Cockermouth Billy’s life in music

I was born in Cockermouth in 1936 and went to All Saints School, which is now the Kirkgate Centre. I then went on to the grammar school.

Last updated 24 April 2009
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Keeping love of budgies alive

THE smaller of the two hatchlings is just seven days old, pink and naked as a newborn infant.

Last updated 9 April 2009
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A picture book history of a town’s am-drams

A PAPCASTLE performer is putting together a pictorial history of Cockermouth’s amateur theatre productions.

Last updated 2 April 2009
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Shock journey from footballing fitness to a fight for life

WHEN Workington Reds assistant manager Viv Busby developed a cough in 2000 he didn’t think anything of it.

Last updated 26 March 2009
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Striding out with top athlete Laura in her quest for Olympic stardom

Last updated 26 March 2009
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Orienteers find their fun in the woods

VIDEO RUNNING through woods on a wet Saturday morning is not everyone’s idea of fun – but it is the basis for an award-winning West Cumbrian club.

Last updated 22 March 2009
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Compassionate objectivity marks John’s way of dealing with death

Last updated 19 March 2009
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Poor man’s George Best but the Crown Prince of Borough Park

FROM his apartment in Tenerife overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, former Workington Reds favourite Johnny Martin looks back at his time at Borough Park with fond memories.

Last updated 5 March 2009
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Cumbrians tread the boards in The Maid

Last updated 26 February 2009
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Giving up the day job was Iain’s best martial arts move

GIVING up your job to write a book and concentrate solely on your passion in life is not something everybody could do.

Last updated 22 January 2009
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Pals find 13 wacky ways to raise cash for charity

A GROUP of Maryport men who organise bizarre charity challenges are thinking up their next fund-raising adventure.

Last updated 22 January 2009
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Cumbrians recruited for Bragg premiere

KESWICK’S Theatre by the Lake has just recruited 38 Cumbrians to the cast for the forthcoming world premiere of Melvyn Bragg’s Maid of Buttermere.

Last updated 22 January 2009
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Farm diversification really takes flight

IN 2002 John Nattrass was busy tending a herd of dairy cows at Mawbray Hayrigg.

Last updated 15 January 2009
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Fat is a four-letter word for me says Silloth glamour model

FOR Silloth’s Deryn Green, fat has become a four-letter word and a destructive fixation.

Last updated 9 January 2009
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A rare portrait of Bounty mutineer

ARE the eyes reminiscent of a brooding Errol Flynn? Do those lips have a touch of the Marlon Brando about them? And does that powerful expression remind you of Clark Gable at all?

Last updated 1 January 2009
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More English than the English when it comes to serving tea and sympathy

Last updated 11 December 2008
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Getting into the spirit of theatre’s magical anniversary spectacular

THEATRE designer Martin Johns can be excused if he looks like he’s just seen a ghost. Actually he’s seen three of them!

Last updated 4 December 2008
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Here’s a true king of the jungle, now preserving Lakes’ landscape

POISONOUS centipedes scuttle over the forest floor and the occasional wild pig or deer crashes through the dense undergrowth of the tropical rainforest.

Last updated 27 November 2008
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