Healing arts
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
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.
A Sharrow Bay take on sarnies
TOMORROW is the start of British Sandwich Week and the chefs at Sharrow Bay are joining in with their own, typically up-market butty.
I know I’m not a bad parent, it just takes one moment . . .
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
A film to beat summer blues
Roll on summer 2008. Weeks of blue skies, sunshine and sweltering temperatures. Or perhaps not, this being Britain. But one thing we can look forward to is the long-awaited Sex and the City film.
Can't get to Carlisle's Tullie House? Don't worry, pioneering outreach work is taking exhbitions into the heart of communities
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 . . . 
Driftwood, scraps of fabric from the beach, copper wire, fishing tackle, old newspaper and other discarded materials have all been transformed by artist Julian Longcrake for a new exhibition at Penrith and Eden Museum in Penrith.
