Meet the Cumbrian Freecyclers
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure and the global phenomenon of Freecycle is helping unused and unwanted items get a new lease of life.
Timeline
‘I will never part with my Tony Curtis scrap books’
Lexie Collier of Carlisle was an avid film-goer and loved collecting film stars autographs.
Beatles thrown out of hotel
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 . . .
Taste of the Solway
NEW season saltmarsh lamb reared on the banks of the Solway is now on sale at Cranstons butchers.
How the Cumberland Pig was reinvented
In the movie Jurassic Park, Sir Richard Attenborough plays a billionaire who recreates long-extinct dinosaurs using DNA from a mosquito trapped in amber. Swap Hollywood for Cumbria and Sir Dicky for a bearded bloke with his sleeves rolled up and grubby jeans and instead of Jurassic Park you get Jurassic pork...
Keeley Hawes has an almost Madonna-like way of reinventing herself. From a mousey-bobbed MI5 agent in Spooks to a time-travelling cop with an 80s perm in Ashes To Ashes, she manages to pull off any guise with style.
Twins Georgia and Kyla Johnston are identical in the way they look but there is something that sets them apart. While Kyla chats away, Georgia joins in but the sounds that come out of her mouth are not the same as her sister’s
Can't get to Carlisle's Tullie House? Don't worry, pioneering outreach work is taking exhbitions into the heart of communities