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RUBY WAX

FROM ZANY TO SANE

HOME & GARDEN SHOW

Charlie Dimmock & James Wong

SIR RANULPH FIENNES

Coming to Theatre by the Lake

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ANY people will regret the absence of two of Allerdale’s big name events this year, namely Cockrock and Solfest but they may return in future and meanwhile there are other things to focus on.

Big names regularly continue to reach Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake; Workington’s Carnegie Theatre; Whitehaven Rosehill Theatre and The Sands Centre, Carlisle.

There’s still the Kendal Calling festival just up the road at Lowther, Penrith this year featuring (among others) the likes of Suede; Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls; De La Soul; the Happy Mondays; Tom Odell; Razorlight; and Newton Faulkner.

Then there’s all the local festivals headed by Maryport Blues and, for the first time this year, Keswick Mountain Festival has live music in its Crow Park festival village from The Feeling, Stornoway, The Bad Shepherds, Hothouse Flowers and Peatbog Faeries, with support from local bands, and don’t forget Ireby Festival (May) with Eddi Reader, of Town Without Pity fame and Stepping Stones at Kirklinton Hall grounds, (June 13-14) at Carlisle which will feature a rare Cumbrian re-gathering of Steeleye Span... And yes, they will be singing All Around My Hat... ...And you thought there was nowhere to go?

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The Guide Magazine | Contents

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8-9 Ruby Wax

From zany to sane

10-11 Home & Garden Festival James Wong Interview

13 Charlie Dimmock

On her visit to Whitehaven

14-15 Ranulph Fiennes

At the Keswick Mountain Festival

26-27 Bob Geldof

With The Boomtown Rats

LIFESTYLE & BEAUTY

Nelson Brown LFW Report A/W 2014 13 40-42 Bridget Foster Face 2 Face Encounters 14 FOOD 46-47 Alan Spedding Recipe Chilli Jam 50-51 Cheese 'n' Onion Pie Recipe 35-37

From Sean Wilson

MOTORING & SPORT

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Vauxhall’s New Astra

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WHAT’S On

66-69 What's On Listings Music, Theatre, Film, Comedy, Other

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Feature | Ruby Wax

From zany

to sane Ross Brewster talks to RUBY WAX

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ER brash, forthright television interviews attracted millions of viewers – an interview with the Duchess of York, for which she was BAFTA nominated, drew an audience of over 14 million.

But these days it's a calmer, saner Ruby Wax who has effectively re-invented herself after years of struggling with lack of confidence and depression.

And now Ruby, who last year graduated from Kellogg College, Oxford University, with a master's degree in mindfulness and cognitive therapy, has embarked on a tour of 31 venues right across Britain with a brand new show, Sane New World, which is based, she says, on her book of that same title which came out last year.

One of those dates is at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake, on Wednesday, March 19, where the comedian and writer planned to share her tough but enlightening journey through depression, which has taken her from The Priory to that Oxford MA. I caught up with her by 'phone while she was in South Africa, just a week prior to starting the tour. She had just performed the show in Cape Town. "It went down very well. I hope people come to the tour. If they don't I'm holding you responsible!" she laughed mischievously.

Ruby promises that, although the subject matter may sound serious, there will be plenty of her trademark laughs along the way.

Once over Ruby Wax was one of the most wellknown faces on TV. Remember her incredible interview with Imelda Marcos whom she persuaded to sing a rendition of Feelings and the programmes which featured Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Boris Yeltsin and Hugh Hefner?

But not all may have been quite what it seemed. Ruby told me: "The difficulty was that I used to do stuff I didn't want to do and didn't know why. Now I like doing what I do and at last I have the privilege of doing it.

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"You can't be depressed and interview. I worked in television for 25 years and you have got to change gear and find something to do that you find really interesting," she said.

In Ruby's case that meant "back to school" for the actress and comedian who was once described as the "poster girl" for mental illness after her picture appeared on a London Underground poster, without her prior knowledge.

There was a time, not that long ago, when cancer was something that was discussed in whispers. Nowadays the stigma surrounding the "C" word has all but gone but there remains a stigma about mental illness. "It is the next taboo," said Ruby.

"I have had people in the audience with cancer and depression and they have said cancer was easier to talk about. With mental illness you get no pity, there are no lumps and bumps and people think you are making it up."

Ruby uses her experience in the new show to help people understand why we sabotage our sanity and how we can re-wire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. It's learning to cool the brain and "put the brakes on."

"We live in an age of entitlement where people think they can go on X Factor with the talent of a toothpick," she said.

"Before, we accepted our lives. Now everybody wants to be king. You have to be aware that we live a time where we think we deserve everything, and it ain't so."

The American-born entertainer made a career in the UK as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s. She came to Britain to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and started out as an actress at the Crucible in Sheffield where she forged a long-standing writing and directing partnership with Alan Rickman.

She later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, but it was her loud, up front TV interviews that really brought her to the attention of the viewing public. Her 2010 show Losing It dealt with bipolar disorder and later she launched a website called Blackdog Tribe.

It is reckoned that one in four people suffer mental problems. It could be anyone, says Ruby. "Nobody wants to talk about it and that makes everything worse. We need to take away the stigma. People should not be ashamed of it.

"Mindfulness is the ability to live in the present and selfregulate your thoughts and emotions to feel more positive, focused and fulfilled," she says.

Ruby Wax's show, Sane New World, is billed as a route to saner living. She says it's also hilarious. Therapy with laughs, you might say. So, i hope you bought tickets because if you didn’t, i’m going to be held responsible!

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Feature | James Wong

James aims to give new show

more flavour

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ountry File’s resident gardener, James Wong, has been named among the array of celebrity experts to appear at the new Western Lakes Home and Garden Show, which takes place in Whitehaven, in May.

This will be James’ first trip to the area and he said: “It has always been on my long list of places to get to. It’s great to finally have an excuse to go and a horticultural one at that.”

James will join the already star-studded line up which includes the likes of Jean Christophe Novelli; actorturned-cheese maker, Sean Wilson, TV presenter Anna Ryder Richardson, of BBC TV’s Changing Rooms fame; former Gardeners World presenter, Toby Buckland and celebrity gardener, Charlie Dimmock.

“It is so exciting to be part of such a great line-up of experts,” said James.

James will be running a talk called 'Flavour: A Grower’s Manual', all about geeky tips and tricks to send the flavour and nutrition of home grown crops soaring.

“Unbelievably there is a huge range of techniques scientists have known for years that can up to double the sugars, aroma chemicals and even key nutrients like antioxidants in crops, all of which can be easily copied at home. Yet for some reason no garden writers ever talk about them. It is my aim to change all that.”

As for Keen Cumbrian Gardeners James said; “I believe foodie gardeners should not blindly follow 'expert' advice on what they think they should be growing, and focus instead on what they actually like to eat.”

This brand-new event is one of a number taking place instead of the big mid-summer Whitehaven Festival.

It takes place on the weekend of May 16-17.

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Whitehaven to welcome Ground Force’s Charlie Charlie will be giving demonstrations and answering questions over the course of the weekend but her subject has not yet been decided but it will be topical.

“It’s weather dependent,” she said, “it will depend if we have an early or late spring or if we go straight into summer, like we did last year, so I haven’t decided yet. It will be something that’s relevant to everyone though.”

Charlie became a household name during her Ground Force days, which ran from 1997 -2004: “It was a good fun and hard work but we had a lot of laughs. We had appalling weather 90% of the time but I suppose that’s what you get working in England.”

So would she ever consider going back to a Ground Force style Programme? “We’re all too old for that now. It was so full on; we’d get back from where ever we’d been, unpack the dirty washing, put it in the machine, get the clean clothes out, pack and we’d be off again.”

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“ This is my first time in Whitehaven and I’m really looking forward to it.”

ormer Ground Force goddess Charlie Dimmock is one of the big names appearing at The Western Lakes Home and Garden Festival, in Whitehaven, in May. Here she talks to ALI HIPKIN about her visit.

“I’ve been to Cumbria before, we did a few gardens there for Ground Force but this is my first time in Whitehaven and I’m really looking forward to it,” said Charlie.

Since Ground Force Charlie’s taken a step back from the TV limelight doing lectures, talks and demonstrations with just the occasional television appearance thrown in; recently working with the Environment Agency to encourage people to have ponds in their gardens.

So must green-fingered goddess have a well maintained garden of her own? “It looks OK at the moment but I’ll be away doing talks from mid-March to the end of May so by the time I get back it will be like a bomb-site again.”

A comforting thought for all of us whose garden is in need of some tender loving care.

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Feature | Keswick Mountain Festival

lph u n a R r i S finds his gain way to KeswickBy a Ross Brewster

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HEY say that health and safety red tape and fear of the compensation culture is destroying the adventurous spirit of modern day youth.

So it’s rather salutary that kids from local schools will get the chance to meet the man who was once described as “the greatest living explorer,” Sir Ranulph Fiennes, when he attends Keswick Mountain Festival, in May. Sir Ranulph, whose achievements are legion, will be speaking about his life and career during one of the sessions at the Theatre by the Lake during the five day festival.

But he will also meet some of the younger people attending the event on Friday, May 16th, when a special schools’ session is scheduled. This is the second time Sir Ranulph has been a star guest at

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the festival. Fitting that he should be heading for Cumbria again as it was the county’s most famous mountain man, Sir Chris Bonington, who provided his inspiration.

On his last visit, Sir Ranulph told the Guide magazine’s man in the Lakes, Ross Brewster: “Health and safety, in unnecessary overdose and its equally evil sister, blame and claim culture, are combining to make outdoor pursuits for the young more difficult than they need be.

“We need to restore the situation we had twentyw years ago where the balance between risk and safety was more sensible.”

Sir Ranulph, who was born in 1944 and educated at Eton, went on to serve with the Royal Scots Greys and the SAS and subsequently joined the army of the Sultan of Oman.

His polar treks, his exploring adventures and his climbing tales make for fascinating listening and his return visit to the Keswick Mountain Festival is a coup for the organisers

of an event which this year has myriad outdoor activities to offer visitors as well as top-notch speakers and something new for the Festival Village, on Crow Park in 2014 – two nights of music with the likes of The Feeling and Hothouse Flowers. They will be supported by local bands from around Cumbria.

Bad Feeling released their debut album in 2006 and it charted three Top Ten singles and garnered a Brit Award. In 2013, after two years off, the band returned with their fourth studio outing, Boy Cried Wolf.

Other bands at the festival include Adrian Edmondson’s Bad Shepherds, Peatbog Faeries and Stornaway, plus support from Cumbrian bands.

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On stage at the Theatre by the Lake from 15th to 18th May will be top sporting personalities like swimming “poster girl” Kerri-Anne Payne and four times World Ironman Champion Chrissie Wellington. Several of the guest sessions will be hosted by BBC and BT Sport presenter Vassos Alexander.

For the active there’s a rare opportunity to ride alongside a three time Olympic medallist and double Track World Champion, Rob Hayles, in a Back o’ Skiddaw Sportive Hayles is also lecturing at the festival.

Behind the mud and the sweat of the outdoor challenges, there’s a romantic side to Keswick Mountain Festival with the chance to canoe by moonlight and ride Blencathra by the stars.

The packed programme offers something for all. ages and abilities, ranging from hiking and an open air swim to windsurfing and sailing and a ten peaks challenge on the fells. There are inspirational athletes, world class mountaineers and local legends making for what the organisers say will be “a perfect adventure weekend.”

Keswick Mountain Festival was described by one newspaper reviewer as “one of the few places where GoreTex and gaiters might help you to pull!”

Now, that really does sound like an adventure worth putting in the effort for!

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Grisdales | Feature

can help make the most of your money

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F you are fed up with the poor rates of return on your savings then you really should consider property investment and becoming a landlord.

Rachel Ritson

And you shouldn’t delay because now is a really good time to get a great deal… says Rachel Ritson, director of local estate agents and chartered surveyors, Grisdales.

And to explain exactly why now is the time to do it, Grisdales are organising a series of eight free-to-attend Investment Events, at their offices in Workington, Cockermouth and Whitehaven, throughout the course of this year.

The first two of these evening sessions are: Wednesday April 30, at their office at 23, Finkle St, Workington, CA14 2BE tel: 01900 605544 and then on Thursday May 8 – at the Whitehaven Office, 20, Lowther St, Whitehaven, CA28 7AL tel: 01946 693931. Further events will include the Cockermouth office as a venue.

“Investors are getting precious little return on their funds at the moment as interest rates remain particularly low… so you could make those low rates work better for you in the property sector,” says Rachel.

“Buy to let mortgage rates are also low, possibly as low as they’ll ever get and, nationally, 10 million people are now living in rented accommodation, which is double the figure in the year 2000, so there is a significant rental market, Rachel pointed out.

“For various reasons more people are renting; some people feel that nowadays there is less emphasis on the need to own you own home and others like the flexibility of movement that it allows them,” added Rachel.

“You may never have considered yourself as a landlord but all sorts of people have now become landlords … so if anyone has savings, a legacy, or spare money they really ought to seriously think about putting it into property… and that’s where we can help. There’s no obligation involved and our events will guide you through the various steps involved and explain the benefits… then it’s simply up to you”.

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Faerie folk in your 'Yard'

By Ali Hipkin

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E prepared to dance as legendary folk-band-with-a-difference, the Peatbog Faeries, take to the stage in Keswick.

They are appearing at the Keswick Mountain Festival on May 16 & 17.

A six-piece folk band from the Isle of Skye, they take traditional Scottish music and bring it fresh faced into the 21st century. Band members are: Iain Copeland, Tom Salter, Graeme Stafford, Innes Hutton, Peter Morrison and Adam Sutherland.

Their mix of bagpipes, whistle, fiddle, guitar, drums, keyboard, bass and percussion create an energetic sound that is sure to have you prancing around.

“We try to take our audience with us from the first song to the last. We play music people want to dance to. Sometimes people don’t even realise they’re joining in; it can start with a bit of toe tapping or hand clapping.

It’s great to watch that transformation come over people throughout the course of our sets.” said the band’s bassist, Innes Hutton.

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“Our gigs usually reach fever pitch by the end.”

While bagpipes might not seem like the most obvious instrument for creating an amazing sound Innes said: “That’s what we’re all about, creating a modern representation of ancient music.”

The band’s been together since the early 1990s where they started as a traditional Ceilidh band, they’ve collected members along the way and now play all their own music.

They’ve twice been voted “Best Live Act” at the Scottish Traditional Folk Awards, nominated for “Best Live Act” at BBC2’s Folk Awards and represented Scotland in Sri Lanka in Glasgow’s bid for the Commonwealth games.

"I don't know why it's taken us so long to get to Carlisle..."

“We’re like a little team. Everyone goes out there to do the best job they can so that everyone leaves with a smile on their face.”

Combining all the different musical elements of the band to create something incredible is a tall order but the Peatbog Faeries stay true to their roots and keep it traditional; “Pete (pipes and whistle) and Ross (fiddle) bring the melody and we play behind and see what works. Sometimes it can turn out something completely different - it’s quite an organic way of doing it really.”

Also appearing at the festival are The Feeling, The Stornoways, Ade Edmondson’s band; The Bad Shepherds and Hothouse Flowers.

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Feature | Vera & Eddie Dart

Who’s that murderer next to

my mother-in-law?

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magine picking up your Guide Magazine and seeing a photo of your in-laws standing next to a notorious multi-murderer and con man…but that’s exactly what happened to Sam Smith, from Maryport.

Sam’s in-laws were pictured next to Evil Butler, Archie Hall, at The Mayor’s Ball, in Torquay. Sam said when The Guide ran the story of Hall, a butler to the aristocracy who committed two of his four murders in his holiday cottage at Newton Arlosh, between Wigton and Kirkbride, in 1978.

Hall and his accomplice had committed a theft at a Scottish jeweller’s and were hiding out “down south” posing as rich Americans when they were invited to the Torquay event and the photo was taken for the local newspaper

“ We knew that the picture existed…

but I never thought it would turn up in a magazine in Maryport, said Sam.”

Sam has since used his mother and father in-law as inspiration for a biography and despite, literally, brushing with the country’s most infamous jewel thief of the 1950s this was not the basis of the story.

It was the lives Vera and Eddie Dart during World War II that the Sam used as the focus of his story, Vera and Eddy’s War, which can be bought on Amazon.

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“Eddy, my father in law was traumatised by the second World War. He spoke about it all the time – I think it helped him deal with post-traumatic stress. He experienced different episodes of the war from the Plymouth Blitz to being put in charge of a German Prisoner of war camp.”

“Somebody once said that no one book can tell the story of the war it can only make a dotted line in it and I thought Eddy’s story was an interesting dotted line.”

Vera and Eddy’s War was put together by spending hours listening to Eddie’s experiences over three years.

“He was a very nice human being. He thought about the Germans they were fighting and the humane side of the war.

Not that he was a straight up guy you know, he was a bit of a rogue but he didn’t follow that strong anti-German thought.”

Sam has written a variety of material his most recent, Marraton, published at the end of last year is loosely based on Maryport. It’s a bizarre tale of a police support officer who tries to solve the mystery of a serial cat killer.

“Writing is a great love of mine. I’ve been doing it so long now it would feel strange not to be doing it,” said Sam. He has also written poetry along the years and publishes poetry magazine; The Journal online at www.thesamsmith.webs.com

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Dodgy Victorian

banker was first to find

Maryport Roman temple

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n June excavations will continue at the site of a Roman temple at Maryport that was first discovered by Joseph Robinson, in 1880.

Robinson appears in Maryport in 1871 as the ‘Interim Manager’ of the Maryport branch of the Cumberland Union Banking Company (the building now known as the Carlton). He became the permanent manager the following year. His position allowed him to become trusted by the Senhouse family, in particular Elizabeth Pocklington-Senhouse, the Lady of the Manor.

We may have known very little about Robinson’s excavations except for a happy incident in 1962 when a school boy recovered 150 glass plates from a derelict house in Maryport. Several of the plates are a record of Robinson’s excavations and the resulting finds.

Last year the Senhouse Museum Trust and Newcastle University re-excavated Robinson’s temple and were able to confirm that the temple was a relatively small classical building with a north-facing portico. The excavation will continue this June with the aim of excavating that area outside the temple to discover any remains of the religious practices.

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to the Bank from the circumstances but I fear it will involve a change of management.”

The excavation will begin on Monday June 9 and finish on Saturday July 19. One again local people are welcome to join the team as volunteers and guided tours to the site will be led from the museum every afternoon.

For further details and dates of lectures and Open Days check the Museum’s website:

www.senhousemuseum.co.uk

With his friend, Thomas Carey of Curzon Street, Robinson excavated several buildings in the civil settlement next to the Roman fort. He thought that one of the buildings was a temple. We are very lucky that Robinson was also a keen photographer and that he photographed this building.

Unfortunately his promising career was cut short and 1886 saw his fall from grace when he admitted encouraging his customers into risky investments. On April 19 1886, George Main, the general manager of the Cumberland Union Bank, wrote to one of his directors “... I am obliged to go down to the coast tomorrow. An unpleasant matter has occurred at Maryport Bank which I will explain to you on Wednesday. So far as I can see no loss will arise to the Bank from the circumstances but I fear it will involve a change of management.”

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Feature | Holy Satisfactory - Rt. Rev. James Newcome

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his month we’re launching a new Day in the Life of” series in which we take a closer look at the lives of those whose lives we think we know about… but probably don’t. This time Sarah Briggs dissects the day of the Rt. Rev. James Newcome, Anglican Bishop of the Carlisle diocese.

MOST of us probably have some idea of what a vicar’s job entails. Trying to work out what a Bishop does is somewhat trickier. I could remember that I’d been confirmed by a Bishop, who seemed terribly grand and important to me as a 13-year-old, but what else does a Bishop do?

Speaking to James Newcome it quickly becomes clear that he has a huge workload with many different roles to play, and that there is no regular routine to his day.You wonder how on earth he fits everything in and he admits to having little time at his desk in his office in Keswick, which is where he lives.

He’s often travelling including outside the county, and says that trying to get the balance is sometimes tricky: his diocese is what comes first and foremost, but his many other roles frequently drag him away. “Every day is different” he says, “and I’m rarely in the same place. But that’s part of the enjoyment of the job”.

Having been Suffragan Bishop of Penrith (assistant to the Bishop of the Carlisle) from 2002, in 2009 he was appointed to the See or diocese of Carlisle. His tasks, locally, include appointing ministers; ordaining clergy; carrying out confirmations; taking services ‘on high days and holidays’ (such as at Christmas and Easter); providing pastoral support for the 200 clergy in the diocese; overseeing the administration of 300 churches and managing the enormous number of diocesan staff, as well as being on the Diocesan Board of Finance.

The Board’s annual turnover of £8m is mostly raised from church collections but it has also to consider differing ways of raising money and carefully manage budgets. As with most organisations staff and property maintenance are two of the highest costs.

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While this sounds similar to being MD of a big business, it’s only a starting point. There is a huge range of external people and organisations he liaises with throughout the county and roles he plays, such as Deputy Lieutenant of the county or as patron of a local charity. He points out that where a businessman needs to consider the financial bottom line, the overriding business of the church is saving souls.

On an international level the See of Carlisle has particularly close links with India, Argentina, South Africa and Norway but in addition Bishop Newcome is one of the key people involved in trying to raise enough money to refurbish Rose

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Castle, the historic seat of the Bishops of Carlisle, and to transform it into an International Centre.

One of the themes of the centre will be ‘reconciliation’, with – he hopes – many visitors from the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews and others. History is repeating itself here in terms of the role for the Carliol bishop: For several centuries from the 1100s onwards the post-holder had to be a diplomat, often negotiating truces and treaties with Scotland.

Many former Bishops were also scholars, writing and teaching – some were Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This is reflected in Bishop James’ roles. He is not only on the Board of the University of Cumbria but is also President of St. John’s College, Durham, which includes Cranmer Hall which trains people for the ministry. He’s also on a group responsible for the development of senior appointments in the Church of England, including training bishops. He also teaches lay people, preaches and writes.

“ There’s nowhere I’d rather be.

I love the countryside and the people – and the food!”

This extends to the health agenda, where as a member of the House of Lords he is responsible for the Church of England’s agenda in relation to health: His comments about ethical matters such as assisted dying have previously been quoted in the press. He’s happy to talk about the subject. “The law is that it’s illegal, but nobody has yet been prosecuted. That’s probably the most pragmatic way to deal with it.” He has also written about organ transplants and blood-giving, and is delighted that more people are carrying organ donor cards and giving blood.

With such a full working life, it would be easy to suppose he’s rushed and even stressed but the impression he exudes is of a man who loves what he does and who is fulfilled and happy. It makes me wonder whether if, like so many of my interviewees, this is partly something to do with Cumbria. “It’s an absolutely excellent place to live” he says enthusiastically, “there’s nowhere I’d rather be. I love the countryside and the people – and the food!”

If you are interested in finding out more about the Rose Castle Foundation Trust, or making a donation, then more detail, including contact details, can be seen at www.rosecastle.org

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Feature | Passionate About Easter

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HERE’S a rare chance to see a performance of JS Bach’s St John Passion, in Cockermouth, during the week before Easter.

On Saturday April 12, the week before Easter, Cockermouth Harmonic Society will take pride of place in Christ Church (7pm) to perform a work based on St John’s gospel, which contains passages of exquisite music and dramatic action. This work is not performed often, although it contains some of Bach’s loveliest writing.

Ian Thompson will conduct the choir, orchestra and soloists: Julie Leavett, soprano; Marion Ramsay, alto; Chris Steele, tenor; Jonathan Millican, baritone and

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Paul Im Thurm, bass.

The organist will be Mike Town. The choir will be accompanied by the Lonsdale Baroque Ensemble.

For tickets (available from early March) contact from Billy Bowman’s music shop in Cockermouth or Jennifer Garrett (017687 01768 778 041, email jengaruk@yahoo.co.uk).

Cockermouth Harmonic Society is the largest adult choir in Cockermouth with some 60 singing members.

It performs the major choral repertoire and has a professional musical director and accompanist.

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URWEN Park, Workington, has for many years been home to a unique engineering feature of West Cumbria… a large-scale model railway track.

It is operated by The West Cumbria Guild of Model Engineers, a club for people who build or own and run working engineering models such as steam railway locomotives, steam road vehicles, stationary engines, clocks and any other working engineering item of interest that can be built in a home workshop.

The current club has about 40 members year to year and is centred on Curwen Hall Park, where they have a permanent raised track for 3½-inch and 5-inch gauge locomotives. Meetings and talks/videos/socials are held every second Wednesday of the month in Harrington Fishing & Sailing Club (7.30pm). Locomotives are run every Sunday afternoon, weather permitting, around 1pm to about 4pm.

The first club to occupy the Curwen Hall track site in 1954 was the West Cumberland Guild of Model Engineers and Craftsmen. Some 28 enthusiasts including captains of local industry were founding members. In September 1954 they were able to open a track they financed and built in the intervening period. Sir Robert Chance, Lord Steward of Cumberland, performed the opening. This track was 251m long and a large crowd attended the opening. The club also built a clubhouse and workshop alongside the track.

is shorter than the original being 609ft, which avoided the need for the very elaborate trestle bridge that had to be built for the original track in the area where the ground sloped away.

The Guild has a small metal storage shed and uses a party tent for larger public events held pre-Easter, Midsummer and pre-Christmas when they lay on food and have fundraising raffles in addition to taking donations for rides. We are also take part in other park/ town based events.

Club secretary, Tom Jones, said: “We would dearly like a more permanent clubhouse/workshop but in the meantime we run as a happy and friendly band, always anxious to help one another, whether new to the hobby or more experienced, and we get great joy from giving both children and adults rides”.

• To know more contact Tom Jones, on 019467 8938 Club website: www.wcgme.com

But after 1964 the club became dormant; the ground was cleared and Allerdale Council repossessed the clubhouse as it was on leased land and it is currently leased to Allerdale Disability Association.

However, in 1974 the Guild was re-formed under its current name but this time financing a permanent track took longer (the original one having been removed). Members raised extra money by giving rides on a portable track, they took to fetes, galas, and various other events.

In 1987 Maurice Wyatt, then chief engineer of BNFL, opened a new track in Curwen Park built and financed by the club with considerable help from BNFL apprentices. The current track March/April March/April 2014 2014 | 25 | 25

Feature | The Boomtown Rats at Whitehaven Live

‘Saint Bob’ and the ‘Rats’ set for Whitehaven reunion

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egendary Irish rock star Sir Bob Geldof and his band The Boomtown Rats, will play at a Whitehaven Live event this July.

Furthermore the performance will be one of only a small number of opportunities to see the newly-reformed group on stage together after splitting up nearly 27 years ago. Geldof co-wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas?, one of the best-selling singles of all time and starred in Pink Floyd’s 1982 film Pink Floyd The Wall.

The Boomtown Rats, who had a string of hits in the 1970s and 1980s, will be the headline performers at Whitehaven Athletics Stadium, on Saturday July 5.

Bob Geldof

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Whitehaven Live will be one of a number of events organised

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The Boomtown Rats in 1981

for the town this year by the Whitehaven Festival Company and sponsored by Nuclear Management Partners (NMP). Tickets will be on sale from Thursday January 30 at www.thewhitehavenfestival.co.uk The Boomtown Rats formed in Ireland in 1975 and moved to London in 1976 to become part of the Capital’s punk scene. They had two number one hits, Rat Trap and I Don’t like Mondays, and three Top-10 albums.

Gerard Richardson, who heads the Whitehaven Festival Co. said: “It’s their first ever gig in West Cumbria. With other acts we’ve yet to announce, it’s set to be a fantastic line up!”

Ian Hudson, General Manager for sponsors NMP, said: “Whitehaven Live will be a great event, attracting locals and visitors alike. It also offers significant social and economic benefits for the town’s shops, restaurants and other businesses that are needed to facilitate and support the staging and hosting of such an event.”

The announcement came the week after Mr Richardson revealed the untimely death of the original Whitehaven Festival due to a combination of receding space, growing costs and increasing numbers of people threatening to sue over alleged minor accidents.

For further information on Whitehaven Live or other events this year check visit www.thewhitehavenfestival.co.uk or follow Twitter @wfestival.

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Feature | Dancing at Lughnasa

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WARM, funny, sad story of love, change and regret unfolds during Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, to be staged at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, from March 28 to April 19.

It has won applause and major awards around the world since it was first performed in Dublin in 1990 and has been translated into languages ranging from Finnish to Japanese.

Prepare to smile and shed a tear.

"Dancing at Lughnasa is a play I have wanted to bring to Theatre by the Lake for a very long time,” said Ian Forrest, the theatre’s artistic director. “It is a masterpiece that has a great impact on everyone who sees it.”

Five sisters, hard-up and sometimes quarrelsome, live together in the remote village of Ballybeg in the north-west of Ireland in 1936.They scrape a living as best they can and enjoy Irish

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traditional tunes and popular dance band hits of the time on their erratic wireless … and sometimes the sisters even dance.

Michael, the grown-up son of one of them looks back to that summer, when he was seven, and remembers the upheavals it brought. Life would never be the same again for his aunts and for his uncle Jack, who has returned to Ballybeg more than a bit confused about his Catholic faith after 25 years as a missionary in Uganda.

"It is a masterpiece that has a great impact on everyone who sees it."

“And even though I was only a child of seven at the time,” says Michael, “I know I had a sense of unease; some awareness of a widening breach between what seemed to be and what was; of things changing too quickly before my eyes, of becoming what they ought not to be.”

But what is Lughnasa? And how do you pronounce it? Lughnasa (say it as Loo-na-sa) was an ancient Celtic pagan festival held at the beginning of harvest and was named in honour of the god Lugh, one of Ireland’s heroic high kings. Its many rituals included cutting the first corn of the year, a lot of feasting and climbing high mountains.The festival was tamed and Christianised – but some of the old rituals linger on in Ballybeg, where young lovers head for the hills for romantic meetings.

The model for Ballybeg was Glenties, a village in Donegal where Friel’s own mother and aunts lived and where a lively week-long harvest fair takes place every year, featuring a busy torchlight parade with, last year, a mad man with a chain saw, locals dressed as wind turbines and a couple of louche nuns.

Last year the village also attempted to bring to its streets 2013 people dressed as leprechauns, so some of the Lughnasa lunacy lives on.

Fri 28 March – Sat 19 April Box Office: 017687 74411 www.theatrebythelake.com

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Dancing at Lughnasa will be directed by Theatre by the Lake’s newly-appointed associate director Mary Papadima who, after directing an English classic (J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls) last summer, now moves on to an Irish drama saluted by the National Theatre as one of the great plays of the 20th century.

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hat’s how much is needed for the equipment to get cast members airborne in Maryport Amateur Operatic and Drama Society’s latest production, The Witches of Eastwick – a musical comedy based on the book and the 1987 film starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. It will be the first time the show – which follows the lives of three witches upset by the arrival of the “Devilish” Darryl Van Horne, has been staged in West Cumbria.

The production requires that the witches fly, so the society is hiring a three-standard track flying system. The production is directed by the talented Clark Wilkinson, who is having to commute from London to Maryport by train, overnight on Saturday evenings because he’s currently part of the stage management team, on a nationwide tour of Fame – the musical, with the Kenwright Company.

The witches are played by Zoe McSorley; Louise Dixon and Lisa Dykes.Cast as Darryl Van Horne role is society newcomer, Luke Matear. The production boasts a full vocal score including lively numbers such as Dance with the Devil, Dirty Laundry and the bewitching Look at Me and features a live orchestra.

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Feature | David Towers

Maryport plumber has £2k London Marathon

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ARYPORT plumber David Towers decided he’d raise £2,000 for a children’s charity by running the London Marathon, on Sunday April 13… even though he’s never actually run a marathon before.

David wants to raise the money for Children’s Charity Get Kids Going, which not only aids disabled young athletes but also helps to provide manual wheelchairs for children to use every day; at home, at school, and to enable them to play with their friends.

The charity believes that all disabled children and young people should receive the right equipment to get them going and so does David.

But, other than a will to help disabled children, David had no particular reason for choosing the charity until he’d read about it and now he’s fully behind their aims. By the time he’s on the start line David should have a half-marathon under his belt because he’s aiming to complete the Blackpool event the previous weekend (April 9) before heading south to the capital city.

David’s been training hard for the gruelling event and has a three and a half hour target. He also aims to take in Crystal Palace’s home game against Aston Villa, the day before, and see his friend Palace forward Glenn Murray, in action. Glenn, a former Carlisle and Brighton player has recently returned to action after injury. He and David were once in the same local football team together.

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New dental clinic offers our readers a 10% saving

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WIDER range of dental services – delivered as speedily as possible – is what the new Allerdale Dental Clinic offers.

Allerdale Dental Clinic may be a new name on the block with new services to match but it is in fact a recently formed partnership between two existing dental specialists.

It’s a re-branding of the former Kerry Park Dental Lab, at Unit 1, Kerry Park Industrial Estate, Derwent Road, Workington, as a result of the formation of a partnership between dental technician John Wedgewood and clinical technician Andrew Pattinson, from Carlisle.

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The blending of their skills now means that more dental services can be offered at the one site to customers making it a one stop shop for most of your dental needs. Emergency denture repairs can also be carried out in an hour.

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As well as being a friendly, prosthetic clinic, specialising in the manufacture of high-quality dentures and covering a wide range of dentures, from NHS to high-quality cosmetic dentures, the clinic can now, through Andrew, also take dental impressions of teeth and gums without the need for a dentist.

He is the only qualified clinical dental technician in Carlisle and one of only a handful in Cumbria and is correctly registered; has full indemnity, public liability insurance and conforms to all General Dental Council guidelines.

Andrew can also examine your mouth, head and neck for any abnormalities and disease ALLERDALE DENTAL CLINIC can also carry out denture relines and additions and is at Unit 1, Kerry Park Industrial Estate, Derwent Road, Workington, CA14 3TX. Tel 01900 873787 Fully equipped for the disabled and with plenty free, convenient parking outside.

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Lifestyle | The 5:2 Diet

BY ALI HIPKIN

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ILLED as the “non-dieters diet” it’s been the “IT” diet for over a year and in light of Cumbria’s new-found fame as the fattest county in the country we’re joining the media hype about the 5:2 diet.

Since the 5:2 diet was brought to our attention by BBC’s Horizon in 2012 it’s scarcely been out of the media, but what’s it all about?

It involves intermittent fasting. You eat normally five days a week and diet two days a week; cutting your calorie intake for those two days to a quarter of your normal level. It means that on, say, a Monday and a Thursday you will eat 500 calories if you are a woman, 600 if you are a man.

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5:2

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Intermittent fasting does not mean stopping eating entirely. It means reducing the amount you eat, but only for quite short periods of time. Success is dependent on not over-eating on your normal days and drinking plenty of water to keep hydrated is paramount.

The practicality of the diet is that it allows you to go on enjoying the foods you normally eat and make as few changes to your lifestyle as possible.

Unlike other diets; the Atkins, the maple syrup or baby food diet the 5:2 Diet offers more maintainable results because there’s no boredom. You can still have a little bit of what you fancy on non-fasting days.

With claims that the 5:2 diet can increase lifespan, improve

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cognitive function and increase the protection against conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and other diseases, it might seem like the answer to every yo-yo dieter’s prayers but it remains surrounded by controversy.

There’s still much debate about what pattern of fasting is most effective in improving health outcomes with some doctors suggesting that fasting needs to be every other day in order to be successful. There is also some debate surrounding the optimal calorie consumption during the fasting days.

The Dietician’s View: " although it is a weight loss diet, it probably won’t improve your overall health" We asked a dietician what she thought and she told us: “Even though you will be reducing calorie intake on the fast days, if you're still eating a normal diet the other days - you will no doubt see weight loss, but probably no overall change in saturated fat content or salt intake. This means that although it is a weight loss diet, it probably won’t improve your overall health (i.e. reduce cholesterol levels and blood pressure) like a balanced healthy eating plan would.

By starving yourself on two days, you may find that you over-eat on the five remaining days - even if you end up doing it subconsciously; it’s a common trend.

If you are considering it then you should first talk to your GP to see if it is suitable for you because not everyone can safely fast.

The best way to lose weight is by strict portion control, reducing saturated fat intake by trimming fat off meat, choosing low-fat dairy products and cutting down on cakes, biscuits and processed foods and increasing physical activity levels - for weight loss the recommended activity level is 60mins each day of moderately intense exercise.

Finally, choosing high-fibre foods e.g. brown bread/pasta and plenty of fruit and veg to settle blood sugar levels and reduce cravings for sweet foods!”

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Lifestyle | Jackie Cooper

It’s an individual approach to your health M

by Jackie Cooper Bsc (hons) MNIMH, Medical Herbalist

edical Herbalist Jackie Cooper who practices from her clinic in Hethersgill, near Carlisle is a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, who has an honours degree in Herbal Medicine.

She is trained in the same diagnostic skills as a GP and this, her new regular feature, Jackie will offer some suggestions and remedies.

Here she also explains her overall approach to herbal medicine.

NO two people are the same... so I always try to treat the individual rather than symptoms; consequently no two prescriptions are the same.

I believe we have an unexplored opportunity for conventional and complementary medicine to work together to form a greater integrated concept of what the power of medicine and healing should be, particularly when statistics tell us that 75% of NHS patients would like to use complementary therapies.

I practice from my clinic and make many of my own medicines from my medicinal garden. No matter how 'natural' an over-the-counter product is, preservatives will usually have been added to prolong shelf-life. If you make your own remedies, from ingredients which are as close to their natural state as possible, you can reduce the need for chemicals to preserve them and rely on the preserving qualities of those natural ingredients – which is more environmentally sustainable and better for good health.

Sleep Pillow – a remedy for you to try if you suffer from disturbed sleep.

There are many reasons why our sleep may be disturbed, so it is also important to discover the cause of the problem, rather than to just focus on masking the symptoms for instance through sedation.

With this in mind, there is a huge range of plants which can be used to treat poor sleep, such as Chamomile, Lavender, Skullcap, Hops and Lemon Balm to name but a few. The best herb or combination of herbs depends upon a person's particular health issues and constitution. It is very easy to make your own sleep pillow and when you inhale the aroma of the remedy, the effect is instantaneous.

Take a square of muslin and sow it up so that you make a pocket, with a drawstring at the open end of ribbon, so that you can fill it with whatever combination of herbs you wish to use, tighten and tie together. Inhale the aroma through the muslin just before you go to sleep and keep it under your pillow, just in case you wake later and need easy access to it without being too disturbed.

For further information contact Jackie Cooper, Fairways, Moss Edge, Hethersgill, Cumbria CA6 6HJ. Tel: 01228 675042. Email jackie@talkinherbs.co.uk Website: www.talkinherbs.co.uk

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2014 Trends from London Fashion Week | Lifestyle

Words by: Nelson Brown (Hair) // Nicola Lamont (Make up) // Katie Dyet (Fashion) // www.brownsthestylists.com

look what's hot

Lockerbie hair stylist NELSON BROWN and his head stylist Trae Corbett were heavily involved at the heart of the recent London Fashion Week and here, they tell us about some of the hottest ensembles to emerge.

Holly Fulton Lead Stylist: James Pecis Assistants: Nelson Brown // Trae Corbett Sponsor: L’oreal

Make up: The look was a flawless minimal skin accented with a soft sheen on the cheeks and lips, keeping the look healthy and fresh.

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© Kim Weston Arnold

Eyes were defined with a wash of copper on the eyelids with a copper line in the crease.

Hair: Key look: An awkwardly low-positioned side parting in line with temple, was taken, this section was then directed straight over to behind opposite ear and mousse applied liberally to add weight to help flatten the hair.The back and right side sections where then tied with elastic at the nape and the ponytail ironed for polish and flatness. The remaining left side was combed over the ear to disguise it and wrapped around the base of the ponytail, secured with elastic and smoothed over with gel for an ultra slick finish.

This gave the hairstyle a modern polished effect.

Nelson Brown (white scarf) busy in the backstage scrum at John Rocha assisting Samantha Hillerby

Clothing: Working business-womaninspired London designer, Holly Futon’s collection, is clearly very sophisticated yet feminine. Hand-drawn exclamation marks and floral patterns cover day coats. Pleated skirts and Flapper-style dresses floated down the runway. Bangle-draped wrists and bejeweled necklines illustrated Holly’s collection. Eggshell blue and dusky pink were prevalent colours in her decorated imagery. Subtle spectacles were in keeping with the office attire. There is a commercial aspect to this collection, which is very translatable to the high street.

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Lifestyle | 2014 Trends from London Fashion Week

Julien McDonald

Lead Stylist: James Pecis // Assistant: Nelson Brown // Sponsor: L’oreal

Preen

Lead Stylist: James Pecis // Assistant: Nelson Brown & Trae Corbett Sponsor: L’oreal

Clothing:

Clothing: A Star Wars theme was heavily incorporated into Preen’s collection, with Darth Vader’s face appearing on many of the items. Floaty midi dresses featured with geometric printed shapes. Quilt-inspired prints partnered with highheeled leather boots.They took a futuristic twist on the khaki parka jackets with fur hoods by adding plastic belt clips.The entire Preen collection based itself on detailing and the shapes were simple, but the devil is in the detail with tucking, folding and draping.

Make up: The minimal, fresh natural face trend continued but the eyes were vamped up with either a pink/red or blue/teal eye shadow, blended all over the eye and right up to the eyebrows but with minimal or no mascara to give a contemporary punk feel to the overall look.

Hair: The hair for this show was a wet look, pushed back and away from the face. This was achieved by, applying a soft-hold mousse through dry hair so it was wet/damp, all the way through to the front. The hair was brushed through using a large paddle brush, to give a loose-brushed feel. Once mousse was applied throughout, the wet hair was grooved side to side on the top to give a deep-lined effect. In the back to hold the hair away from the face, a stitch was used snaking from one side to the other. This gives a pin free hold and it's secure. The hair was then left to dry. This look gave a sexy, open-faced fresh feel with super modern texture, very key this season.

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Julien Macdonald showcased a truly dazzling collection.

Shimmering dresses with jewel-encrusted detailing. His inspiration for this specular show is amazing architecture and stained-glass windows.

This can been seen by the choice of colours used such as ruby reds, electric blues and emerald greens. Fine details such as nude mesh embroidered with sequins and sparkly knitted beading really stood out on the runway. His entire collection of evening dresses captures outstanding detail, which made for a glamorous runway.

Hair: The hair was prepped using salt spray on dry hair, to add lightness and texture. A loose centre parting was taken with the fingers and using the open barrel of the tong a light bend was made in opposite directions; this was then loosened with hands and sectioned with the fingers behind the ears, the left side slightly thicker than the right.This hair was split haphazardly into three sections and braided to the left side of the head with the intension of it looking awkward.This was then massaged out and stretched to form a distressed edge to the style.

Make up: The look was clean, contemporary and fresh, with minimal make-up using only what was needed to perfect the skin. Lilacs and khaki where used sparingly on the eyes, with a natural lip, which had minimal colour and the slightest hint of a sheen.

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Simone Rocha

Lead Stylist: James Pecis // Assistant: Nelson Brown & Trae Corbett // Sponsor: Babyliss pro

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Clothing:

Simone Rocha's new collection was straight from the Elizabethan era with gathered sleeves and overstated hips. The necklines and shoulders of theses dramatic coats and dresses were trimmed with embedded jewellery.

She re-worked the classic trench coat into cropped proportions, teamed with skirts with masses of volume tightly belted.

Simone modernised her collection with high-shine yellow python skin and strong tartan looks. Ruffles gave charge to minimal boyish ankle grazers. Simone Rocha’s interpretation of Elizabethan was a haze of costume gems, flounces and fur.

Make up: The emphasis, as with many of the other catwalk shows, was on radiant fresh skin but with an accentuation of gold leaf on the forehead to create reflection of light and a pop of metallic, textured colour which contrasted with the dark solid colours in the clothes and was softened by soft, peachy-pink lips and cheeks.

Hair: Three sections were taken snaking through the hair, from top to back and sides to back. All the soft, baby hair around the hairline was left out and pinned away for later.The three sections were then braided to the head, back and down. As the braid got to the end, it was re-split and an even split of the hair broke down the natural, neat flow of the braid, key to this look. Once all three sections were braided, each line of braid was pulled and poked, to dishevel and deconstruct each braid.The tails of the braid were then gathered at the nape and secured in different ways to give each girl a individual finish. A mouse spray was then sprayed onto the roots to give a swampy finish.The front hair was then left over the face to give a veiled appearance and dressed with a spray to support this dishevelled style.

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Well I'll be puckered the secret of luscious lips!

by Ali Hipkin

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HAT do Snow White, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Dita Von Teese have in common? They are all icons, famous for their full, red pouting lips which they pucker seductively, intending to men lust after them and women envy their perfect pouts.

The primal instinct of accentuating lips to attract a mate can be traced back as far as 2500BC when Mesopotamian women used crushed gemstones and naturally produced chemicals to redden their lips. Cleopatra followed suit in 50-31 BC when the Egyptians used crushed ants and carmine in beeswax, a trend picked up by the Romans who also produced lip enhancers.

But there’s more to red lips than meets the eye.

But when it came down to it, the English were rather resistant. Lipstick was worn by the Suffragettes as a symbol of female emancipation, and the so-called flapper girls of the 1920s wore it as an attempt to shock elderly gentlemen and to demonstrate their independence. They made sure their lips were suitably coloured by shamelessly applying it in public and during lunch.

Red lips can conjure up images of the 1940s and 50s, when bright red lips were considered the epitome of femininity but women were trying to draw attention to their mouths long before the first commercial lipstick was released in the late 19th century.

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The Americans were at first equally wary of lipstick. In 1915 Kansas introduced a law that made it a “misdemeanour” for any woman under the age of 44 to wear cosmetics for fear it would create a false impression.

Until the 1930s lipstick had been made from soap bases and coal-tar dyes but the decade saw developments and as the products became shinier and heavily perfumed Vogue magazine declared lipstick as a “defining item” of the 20th century.

And Vogue was right. Red lipstick has never been out of production ever since.

Beautician Francine Rutter-Tyson, owner of Athena Beauty, Whitehaven, said: “Red lipstick is every true woman’s best friend. Red lips along with a string of pearls and slick red nail varnish adds Hollywood glamour to any outfit.”

Our association of red lipstick with the 1940s and 50s is largely due to the goddesses of the silver screen, Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, Viviene Leigh and the ultimate red lips of Norma Jean.

Francine said: “The most attractive women were those with very full mouths, women would capitalise on this and try and capture a suitor by making their lips a prime place of eroticism on the body.”

Psychologists have now discovered that the colour red carries sexual messages not merely ascetic ones.

Red lips also played an important role as part of the military uniform for women in World War II. Fashionable dresses, high heels, loose wavy hair and jewellery had to be replaced in favour of functionality but bright red lips helped preserve femininity without interfering with practicality and prime minister Winston Churchill rationed all cosmetics, except lipstick, because he felt it had a positive effect on morale.

America also used it to raise morale both in the women who wore it and the soldiers who saw it; and it was turned into a symbol of resilient femininity in the face of danger.

With the popularity of red lipstick increasing the cosmetic companies of America started “lipstick wars” sending in thugs into stores to destroy competitor’s displays in an attempt to steal customers.

And it remains a firm favourite today, helped once more by Hollywood’s finest puckering glossy red lips as they saunter down the red carpet.

Manchester University psychologists found that men fixated on photographs of women who wore red lipstick for 7.3 seconds, only looking at those who wore pink lipstick for 6.7 seconds and just 2.2 seconds for those without lipstick.

A French study discovered waitresses who wear red lipstick earn more tips because men found them more attractive.

So red lipstick is every woman’s secret weapon: It takes confidence to wear …but it unleashes so much confidence when you do.

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Face 2 face

Lifestyle | Bridget Foster

encounters Article: Bridget Foster Photography: Paul McGreevy Model / Muse: Jane Coulthard at Jiggery Pokery Boutique

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anuary – February is, for me, generally usually a quiet time in terms of make-up for clients.

But more and more of them now want to learn how to apply their own make up themselves and are booking me for one-to-one tutorials or makeup parties, especially as a result of my previous article featuring Kath Conchie and targeting the 50 plus age group.

I get the impression that most of us go though that “New Year – New You", feeling trying to start as a means to go on. Tutorials aren’t something I have pushed but something I have been asked to do. I was approached by Jane, who owns Jiggery Pokery, on Fisher Street. Her approach to women’s style is a breath of fresh air.

She believes it’s all about overall image and how it makes women feel confident and beautiful within themselves.

So Jane asked me to come into her boutique to discuss and teach makeup skills to her clients and staff during an event she will be organising soon, to feature her spring collection.“I just want our boutique and our team to be inspirational to our clients, she said.”

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and make-up is good too then you will feel more confident with whatever you are wearing.

Now, even though Jane and her team always look absolutely immaculate she herself wanted to book me for a oneto-one tutorial… for a quick update.

I often meet Jane collecting her daughter from my gymnastics class and even on these informal occasions, she seems to have a lovely, effortless quiff in her hair which frames her face. She wears a beautiful, “thrown-on” scarf and looks so smart and stylish, whereas I’m demonstrating a cartwheel in my tracksuit bottoms and a messed up ponytail from the gym mats… so as I packed up my kit and headed out to Jane’s home I was wondering why she wanted me for a make-up update?

Jane told me pretty much everything about her skin care and make-up.

She swears by her Arbonne skin care, which you can buy from, Emma Edgar (Facebook PM) or Dimond Beauty, by Lauren Temple.

Jane’s visits to the MAC store, in Glasgow, as a treat, shows that she enjoys the whole shopping experience and is eager to learn about new products. The first thing I always ask is: “What are your concerns and what problem are we going to solve”.

As always I start with the eyes and Jane’s main problem was pinkness around her eyes. They can be quite sensitive. She had used the Benefit yellow concealer but was now using a MAC paint pot.

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The MAC Paint pots come in many different shades but are mainly used for contouring and highlighting the face. Jane’s had a bit of a glow to her paint pot. They are very long wearing and set onto the skin which is why Jane liked it so much.

But I suggested she’d be best going back to her Benefit concealer, called Lemonade, £16.50, and then applying the paint pot as an eye-shadow base or my favourite Urban Decay eye primer potion, £6.50 from Debemhams, for a long-lasting, fresh, clean eye make-up.

Jane’s eye-shadows involved a colour palette of browns, greys and mauves.

There were some nice shades, but I wanted to add some warmth, which she often avoids because of the pinkness about her eyes. Just a warmer shade of brown was enough to add to her palette.

Jane also said she didn’t like glitters, which most people don’t, unless worn well, or for a special occasion. I taught Jane my staple Laura Mercier technique of applying a tight liner with a flat, square brush, along the lash line, using either a Maybelline painting liner or a matt-black eye-shadow.

Getting the line fine and tight in the eyelash roots makes even the smallest eyes look whiter and brighter. If you opt for a shadow go for a make-up brand rather than one from a drug store. The colours will last and you’ll get much better pigmentation for this look.

I decided that, rather than go for the more usual shading and blending technique that all you ladies stress over, I’d opt for a more modern and easier way of shading and defining your eye.

Add a deep, rich colour of a brown or plum, just next to your tight line and blend upwards, keeping all the colour around the lash line and fade it out towards the socket. Go back and add your tight line on again to sharpen

your eye line. DONE! It’s quick, simple, blend-able, and looks effortless. If you really want more shape, then you can apply a soft brown into the socket line but you may not need to.

These are generally the two items most women will want to go and buy after a one-to-one tutorial:

Flat Liner Brush and Cake Eyeliner www.spacenk.com – It’s the start of you gradually growing the confidence to experiment and attempt to perfectly apply liquid eye line.

Base Jane had every make up artist’s favourite, MAC Face and Body Foundation. Again a breath of fresh air from Double Wear which, if you do use it, try the light version. Face and body foundation is a waterbased foundation, light, buildable and therefore adaptable for any skin types.

This foundation looks absolutely stunning on photographs and catwalks.

Great value at £27 for 125ml .

However, it does take time to build up the coverage and is very runny. I would only really recommend it to clients with a clear skin and wanting a light, natural finish. Jane was obviously happy with using it, which was great.

However, the best thing about a one-to-one session is that you have the chance to try new products. So I popped on my illuminating tinted moisturiser by Laura Mercier £31 and concealer by Vichy. The Vichy concealer is fantastic. Very high coverage but looks invisible. I applied it lightly with a sponge to create a flawless look. £15.50 for 30ml… available in Boots.

Cheeks and Contour Jane said she’d seen lots of Instagram and Facebook adverts for strong contouring techniques – Kim Kardashian style. They are fascinating to do and see, but this isn’t something

"Jane’s visits to the MAC store, in Glasgow, as a treat, shows that she enjoys the whole shopping experience and is eager to learn about new products." you are going to do every day and is a very strong look. I showed Jane a softer version of contouring. Decide if you are going to use a cream blush and bronzer or a powder. Cream contouring colours could be a darker shade of concealer or the MAC paint. As for powder use matt bronzer in a brown tone rather than orange one. Superdrug B range has a nice selection at £8.

Create a figure three from the side of your forehead, under your cheeks and lightly on jaw line… and blend.

Highlight with a lighter concealer or shimmer powder on top of the cheek bone, and under brows, plus a dash down the centre of the nose and Cupid ’s bow. You can use your Touch Eclate, by YSL, for liquids £25 or a shimmer brick for powder. Jane was using a bright Barry M blusher which she was rather embarrassed although I don’t know why she was embarrassed. Barry M may be inexpensive but its pigments, throughout the range, are strong and long-lasting. I gave Jane an option of going more peachy-coral as her Barry M was a bright pink. I applied a cream blusher by Top Shop… £6 blush in flush. These are beautiful and simple to use even with fingers.

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However I prefer to use a foundation brush for a flawless finish.

Lips Jane like most people says she prefers a gloss. A dewy lipstick I think. Her make-up bag consisted of nudes. I’m a big fan of a nude lip, but I found Jane’s nudes quite dull, so I warmed up a few colours and applied them. At first she wasn’t keen on the warmer nude but it takes time for your eyes to adjust and see yourself with a slightly different shade on, so she agreed to trial it. Jane described the make-up I applied as a cleaner, more professional version of her own.

But it’s worth bearing in mind that the approach of a make-up artist to private clients is far different to that of a model or brief. I have to work out where the client’s comfort zone lies and how much they are willing to try new colour/s. Jane however proved a stylish and immaculate woman with a great make up bag, who was very much in her make-up comfort zone although she did add: "Red lips absolutely frighten me".

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So next I’m going to give her a full hair and make-up glamorous look for her private event and now that I have spent time with Jane I think she will be brave enough for me to push her out of her comfort zone and I’m more than confident that she will look absolutely stunning.

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he mother of the bride is the most important female at a wedding, second to the bride of course; her outfit must speak of style, modesty and elegance yet be subtle and complimentary to the Brides outfit.

This is where Susan Dowes at Genevieves, Warwick Road, Carlisle, comes in; with years of experience Susan is a dream come true for any mother of the bride struggling to find the perfect outfit for the big day.

Stocking lines by Ian Stuart and Condici this years lines are now all in stock, with shoes and bags to match and Genevieves has a large collection of fascinators and hatinators on offer as well as hats to buy or hire.

“I try to choose outfits and shoes that people can wear again,” said Susan, “Condici in particular have started listening to what the customers want and they have added a little sleeve to their dresses. Ian Stuart, this time, have designed a dress-only collection which is great as not everyone wants the jacket.”

“Some women find it a really daunting experience choosing their outfit, I enjoy making ladies feel welcome and relaxed which gives them the confidence to try lots of different styles and choose something that makes them feel really special for the The Big Day!” Evening and Sunday appointments are available.

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T*Rextasy | Food & Drink

Reaching a state of

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OME of the Children of the Revolution may be about to draw their old age pensions… indeed some may already be doing so, but the T Rex music of the glam rock era can still get them going and it also appeals to a vastly younger audience.

You can hear it live on Saturday March 29, at The Carnegie Theatre, Workington, when the tribute band T*Rextasy take the stage (8pm).

In September 1972, a record that would inspire future generations was released by the one of the most flamboyant and charismatic bands of the original glam rock era. Marc Bolan and T.Rex stormed the charts with one of his most memorable and distinctive songs of that decade – Children of the Revolution.

And 40 years later the song has become iconic and legendary, along with Bolan’s other best selling anthems of that year that included, Metal Guru and Telegram Sam. T*Rextasy are the only band to have been authorised and endorsed by Marc Bolan’s catalogue management and are officially recognised as the worlds’ No. 1 group dedicated to Marc Bolan of T.Rex. With their uncanny doppelganger lead singer and lead guitarist, Danielz,T*Rextasy perform a powerful and mesmerising presentation of Mark Bolan’s rock and pop anthems.They have now been performing around the world for 20 years, ironically outliving Marc’s very own T.Rex. The band has been described by many as: “Beyond the boundaries of tribute” and are respected in their own right. Truly a rock’n’roll concert for all ages If you would like to know exactly what a Marc Bolan concert was like in the 1970s, then this show is for you! You’ll love to boogie.

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Food & Drink | Alan Spedding

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always have a decent supply of Chilli Jam on my shelves at home.

I use it all the time for stir-fries, Tom Yam Thai soup, cold meats, and sandwiches for work and to accompany comforting weekend suppers of crusty bread with mature Cheddar and a nice glass of red.

I hadn`t noticed that I had actually run out of the stuff when I needed some for a recipe so I ended up having to quickly knock up a batch at home. So here’s how to do it. It’s so simple to make and I can guarantee that you`ll end up using it on everything.

I was making Chicken Satay and I’ll share that recipe with you in the next issue but first of all let’s get cracking with a few jars of this stuff and see how you get along.

The chances are that you`ll have to make more by then anyway, because you`ll have used up your first batch.

The chillies I used in this recipe were a mixture of Habaneros, Scotch Bonnets and Thai Bird’s Eye. You should all know by now that I am not normal. For me this cocktail of heat packs the perfect kick but by all means just use “normal” red chillies from the supermarket. I’ve got my chillies growing on a window sill at home so I simply pick and use as I need them.

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Chilli Jam (Makes roughly 1 litre) Ingredients 3 to 10 red chillies depending on your taste (I used 10 habaneros, 2 scotch bonnets and 10 thai bird’s eye) 6 garlic cloves, crushed

Method 1. Put the chillies, garlic, and ginger into a food processor and process until finely chopped. Add the tomatoes and process them until smooth.

2. Transfer the tomato mixture to a large saucepan and place over a medium heat.

2 large thumb-sized pieces of fresh peeled ginger root, roughly chopped

3. S tir in the sugar, Thai fish sauce, Balsamic and red wine vinegars and bring to the boil, stirring regularly.

1kg of ripe tomatoes; quartered (About eight large tomatoes)

4. R educe the heat and simmer away steadily for about 45 minutes or until reduced by about a half.

450g demerara sugar 3 tbsp thai fish sauce 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar 120ml red wine vinegar

5. Once the jam is ready let it cool a little and then simply transfer to clean sterilised jars. Allow to cool completely and then add the lids.

So there you go, I told you it was simple and it will keep well either in or out of the fridge but as I said above, it`s just not going to last that long.

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CHICKEN

BREASTS

Chicken Breast Normandy | Food & Drink

NORMANDY Serves 4

INGREDIENTS 4 large boneless, skinless chicken breast halves 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon butter 1 small onion, cut in thin wedges 1 clove garlic, minced 1 teaspoon fresh ginger root, finely minced 2 Granny Smith apples, cored and cut in wedges 1 cup apple cider 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

METHOD Preheat oven to 350°F. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, salt and pepper. Coat the chicken well with seasoned flour. In a large heavy skillet, heat the olive oil and butter over a medium-high heat. Add the chicken breasts to the skillet and sautÊ for 2 minutes on each side, just until golden. Remove the chicken to a casserole dish, arranging in a single layer.

Add onion, garlic and ginger root to the skillet; cook 1 minute. Stir in apple slices. Blend in cider, brown sugar and vinegar. Simmer on a low heat for 4 to 5 minutes. Pour mixture over chicken and bake for about 20 minutes. Remove from oven, serving at once. (If sauce does not thicken into a glaze, remove chicken to plates and stir 1 teaspoon flour mixed with 3 tablespoons of cider into casserole dish. Cook and stir over medium heat, just until thickened. Spoon over chicken and serve. Yum!

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Cheese “n” Onion Pie Serves 4

The backbone of Northern food has many recipes but Cheese n Onion Pie has to be up there as one of the mainstays of good, hearty “Mother’s Fare”.

There are many different recipes out there but this is our take in which we bring a little sweetness to the pie with caramelised onions to balance perfectly with the savoury Lancashire Cheese.

The beauty of this pie is its versatility in so far as you could tray it up with mushy peas and gravy for a sports club lunch or it could be chilled and served cold in a lovely summer’s day picnic.

Suffice it to say this is a MUST COOK recipe for any devotee of NORTHERN TUCKER!!

Recipe from Sean Wilson's cookbook, The Great Northern Cookbook available from most good bookshops and online.

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Ingredients: • Shortcrust Pastry • 8oz (250g) Plain Flour • Pinch of Sea Salt • 2oz (50g) Butter 2oz (50g) Lard • Cold water to bind • A beaten egg to wash the pastry

For the filling: • 4 Medium Onions, halved and sliced • 2 Tbsp Groundnut Oil • 8oz (250g) Crumbly Lancashire Cheese • White Pepper

For the Bechemal: • 25g Butter • 25g Plain Flour • 250ml Whole Milk • Sea Salt and White Pepper

Method: 1. In a large heavy bottomed pan with a nice tight fitting lid, put in the groundnut oil and bring up to heat.

Throw in the onions and put on the lid and turn down the heat to a very low temp. Leave for at least an hour to caramelise the onions, shaking the pan from time to time, This makes them nice and sweet!

For the Pastry: 1. S ift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl.

2. C ut the butter and lard into the flour in cubed.

3. Then rub between the fingertips until a fine breadcrumb consistency is achieved.

4. G radually mix in the cold water until the bowl becomes clean and the pastry becomes not too crumbly or too sticky (be careful!)

5. R oll into a ball, chuck it into a poly bag and fridge for 30 minutes.

For the Bechemal: 1. M ake a”roux” with your butter and flour which means you melt the butter over a medium heat and sift the flour over the butter and amalgamate the ingredients.

2. C ook gently for 2 minutes to cook out the flouryness.

(Please do not make a “stodgy” roux. Try and keep it “wet” rather than dry) 3. G radually whisk the milk into the roux mixture to create a smooth, lumpless white sauce with a consistency of double cream and season to taste with salt and white pepper. Cover and set aside.

1. Pre heat the oven to 180’C/ 350’f/ Gas 4.

2. Split the pastry into 2 equal amounts and roll one of them out as a base for your “plate” pie.

3. Offer up to the deep based dinner plate and trim off the excess accordingly.

4. In alternate layers, crumble some of your crumbly cheese on the base and sprinkle with white pepper and then cover with a layer of caramelised onions, then repeat the process until you run out.

5. Cover the pie now with the bechemal liberally.

6. Take the remaining pastry and roll out to cover the top of the pie.

7. Cover the edges of the base pastry with milk.

8. Offer up the top pastry to cover the pie and trim off the excess.You could use a fork to seal the edges as is traditionally done in the North.

9. Liberally “wash” the pastry top with the beaten egg.

Put 2 holes in the middle with a knife.

10. Place in the middle of the pre heated oven and cook for 40 minutes or so. Checking at the end, as you don’t want to burn the top.Your pie should be golden brown and SCRUMMY!!

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Food & Drink | 24-hour Slow Roast Leg of Lamb

24-Hour Slow Roast Leg of Lamb Serves 6

Method

1. P reheat oven to 100Ëšc. Rub the leg of lamb with thyme and rosemary and season well. Pierce the skin of the lamb and push in a clove of garlic, repeat and alternate with a sprig of rosemary and thyme.

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2. U se a large casserole dish to brown the lamb all over. Do this on the hob prior to placing in the oven. Make sure the lamb is brown all over as does not brown during the cooking process.

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24-hour Slow Roast Leg of Lamb | Food & Drink

Ingredients

3kg leg of lamb 4 onions 8 garlic cloves, peeled 4 large carrots d roughly choppe ne 300ml white wi ck 300ml lamb sto thyme, of h nc bu ge lar rosemar y large bunch of salt and pepper

Recipe courtesy of Kirklinton Slow Food Society

3. Then place the chopped vegetables, remainder of the herbs and garlic. Add the wine into the same casserole dish and gently bring to simmering point on the hob.

4. P lace a lid on the casserole dish and put in the oven. Turn twice after 5 hours and take care the lamb will be tender.

5. P lace back in the oven for the rest of the cooking time. No need to rest the lamb after cooking.

6. Transfer the meat to a serving plate; strain the juices into a pan and quickly reduce on a high heat by a quarter for a rich and very tasty jus.

7. Season to taste.

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Food & Drink | The Coffee Kitchen

The Coffee Kitchen’s

Challoner Street

Challenge

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F it can be made of the premises at the Coffee Kitchen, Cockermouth, then it will be.

That’s part of the ethos of what is a first-class artisan coffee house and café in the town’s Challoner Street.

With its own bread, cakes, a range recipes based on of locally-sourced and the best of coffee the Coffee Kitchen it’s somewhere you can’t bear to walk by …indeed that’s the challenge of Challoner Street!

But if you can’t linger then you can always buy some of the big range of breads to take home. Three Seed (Pumpkin, sunflower and linseed) is a favourite Owner Andy Walsh uses as many local products as possible. Take for instance one of their range of specialist sandwiches, the Buttermere, which uses their own bread, Cumberland Honey mustard from Alston; Cumberland salt beef; cheese from Appleby and pickle from Wigton.

Single-estate coffees such as those from Honduras, Peru, and Ethiopia mingle with traditional Italian cappuccino and a mouth-watering myriad of freshly made cake to savour there or save for later.

How could you resist?

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Motoring | Vauxhall Astra GTC

Vauxhall Astra GTC More power and 51 mpg possible

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NEW Vauxhall Astra GTC is now available with a powerful new 1.6-litre direct injection petrol engine, priced from just £20,995 on-the-road.

First seen in the Cascada convertible, and packing 200PS and 300Nm of torque, the all-new, four cylinder unit allows the GTC to achieve a top speed of 143mph and 0-60mph in 7.3 seconds, making it the fastest non-VXR model in the Astra range.

Peak power and torque are increased by up to 30 per cent over the previous 1.6-litre turbo model, yet fuel consumption of 51mpg combined and emissions of 154g/ km have meant a 13% improvement in efficiency.

“ It is the only unit in its class to feature twin balancer shafts for smooth running” The new engine brings sector-leading refinement to the Astra GTC range. It is the only unit in its class to feature twin balancer shafts for smooth running, while a host of sound engineering measures have been made for low noise, 56 | The Guide Magazine

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vibration and harshness (NVH).

Priced from ÂŁ855, Vauxhall has also introduced the innovative Intellilink infotainment system to the Astra GTC range. Intuitive and userfriendly, the system features satellite navigation, voice control, Bluetooth phone and audio connectivity, picture viewer and Gracenote album art, all via its high-resolution 7-inch touchscreen display.

In addition, the top-of-the-range Navi 950 IntelliLink contains Europewide street level mapping with updates easily downloadable via USB. Drivers can also have incoming text messages read out to them, as well as integrating their smartphones’ own voice recognition functions.

The Vauxhall warranty is valid for the lifetime of the vehicle up to a maximum of 100,000 miles.

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Motoring | Cockermouth Closure

Cockermouth’s Main Street shut to vehicles until August

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ORK has begun on Main Street, Cockermouth, as part of the next stage in the highway improvement scheme and will take at least until August.

Originally it was hoped to keep one lane open through the wider section and put in traffic controls but it’s now it’s become clear that the road will need to be closed in order to protect the safety of the public and our contractors says the county council.

Cumbria County Council is spending nearly £1.7 million on the work, between Sullart Street and Cocker Bridge.

The scheme involves reconstructing and resurfacing the carriageway, renewing the existing drainage system, repaving the north footway and renewing lighting columns throughout Main Street.

Improvements on Main Street are in two phases, starting with the section between Sullart Street and Station Street.

There’s a signed diversion via Station Street, which will have two-way traffic during the closure. A way through Main Street will be maintained for pedestrians and dismounted cyclists. Deliveries to premises will be accommodated in the closure length.

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Comets’ New Team | Sport

Comets’ new team causes a real buzz Words: John Walsh | photography: PAUL ROBINSON

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orkington Comets eagerlyawaited 2014 season is almost ready for lift-off.

Newcastle Diamonds’ visit Derwent Park, on Saturday, March 22 in leg one of the Ian Thomas Memorial Shield.

The Diamonds won the inaugural double-header last year and Comets want nothing less than revenge.

In a break with tradition Comets will hold their usual fans forum on the night before their practice session, when supporters get the chance to meet the new-look team.

Since Tony Mole and Ian Thomas brought speedway back to Derwent Park in 1999 the chance for the supporters to meet the new team has followed the practice session. This season, however, the riders will be introduced to the fans at the Waverley Hotel, Workington, on Friday, March 14. Press and practice will be open the following day to the public, at noon, for donations to the air fence fund.

As well as the air fence Workington have now have new 2014 race jackets - and two other very important packages. New signing Josh Grajczonek has arrived while the Comets are especially pleased to announce the long awaited arrival of Mason Campton. There’s a real buzz among Comets fans who generally like the look of the new team.

One of the earliest meetings at Derwent Park will be the testimonial for former rider Rusty Harrison, which has a very attractive line-up. It’s a celebration of Rusty’s 14-year UK career, most with Comets. He will race for Glasgow this summer but there wasn’t much doubt that his testimonial meeting would be at Derwent Park.

Last season’s Elite League Riders’ Champion, Rory Schlein, is one of three full-time Elite League riders in the Testimonial at Workington, on Saturday April 5. The two Aussies have been friends and rivals for a long time and Rory and Rusty used

Theo Pijper to race against each other in juniors in Adelaide. Also in the line-up is Dutchman Theo Pijper who rode with Rusty in 2005 The field so far is: Peter Kildemand,Ty Proctor, Rory Schlein, Kauko Nieminen, Josh Grajczonek, Rene Bach, Simon Stead, Richard Lawson, Kenneth Hansen, Aaron Summers, Ricky Wells, Stuart Robson,Theo Pijper, and Adam Roynon.

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Sport | Reds’ Last Chance

REDS’ LAST CHANCE? Words: John Walsh | Photography: Steve Durham

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orkington Reds may still have a chance of escaping the Conference North’s drop zone. Without a win in 14 matches, bottom and 12 points off safety, they had become odds-on favourites to adhere to the Evo Stik Premier League.

But a 1-0 home victory over fellow strugglers, Oxford City, to end that dreadful winless sequence was followed by more good news. Just two clubs, instead of three might be relegated, which fashioned new hope for Reds with 14 games left.

The decision to relegate only two is expected to follow the announcement that Vauxhall Motors are resigning from the League at the end of the season.

The friendly Ellesmere Port club has decided that it can no longer justify the cost of travelling involved at this level. The team that started locally as a social club attached to Vauxhall Motors get the smallest crowd in the league.

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There has been genuine sorrow at Workington mixed with a lot of sympathy as Reds too have shouted long and hard about the geographical make-up of a league which is certainly not Northern. Yet the departure of Vauxhall will give Reds a better chance of escaping the clutches of a bottom two, rather than a bottom three.

Manager Ian McDonald said: “Nothing has changed because my objective is to get as far away from the bottom as we possibly can. We need to start moving forward. We have been getting the ball down and playing the kind of football that my assistant Ashley Hoskin and I want us to be doing.”

Long-serving defender, Kyle May, has been granted a testimonial match next season to mark his outstanding service to the club. He joined in the 2004/05 season and has been a permanent fixture virtually ever since, clocking up over 400 games. The testimonial game is likely to be a Reds Legend team against a Carlisle United Legends XI at Borough Park pre-season or in early September.

There’s a celebration dinner for Kyle at the Hunday Manor Hotel, on Saturday, April 5.

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Veivers Return with Town | Sport

Veivers relishes his return with Town

Words: John Walsh | photography: Jim Davis

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HIL Veivers is the man charged with ensuring that Workington Town stay in the Championship, following the departure of Gary Charlton.

The 49-year-old Australian brings a wealth of Super League experience as a player and coach and he is just delighted to be back after being sacked by Salford City Reds a year ago.

Town moved quickly to appoint the legendary St. Helens full-back when he applied for the vacant coaching role, following Charlton’s shock exit.

Charlton, who had seen joint coach Martin Oglanby go during the winter, made his decision after the opening-day defeat, at home to Doncaster.

“I think I have taken the club as far as I could and it’s time for someone else to try and move it to the next level,” said Charlton who, with Oglanby, took Town to the play-offs last season after Championship One promotion a year earlier.

Veivers still regrets not his Salford sacking after just five games in charge last season. It hurt him for a long time and he’s been a year out of the game. Salford almost went bust at Christmas and Veivers subsequently endured a nightmare pre-season – at one stage he had just a handful of senior professionals to work with.

After arriving at Derwent Park he said: “I am so pleased to be back in the game at Workington and everyone tells me the club is well-run and has potential. I have a lot of contacts in the game and plan to use them to mine and Workington’s advantage.”

Phil Veivers & Vice Chairman Mark Fryer And Town have just finalised an official link-up with Super League giants Wigan so will be able to pull-on dual registration players during the Championship season.

Veivers played for the Southern Suburbs, St Helens and Huddersfield as a full-back and is the brother of former Australian international rugby league captain Greg Veivers.

He moved to St Helens at the same time as fellow Australian and Souths team-mate Mal Meninga did, but whereas Meninga returned home Veivers stayed having married and started a family.

He played 381 games for St. Helens in 12-years, period, scoring 98 tries. His career came to an end with two seasons at Huddersfield.

From there he was the assistant to Brian Noble in charge of Bradford through their trophy days and continued that partnership, with Noble, at Wigan.

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Fun & Games | Colouring Time

Easteruring Colo

Image supplied by local artist Jemma Tegg

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Children’s Puzzles | Fun & Games

ALPHA SUDOKU

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

Word search

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.

Please see the Tide Tables for puzzle solutions

Spring Word search

Can you find all 15 words?

Buds Daffodils Flowers Grass April Showers

Rainbow Seeds Tulips Easter Lambs

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Puzzles | Take a break

Catch-Words

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What’s On

Music / Theatre / Film / Comedy / Other / Music / Theatre

//music Sat Mar 15 Limehouse Lizzy Monroes Bar, Workington ------------------------------------------------Sun Mar 16 911: Illuminate The Sands Centre, Carlisle ------------------------------------------------Mon Mar 17 Martin Taylor Theatre by the Lake, Keswick ------------------------------------------------Tue Mar 18 Tragedy: The All Metal Tribute to The Bee Gees and Beyond The Brickyard, Carlisle -------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------Sun Mar 30 Stevie Nimmo Trio Saints Rooms, Cockermouth The Trusler-Carroll-Wass Piano Trio Theatre by the Lake, Keswick ------------------------------------------------Fri Apr 4 Jacks Not Smooth Lounge 41, Workington

Falling Red + supports Monroes Bar, Workington ------------------------------------------------Fri Apr 11 We Are Carnivores, Abandcalledboy & Cities Lounge 41, Workington The Rezillos The Brickyard, Carlisle -------------------------------------------------

The Bootleg Beatles The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Fri Apr 11 - 13 Bowness Bay Blues Festival Windermere

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Sat Apr 5 Motown and Soul Night The Brickyard, Carlisle

Sat Apr 12 For Love And Hate & Keeper Lounge 41, Workington

Kimmie Rhodes The Kirkgate, Cockermouth

The Counterfeit Sixties The Wave Centre, Maryport

Sat Mar 22 Rue and The Rockets The Sands Centre, Carlisle Loose - Alternative Club Night The Brickyard, Carlisle ------------------------------------------------Thur Mar 27 Peatbog Faeries The Brickyard, Carlisle ------------------------------------------------Fri Mar 28 Lounge 41 Charity Night

Ft music from: Censored, Things That Hang From Trees & Last Calls Raising Money for the Ruth Mae Memorial Fund

Lounge 41, Workington

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heatre / Film / Comedy / Other / Music / Theatre / Film / Comedy / Other / Music ------------------------------------------------Sun Apr 13 Roddy Woomble The Kirkgate, Cockermouth ------------------------------------------------Fri Apr 18 Dead Dreamers & Lifelines Lounge 41, Workington Scream Baby Scream Monroes Bar, Workington ------------------------------------------------Sat Apr 19 Rayne Live Lounge 41, Workington ------------------------------------------------Sun Apr 20 Easter Bank Holiday All Day PARTY!

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Wed Apr 23 Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar in Concert Theatre Royal, Workington

Thur May 8 - 11 The 23rd Jennings Keswick Jazz Festival Theatre by the Lake, Kewsick

Fri May 16 Bang Your Drum presents Sam Lee and Friends

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Fri Apr 25 Rockin’ by the Lake Theatre by the Lake, Kewsick

Fri May 9 Buddy Holly & The Cricketers The Wave Centre, Maryport

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Megson The Kirkgate, Cockermouth

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------------------------------------------------Sat Apr 26 The Lancashire Hotpots Theatre by the Lake, Kewsick ------------------------------------------------Sun Apr 27 Mitch Laddie Bane Saints Room, Cockermouth ------------------------------------------------Thur May 1 - 3 Strictly Musical Carnegie Theatre, Workington

Sat May 10 - 11 Daniel O’Donnell The Sands Centre, Carlisle ------------------------------------------------Tue May 13 Professor Green The Sands Centre, Carlisle

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//theatre Mon Mar 10 -15 Evita The Sands Centre, Carlisle ------------------------------------------------Sun Mar 16 Grisly Tales From Tumblewater The Kirkgate, Cockermouth

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Fri May 16 Keswick Mountain Festival: Adrian Edmonson and The Bad Shepherds Crow Park, Keswick

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Sun Apr 6 The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) Theatre by the Lake, Keswick -----------------------------------------------Wed Apr 9 - 12 The Witches of Eastwick Carnegie Theatre, Workington

Singin’ in the Rain Theatre by the Lake, Keswick ------------------------------------------------

//film Mon Mar 17 Gloria (15) The Kirkgate, Cockermouth -----------------------------------------------Mon Mar 31 Gravity (12A) The Kirkgate, Cockermouth -----------------------------------------------Mon Apr 7 The Butler (12A) The Kirkgate, Cockermouth -----------------------------------------------Mon Apr 14 Blue is the Warmest Colour (18) The Kirkgate, Cockermouth

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//other Fri Mar 7 - 16 Words by the Water Theatre by the Lake, Keswick ------------------------------------------------wSat Mar 22 Wacky Science Experiments Tullie House, Carlisle ------------------------------------------------Sun Mar 23 Table Top Sale The Sands Centre, Carlisle ------------------------------------------------Fri Apr 4 Made in Cumbria Farmers Market City Centre, Carlisle -------------------------------------------------

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Feature | Bowness Bay Blues 2014 Sean Webster Marcus Bonfanti

Windermere's

berth of the Blues The Marcus Bonfanti Band appear at The Wheelhouse, on Sunday (4pm-6pm) and are leading exponents of the new generation of British blues.

W

ITH the dearth of music festivals in the county those that remain and which are within relatively easy reach, begin to look even more inviting.

You might – and Blues fans certainly will – be seriously considering visiting the relatively new Bowness Bay Blues Festival. Last year’s was hailed as a great success, and Bowness Bay Blues 2014 is set to be even better. It takes place Friday April 11-13.

There will be top-quality music on offer all weekend - ranging from sizzling electric to mellow acoustic blues and foot-tapping R'n'B - in some wonderfully atmospheric venues surrounding Lake Windermere.

Headline acts this year are: The Sean Webster Band, known for his inspired guitar playing and passionate vocals, is one of the most eagerly-anticipated acts this year. They will be topping the bill at The Wheelhouse, on Saturday night April 12. Sean will also be running a singing and song-writing workshop at the festival, the next day.

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Midnight Train are Friday night headliners at The Hydro Hotel, (10pm-midnight) and feature some of the best names on the circuit, including singer Debbie Giles and drummer Sam Kelly.

NEW for this year are: music workshops for singers, drummers and guitarists, offering unique opportunities to learn from the professionals. There’s also a Jam Session and Youth Band (3-7pm on Friday April 11), at the Lake District Boat Club, hosted by Workington music store owner Buzz Elliott.

Also appearing will be The Tommy Allen/Johnny Hewitt Blues Duo; The Alex McKown Band; The Swaps; The Brothers Groove; Off the Hook; AWOL; The Bullfrogs; The Elderly Brothers; Tin Pan Alley; Blue Swamp; Buzz Elliott; Dan Burnett and Slowburner.

The event is organised by Windermere Rotary Club and £4,000 from the 2013 event benefitted The Calvert Trust charity.

The Calvert Trust used £4000 funding raised by the 2013 Bowness Bay Blues Weekend to refurbish their wheelchair challenge course and the adjacent path.

Visit www.bownessbayblues.co.uk for full details.

Email: info@bownessbayblues.co.uk

Talented Trio, STARK | Feature

Why not go

‘Stark’

staring?

R

ecently chosen as a Critic’s Choice by London’s Time Out magazine, alternative folk/rock band Stark are gaining a reputation as one of the most exciting young roots acts around and are returning to Cumbria for another round of gigs.

The Brighton-based band has a local lad its line-up, Maryport’s Jamie Francis.

The band was formed when the trio met at university; “We jammed in several different bands together and eventually gravitated toward our present line-up.” Said Josh, bass and vocals.

The unique sound the trio create can be credited to the different musical backgrounds of each band member; taking their influences from old blues music to modern rock and prog.

“Jamie’s Dad play Irish fiddle so he grew up around that music. Since then it’d been incorporated into our music.

We all really like the melodic nature of Folk and the current British Folk revival headed by artists such as Seth Lakeman is a real inspiration,” said Evan, drums and vocals.

To make each gig different Stark choose their music depending on the venue; playing acoustic folk in smaller, more intimate venues and rocking out in larger ones.

“We love playing in Cumbria as the crowds really appreciate live music, and we always try and fit in a few Cumbrian dates on tour.”

“We did a tour in March last year when all the snow hit; we almost got stuck in the van on several occasions. Being southern fairies Josh and Evan found the whole experience rather daunting but it was worth it for the great shows we got to play,” laughed Jamie.

So what can you expect from a Stark gig?

“It depends on whether they see the electric or acoustic set. But there’s always a lot of harmonies and a few footstomping rhythms. We always like to put on a good show and connect with the audience. But the only way to really find out is to come and see us yourself!”

Playing in collaboration with Stark members Jamie and Evan on the tour is Britain’s Got Talent runner-up, Sam Kelly, he said: “I’m really looking forward to playing in Cumbria. Jamie always has very good things to say about performing there; everyone’s so much nicer, they appreciate the music and it doesn’t cost £5 something for a pint.”

Sam Kelly

Stark and will be playing in festivals and pubs around the county from May 24 – June 1.

Sam will be performing with his trio, two of whom are members of band Stark, who appear on the same bill, on Wednesday May 28 (7pm) at The Bounty Inn, Maryport; Friday May 30, at Zeffirelli’s, Ambleside; Saturday May 31 (9pm) at The Brook, Cleator; and Sunday June 1, (5pm) at The Bush Inn, Cockermouth.

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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

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

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Saturday 1st February Saturday 1st March

Cockermouth

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Handy Map

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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

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

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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 Plaza Cinema Rosehill Theatre Theatre by the Lake The Wave

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Wildlife of the Solway Firth | The Lesser Spotted Dogfish

Wildlife of The Solway Firth

The Lesser Spotted Dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula

By Mark Vollers

T

HIS small member of the shark family will be well known to most sea anglers and commercial fishermen, usually with no great affection because they have stolen the bait meant for other fish!

It is a measure of their success as a species that they appear to be thriving. They are, in fact, edible but as a nation we are pretty conservative in our taste so demand remains low.

They reach a maximum size of about 60 cms and spend their life on the sea-bed, either searching for food, using their phenomenal sense of smell / taste or resting up, often in a rock crevice or among kelp holdfasts and often in close company with their own kind.

They are both hunters of live crustaceans and scavengers, doing the essential job of helping to keep the seabed clear of dead fish. They no doubt benefit from commercial fishing discards too, which result in thousands of tons of dead fish around our coasts.

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They reproduce by laying egg cases, known as mermaid’s purses, tough pouches which they attach to seaweed stems.

Mermaid

’s Purses

These develop over as long as nine months and then hatch out as perfect miniature 10cm sharks, ready to fend for themselves and big enough not to be preyed on by all and sundry.

Recent research suggests that female dogfish are capable of asexual reproduction as well, extremely unusual in animals of this complexity.

Dogfish skin is covered in denticles, which are like small teeth, making it extremely unpalatable for predators and in days past, when dried out, were used as fine sandpaper! www.coastaquarium.co.uk

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Local Services | March/April 2014

Local Services - YOUR GUIDE TO -

EVERYTHING YOU NEED FROM ACCOUNTANTS TO SCAFFOLDING

roofing services

joiners & builders

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Feature | Walkingshaw

Exceptional cars and service to match

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W

EST Cumbria now has an even bigger, brighter and better Volkswagen showroom as Walkingshaw have taken on board the company’s new, cutting-edge corporate image.

By 2015 Volkswagen is aiming to have updated all its showrooms across the UK, thus ensuring that they offer customers and staff the most upto-date, modern and useable space and as ever, Walkinghaw has been at the forefront of the company’s dealership development ideas.

The updates are aimed at greatly enhancing customers’ experience and with an expanded showroom, at Lillyhall, Workington upgrading the one they first built there in the year 2000.

Walkingshaw can now exhibit 10 new models which cover most of the car company’s latest, extensive range in an impressive and stylish feature area which also houses a dedicated hand-over area where customers can comfortably take delivery of their new cars.

Business has carried on as usually as possible throughout the £500,000 development which began last summer and feedback from customers and staff suggests that any temporary disruption has been well worthwhile.

There are new, more comfortable waiting refreshment and children’s play areas, merchandise and accessories plus WiFi. There are also more parking spaces; better disabled accesses and automatic doors, which together with the existing, modern, state-of-the-art workshops and a larger area for pre-owned models, combine to give customers the best possible service and sales experience when buying or maintaining their vehicles.

The showroom also has iPads and a range of advanced web tools to make the assimilation of information easier for customers enabling them

see products and specifications that may not otherwise be available for immediate viewing in the showroom.

Customers are very knowledgeable nowadays and clearly enthusiastic about the new showroom which suggests they’re happy, engaged and serious about buying a car.

“ Walkingshaw can now exhibit 10 new models which cover most of the car company’s latest, extensive range in an impressive and stylish feature area” “If they like the environment it follows that they’ll want to come back for regular maintenance, which has definite benefits for them, and of course, us,” said managing director, Andrew Walkingshaw.

But it’s all part of the consistency, service and high quality environment that customers expect... and get... from Volkswagen and Walkingshaw’s who, for 45 years, have not just sold vehicles but have taken great pride in maintaining them so that their customers return time after time.

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