Saturday, 10 May 2008

Healing arts

Interior photo

You don’t meet many businesswomen like Sarah German. Making money just isn’t an important part of her agenda. Sarah and her partner Mark Davis run their shop The Really Big Mandala in Carlisle’s Fisher Street as “an offering to the people of the city”.

Bid to reverse owl decline

Barn owl photo THE World Owl Trust at Muncaster Castle is teaming up with wildlife rangers in the Grizedale Forest to launch a new barn owl conservation project.

Timeline

Pub regulars off for a trip, but where?

WITH so many pubs and clubs closing today, Olga Lytollis, of Dalston, sent Timeline this photograph taken of the regulars at the popular White Ox, Durdar during the mid 1950’s.

Slow-cooked with love

clarechef The company logo leaves you in no doubt: ‘Hand made in Cumbria. Slow cooked with love and no crap’.

I know I’m not a bad parent, it just takes one moment . . .

ADHD photo Research has found links between E-number food colourings and ADHD in children. We talk to two mums about life with hyperactive kids

Write Stuff

Trumpet call to join our band

Residents or businesses within earshot of Gilwilly Industrial Estate in Penrith may have been puzzled to hear the sound of a rousing brass band march on a Monday evening in recent weeks.

The museum's never out of reach

Museum photo Can't get to Carlisle's Tullie House? Don't worry, pioneering outreach work is taking exhbitions into the heart of communities

Beatles thrown out of hotel

The Beatles photo When Bill Berry saw four rather scruffy young chaps stroll into Carlisle Golf Club’s annual dinner-dance and start tucking into the buffet, he decided that their behaviour wasn’t acceptable and threw them out. The four turned out to be The Beatles . . .

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