in any sport and as far as west Cumbria is concerned, that means Workington Town and Whitehaven.

There can be no doubt as to who is shouting loudest in local rugby league circles as Town recently completed their fourth win of the season over the old enemy.

A 28-6 win for Town at the Recreation Ground was possibly the most satisfying of them all as it lifted Phil Veivers’ men out of the two relegation places.

It ended a string of defeats for Town which had pushed them into the relegation mire, and will give them much needed confidence for the bigger battles ahead.

Workington complete their programme in the regulation season with a home match against London Broncos and a trip to Hunslet Hawks. Then it’s dog eat dog as the bottom eight face-up to seven more games which will decide where they play in 2016.

Points gained in the Championship so far will count when the bottom eight get together, but Town will be one of the four sides given four away trips and three home fixtures.

So Town and Haven will be set to meet for a fifth and final time, which could still be crucial in the battle to avoid the drop – and who is likely to go down with Doncaster.

It’s a measure of how well Town won at the Recreation Ground that coach Phil Veivers’ harshest comments referred to the points his side conceded.

“I was really annoyed that we let them in for a try so near to the end of the game. I don’t think they deserved any points on the balance of play, because that’s how much we dominated the game.”

“In fairness the guys were really upset that they had conceded six points.”

“We were great from the first whistle, dominating them physically and forcing them into errors. Our defence was outstanding, which made it so disappointing when we gave away that late try. The icing on the cake would have been a victory to nil.”

Star of the show for Town was ex-Super League half-back, the Australian-born Maltese international Jarrod Sammut.

Veivers is still trying to bring-in a new addition before the signing deadline of July 24.

He is also speaking with Wigan just to clarify which five players will be available to him for the relegation show-down over the last seven games.

None of the players named as being available for Town would be able to play for Wigan in the Super 8’s.

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Workington Reds | Sport

REDS GET READY FOR NEW SEASON

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orkington Reds’ new management team will shape their squad for the Evo Stik Premier League season over a series of friendly fixtures.

Boss Derek Townsley, who has succeeded Gavin Skelton in charge, has two Reds stalwarts Dave Hewson and Lee Andrews as his assistants. They will look at a number of trialists in the pre-season friendlies before the action gets underway in earnest on August 15.

Townsley has signed one new face so far, former Carlisle United and Annan goalkeeper Alex Mitchell, 24, who was impressive on his debut home appearance.

Mitchell, who played 90 games for Annan, made three top-class saves in his 45-minute stint against Carlisle United.

Townsley said: “We want competition for places and with Jonny Jamieson from last season we have two very good keepers at the club. We have a number of trialists to look at during the friendlies and hopefully there will be some of them who we feel can step up to the plate in the Evo Stik.”

“There are big boots to fill in mid-field, since Gavin (Skelton) left to take-up the assistant manager’s role at Queens, and Dan Wordsworth was another big performer who won’t be available this season.”

Wordsworth, along with Reds midfielder Steve Hindmarch is back packing around Australia.

Reds. Next home game at Borough Park is the friendly with Barrow on Saturday, July 25 when former Reds boss Darren Edmondson brings his Bluebirds squad to west Cumbria.

When they were confirming the friendly Edmondson and Townsley also discussed Alex Newby, the youngster who was on loan with Reds last season for four months.

“I’m not a big fan of the loan system,” admitted Townsley, “because I would much sooner operate a squad using my own players. But Darren did suggest there might be the chance of a long-term loan which is something I might look at, depending on how things go over the next few weeks.”

Workington did the right thing in promoting from within when Skelton moved to Queen of the South. The men who were in the dressing room and on the touchline with him last season are now in charge.

Clearly centre-half and central mid-field are positions Townsley needs to strengthen and he will also be looking for another striker and possibly a wide player.

Four trialists were used in the opening friendly, a 9-0 win at Whitehaven Amateurs when one of them, John Donat (a local Sunday League player) scored twice. He did not appear in the follow-up game (a 3-0 home defeat by Carlisle United) but he has been asked back, along with James Earl, Stephen Logan and Rob McCartney.

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Sport | Comets

Comets CHANGE THEIR LINE-up WORDS: JOHN WALSH

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orkington Comets will have a battle on their hands to make the play-offs in the Premier League after struggling over the first-half of the season.

Away form has been poor so far, and the inability to track their regular seven riders in most of the fixtures, has hampered progress.

When they have ridden away from Derwent Park the Comets have failed to pick-up a single point in the League - which makes qualification for the top six play-offs much harder.

Team manager Tony Jackson said: “One of our biggest problems has been the inconsistency. It’s been a source of great frustration that the team has been so unpredictable,

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even from heat to heat, never mind meeting to meeting.”

Workington need to find that consistency because they have matches in hand in which they can eat into the points deficit they find themselves in the League table. It certainly isn’t impossible to make the play-offs – but their inconsistency is making it increasingly unlikely.

They do have matches in hand and earlier this month had only ridden ten Premier League meetings, the lowest figure in the competition – but they were ten points off the last play-off place.

Rusty Harrison is getting back to full fitness and starting to fire after his injury lay-off but the Comets have made changes at reserve.

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Nathan Greaves and Niki Barrett, who started the campaign in the reserve slots, are no longer in the line-up.

Young Greaves suffered a badly broken leg in the home win over Rye House while Barrett was axed after a string of poor performances, which had followed his own injury set-back.

The 17 year-old Sheffield-born youngster was lying in third place in heat two against the Rockets when he slid off as he exited the fourth bend on the third lap and hit the fence.

After being attended to by the medical team at the track he was transferred to West Cumberland Hospital and after he was moved to Carlisle Infirmary where he had an operation to set his right leg which had been broken just above the ankle.

Comets owner, Laura Morgan said: “I was gutted to have to do this to a genuinely nice lad who we had a lot of confidence in at the start of the season and we still do have confidence that Nicki can return to be a rider who will score good points in Britain once he gets back on it.”

"But, at the end of the day we have to do what is best for the team, and to a certain extent Nicki, and that is to give him a rest from the strain of not scoring points.”

"He is still part of the Comets family and we hope to see him back soon as I have a lot of time for Nicki.”

The Comets moved quickly to sign a replacement, with Matt Williamson joining-up. He had previously guested for the Comets and shown ability to get out of the gate quickly.

Barrett had started to struggle for form after a string of falls at Newcastle and Berwick, when he injured his shoulder in the process.

Williamson had a tough debut at Glasgow, where he scored a point, but the management team at Comets have a lot of faith in the youngster.

After a short break away he returned but admitted himself that he didn't feel the same on the bike and struggled for confidence, which had a huge effect on his ability to earn money and even cover the costs of his travel.

Co-promoter, Steve Whitehead said: “We rate him highly as this is only his second season in the sport and he has great ability on the bike.”

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Kid’s Sudoku

Alpha Sudoku Place a letter from A to F in each empty cell so every row, every column and every 2x3 box contains all the letters A to F

Word search

On The Farm!

ARCADIAN BARN CATTLE CHICKENS COUNTRYSIDE CULTIVATE DAIRY DUCKS ESTATE FARM FIELD FODDER GEESE GOAT HARVEST

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HOMESTEAD HORSES LIVESTOCK MEADOW MILL PASTORAL PASTURE PROVINCIAL RANCH, RURAL RUSTIC SHEEP SILAGE STABLE TRACTOR

Children’s Puzzles | Fun & Games

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Puzzles | Take a break

Catch-Words

Test your knowledge and complete the catch-phrases

Please see p79 for puzzle solutions ALPHA SUDOKU Place a letter from A to I in

each empty cell so every row, every column and every 2x3 box contains all the letters A to I.

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Across 1. Like a bull in a ___ shop (5) 3. Input and ___ (6) 7. Just what the doctor ___ (7) 9. The ___ road to success (5) 10. ___ Ho! (5) 11. Cops and ___ (7) 14. Signed, ___ and delivered (6) 16. Watched with ___ breath (6) 20. The Loch Ness ___ (7) 22. ___ boom (5) 23. On the ___ (5) 25. A rough ___ (7) 26. ___ the gap (6) 27. ___ and Queens (5) Down 1. The Emperor's new ___ (7) 2. A gentleman's ___ (9) 3. Given his ___ orders (6) 4. Jack ___ (3) 5. Bob's your ___ (5) 6. A sight for sore ___ (4) 8. Don't make a ___ out of a crisis (5) 12. Jack and the (9) 13. The Catcher in the ___ (3) 15. Alter ___ (3) 17. It takes two to ___ (5) 18. Who ___ when doctors disagree? (7) 19. From ___ to grave (6) 20. The ___ of human kindness (4) 21. ___ say die (5) 24. Keep a ___ on it (3)

SUDOKU Place a number from 1 to 9 in each

empty cell so everyrow, every column and every 3x3 box contains all the numbers 1 to 9.

A day in the life of a Country Vet| Feature

A day in the life of a Country Vet

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ome of the most common skin complaints that we see in practice are either caused by parasites or complicated by them. These can be prevented with treatments that are both simple to administer and reasonably priced. We are all guilty, even me, of forgetting to treat our pets; I have resorted to setting a reminder on my phone so I don’t forget to take care of my boys.

So who are the most common offenders in the world of creepy crawlies?

Fleas The most common type of flea found on dogs and cats is a cat flea which as well as causing skin problems can also transfer tapeworms.

The main problems we see are: itching and scratching, flea dirt in the coat which is digested blood from your pet, hair loss and red skin and irritation from flea allergies Weird facts: 1 flea can turn into 1000 in 21 days and 95% of flea eggs, larvae and pupae live in beds, sofas, rugs and carpets, not on your pet. With these facts in mind you really don’t want your animals bringing these into the house as it would quickly lead to an infestation!

With Caroline Jahnsdorf The main problems we see are: irritation and skin infections where they bite and significant disease by transmitting infection via their mouthparts (Lymes disease). They can be difficult to remove as they attach tightly, so please do not pull them out as you can leave behind some of these mouthparts and cause a skin reaction or abscess. Seek advise from your vet.

Treatment There are a lot of different products out there, spot-ons, tablets, injections and sprays, and they are tailored to specific parasites and specific animals. Due to the amount of treatments available always seek advice from your vet as they can select the right treatment for every individual situation. Please be aware that there are less effective and cheaper products on the market so please be careful and follow your vet’s advice.

There are a lot more parasites out there than those discussed above so if you have any concerns please call your vets for advise, that is what we are here for.

See you soon, Caroline

Ticks Ticks bite and attach to your pets’ skin using mouthparts like pincers. They are typically a parasite seen between spring and autumn although a warm winter can allow their survival.

They are usually found where wildlife/livestock graze and where vegetation is overgrown. So in Cumbria we have many high-risk areas.

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WHAT’S ON

MUSIC / THEATRE / FILM / COMEDY / OTHER

//MUSIC ------------------------------------Sat 1st August Hot Mess Brickyard ------------------------------------1st - 14th Aug Lake District Summer Music International Festival Cumbria -----------------------------------Fri 7th Aug State of Quo The Grapes & Vine Bar, Workington ------------------------------------7th Aug - 9th Aug Northbound Festival Wellington Farm Cockermouth ------------------------------------Sat Aug 8th Classic car and Bike Meeting The filling station cafe bar Keswick ------------------------------------Sat Aug 8th The Rock and blues all dayer Copland Stadium, Whitehaven -------------------------------------

Sat 8th Aug Underground The Vibe -----------------------------------------------Sat 8th Aug Pretty things Peepshow Club Rock ------------------------------------Sun 9th Aug Roots in Cumbria Theatre by the Lake Keswick ------------------------------------Fri 14th Aug Mark Morriss & Chris Helme The Old Fire Station ------------------------------------Fri 14th Aug Joan Armatrading Sands Centre ------------------------------------Sun 16th Aug South:Spanish Spice Theatre By The Lake Keswick ------------------------------------Sun 16th Aug South : Spanish Spice Theatre by the Lake Keswick ------------------------------------Fri 21st Aug LAUNCHPAD Brickyard, Carlisle -------------------------------------

22nd August Picnic cinema - 70’s Disco

1st - 14th Aug Lake District Summer Music International Festival Cumbria Sun 23rd Aug North : Nathaniel Gow’s Scottish Dance Theatre by the Lake, Keswick ------------------------------------Sun 23rd Aug Cast The Old Fire Station ------------------------------------Sun 23rd August North : Nathaniel Gow’s Scottish Dance Band -------------------------------------

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MUSIC / THEATRE / FILM / COMEDY / OTHER Sun 27th Aug Dickens Abridged The Old Fire Station, Carlisle ------------------------------------Fri 28th Aug A celebration of Simon and Garfunkel Ambleside parish centre ------------------------------------28th Fri - 30th Sun Solfest Tarnside, Aspatria ------------------------------------Sat 29th Aug Summer Rockfest Vine bar, Workington ---------------------------------Sun 30th Aug Uber All Nighter Claude VonStroke, Jackmaster, Ki Creighton, Green Velvet,Kydus, Hot Since 82 The Venue ------------------------------------Mon 31st Aug Club night - So Tropical Club Concrete ---------------------------------Thurs 3rd Sep- Sun 6th Sept Silloth music and beer festival Silloth ---------------------------------Sat 5th September Kontiki Suite/ Juliet rises Kirkgate Centre,Cockermouth

Sat 5th Picnic Cinema Burlesque Ballfeaturing Moulin Rouge] Kirklinton hall Carlisle ------------------------------------5th Sep Stephen Smyth & His Band The Wave centre, Maryport ------------------------------------Fri 11th Sep Steptastic The vine Bar ------------------------------------Fri 18th September My Darling Clementine & Mark Billingham in THE OTHER HALF Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth ------------------------------------Fri 18th Sep The other half The Old Fire Station ------------------------------------Sun 20th Sep Sur Sangam Theatre by the Lake,Keswick ------------------------------------Thurs 24th Sep Innocence ( Scottish Dance ) Kirkgate centre, Cockermouth ------------------------------------Fri 25th Sep Party in the Valley Swinside inn, Keswick

Fri 25th Sep Led into Zeppelin Brickyard, Carlisle ------------------------------------Fri 25th Sep Led into Zeppelin Brickyard, Carlisle -----------------------------------Sun 27th September The Nimmo Brothers Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth -----------------------------------5 Sep 2015 Kontiki Suite/ Juliet Rises Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth -----------------------------------11 Sep 2015 New England Threlkeld Village Hall, Keswick ----------------------------------

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25 Sep 2015 Canterbury tales (Blast from the Past) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth ----------------------------------8 Sep 2015 FAME THE MUSICAL Carnegie Theatre, Workington ----------------------------------18 Sep 2015 The Other Half (Billingham/My Darling Clementine) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth

Sat 1st August Oval Centre Comedy Night The Oval Centre, Workington ------------------------------------Thurs 6th Aug - Fri 7th Aug Roy Chubby Brown - Don’t Get Fit Get Fat! Carnegie Theatre - Workington ------------------------------------Fri 7th Aug Paul Walker The Venue ------------------------------------Fri 7th Aug Comedy night The Venue ------------------------------------Sat 8 Aug Sunny Ormonde The Old Fire Station ------------------------------------

//FILM 14 Sep 2015 Force Majeure (15) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth ----------------------------------21 Sep 2015 The 2nd Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth -----------------------------------7 Sep 2015 The Tale of Princess Kaguya Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth ------------------------------------

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//OTHER Sat 1st Aug Cockermouth Agricultural Show The Fitz, Cockermouth -----------------------------------Fri 3rd August Ultimate Ladies Night Carlisle racecourse -----------------------------------

7 Sep 2015 The Tale of Princess Kaguya Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth Fri 7th Aug Made In Cumbria Farmers Market Carlisle City Centre -----------------------------------Mon Aug 10th - Fri 14th Aug ACT Youth Theatre’s summer school Currock House Community Centre, Carlisle ---------------------------------Thurs 20th Aug Afghan Blanket Crochet Course Hobbycraft, Carlisle ---------------------------------Thurs 20th Aug Exhibition & Slideshow (Arts & Allsorts) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth

Fri 28th Aug - 30th Solfest Tarnished Farm Aspatria

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MUSIC / THEATRE / FILM / COMEDY / OTHER ----------------------------------Sat 22nd Aug - 31st Aug Carlisle Pageant Carlisle City Centre ----------------------------------Sat 22nd Aug Stobart fest Carlisle Airport ----------------------------------Sun 23rd Aug - 18th Oct The Carlisle Historical Pageants Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle ----------------------------------Tues 25th Aug Wigton Country & Crafts Market The Market Hall, Wigton ----------------------------------Fri 28th Aug - 30th Solfest Tarnished Farm Aspatria ---------------------------------Sat 29 Aug Carlisle Arts Fair The Sands Centre, Carlisle --------------------------------Sun 30th Aug From Redcoat to Khaki Carlisle Castle --------------------------------Sat 29th - Sun 30th Aug Carlisle Arts Fair The Sands Centre ---------------------------------Sun 30th Aug The Great British Food Festival Dalemain Mansion & Historic Gardens, Penrith ----------------------------------Mon 31st Aug From Redcoat to Khaki Carlisle Castle ----------------------------------17 Sep 2015 Andrew Dee

Monroe’s Bar, Carnegie Theatre, Workington 25 Sep 2015 Canterbury tales (Blast from the Past) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth ----------------------------------1 Sep 2015 Cheese & Wine Evening The Beacon, Whitehaven ----------------------------------11 Sep 2015 Discovering Roman Papcastle (C’Mth Civic Trust) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth --------------------------------8 Sep 2015 FAME THE MUSICAL Carnegie Theatre, Workington --------------------------------24 Sep 2015 Innocence (Scottish Dance) Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth --------------------------------12 Sep 2015 Kirkgate’s 20th Birthday Tea Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth --------------------------------3 Sep 2015 Silloth Music and Beer Festival Silloth Green, Silloth --------------------------------

Sun 30th Aug The Great British Food Festival Dalemain Mansion & Historic Gardens, Penrith 1 Aug 2015 Cockermouth Agricultural Show The Fitz, Cockermouth --------------------------19 Sep 2015 The Other Half The Old Fire Station, Carlisle ----------------------------------22 Aug 2015 Carlisle Pageant Carlisle City Centre, Carlisle ----------------------------------29 Aug 2015 Carlisle Arts Fair

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31 Jul 2015 Alan Carr - Yap, Yap, Yap The Sands Centre, Carlisle ----------------------------------27 Sep 2015 Dickens Abridged The Old Fire Station, Carlisle ----------------------------------4 Sep 2015 Edwina Hayes The Old Fire Station, Carlisle

14 Sep 2015 , Every Brilliant Thing The Old Fire Station, Carlisle ----------------------------------27 Jun 2015 Eye for Colour Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle ----------------------------------14 Aug 2015

Joan Armatrading The Sands Centre, Carlisle ------------------------5 Sep 2015 Jurassic Adventure The Sands Centre, Carlisle ------------------------July 26th 10am - 5pm Antique & Collection Fair Ravenglass Village Hall ----------------------------------30 Aug 2015 LOOSE Brickyard, Carlisle 26 Sep 2015 Michael Palin The Sands Centre, Carlisle ----------------------------------28 Aug 2015 Brickyard, Carlisle MOTOWN & SOUL NIGHT

5 Sep 2015 Picnic Cinema - Burlesque Ballfeaturing Moulin Rouge Kirklinton Hall, Carlisle ----------------------------------30 Aug 2015 Scot Fest The royal scot, carlisle ----------------------------------22 Aug 2015 Stobart Fest 2015 Carlisle Lake District Airport, Carlisle -----------------------------------

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Theatre By The Lake | What's On

SUPERB OPENING to the SUMMER SEASON

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heatre By The Lakes summer season has opened with a strong start at Keswick with a flawless performance of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer preceded by another Williams play, Mister Paradise.

Suddenly Last Summer tells the tale of the deeply traumatised and questionably mad, Catherine who witnessed the death of her cousin and poet, Sebastian, in the Italian town of Cabeza de Lobo. Deeply affected by what she has seen and refusing to keep quiet about it, she is interviewed and assessed, on the request of Sebastian’s mother, Mrs Venable, by Doctor Cukrowicz as a potential candidate for a lobotomy.

Ben Ingles strikes a perfect balance of authority and concern for his potential clients but it was the female roles that triumphed in this production. In an excellent and talented cast Emily Tucker stole the show with her energetic and turbulent portrayal of Catherine. Tuckers vein-popping performance was expertly accompanied by the female members of the supporting cast; Cate Hamer as Mrs Holly, Polly Lister as Sister Felicity and Kate Layden as Mrs Venable, who with just the curl of her lip could convey power, status and emotion.

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The staging was stripped back and the boundary between the house and Sebastian’s vast garden blurred. The vast exotic garden was presented simply but the actors used this to their advantage; as they weaved through the set they gave the impression that it was indeed thick and lustrous.

The decision to show this play in the studio and in a round was expertly judged and enhanced the confusion and hysteria in Tuckers portrayal of Catherine.

It would have been a sin to interrupt these talented performers and the atmosphere they had created with an interval, the 90 minute performance ran from start to finish without interruption.

In contrast to the almost chaotic atmosphere in Suddenly Last Summer is the charming one act play, Mister Paradise.

A young, enthusiastic fan played by Charlotted Mulliner, tracks down her poetic hero Mister Paradise, excellently played by Peter McQueen, in an attempt to bring him out of retirement and his work to the world. The two plays both explore the work of a poet and what happens to that work after they’ve died and they complement each other nicely.

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What's On | Solfest

Solfest

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umbria’s brightest music festival, Solfest is back! After having some time to recuperate after its 10 year anniversary in 2013 the festival is ready for 2015 and they organisers have some surprises up their sleeves!

This year, the festival is going back to its roots, there won’t be a main stage or any large acts as in previous years, but don’t worry, this doesn’t mean the festival will be any less colourful. Sean McGhee, press director, said: “The reasons for losing the main stage are to generate movement. People, this year will have more of an opportunity to move around and try the other stages.”

Now in its 11th year, Solfest has been attracting festival goers from Cumbria and further afield. Sean said: “A lot of people that come to the festival are from out of the county,

we have even had famous people coming to the festival just because they love the area and see it as a holiday!”

For those who have never been to Solfest, it’s a family friendly festival, full of flamboyant, music loving, colourful people. And there is so much to do, not only are there fantastic acts on various stages throughout the day and night but there are areas for children to do craft, and lots of stalls.

Solfest is the people’s festival with many describing it as a more intimate Glastonbury that draws people back year after year.

This year, despite there being no headline act there will be performances from the likes of Britain’s got talents Sam Kelly and his band, as well as The Lancashire Hotpots, the harmonic Unthanks who featured on Jules Holland and many more.

All the acts are spread throughout the weekend, and with a huge variety of stages there is something for everyone, you have the opportunity to try a diverse range of music from dance/electric to reggae to folk.

There are still tickets available from Solfest’s website. But get them quick as tickets don’t last long, Sean said: “When we put the early bird tickets up, they sold out in two hours!

It just shows how popular the festival is, we are expecting around 4,000 people this year!” www.solfest.org.uk

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A Tasty Lancashire Treat

By Danielleat Solfest Murphy

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theme of their music which everyone can relate to, with songs like `Tissue in the Wash`, `I Hate Ikea` and `We Love the North` it’s hard not to fall in love with these cheeky fellas.

Bernard Thresher, lead vocalist of the band, said: “We just want to make people smile.There’s nothing better than getting up on stage and giving people a genuinely good night out.”

Bernard said: “Our inspiration is just life. Everyday situations and problems made into something light-hearted and funny.

You have to see the funny side of life or you’ll just become an old bore.”

he Lancashire Hotpots are unlike any other band I have ever heard. Each of their songs depicts the simplest of life’s problems but it’s the comical genius of the lyrics that makes them such a joy to listen to.

The band will be playing at the return of popular local festival, Solfest August 28-30. This will be a return gig for the Hotpots who have played Solfest previously, Bernard said: “I can’t wait to get back into the festival scene. We’ve been doing so many indoor gigs, it will be nice to stretch our wings a bit and get some of that fresh Cumbrian air!”

The band has been together for 10 years now, and it seems they haven’t just been doing small festivals: “I think the best gig we ever did was a festival, you might have heard of it, Glastonbury?” laughed Bernard, “We were overwhelmed with the response, obviously we didn’t expect anybody to come and watch us with everything else that was going on, but we had a huge crowd; it felt amazing.”

One of the main attractions of the Hotpot’s is the universal

Bernard and the rest of the band are close friends and don’t just play together, Bernard said: “We are best friends and get on really well. We couldn’t do any of this without each other’s support.”

For The Lancashire Hotpots, doing a gig isn’t just about the music, it’s a way of making people laugh: “We want people to come to our gigs, leave their inhibitions at the door, and get a designated driver and for god sake just have a laugh!" said Bernard; Forget about the worries of life and smile, that’s what we want people to experience when they come to a gig.”

Great advice for those attending Solfest.

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What's On | Mama-Sang and the Robot

MAMA-SANG and the Robot

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ver the past four years local rock band Mama-Sang and the Robot, have been making a name for themselves on the Cumbrian music scene and with their unique sound, rocking guitar riffs and head-banging songs and they’re taking Cumbria by storm.

Since the band was formed in 2011 the band has performed all over Cumbria, performing at festivals, in pubs and other music events. Ryan Burns was the founding member and is the lead vocals and guitarist, Stephen Little on Rhythm guitar, Steven Butler on Base and Arthur Burns on the drums.

Ryan said: “We are different from a lot of bands, in the sense that we are a rock band but we have a twist, I mean we all have unique influences and there is quite a bit of diversity between us, but together we create a brilliant sound that is distinctive.”

Mama-Sang and the Robot write their own material but with so many musical influences it’s hard to pin-point who the band sound like, Ryan said: “As a rock band one of our big inspirations is Led Zeppelin.”

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“There isn’t a specific place we need to be in to write our songs. Before we can even begin to put lyrics together we need backing music first. Not everybody write like this but for me the riffs come first.”

The name of the band is something that often sparks curiosity, Ryan said: “The name stems from Thailand. One of the guys was over there and after visiting a few bars realised all the working girls where dancing the same and wearing the same clothes in most of the bars. (That’s where the robot part comes from). After a few more drinks he decided to approach one of the girls. He was told he must go and see the mama-san who is the bar owner. So it’s basically a way of saying the pimp and the prostitute.”

The band are preparing for a busy year ahead, especially the local rock event Ryan has been organising in conjunction with Live @Copeland Stadium, The Rock and Blues all dayer.

He said: “We are looking forward to the event in August, it is a chance for people to get together and listen to some really good alternative music genres!” The all day event will happen on Saturday August 8.

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aig Pit opened to the public in February this year after a period of closure for the redevelopment and we feel we have made a good start to begin to tell the story of the West Cumberland Coalfields.

We have been well supported, since opening, by the local community who continue to bring their memories and items to the Haig Collection, and for that we are very thankful and hope that we will continue to reflect the coal mining industry with true pride.

We have for many years valued the work of our staff, volunteers and placements and their contribution to what Haig has achieved up to now.

And as we move forward from the development into operations we are appealing for volunteers with a variety of experience.

We are looking for:•

Professional business experience to join our volunteer board and help us develop our sustainable business potential.

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Volunteer guides to help tell the stories in the museum, to school groups and specialist groups.

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Volunteers to help organise the activity days we regularly hold.

So if you are looking to spend a few hours somewhere different why not try us. You can contact us on 01946 599949, info@haigpit.com or on our facebook page.

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Feature |Roman Dig

Five year Roman project comes to an end.

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rom Hadrian’s Wall at the border to the Roman baths at Ravenglass there’s no denying that we live in an area steeped in important Roman History.

Maryport, in particular, plays an important and significant part in understanding Roman Britain, a role which seems to be growing with every excavation. A team of archaeologists and volunteers are currently carrying out the fifth and final excavation of a five year project on the site near Maryport Senhouse Museum.

The dig, which started in early June, was originally excavated in 1870 by amateur archaeologist Joseph Robinson where the remains of the ancient Roman fort named Alauna were first uncovered. Among the finds were 22 stone alters, some, bearing inscriptions that tell the story of successive Roman commanders who were in charge of one of Imperial Rome’s northern-most outposts.

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The alters make up one of the largest collections of Roman alters in Europe which is now housed in Maryport Senhouse Museum. Jane Lanskey, curator at Maryport Senhouse Museum said: “One of the significances of the collection is that it is right next to its find spot but we need to put the collection into context by looking at the site in which they were found. The issue with our alters is, we know where they were found in 1870 but where were they set up when the Romans were using them? And this is the importance of this years dig, this is what the team are looking for; where were they set up when they were being used? What we’re thinking of as like a ritual area.”

This year the team are particularly interested in the subtleties of the site Prof. Ian Haynes of Newcastle University, who is leading the dig, said: “It’s the stuff that we can’t see that we’re searching for, we want to understand

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how the space in front of the temples was used.”

The Temples Project has been designed to learn more about the internationally famous altars and to understand better the complex religious landscape of Roman Maryport. Prof Haynes said: “One of the difficulties that we tend to have, is people think about worship and they think temples and alters; yes we have temples and we have alters but actually when you’re really trying to get to grips with what it’s like to worship on the Cumbrian coast 2000 years ago it’s not just buildings; it’s the way people are moving through the landscape, it’s the offering they’re making and you have to imagine that scene with people sacrificing sheep and small birds as we know they were.”

Having undergone several excavations before, this is a site that has been disturbed more that once but this hasn’t necessarily hindered the project.

“On one level it has but on another there are times when it’s actually quite helpful,” explained Prof Haynes, “sometimes after they’ve been robbed for stone, the plough has passed over them several times you’re dealing with something that is a tiny fragment of what was there before and if you take that tiny fragment and study it right, you can find out an enormous amount from it. If you don’t open up the areas you’d never even see it was there.”

We already know that Maryport was an important part of Roman Britain and it stood tall for centuries after the Romans left, Prof. Haynes said: “It’s very interesting that visitors to Maryport in the early 16th and 17th century would have seen the streets and parts of the house plans as they walked through, but really when Maryport became a town people saw a source of good cut stone and this was a natural place to take it from.”

In 2011 the Temples Project team showed that the altars had been re-used in the foundations of a large Roman timber building or buildings near the highest point on the ridge overlooking the Solway and the fort, and had not been buried as part of a religious ceremony as previously thought.

The team found another complete altar at the site in the 2012 excavation, with the fifth inscription recovered from the Roman Empire to record T Attius Tutor, commander of the Maryport garrison. A late Roman/early Medieval cemetery was also discovered. Finds from the graves were few, but included a bead bracelet and necklace and a tiny fragment of ancient textile; a remarkable survival. Carbon dating of the fragment showed the wool from which the textile was woven was most probably sheared sometime between AD 240 and AD 340.

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In 2013 the team unearthed the north-westernmost classical temple known from the Roman world, built in the second century. Information gained allowed the team and a specialist archaeological illustrator at Oxford Archaeology, commissioned by the Hadrian’s Wall Trust, to produce a reconstruction drawing of this building with its red sandstone walls, yellow sandstone decoration, grey slate roof and columned entrance.

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structures nearby.

While this dig marks the end of this project it is not the end of the excavations at Maryport, Prof Haynes said: “You can go on asking really important question about Roman Maryport for generations. We came to Maryport to address one specific aspect of that and I hope people will feel, at the end of this, that we have done this convincingly but I don’t want people to mistake the end of our project with the end of archaeology in Maryport.”

Jane said: “The potential of this site is huge, it’s one of the largest

sites in Northern England, probably northern Britain and it was occupied by the Romans for the whole of the Roman occupation.There is probably hundreds of years’ worth of work here so there is a potential for more digs but this particular project will be going into the writing-up phase.”

Although the focus of this year’s dig is subtleties the team are hoping for a bigger find, Ian said: “I’d like to confirm where some of the alters were displayed and anyway in which the rituals around those alters were conducted.”

After years of work on the project Ian said: “I do feel a sense of loss but primarily I feel a huge sense of privilege it’s an absolutely marvellous thing. Very few people actually get to direct major archaeological projects; even among archaeologists, and of those who do, very few get to work on a site that is as exciting and important as this one so I look at it with a sense a privilege and gratitude; people have been fantastic, we’ve had a tremendous amount of support from people in Cumbria and I’ve got to know a lot of really super people because of it.”

Member of the public are encouraged to get involved and visit the excavation site, Jane said: “Most of this stuff hasn’t been seen for 2000 years and even though archaeology is becoming more of a science you can’t predict what you’re going to find; it is a sense of discovery, not only for the team but for the visitors of the museum who come up on site.

Potentially there can be something new happening every day and ideas change.”

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Wildlife of the Solway Firth | The Flounder

WILDLIFE OF THE SOLWAY FIRTH THE FLOUNDER

(PLATICHTHYS FLESUS) By Mark Vollers

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ne of the first fish I saw on arrival in Maryport many years ago swimming up the river Ellen where it runs into the harbour was a flounder, or fluke, so it is fitting that we always have them as part of our local fish displays in the harbour aquarium.

Easily mistaken for other flatfish, a flounder differs in that it can be found looking for food and living for periods in fresh water. They can grow over 30 cm long and have an upper surface which is a dull blotchy brown with reddish spots, not as bright as the plaice’s. The underside is white.

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Its distribution is wide, north to the Barents Sea, South to the Mediterranean, and now also off the Eastern coast of the US, probably arriving there as larvae in ballast water of merchant ships. They move into deeper water to spawn in early spring, eggs and sperm floating up and mixing at the surface. Hybridisation can occur with the plaice making identification tricky!

Flounders are mainly nocturnal feeders, searching out shrimps, worms and small molluscs on the seabed. Flounder stocks are not under the same commercial fishing pressure as plaice or sole and although it is popular abroad the British have yet to be convinced that it eats as well.

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7.8 8.0 8.3 8.5 8.8

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Train Timetables | Transport

Summary of train times between Sunday 17 May – Saturday 12 December 2015.

Barrow-in-Furness - Whitehaven - Carlisle Mondays to Fridays Barrow-in-Furness Askam Millom Ravenglass Seascale Sellafield St. Bees Whitehaven 0624 Workington 0642 Maryport 0650 Wigton 0711 Carlisle 0733

0546 0558 0620 0642 0651 0656 0707 0718 0739 0749 0812 0833

0651 0701 0719 0737 0744 0751 0801 0812 0831 0839 0900 0925

0759 0809 0826 0844 0850 0857 -

0904 0922 0930 0951 1013

0920 0930 0947 1005 1012 1019 1029 1038 1056 1104 1126 1149

1010 1020 1037 1055 1101 1108 1118 1128 1146 1154 1216 1238

1138 1150 1212 1234 1243 1248 1259 1310 1332 1342 1405 1428

1236 1246 1303 1321 1328 1336 1346 1356 1414 1422 1443 1506

1331 1341 1358 1416 1422 1428 1440 1454 1513 1522 1544 1606

1437 1449 1511 1533 1542 1547 1601 1612 1634 1644 1707 1729

1643 1653 1710 1728 1734 1740 1751 1800 1818 1826 1847 1910

1731 1743 1804 1826 1835 1840 1903 1915 1936 1946 2010 2031

1934 1952 2000 2021 2043

1830 1840 1857 1915 1921 1925 1934 1944 2009 -

0546 0558 0620 0642 0651 0656 0707 0718 0739 0749 0812 0833

0655 0705 0724 0742 0749 0756 0806 0816 0834 0842 0904 0926

0741 0751 0808 0826 0832 0839 -

0906 0924 0932 0953 1015

0845 0857 0918 0940 0949 0954 1008 1019 1040 1051 1114 1137

1010 1020 1037 1055 1102 1108 1118 1128 1146 1154 1216 1238

1138 1150 1211 1233 1241 1246 1257 1308 1329 1340 1403 1426

1239 1249 1307 1324 1330 1336 1345 1355 1413 1421 1442 1505

1350 1400 1417 1435 1441 1447 1457 1507 1525 1533 1555 1617

1452 1502 1519 1537 1544 1550 1600 1610 1628 1636 1658 1719

1533 1543 1600 1618 1624 1630 1646 1656 1714 1722 1744 1806

1732 1744 1805 1827 1836 1841 1900 1913 1934 1944 2008 2029

1934 1952 2000 2021 2044

2030 2048 2056 2117 2140

Saturdays Barrow-in-Furness Askam Millom Ravenglass Seascale Sellafield St. Bees Whitehaven Workington Maryport Wigton Carlisle

2030 2048 2056 2117 2139

2151 2211 -

-

-

-

1633 1651 1659 1718 1741

1933 1951 1959 2018 2041

-

-

-

1910 1927 1947 1959 2020 -

2110 2127 2147 2159 2220 -

Sundays 0622 0640 0648 0709 0731

1233 1251 1259 1318 1341

1433 1451 1459 1518 1541

Additional trains operate between Barrow-in-Furness and Millom - please see Northern timetable guide 6 for full details.

No Sunday service between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven.

Carlisle - Whitehaven - Barrow-in-Furness Mondays to Fridays Carlisle 0515 Wigton 0534 Maryport 0558 Workington 0609 Whitehaven 0631 St. Bees 0641 Sellafield 0652 Seascale 0657 Ravenglass 0706 Millom 0727 Askam 0750 Barrow-in-Furness 0805 Saturdays Carlisle 0515 Wigton 0534 Maryport 0557 Workington 0608 Whitehaven 0630 St. Bees 0640 Sellafield 0651 Seascale 0656 Ravenglass 0705 Millom 0725 Askam 0748 Barrow-in-Furness 0803

0646 0704 0724 0732 0742 0746 0753 0812 0829 0845

0737 0755 0816 0827 0847 -

0901 0904 0911 0930 0946 0959

0842 0901 0925 0935 0956 1007 1018 1022 1031 1052 1115 1132

0938 0956 1017 1028 1048 1055 1108 1111 1118 1136 1153 1208

1054 1112 1133 1144 1205 1212 1223 1226 1233 1252 1308 1325

1208 1226 1247 1258 1318 1325 1335 1339 1345 1404 1420 1437

1252 1310 1331 1342 1403 1410 1421 1424 1431 1450 1506 1523

1435 1454 1517 1528 1549 1600 1611 1615 1624 1645 1707 1724

1513 1531 1552 1604 1623 1631 1644 1648 1655 1715 1733 1749

1631 1649 1710 1721 1741 1752 1804 1807 1814 1835 1853 1910

1737 1756 1820 1831 1852 1902 1917 1921 1930 1951 2014 2031

1814 1832 1853 1904 1925 -

1915 1933 1954 2005 2025 -

0735 0753 0814 0825 0845 -

0905 0908 0915 0934 0950 1005

0842 0901 0925 0935 0956 1007 1018 1022 1031 1052 1115 1132

0938 0956 1017 1028 1048 1055 1108 1111 1118 1136 1153 1208

1054 1112 1133 1144 1204 1211 1222 1225 1232 1251 1307 1325

1156 1215 1239 1251 1315 1325 1336 1341 1350 1411 1434 1449

1252 1310 1331 1342 1402 1409 1419 1423 1429 1448 1504 1521

1433 1452 1515 1526 1547 1601 1612 1616 1625 1646 1708 1723

1525 1543 1604 1616 1636 1643 1654 1657 1704 1723 1739 1755

1636 1654 1715 1726 1748 1755 1808 1811 1818 1837 1853 1911

1740 1758 1819 1830 1850 1859 1911 1914 1921 1939 1956 2013

1814 1832 1853 1904 1925 -

1900 1918 1939 1950 2010 -

2015 2032 2052 2104 2125 -

2037 2200 2055 2218 2116 2239 2127 2250 2147 2310 Sundays 2145 1410 1710 2203 1427 1727 2224 1447 1747 2235 1459 1759 2255 1520 1820 -

Additional trains operate between Millom and Barrow-in-Furness - please see Northern timetable guide 6 for full details.

No Sunday service between Whitehaven and Barrow-in-Furness. ss s ne es ur rn n s -F on Fu n ve ad rt as wn s i- n ld e es gt le to in- ld gl n ft ha Ro om al in ia n po w fie ston erto ee m y sle ick ro te ton rring ork ie een a l by ary patr igto lsto b tle ven igg asc lla i ro B k f h c l y k k rli i t r r o x r h e m a t r M S M Se Se W Dr Ba As Ki Pa Co W As Gr Sil Ra Ha Fli Ne Bo W Fo Ca Da Br

For train times and fares information visit our website or call National Rail Enquiries 08457 48 49 50.

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Seating 1 Seating Area

Shop/Retail 1 Retail Park 2 Washington Square 3 Steve’s Tiles

4 5 6 7

Lister’s Furniture Steve’s Paints Matalan B and Q

Parking 1 Parksafe

Parking

Handy Map

The Workington

Supermarkets Tesco Store Marks and Spencers Morrisons Asda Superstore

Points of interest Old Town Hall Council HQ Workington Library Law Courts Territorial Army Curwen Hall The Old Brewery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Fast food 1 Mc Donalds

Parks 1 Curwen Park 2 Vulcans Park

Bus 1 Bus Station

Rail 1 Workington Railway

Places of worship 1 Our Lady and St Michael’s Church 2 St John’s Church 3 Parish Church of Workington

Attractions Carnegie Theatre Eclipse Bowling Helena Thompson Museum Theatre Royal 1 2 3 4

Sports Grounds 1 Rugby League Ground 2 Workington Comets 3 Workington Reds Football

Information 1 Visitor Information

1 2 3 4

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Saturday 1st February Saturday 1st March

Cockermouth

local produce market First Saturday of every month

Handy Map

The Cockermouth

Attractions Wordsworth’s House Castlegate House Gallery Percy House Gallery The Kirkgate Centre Jennings Brewery

Eat/Drink Bitter End Micro Brewery Trout Hotel The Fletcher Christian The Castle Bar Points of Interest Mayo Statue Cockermouth Castle Mitchells Auction Room Lakeland Livestock Centre

Shop/Retail Lakes Home Centre Oakhurst Garden Centre Limelighting Billy Bowman’s Music

Sports Grounds Cricket Ground Leisure Centre and Pools Cockermouth Rugby Union FC

Information Tourist Information

Supermarkets Sainburys Aldi Supermarket

Local Ameneties 1 Police Station Parking

Car sales 1 Lloyd Motors

Accomodation 1 Travelodge

Business 1 Lakeland Business Park 2 Derwent Mills Commercial Park

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4

1 2 3 41

1 2 3 4 7

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 4

Churches 1 St John’s Church

Playgrounds 1 Children’s Playground

The Keswick

Handy Map

Supermarkets 1 Booth’s Supermarket

Information 1 The Moot Hall (Tourist Info.)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Points of Interest Rawnsley Centre Library Keswick Convention HQ War Memorial Museum Square Packhorse Court

Attractions The Pencil Museum Mini Golf Theatre by the Lake Lonsdale Alhambra Cinema Peter Rabbit and Friends Keswick Brewing Company Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Keswick Ferry Landing

Sports Grounds 1 Rugby Ground 2 Cricket Ground 3 Keswick Leisure Pool

1 2 3 4 5 6

Camping 1 Derwentwater Caravan/Camping 2 Lakeside Caravan Park

Parks 1 Crow Park 2 Hope Park 3 Fitz Park

Shop/Retail 1 Spar Convience store 2 Derwent Frames Ltd

Local Ameneties 1 Post Office 1 Police Station Parking

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The Maryport Handy Map

1 2 3 4

Points of interest Candlestick Lighthouse Harbour Marina Office Memorial Park Gardens Public Library

Attractions The Lake District Coast aquarium The Wave Centre Maryport Maritime Museum Senhouse Roman Museum

Marina 1 Maryport Harbour and Marina

1 2 3 4

Sports Grounds 1 (to) West Coast Indoor Karting 2 Rugby Ground 3 (to) Maryport Golf Club

Rail 1 Railway Station

Places of worship 1 Our Lady and St Patrick’s Priory

Information 1 Tourist Information

Local Amenties 1 Co-op 2 Chemists 3 Chemists

1 Post office

1 Fire Station

Parking

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IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR SERVICE LISTED HERE PLEASE CALL: 01946 816716

COUNCIL & OTHER SERVICES Allerdale Council Enquiries 01900 702702 Allerdale Council (out-of-hours service) 01900 871080 Cumbria County Council 0800 1218 800 Cockermouth Town Council 01900 821869 Maryport Town Council 01900 813205 Workington Library & Visitor Information Point 01900 706170

SCHOOLS St Joseph’s RC Secondary School, Workington Stainburn School & Science College Netherhall School Cockermouth Secondary School Southfield Technology College Keswick School

01900 325020 01900 325252 01900 813434 01900 898888 01900 325260 017687 72605

MEDICAL / SUPPORT SERVICES Emergency Police/Fire/Ambulance Police (non-emergency) NHS Direct West Cumberland Hospital Workington Community Hospital Castlehead Medical Centre Keswick Cottage Hospital James Street Group Practice Oxford Street Surgery National Blood Service Cumbria Health on Call (CHOC) Domestic Violence Support Samaritans OutREACH Cumbria LGBT Helpline

THEATRES & CINEMA Carnegie Theatre & Arts Centre Kirkgate Theatre, Cockermouth Plaza Cinema, Workington Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven Theatre by the Lake, Keswick The Wave, Maryport

01900 602122 01900 826448 01900 870001 01946 692422 017687 74411 01900 811450

TOURIST INFORMATION Maryport Workington/Silloth Cockermouth Keswick

01900 811450 016973 31944 01900 822634 017687 72645

999 101 0845 46 47 01946 693181 01900 705000 017687 72025 017687 67000 01900 603985 01900 603302 0845 7711711 03000 247 247 07712 117 986 08457 90 90 90 0800 345 7440

MUSEUMS, ATTRACTIONS & MUSIC VENUES Eclipse Bowling 01900 872207 Helena Thompson Museum 01900 64040 Jennings Brewery, Cockermouth 0845 1297185 Lake District Coast Aquarium, Maryport 01900 817760 Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport 01900 816168 The Beacon, Whitehaven 01946 592302 The Rum Story, Whitehaven 01946 592933 Go Ape, Whinlatter Forest 0845 094 9623

TRAVEL & WEATHER Bus Timetables Train Timetables Lake District Weather Service VETS Galemire (Gray St), Workington Millcroft (Curzon St), Maryport Millcroft (Wakefield Rd), Cockermouth Greta Bank Veterinary Centre, Keswick

0871 200 22 33 08457 48 49 50 0844 846 2444 01900 602138 01900 816666 01900 826666 017687 72590

LOCAL SERVICES TO ADVERTISE HERE, GET IN TOUCH ON 01946 816 716

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