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Welcome to the April edition of your Cum Contents Printing you the perfect, patio, path and driveway
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Introduction & Contents by Lee Quinn
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Out and about with Butterworths by Lee Quinn
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The perfect gift for the person who has everything!
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The opposite of faith… by Rev David Sargent
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Off at a tangent, stats, facts and fiction – Lee Quinn
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May – the beginning of Summer by Pam Waggott
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Another piece of the Jigsaw with S & G Group
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The 24 hour radio show challenge by Emily Quinn
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The perfect landscape with Travis Perkins
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Wainwrights Society update by Derek Cockell
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April Thackawatch by John France
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Bonny Blues back to Winning ways by Karl Collinson
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March difficult month for the Pinks by Liam Jackson
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mbrian Local Welcome to your April edition of your community magazine. I am hoping that the experience of the warm of the sun on your face, the rise in the temperature, maybe seeing the cherry blossom appearing with the daffodils finally out, like me starts a warm feeling inside. Waking up to the sun, coming home in the daylight, the tulips already warming to the idea that summer is just around the corner, these some simple things that wake us up, all totally free which we might not always take in, free to be enjoyed. I hope you had a pleasant Easter and with the buzz of the bees and the lawn mowers, we may all just be thinking that spring is finally in the air. Spring showers yes, only to be expected even the odd frost with clear night, but guaranteed is more daylight. Thank you to those readers that have now become listeners of the shows that I cover on your community radio station, Eden FM 107.5. We have seen quite an uplift in interest via the airways, either by those on the internet listening or via mobile phones, which shows a pull not only with the older generation listening to radio via computers, but also registers a success with younger people, some discovering radio for the first time. Based on the interactivity through emails and texts Eden FM receives, we think it is solid evidence that more people have been tuning in on the FM frequency to 107.5, switching the dial on their radio to listen to what is truly local radio and music that is varied, covering whole genres of music along with local information and importantly local news as it happens and traffic reports that come in from local people, that don’t make it on to the normal travel websites. PLEASE STORE THIS NUMBER IN YOUR MOBILE - 07757 116711. It’s that handy number to text requests, road works or delays, if it is safe to do so. How many people listen in to Eden FM? Well that’s the question I am asked almost every day of every week. Sometimes it is out of curiosity and
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Out and About It has been a busy 12 months working with Tony Butterworth and his team. This is not just through advertising the service they provide, but has also involved assisting in the development of the business by reaching out to a wider audience and taking the team out of the office. With Butterworths celebrating the completion of its first full years involvement with Cumbrian Local, Tony Butterworth reviewed the progress made by the Firm and the undoubted impact that regular local advertising raising their profile has had on his business right here in the Eden Valley.
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Butterworths employs over 80 staff, based in 5 offices throughout Cumbria and the North of England. It is one of the largest Solicitors practices in the North for Conveyancing of residential property and the processing of volume Consumer Claims, relating primarily to the re-claim of PPI and Delayed Flight Compensation. However, the Firm also offers the full range of legal services one would expect from a busy local high street practice, including a highly regarded Personal Injury Team dealing with all types of compensation claims. These range from serious head injury and life changing accidents to minor injuries caused by slips, trips and falls or minor road traffic accidents and accidents within the workplace. Tony states that during 2015 the Firm experienced a significant increase in the number of enquiries in relation to the provision of Wills, Powers of Attorney and Probate matters and that a high proportion of
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these have surely been generated by the regular articles placed in Cumbrian Local. “Lee Quinn has been invaluable to our Penrith based Private Client Team by way of the support and assistance he has given in the formulation of our marketing strategy in the Penrith area”, says Tony. A major development for the Firm has been the introduction of regular monthly Legal Surgeries in outlying towns and villages. These offer free legal advice and assistance on any matters. Surgeries have been held in Langwathby, Lazonby, Newbiggin and Shap, with Greystoke, Alston, Appleby and Kirkby Stephen to be added to the rota during the coming months. Tony sees this service as vital to the development of the Firm as a whole, as well as plugging a significant gap in the provision of legal services in the more rural areas. Tony explains: “Many of our clients have difficulty travelling into the larger towns, either through age or infirmity or lack of public transport, so we therefore take our services out to them in village halls and very often, in their own homes. Clients
appreciate the extra effort made and our staff find the work extremely rewarding in that they are helping to meet a genuine need within the local rural community.” The alliance with Cumbrian Local in promoting the surgeries has been key to its success, according to Tony. Finally, Tony added: “We intend to continue our development on the Eden Valley throughout 2016, extending our reach in all directions and up to the borders of the County and with the help of Lee Quinn and the Cumbrian Local Team, I am sure we will succeed.” So on that note, it is on to the next 12 months with Butterworths Solicitors. The next two surgeries take place in Greystoke and Alston; if you would like more details about these surgeries, or would like to know when the team will be hosting a surgery near you, give them a call, or drop them a line.
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sometimes it’s commercially a point of discussion as potentially clients have been brainwashed into thinking that everyone listens to just one commercial station in Cumbria it would seem. I usually answer this question with another question, because in my 10th year of working in community radio, I have cultivated and created what I think is the best answer. It’s not a straight one. This possibly reflects my grooming of the past in knocking on doors, helping friends win seats in elections; this coupled with my experience of knocking on doors to collect signatures that helped raise awareness of the need for a town council in Penrith. When asked what it costs, I couldn’t say what it would cost. My message here was, with the services and some facilities run by Eden District Council taken on by a town council through the Localism Act of 2012, should we be paying more for something we are already paying for? There being therefore only one way to find out, as in the two previous and failed attempts to get a referendum, this was not forthcoming. My hope was that to have a town council for Penrith with the right people not politically driven, we would get to the bottom of it. Importantly to date, even with not enough candidates coming forward as the newly formed Town Council draws towards the end of its first year, it is making some headway on taking on services, whether it can maybe have assets once the town is back under control of the town, will take a lot of hard work, but anything is possible. Anyway, about those questions. When faced with a question that you don’t really know the whole answer to, I could never lie, but what I can say, with hand on heart, is that I always give an honest answer, which can indeed be challenged. With radio, the truth is nobody anywhere in the UK can provide actual figures of who listens to what radio station they listen to in Cumbria. Now there are surveys carried out, which are paid for by commercial radios and the British Broadcasting Corporation, which based on a minute percentage of the population of Cumbria, actually calculates who listens to what and when. This data is on page 20. Dare I say it, the same goes for readership of local newspapers. Just because you sell a newspaper in an area, how can you guess that the readership is three to four times the sales. More about this on pages 12, 19 & 20. So when someone says how many listeners does Eden FM have, what I say is simply, I don’t know, but what I do know is that the person sitting at the traffic lights
in their car on the way out or on their way home, might be listening to their radio. That family at home in the kitchen at breakfast, lunch or teatime may have a radio in the back ground. The person alone at home for whatever reason, that can’t get out, who listens to the radio whilst sitting in their comfortable chair looking out of their window or across their room. We don’t know and we’ll never know unless we ask them what station they listen to or if they do actually listen to the radio. This summer as I did, a few summers ago, with some of the members of the Eden FM team, we are going to be in the villages and towns of the Eden Valley and we are going to ask those questions. A quest to find out and it might even take more than one summer, but we’ll be bringing this information all be it a very small team collecting the information, where do people get their local information on news, sports and events for the Eden Valley and what radio do they listen to and when. The need to know, more powerful than the prediction and calculations made 300 miles away by businesses serving media groups that can afford to, even with the information not actually and truthfully tell the consumer that the figures they have are purely a guess. As I do, I mention the word local more than many other words. I never thought in the short time I have been living here I would have gained so much local knowledge, this something raised by a number of people I come into contact with, readers like yourself and listeners of Eden FM. Another simple question and here is the answer. To gain a local knowledge is to interact at a local level. Delivering your magazine and taking time out to talk to you is probably 50% of my time. I am motivated and inspired by the feedback and comments that fuel me every month. Meanwhile, my thanks to reverend David Sargent for his monthly update (page 10). Pam is here (page 14 – 15), we are moving on to May. We have a proud father moment on pages 22 & 24. My thanks for our regular Thackawatch from John France (page 27) and our Sports round up from Ben France (Pages 28 - 29). As regular and reliable as the cars he writes about my thanks to Andrew Kidd, who has been driving into the future this month (page 30 – 31). I’ll be back in May with your 79th edition of your local community publication, with some new additions for the summer Lee Quinn
A huge thank you to all our advertisers, volunteer writers, photographers and the team that is Cumbrian Local and Eden Fm from design to delivery. Front Cover & pages 4 & 5 Ben France
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The opposite of faith …. Last month we thought about the great Easter story, its pivotal (literally crucial) place in the Christian faith and of course the incredible scandal that death itself has been turned around. With God, it seems, there is no ending that is not a new beginning, He appears not to know the difference between life and death! During the next five weeks or so many of the churches around the world will grapple with two important themes following directly on from the Easter narrative; in what ways did people encounter the new life made possible for them in the incredible news ‘He is Risen!’ (looking at some of the appearances described in the early accounts) and, equally important, what difference did it make to the way they lived? The second question draws attention to the descriptions of the emerging life of the early Christian communities. What strikes me as both helpful and encouraging is that the accounts of the resurrection appearances each have their own distinct angle on it; they certainly aren’t all neat and tidy. This variety gives the accounts an air of reliability and authenticity. How much easier and convenient it would have been to edit out all the differences and come up with a clear formula. Religion often prefers it neat and tidy, but God seems less bothered. Faith mingles with questions and mindstretching scepticism. Sometimes Jesus is recognised, more often than not he isn’t. Some meet him while out fishing, others on a late evening walk home; some in the garden, others in the locked room; some when
he shares a simple meal, others when they engage in rigorous debate. Real faith, the weeks after Easter suggest, is not about forbidding questions but asking the right questions. The opposite of faith is not doubt; if there were no doubts it could hardly be called faith at all. No, the opposite of faith is fundamentalism, leaving no room for uncertainty, no space for questions, no permission to think, explore, consider and be open to the possibility of the new. Fundamentalism declares that ‘we’ are right and have access to all ‘truth’. Faith must by its very nature be more humble, open and tentative if it is to be authentic and credible. The post-Easter stories are an open invitation, not to sign up on the religious dotted line, but to consider what it might mean to live in the light of Easter. What difference would it make to my priorities and decisions? Where in my community and neighbourhood do we need to find ways of expressing the great truth that Christ is risen? What would that hope actually look like? Who needs to hear it? Who longs to know it? With all good wishes for a lovely spring, Rev David Sargent Churches Together in Penrith (See local notices, papers and websites for Church services and events near you)
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As a writer and editor of a magazine and a director and presenter at Eden FM 107.5 community radio, I have many responsibilities. Media is a major part of our everyday life, our past, our present and our future; it’s a fact. I have said it before and I will say it again, because of technology and upgrades, we are hit with and challenged by the exposure to a wash of information. The way that news and advertising is presented means the way we take in information has changed. The media landscape is constantly moving and changing. Unfortunately bad news always makes the headlines and some media only picks what stories it wants. Off on a tangent, we are called every day by people; sorry, called by recorded messages mostly and to prevent this we have to pay the phone companies additional charges or upgrade our phones, even though the technology exists to stop this at the push of a button. Just like the technology exists that would stop a car from speeding and is just a microchip away from being safe. What do I mean? Well when driving past a speed camera, using mobile phone technology with a microchip in a vehicle as a standard road safety measure, it could regulate speeds and it would prevent the car and driver from breaking the speed limit or driving badly in poor weather conditions. Unfortunately lives are lost, accidents can be prevented, fast cars are made, but the revenue from speed cameras, where does it go? It seems it is certainly not used on technology to make roads safer.
Of course now more revenue is coming in by the introduction of speed awareness courses, which is a positive move to refresh drivers’ minds on how not to speed, but with speed bumps creating more pot holes and speed cameras a form of income. The simple objective is missed which is to stop the vehicle from breaking the speed limit, which is down to the person driving. Every formula one racing car when it enters the pit lane, at the push of a button has its speed restricted to save lives, so why isn’t this technology good enough to protect our children crossing the road and used to prevent accidents on motorways. Is it a story for a newspaper? Would it sell papers? Is it something a local MP or the ministry of transport would get behind, after all with an estimated £50 million generated a year? I’m sure prevention is the safest and long term goal, especially when speeding fines in the past few years have risen by 50%. About local media; how honest is it? Selling newspapers means people have to buy them. If you sell around 13,000 this means generally 13,000 people read it, however, what is sold to the potential advertiser and even a charity or voluntary group taking on the expense of advertising is not ‘by placing this advert you’ll reach 13,000 people’. Maybe a map of the area is presented to the customer and what is an estimated readership to the advertiser. This is sometimes inflated by three or four times the actual sales. How can that be true? Daily newspapers like local weekly newspapers are all available on line,
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May – the beginning of Summer? By Pam Waggott The origins of the name for the month of May come from the name of the Greek Goddess Maia. The Anglo-Saxons called the month Tri-Milchi as this was the time when the cows could be milked three times a day because the grass was growing rich and lush after the long dark days of winter. It was then known as Maius, Mayes or Mai but by the middle of the 15th century the month became known as May.
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Though it isn’t too hygienic to follow the following saying…those who bathe in May will soon be laid in clay! There is one long standing tradition that is still recognised in some parts of the country. Royal Oak Day or Oak Apple Day is recognised on 29th May and at one time was a public holiday celebrated in England to commemorate the restoration of the English monarchy in May 1660, following the English Civil war led by Oliver Cromwell. The Royalists had been defeated at the Battle of Naseby in 1645 and Charles I was executed in January 1649. However following the death of Cromwell in 1658 and a brief succession by his son, the monarchy was restored by Charles II on 29th May 1660. The oak leaf was used to commemorate the occasion as King Charles was said
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Continued from page 12 but the consumer or the advertiser rarely sees these figures. As sales drop at the newsagent, it is boasted that it’s because the audience is now online. Fact, Cumbrian Local is posted through doors. You know this because you are reading it now. Last year, on average, we posted 16,000 magazines through doors. Some areas are delivered to every other month now, until teams are recruited. We have a list of all the areas covered by town and village. Just because a property has a postcode, it doesn’t mean that it receives post, fact. Not every property has a post box. In many villages there are empty properties, holiday lets etc… fact, so if anyone tries to convince you, no matter how big or of national status they are that they cover every door with a delivery, this is fiction.
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For those of you who have landed on this page following on from the opening editorial, I will leave you with some facts about readership, newspaper sales and predicted listening figures sourced from ABC media www.abc.org.uk a business owned by the media industry, ABC independently verifies and reports on media performance. Inspiring market confidence by delivering a valued stamp of trust the media world. There data is used by a wide range of decision makers: Media owners, Media agencies, Advertisers, Rights owners, Investors and Management For Radio we have RAJAR which stands for Radio Joint Audience Research and is the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. It is jointly owned by the BBC and the Radiocentre on behalf of the commercial sector. Sales can be audited fact, predicted readership 3- 4 times fiction. If you can afford it you can buy into either ABC, have your sales and distribution audited if you are a newspaper or magazine. Generally this is for paid for commercial businesses. With radio, do you know and does anybody know how anyone outside your car or your kitchen what your listening to with your ear plugs in fact. But those that to win business of validate what they do need to show where the money is being spent. Until next time here are your local performers
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Sales Facts, Readers? Well your guess is as good as any…. As mentioned bad news can sell papers, there was a surge in December 2015 in Cumbria. By area covering the Eden Valley here are the facts and the stats. The population in the last ONs (office of national statistics (www.ons.gov.uk) survey showed there are about 500,000 in Cumbria, approximately 107,000 in and around the area of Carlisle and 52,600 in the Eden Valley.
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Cover Title - Cumberland Westmorland Herald (excluding Lakeland Herald 537 issues) average weekly sales June to December 2015 13,289 Sold in Kendal, South Lake District, Furness, Eden, North Lancashire, Penrith, North Lancashire Cover title – Westmorland Gazette Average weekly sales 2015 19, 251 Sold in Cumbria – Carlisle, Brampton, Wigton, Aspatria, Silloth, Cockermouth, Longton, Gretna, Haltwhistle, Penrith, Keswick, Appleby and Alston
RAJAR figures for the quarter ending December 2015 Nationally all BBC Radio has 53.5% share of listeners, BBC Local Radio England has 6.8%. Radio One 6.1% Radio 2 17.7% Classic FM 3.5%
BBC Radio Cumbria can hit 405,000 population , but has a reach of 121,000 - 12.1 % TSA CFM (Bauer Carlisle) can hit 251,000 population, but a reach of just 119,000 - 18.6% TSA The Bay can hit 280,000 population, but a reach of just 100,000 – 12.9% TSA Lakeland can hit 51,000 population, but a reach of just 18,000 – 12.7% TSA
Cover title – Cumberland News Average weekly sales 2015 19, 869
TSA percentages are the percentage of total listening time accounted for by a station in its Total Survey Area in an average week.
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Another piece of the Jigsaw! Sarjeant Group Ltd has branched out into providing a bespoke interior design service, from commercial premises, to improving your home, or to simply advise, no job is too big or too small! Acquiring individual pieces is something we love, but to do it with purpose is really enjoyable. We regularly source furniture for our retail shop, but to find something with intention is so much more rewarding, it’s like completing another piece in a jigsaw when the image was only a description or feeling. Sometimes you pick a piece that doesn’t quite fit, but when it does, it’s perfect! Once the concept and brief has been set, we begin to source the furniture and home wares. Thom and Adrian have a wide range of experience and a wealth of contacts for providing excellent and exclusive service, from lighting to soft furnishings; there is nothing
they can’t find to fit! Moreover, Sarjeant Group offers exceptional value for money, sourcing preloved and antique furniture at the best possible prices; it makes improvements much more affordable whatever the budget. Having recently completed a shop refit for Edwards Menswear you can witness the individuality and dedication the team has. Over a few months, before the work had even started, Sarjeant Group searched high and low for everything. From the industrial style lighting, right through to the display concepts, all of which were acquired, collected, delivered and fitted, all on time for the grand opening. Edwards Menswear are happy for anyone to visit the shop which showcases our service to potential new customers, please feel free to pop along and observe our work.
As an ongoing project, Sarjeant Group has also secured the contract to furnish the whole of The Haweswater Hotel. The hotel, now under new ownership, is undergoing a complete refurbishment. Holding regular meetings with the owner, we discuss the vision, then furnish and dress it to the desired brief. Haweswater Hotel is a unique place, with breathtaking views of the fells it sits beside Haweswater reservoir with barely a soul in sight. It’s the perfect escape for a quiet and romantic weekend. If you would like to enquire about Sarjeant Groups interior design service, please contact Thom or Adrian on 01768 865765 or info@sarjeant-group.co.uk For more details about our next antiques auction please follow us on www.facebook.com/ sarjeantgroup. Information on viewing prior to the auction and if you can’t be there view online via www.the-saleroom.com
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The 24 Hour Challenge Raising Funds for Tanzania by Emily Quinn
On 6th July, I will be travelling to Tanzania with 14 other students from Ullswater Community College. We will be in Tanzania for three weeks and we will be spending the majority of our time either with the girls at Bethsaida Orphanage or with the children of Amap Nursery, a street school. Each student Chloe & Emily. including myself, Time check: 4.30am will be taking 10KG of things for the children. These small luxuries that we take for granted are priceless to the children. Every student on the UCC trip has been tasked with raising their own funds to cover the cost of the trip and the gifts for the Tanzanian children and have been staging fund raising events and activities. In order to raise funds for the trip and purchase the items for the children, as my main activity I completed a 24 hour radio show at Eden FM, based in Penrith. I started at 6pm on Easter Sunday and finished 24 hours later at 6pm on Monday 28th March. I chose this date to work around study time for A-Levels, my part time job and my one afternoon per week work experience at North Lakes Primary school.
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I received a lot of support and encouragement along the way. Members of the Eden FM team were really supportive and helped keep me going, as well as my family and friends. My best friend Chloe stayed with me through the night and stayed with me for 14 hours. Lots of people on social media also kept us going and people kept us chatting, such as Liam and Oscar who stayed awake with us for 23 out of the 24 hours, giving us inspiration for what to talk about for 24 hours.
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project since it first switched on in 2011. I also do a weekly show at Eden FM, which I’ve been doing since that time. I’ve generally hosted a Saturday morning slot, however, I’ve recently moved to a Friday drive home slot 4pm till 6pm. One of my other responsibilities as youth development officer, is to induct and train the younger members at the station. It is something I would recommend to anybody that loves music. Yes, the chairman of the radio is my dad, so I started out on his first radio project in the studio age 7 back in 2006 at Meridian FM.
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The radio experience, the engagement locally and around world is something I will remember forever. Yes, my dad is also the owner of the Cumbrian Local, but this is the first time I have written in the magazine. Whilst I am writing many individual letters of thanks, to catch so many people with just this page is an opportunity I couldn’t pass by. Thank you to everybody, not just for supporting me, but for all the support across the community getting behind the students and staff at Ullswater Community College who have been working hard towards raising funds for the Tanzania trip. Without this continued support it would not be possible, thank you.
Around midnight was definitely our high point, but then I started to really struggle when everyone started falling asleep on me at around 7am. I’d even go as far as to say it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, to keep going. The hours just felt like they were getting longer from about the 7am mark. As a member of the committee at Eden FM, I have been with the
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The Wainwright Society announces donations to Animal Rescue Cumbria and Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs
The Wainwright Society is delighted to announce that sales of the Society’s 2016 Calendar raised a total of £10,800. This money together with donations from the Society’s Challenge brings the total raised for the Society’s two beneficiaries to £12,500! The money was split between the two charities and was presented at the Society’s Annual General Meeting on Saturday 19th March. Animal Rescue Cumbria was the charity supported by Alfred Wainwright and his wife, Betty and the royalties from sales of his books enabled the charity to purchase land to build an animal shelter, called Kapellan, for stray and abandoned cats and dogs at Grayrigg, Kendal. The cheque was received by John Estensen, former manager of the Animal Shelter, who said that the money would be used for a project to upgrade the office and shop facilities at Kapellan, which would allow more effective administration of the Animal Shelter. Speaking on behalf of Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dogs, John Leadbetter said that it took three years to train a Search Dog and that the money donated by the Society was being used to purchase training radios to enable more effective communication between the dog handler and the ‘dogsbody’ when training the animals on the fells.
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The first returning migrant a calling Chiffchaff, was found in trees on Bowerbank Way by Roy Bottomley on Wednesday 30th March. The next few weeks should see an influx of species including Willow and Sedge Warbler, Sand Martin, house Martin and Swallow. There has been a noticeable increase in Siskins at Thacka Beck Nature Reserve this month. This bonny little green, yellow and black finch does tend to be more apparent in our gardens after Christmas, as it prepares to disperse back to its breeding grounds. The British Trust for Ornithology has noted an expansion in the Siskins breeding range following the spread of conifer plantations, and the number of people feeding birds in their gardens. It has been good to see daffodils and other spring flowers blooming not only in private gardens around Thacka, but also in Castle Park, and the various beds in and around Penrith town centre. Bumble Bees have also been apparent.
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Toads have awoken from their winter sleep, and have been observed by a number of dog walkers later in the evening crossing the pathways on the reserve, heading towards water.
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Bonny Blues Update By Karl Collinson
It’s great to be back playing regular football after the devastating winter we’ve had and March has been a good month both on and off the pitch for Penrith AFC. We started the month with a hard fought victory over West Alottment Celtic where we also held a charity raffle for Epilepsy Action and @HelpFrankie where Craig Mcglasson and his match sponsor party helped raise £352 We’ve had some very impressive victories on the road to Bedlington Terriers, West Auckland Town and a superb 3.2 win at Dunston UTS, having been 2.0 down with 10 minutes left. We managed to top that turnaround at Frenchfield Park on Easter Monday when we hosted Newcastle Benfield. The Bonny Blues were trailing 2.1 when the game entered the 92nd minute and remarkably we scored twice in 60 seconds to record our third 3.2 victory in 10 days.
Kevin Connelly has impressed this month for Penrith AFC
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March difficult month for Pinks By Liam Jackson
Carleton Banks started March hoping to reach a second consecutive Junior Cup final and a Mason & Freeman Cup semi-final. March 5th the Pinks travelled to Cartmel AFC losing 5-1, Jake Briggs could only grab a consolation for the Soccermoos. A week later Carleton travelled to Endmoor KGR in the Mason & Freeman quarter-final, unfortunately the Pinks were beaten again, this time a 3-1 defeat. Dan Simmons with the goal. Back to league action, with games on the 19th, 26th and 30th Carleton faced Kendal United at home losing 2-1, James Mandle with the goal. The Pinks then had two away games firstly Dent, losing 4-1. James Mandle with the goal and Shap, losing 3-2. Goals came from Mike McGleenan and Liam Jackson. CumbrianLocal
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The new 2016 Toyota Prius Hybrid.... ....Reviewed by Andrew Kidd
Prius, Latin; first, original, superior.
sleeker form resulting in an ultra-low drag coefficient of 0.24, amongst the top five mass-produced cars in the world, with global sales of the Prius family exceeding 5 million by July 2015.
Since Toyota launched the Prius worldwide in 2000, it’s been subject to continuous improvements, now with a hybrid engine system and
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With 122bhp powering through a seamless auto gearbox, stated figures are fuel consumption (combined cycle) of up to 94mpg; CO2 emissions from 70g/km. Acceleration from 0-62mph takes 10.6 seconds. Further details, once the stuff of schoolboy’s dreams, can be checked out in the very comprehensive Prius brochure. Dashboard layout is much
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improved over the previous model, with the now-mandatory infotainment, reversing camera and satnav (a very good one, by the way) systems located above a deep well containing cup holders. This area is finished in an offwhite plastic which some may find garish; it certainly doesn’t have the style of a Fiat 500 Lounge, for instance. The central console storage cover lifts; I reckon you could almost slot a few vinyl L.P.’s in there!
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