Eden Local March 2017

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17 - 25 The Next Step A Tail of Two Toyotas Out of the Ashes

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Welcome to the March edition of your Eden Local ‘Don’t get me started on Politics’, is an expression I have been known to say, but when I look around as someone who has been very pro town council and someone who appreciates what volunteers, local councillors and officers do in all three tiers of local government, talking from experience, I do get a bit concerned when I come across so many people who have a need to know what’s going on, but the communication, unless it is bad news, is rarely freely available to all.

Welcome to your Eden Local Community magazine.

We are on publication 91. The publication in between last month’s Eden Local was the programme for the play ‘Terrible People’, which the Eden Local supported as the main sponsor. My congratulations to all those involved in the production on and off stage. With two topics covered already in Politics and Plays, I can’t help thinking that they are very similar as far as role playing!

People need to know what’s going on. Press releases need to be shared across all media, good or bad and with social media even though not everyone can access it, those that produce news need to realise

that printed news and important information has to be seen by all and should be available to all. Every week there are announcements. If they are missed, they are gone if you have no internet access.

I could put a whole series of questions to people in and around the Eden Valley on topics that should be common knowledge, but its seems that as communication of basic information has declined so much when issues are raised, the approach sometimes to how we deal with them for some is to not get involved. During March and April, you may bump into me around Penrith, Appleby, Alston or in Kirkby Stephen, as I’m going to be asking a lot of questions as I am in search of a lot of answers. I will be asking questions particularly in relation to the county elections in Cumbria this year. How many of you did know this and how many of you don’t really care?

On a positive way of looking at this, I’ve also thought that public information is available to the public, but it’s a question of making sure the public know where to find it and have access to it. In this month’s Eden Local, we have a current press release which

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Contents Book a date with the slate

Page 2

Contents and introduction

Pages 3 - 5

Have your say to improving

Page 6

It’s a Classic from the Attic

Pages 6 - 8

Stairway to the Future

Pages 10 - 13

Pam’s Miscellany

Pages 14 -15

Wedding Fayre at Heather Glen

Pages 16 - 17

Out of the Ashes

Pages 18 -19

17 – 25 The Next Step

Pages 20 – 21

A Tail of Two Toyotas

Pages 22 - 25

Eden FM Summer

Page 26

Have you given anything up for Lent?

Page 27

Wainwright Photo Competition

Page 28

Bonny Blues Update

Pages 30 – 31

Unless stated articles and advertorials are compiled and written by Lee Quinn

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could affect all those in the district and requires input. Have your say on improving council services, the Eden District Council 2017/18 Scrutiny Consultation is on page 19. You could get caught in a trap and enter a competition on page 8 with this month’s ‘Classic from the Attic’.

We welcome back ConserVclean for the summer on page 9 and we have two small businesses taking up the 1/6 colour page deals with A L Electrics and W Martindale Lawn and Landscape. Featuring some extra large articles to read as both of these stories were taken from recordings I made, part of our story covering the history of J Cowpers of Penrith is from pages 10 to 13 and well, when you sit down with my friend Alan Walton, pages just count up before your very eyes from pages 22 to 25.

All the usual updates and next month remember we’ll be looking at those questions that sometimes go unanswered. Have you got any?

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IT’S A CLASSIC FROM THE ATTIC

By Lee Quinn

This month we feature the only game I know that has a ‘thing-ama-jig’! I first opened the lid on this one around 1968. It would have been the afternoon of Christmas Day, because as long as I can remember, after Christmas lunch, the gathering was at my cousin’s house where the dining room and kitchen were the games area. Current games were generally Christmas presents along with bikes or items associated with sport or some kind of toy. Clothes - no, not at Christmas! Mobile phones - not with the GPO and electronic devices were the Stylophone, a miniature analog stylus-operated keyboard which was just invented at that time. It had entered production this year and was manufactured by Dubreq. It consists of a metal keyboard played by touching it with a stylus. Each note was connected to a voltage-controlled oscillator. I suppose it was the first synthesizer. Generally the game routine was there Christmas and for Saturday evenings through the year during winter.

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years of each other. Our gaming at that time was a very competitive event and the quicker the game the better. Battling tops was to be a favourite, manufactured by Ideal in 1968. I’ll be coming back to that later in the year, because with names like Hurricane Hank, Tricky Nicky, Dizzy Dan, Twirling Tim, Smarty Smitty and Cyclone Steve as the key playing pieces, I’ll have to come back to it!

So from family discussions in our house, where we do regularly still play games together, old and new, this month’s 'Classic in the Attic’ feature involves the following in so many words.

You roll a dice and turn the crank, which rotates a vertical gear onto a horizontal gear, which causes the lever to move the stop sign, that with the elastic band going twang hits the old boot, making it swing on the lamp post attached, which then kicks the bucket at the top of the rickety stairs containing the ball bearing, which then zigzags down the stairs into the rain pipe!

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At the end of its journey, the ball hits the rod on a spring, which with a helping hand, pushes the ‘thinga-ma-jig’, that knocks the bowling bowl ball held by the ‘thing-a-majig’ into the bathtub held by the plumbing, falling through a hole onto the diving board, which with the man at the other end in position to dive, is propelled through the air into the wash tub, which then shakes the gate post, sending a cage down on top of the mice that are the playing pieces. It turns out it is all for a piece of cheese shared by 2 to 4 players!

The Mouse Trap Game is a board game which we feature this month as our ‘Classic in the Attic’. It was first published in 1963 by American toy manufacturer Ideal Toy Company, which was founded by Morris and Rose Michtom. During the post–World War II baby boom era, Ideal became the largest doll-making company in the United States, but of course they also

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made games. Their last big hit in toys was the Rubik's Cube. Our Mouse Trap Game featured here is still manufactured today and is one of many to be owned now by Toy Giant Hasbro. Are there any traditional toys that aren’t you may well ask? Back then, Ideal Toy Corporation manufactured toys around the world, so this game we have here from my attic, was probably made under licence by the Ideal Toy Company Limited, Fish Ponds Road, Wokingham, Berkshire.

The game was one of the first mass-produced, three-dimensional board games. Over the course of the game, the object of the game is to build a mouse trap. You follow the building plan of 25 pieces, which becomes a Rube Goldberg-like mouse trap. When the pieces are all in place, the players try to trap their opponents in the cage. No plastic mice are harmed during this game!

I just thought it was a cage falling on some mice, but for this to happen it needed American Inventor Reuben Garrett Lucius "Rube" Goldberg, an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.

Goldberg is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways, giving rise to the term Rube EdenLocal

Goldberg machines for any similar gadget or process. When I found this out and discovered that the biggest hit in Toys for Ideal was the Rubik’s cube, I thought I had made a link, but not even close; the 3-D combination puzzle, the Rubik's Cube was invented by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture, Ernő Rubik.

Well, I hope you have enjoyed this month’s ‘Classic in the Attic’.

Next month we might be looking at music. Ideas will be posted on the Cumbrian Local Publications Facebook site through March.

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Now how about a competition?

In the images of the board game, there is a piece of one of the components that is missing. It doesn’t affect the playing of the game in any way. Can you name or describe what it is?

Please send you answer to info@ cumbrianlocal.co.uk. A draw will be made from all the correct answers at Eden FM on Friday 31st March in the Breakfast Show and one lucky winner will get the latest Mouse Trap game.

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A stairway to the Future Cowpers’ people

By Lee Quinn

After many hours of discussion, interviews and quite a few photographs, we are at our final article for now that is a celebration of the history of Cowper’s the Chemist in Penrith. Since it opened its’ doors in 1899 things have been so successful for this independent business. Much of the story I have collated has been via word of mouth, through the staff telling me about their

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experiences of working at the shop. Between them, I estimate that the team at Cowpers today share about 170 years of experience!

trainee dispenser, who was on holiday when we completed the story.Though I am sure I will catch up with them over the next 20 to 40 years!

So, picking up from last month’s article ‘A Stairway to History’ after a string of interviews with Phil Caton, recently appointed Managing Director of J Cowper Ltd , I was introduced to Angela Sowerby (far right in the picture) who has completed 44 years with Cowper’s. I then interviewed Dian (‘with no e’) Whittaker who completes 39 years (right of Phil) this year in September and Diana Cannon (far left) who in June of this year also completes 39 years at Cowper’s, excluding a career break to have a family. My last interview, for now, was with Janet Banks (on the right second from the end) who has been with Cowper’s for 32 years. Finally, in the photos we have Helen Cross who only joined Cowper’s last November. The only other members of the team are Lesley Fox, second Pharmacist on her day off today and Lena Blenkinship,

The interviews were averaging around 10 minutes and when you get to hear them you can all draw your own conclusions, but mine were simple. The insight I had was not just about this business but it’s people and they have for many years continued the work of those before them to make Cowper’s what it is today.

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History books, pictures, documents, newspaper cuttings; items from those years, from the company registration certificate and every ledger stored on the top floor can tell you a lot about a business, but it’s the people that bring it to life, give it its ‘character’ and with that comes an understanding of why it is what it is today and what it will be like in the future.

Some words from the Girls Angela is the longest serving

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member of the current Cowper’s team. Joining in 1973, she came straight from school, so I asked the simple why? ‘I wanted to work with medicines and somewhere local. I didn’t want to work in a hospital pharmacy and I wanted to stay in the town. So I came to see Jim Carrie who was the Managing director at the time and I just asked him if there were any jobs available in the pharmacy. He asked me a few questions and asked me when I was leaving school, so I gave him the date and he said I can start the week after and that was the July.’

Do you remember what your first day was like?

‘Daunting! So many strange names. You couldn’t pronounce them, you didn’t know what they meant.’

Whilst it took Angela a few years to bank all those names, we talked about the changes but importantly about the future, which is built on the past. The personal service is something Cowper’s have offered since it opened its doors and its future is to continue with this service; this is not just serving but listening.

It was something that was echoed by all the staff I interviewed. Things have changed a lot. As Angela explained, she used to have to write the labels; prescriptions were all handwritten and doctors at that time used a fountain pen, which if it was damp, the ink would run but everyone understood how they wrote! The label writing did stop as they moved to a type writer, which is no longer used and stored with all the other historical items, next to the weighing scales that the babies were weighed on and the basket the babies were put in for weighing. Angela misses the mixing. She used to like making the chesty cough and tickly cough medicine. The ‘hands on’ part is missed by a few.

Dian joined in 1978 and started as a junior. As she described it, it was emptying bins and sweeping up, but eventually she moved on to the counter. About seven years ago, she completed a NVQ in dispensing.

She has since returned to the shop but now as the supervisor. Dian recalled the changes over the years in the rules and regulations in making medicines and dispensing them, but reiterated the key work of the team was and still is a one to one involvement with the customer; now it is more a case of selecting the right product. A lot of Dian’s experience and knowledge she felt is attributed to one to one training, but also the personal service with customers the team have which they have built over generations of serving their families.

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My next interview was with Diana Cannon who joined Cowper’s in the same year as Dian, but in the June of 1978. Her journey started when she was at school and the process then before leaving school for many, was to write to local businesses to seek work on leaving school. Chances are there wasn’t an abundance of large retailers then. In 1978, the The best rates in advertising, with the best distribution for local business

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population of Eden was 11,000; less than what it is today and Eden District Council had only been established 4 years. As a result of her letter writing to Mr Carrie at Cowper’s, Diana actually had a call at her school to go for an interview, which she did. She was due to finish school and started a week later after leaving aged 16.

We did broach the subject of two girls just leaving school and working together for 39 years, because Dian and Diana both started around the same time.

They have not just worked together but they have grown up together; more than just extended family but as reflected in all the interviews, the teamwork, service and understanding the customer was repeatedly mentioned. By the way, as described by Diana, they did have fun as well. Referring to Dian, she said, ‘we had a giggle and a laugh and probably got up to a few things when we got lost in the building or in the warehouse that is now Boots’. Diana described many of the changes which were echoed by the team and in looking ahead, she described the potential outlook for where she sees Cowper’s now and in the future.

Their customers are not numbers but people; many of these people Diana recalls seeing come through the door when they were five years old and now they bring their own children in! With busy doctor’s surgeries around them, Cowper’s for a growing number of people in and around Penrith is the first port of call for over the counter medicines and treatments; treating conjunctivitis, sore throats and a lot of common and not so common ailments that can be treated over the counter.

My penultimate interview at Cowper’s was with Janet Banks who came to Cowper’s 32 years ago, joining the company on work experience and what an experience it turned out to be. As explained by Janet, it was a EdenLocal

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very rewarding experience, which is reiterated by her colleagues. When we discussed so many changes seen by Janet and the team, I asked how she might see the business and team changing, one line said it all, ‘why change something that works’.

To complete our story so far, I have spent many hours with team. It’s really their version in this article; I merely set the questions and record the answers. So to wrap up our story, my final session was with Phil Caton.

Many of the questions were covered, but Phil summarised things as far as where Cowper’s was, where it is today and where it is going. Here are a few things that may bring you up to date with knowing about your local independent pharmacy.

In Phil’s own words, ‘essentially what we do now is very similar to what we did 100 years ago, but with a lot of modifications. We are the gateway to the NHS. This is a place where a lot of people come before they ever go to their doctor and very often we can help them solve their own medical problems. Now that there is the Minor Ailment Scheme, there are certain things that we can prescribe on the NHS for people at the counter. A modern pharmacy like ours has a consultation room, which can be used if people want to discuss things in private like an embarrassing condition they would like to talk about. We also do consultations and medicine use reviews where we go through a patient’s medication and suggest improvements in the way they take their medicines.

We offer a ‘New Medicine Service’ when, for certain conditions, a doctor prescribes a new medicine we go through it with the patient at the start and deal with any queries they may have. By doing so, patients do a lot better with their new medicine. They are more confident about taking it and understand better why they are taking it.

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We explain what it is for and any side effects they may have. Our consulting room is also used as for emergency hormonal contraception i.e. “the morning after pill and we also offer a smoking cessation scheme in the consulting room. People come to us for 12 weeks for help with stopping smoking. We had quite a few people start new years’ resolutions in this room.

Other services provided by Cowper’s include :• Repeat dispensing – a scheme for people with certain long term conditions where the doctor prescribes for a longer period e.g. a year • We sell medicines over the counter and offer advice • We dispense prescriptions - these are mostly now sent from surgeries electronically to Cowper’s via computer.

• We supply clean needles to substance misusers and for recovering misusers we supply methadone and buprenorphine on prescription.

We offer a discrete service which is appreciated by the clients • The product range beyond medicines includes binoculars, cosmetics perfumes and skin care ranges; we are agents for Vichy, Elizabeth Arden and Mavala. Sometimes we hold evening demonstrations and treatment days along with some unique products like Arran Aromatics • In addition to the Pharmacy, Cowper’s has its own mobility centre at 34 King Street.

Overall as Phil concludes the day and this story, Cowper’s offers a full range of pharmaceutical products and services. Even though they are in an old building, they still offer modern health care but in a traditional setting.

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any ~ March Thought for the month ‘Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.'- Benjamin Franklin

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The Victorian Country House offers our quality Restaurant, Function and Wedding Venue along with our new accommodation facilities in a beautiful country location.

Built around 1900 by a local stonemason, as a family home the Heather Glen became a members only club in the 1950’s and was home to Cumberland Car Club.

The Smith Family purchased the Heather Glen in 2007 and since then they have carried out a series of modernisation works. In 2010 The Eden View restaurant was added to meet the growing demand for our restaurant, functions and weddings. This recently followed in 2016 with our new and additional West View Room which is licensed for Civil Ceremonies, along with new accommodation and bedroom facilities.

The Heather Glen is a ‘restaurant with rooms’, designed and finished to high hotel standards. Our bedrooms are all en-suite decorated in a contemporary style with finish and fittings to be proud of. All have TV, free

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It was in January I took the call from Greg Wilson the spokesperson for the Stoneybeck Inn. The regular placement for the February Eden Local would not be forthcoming. The press release below explains the reasoning behind that call. As a business the Eden Local was involved in the

promotion of the opening of the Stoneybeck Inn back in 2010, it’s true to say you rarely get to do it twice.

It was too tight a deadline to make the March edition but I am pleased to confirm the Stoneybeck is back and there is the new menu.

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In the small hours of 30th Dec the duty manager from Stoneybeck Inn called 999 to a fire which had broken out in the main kitchen.

Local fire crews responded very quickly and no doubt helped to limit the blaze and smoke damage solely to the kitchen area which was completely destroyed in the process.

Despite this tragic event the Stoneybeck team were determined that the show must go on and the annual New Year’s Eve party just 1 day later, for over 60 guests still went ahead albeit in a slightly modified format.

Ges Ratcliffe owner of the popular family run Inn praised Cumbria Fire Service for their quick emergency response and applauded staff for their ‘keen spirit to get the job done’ given the circumstances.

“After New year we had no option other than to close our restaurant

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and accommodation whilst assessments could be made and a plan to refit and to rebuild our kitchen could be carried out and completed. Although our meetings and events side of the business were unaffected this has really tested us” said Mr Ratcliffe.

“Although the aftermath of the fire has been a complete nightmare to deal with, the last six weeks or so that we have been closed have given us the time and opportunity to look more closely at what our restaurant customers want, which has resulted in us taking an altogether fresh look at what we offer” GM Steven Ratcliffe said “Our usual standards of freshly prepared and homemade meals are still very high but our new menu consists of simply good food, lots of it and at a more affordable price range - we’re also introducing a reward scheme which will benefit a lot of our regular customers on return visits to Stoneybeck”.

“Since the fire we’ve had an enormous amount of support from customers and local businesses and we’d just like to say thank you for all of their cards and wishes.

The brand new Stoneybeck kitchen has now been installed and the restaurant and bedrooms were reopened on 16th February.

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Have your say on improving Council services Eden District Council 2017/18 Scrutiny Consultation Eden District Council’s Scrutiny Committee is inviting suggestions on which services should be reviewed over the next 12 months.

This is an opportunity for the public to suggest ways in which the Council could look to make changes or improvements to its services to local residents and businesses. All suggestions will be considered by the Council’s Scrutiny Co-ordinating Board, when they develop their yearly programme of scrutiny reviews over the coming months.

Chairman of the Scrutiny Co-ordinating Board at Eden District Council, Councillor Sheila Orchard, said: “Scrutiny councillors look at how well the Council’s services operate. They can investigate current Council policy to see if services can be improved, and help to shape new ones. Whilst we cannot make decisions, we can suggest ways to improve services and policies.

Some investigations can take up six months and include site visits, formal interviews and significant amounts of research. Other reviews are shorter can be held over two or three meetings. Examples of previous scrutiny reviews include investigating ways to improve access to Penrith Railway Station for people with disabilities and reviewing the Council’s out of hours services.

“Scrutiny can also consider issues about crime and health in Eden. We are happy to hear any suggestions, although it should be noted that the District Council does not have responsibility for roads, transport (including bus services), schools or social services.

If there is any activity that you feel needs looking at, send us some information explaining what it is.”

Please submit your suggestion for a Scrutiny Review Topic before Friday 21 April 2017 by either: Writing to: Member Services, Eden District Council, Town Hall Penrith CA11 7QF Emailing: scrutiny@eden.gov.uk Or you can drop suggestions off at the Town Hall in Penrith.

The Scrutiny Work Programme 2017/18 will be finalised in May 2017 and reviews will be undertaken during the 2017-2018 Council year. For more information about the work of the Scrutiny Committee visit www.eden.gov.uk

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17-25 The Next Step…

By Emily Quinn

I am doing my second year of A-Levels at the moment at school and I made quite a bad choice with one of them and I don’t think I’m going to pass it. I’m not convinced by the idea of university yet but I’d still like to keep my options open and have the opportunity to go in the future if I want to, after some maturing and expansion of my knowledge! As I don’t think I’ll get the results I need to study the courses I might want to at university, my teachers suggested doing another A-Level at college once I had finished this year at school. I wasn’t sure about the idea because I didn’t think there were any other subjects I was interested in.

After visiting a college, looking into some options (as I had very

So, this month’s article is more of a next step brain storm for those of you who are unsure and unaware of what could potentially be the next step after school. I’m just going to give you a few ideas and options if you aren’t really sure what is coming next for you.

Until I recently visited a college in Cumbria, I really didn’t have a clear idea of where I was going with my future and what direction I was going in.

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little idea of what I actually had an interest in) and speaking to some really welcoming, knowledgeable, helpful lecturers, I have a much better insight into some really wonderful options; and at this particular college, if you start your AS level under the age of 19, it’s free of charge; you only have to pay for the second year. Part time A-Level courses are only two days a week which means two years of a stable job earning some money, education two out of the seven days a week and time to decide whether I’m going to go to university. Or I could just join the adult world of working! At least with all my A-Levels and more work and life experience, I hope to be more mature and have more idea of whether I want to go to university.

I might get this other A-Level and

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decide I want to do something completely different that I haven’t even thought I am capable of yet.

Even if you’re contemplating what to do after GCSEs, if you don’t fancy school for A-Levels, college for A-Levels, a vocational course or apprenticeships are all options. There are people you can speak to and get advice from, if like me, you aren’t sure. College is only one option though. There’s also part and full time jobs.

Whether you’re an A-Level student or a GCSE student, going to open days and speaking to people is very helpful because more than anything, it makes you aware of new ideas you didn’t know about.

So, I’m going down the path of years 7-13 in school and then college for a further two years; then I’ll be 21 and hope to be much more able to decide whether or not university is the right choice for me. I’m very keen on doing an A-Level that I didn’t even realise existed and if I succeed in it, so many more potential university courses and career options will open up to me. I have a much better idea of where I’m going and what I want now where people have helped me explore the options there are.

Next month I’m going to consider the impact of diet on our generation and just how different things are now; especially as we are now called the obese generation.

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A Tail of Two Toyotas and other bits with Alan Walton and Lee Quinn

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How do you fit a 20 minute interview into a couple of pages with Alan Walton? Importantly what I have learnt is you record it, then listen because then you can really enjoy it. I was at Jim Waltons Toyota to talk about an exciting new car; in fact two cars over a coffee. I wanted Alan to do what he does best, get him to tell us how the Toyota C-HR came about and sell me the concept. Alan explained “the Crossover High Rider”, which also meant I got to drive the two models seen here and take some pictures.

As Alan went on to explain, “in arriving at where the C-HR evolved, you’ve got to start with the Rav4 launched in 1994 and it was quite a small four wheel drive vehicle with quite a high seating position compared to any of the vehicles we had had before”.

Alan continued, “I knew it was 1994 because my wife and I came back off our honeymoon and my dad came to pick us up at Newcastle Airport, so I asked him what's new, what’s new going on at work? He started explaining to me about the Rav4. In my own mind I hadn't seen it and I hadn’t had anything to do EdenLocal

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with it and I was thinking who was going to buy one of these? Ever since that day it has been so, so popular, so much so that the Rav4 is still on the go today, but it’s changed from just a 3 door petrol engine to a 5 door petrol. They then brought out a 2 litre diesel, a 2.2 litre diesel and we have the Rav4 which we have today that comes in 2 litre diesel, two wheel drive and also the hybrid is becoming very, very popular.

In all of our vehicles, Rav4 have just introduced last year a 2.5 litre petrol engine with twin electric motors”.

Alan described that he went to a Toyota conference in Birmingham around December 2012 where they brought out the current Rav4 and he went on to explain that “over time the cars have just got bigger and bigger and when they brought this one out and put it on show on stage at the NEC in Birmingham, one of the guys down there at the time stood up and said”, “we make no apology for this vehicle looking bigger and that's because it is bigger and also we're going to introduce a new vehicle to the model range in a couple of years’ time”. This was to be the new

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Crossover vehicle that would be fairly similar in size to the original Rav4.

So what is a Crossover vehicle I had to ask? Alan went on to explain what he had learnt from an article he read in Automotive Management magazine that “the Crossover vehicle today is the new saloon car or hatchback should I say and more and more people are buying this type of vehicle that drives just like a car, but you've got the higher sitting position. This gives you better all-round visibility and if you’re driving along the country roads, it allows you to see that bit further ahead, what’s coming over the hedgerows that you can't see with an ordinary car.

You are much higher up. It’s a bit like you’re sitting in a chair, so your feet go straight up and down into the foot-well so in turn it allows you to have more room behind the front of the seats and more often than not a little bit of a bigger boot capacity, but also you’re not sacrificing the fuel economy that you get with an ordinary car.

With the Crossover vehicle, Alan describes it as ticking a lot of boxes for all drivers and families.

The front passengers have great visibility and the kids in the back love it because they can also see out and have better visibility. Alan continued, “it’s just a whole new concept compared to what we've had traditionally for years and years and years and it is affordable to a lot of people now.” The Rav4 is approximately a foot longer than the C-HR and

Alan confirmed he has taken the C-HR home and describes after driving it for a few days it is a dream to drive. Before I could say anything, Alan said it for me, “I know I’m going to say that because I’m selling it, but what I will say to anybody is come and try it for yourself.”

“You get in it and you feel good about driving the car and when you look at it from the outside, it is so unique and distinctive. It stands out from the crowd and for the first time in a long time, we’ve got a car that is a real head turner. People come in and ask, what is that car and can I have a drive of it?”

Almost beyond the call of duty, Alan took the C-HR Hybrid home and got his wife to drive it. Alan’s wife confirmed it was another thumbs up. It’s a car that doesn’t feel big and it was so easy to park. Described

by Alan as two plus two, you can fit in four people comfortably. “You can get five in, but to me it’s a two plus two and you’re not sacrificing boot space because it’s a shorter vehicle. I thought the boot would be fairly small but it isn’t. You can fit suitcases in and a family of four dead easy,” he explained.

What is a Hybrid I asked Alan? “Hybrids have been out in the Toyota range for about 18 years and again when they came out I was a bit sceptical, you know hands up, who’s going to want one of these? The first vehicle we had was the Prius and it was very Japanese, built in Japan. I would have honestly say I

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engine kicks in. Normally when you go about 30 mph in the Yaris or Auris it will revert back to petrol engine. With the Rav4 it goes up to 40 mph on battery before it reverts back to petrol engine.”

said to myself it was quite an ugly car. It had a 1.5 litre petrol engine with an electric motor and people still come in today and think or feel a little bit afraid of a Hybrid.

Some think you’ve got to plug it in and you don’t. It’s an automatic with a petrol engine and electric motor and a battery pack under its back seat and that battery is being constantly charged as you drive it along. The kinetic energy that comes off the breaking system goes straight towards charging the battery all the time,

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so you never ever charge it up.

You put petrol in and you drive it like a normal automatic car. All our Hybrids are automatics, but a lot of people are afraid of them.

I always say come in and I’ll take you out for a drive, then you have a drive and you see how you feel about it”.

I put it to Alan that they are very quiet. “Yes around town it runs most of the time on battery, not all the time. If you need to pull away from a junction quickly, you put your foot down and the

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Can you tell us a bit about the petrol consumption on the C-HR? “Like all manufacturers’ brochures, the fuel consumption figures that are in there to my mind aren’t a true and accurate reading to what you would get in normal driving conditions. The cars are tested in a building with no wind, no rain, no hills, so all manufacturers come out with figures that look tremendous.

With the Hybrid in C-HR, at the moment we estimate 45 mpg but you might get 50 mpg on a long journey, but until people out there driving come back and tell us, it’s too early and of course it’s dependent on how people drive.”

Alan was on a run and continued, “it sells itself and you get a 5 year 100,000 mile parts and labour warranty which is a very comprehensive warranty. We can say hand on heart, 99% of the time you’ll never see that

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customer again apart from servicing. Don’t get me wrong, a car can have a glitch along the line but we are very lucky to have a superb and reliable product and I always remember my dad taking me out in a Lexus one day when we had the Lexus franchise in Carlisle, and he said, you know what son, when I first went to get a manufacturer franchise, I tried for Nissan. Now the Nissan is a good product and I am not knocking it, but he said I’m pleased I didn’t get it. He said Masons Garage beat him to it, which was another family run firm at the time and we ended up with Toyota and that for me was, he said, a good move and that was how it was meant to be”.

You have read the interview and you can see the images. I don’t do test drives, but on this occasion I did. Well I had to get the photos! Alan has given us a comprehensive update. I knew he would and with my experience of 40 years of driving and covering quite a few miles in vintage cars from the 1960s to new cars as they were introduced over the last three decades, every car I have driven is different. I took out the C-HR Hybrid first. I’ll say it drove like a dream because it did. I couldn’t believe how quiet it was. It was almost eerie because there was no noise as I drove through the town and up the A6, but it was so smooth. The interior and the spec of the vehicle were very impressive covering comfort and safety beyond many cars that I have driven over the past two years that come out at a much higher price than that of the two C-HR’s I was driving that day. Back to the garage and the swap over for the C-HR petrol turbo. What a car; nothing like the Turbo 5 I had back in 1989, but I had to agree with Alan on this one, a pocket rocket.

well these cars drive and how well suited they are to you. As a car salesman once said to me, “this car will look nice wrapped around you”. Maybe it will, but you’ll have to get in it and take that ride.

My thanks to Alan for sharing the experience of the new C-HR and the other bits.

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Out and about with Eden FM this Summer

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Most radio stations these days are seen via social media or a camera in the studio, but do you remember the summers with the road shows?

The Community Fund is an excellent opportunity for community groups, charities and voluntary groups to come forward to receive funding for the work that they are doing, which supports reducing crime and anti-social behaviour. The aim of the fund is to build capacity and maximise the potential of organisations to help prevent crime and anti-social behaviour. So let’s do this on the radio is the message here.

Towards the end of 2016, Eden FM with some borrowed equipment and volunteers was broadcasting live across the Eden Valley. As a community organisation that is all about communication and the people in the community, we have seen evidence that we are being seen as well as heard in the community.

Thankfully coming into 2017, Eden FM has received some funding to purchase what it needs to do more out and about radio. We already have 14 live outside broadcasts scheduled into our programming, so we hope to see you out and about in Eden this year, either in your town or village or at an event.

If you would like Eden FM Community to get behind your event, please contact us at admin@edenfm.co.uk or just give us a call on 01768 899101.

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If you would like to help out with Eden FM ‘on the road’ team as a volunteer, even if it’s for a couple of events, please let us know using the same contact details above.

Back at the main studios in Penrith, you will notice in late March some new shows during the day time programming, evening and weekends. These are also presented by volunteers across the Eden Valley. If you enjoy the outdoor show season, maybe you might want to be involved in the indoor or outdoor programme that we are working on for the show season.

Meanwhile, on air soon to add to our existing shows like Communication in the Community and People in the parish, we have the new Home and Garden show, the new Business show launching.

Following on from a successful application to the Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner Community Fund, we also have a new show working with the County Constabulary.

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We’ll be seeing you soon. It could be at a show this season, a festival, a seasonal fayre, in a high street, on a village green or in a village hall. Our favourite place seems to be shop windows in the winter!

Tune in to 107.5 Eden FM or log on via your mobile device or at our website www.edenfm.co.uk It’s Your Voice, Your Choice in the Community

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Have you given anything up for Lent?

if God really wants us to try and be miserable – I doubt it.

I have been the vicar at Patterdale for three years now, but before that I was Chaplain to the Anglican Church on Crete. It was a wonderful experience to live within Greek culture and experience Greek village life. So many traditions both in church and in the wider society are so different from life in the UK. You will probably be reading this a week or so into Lent. In Greece the Monday before Lent begins is known as Clean Monday. Everyone cleans up their homes and on the tourist industry front businesses begin to sort themselves out for the coming season.

More importantly your kitchen has to be cleaned out of any foods designated as not to be eaten during the Lenten fast. For most of Lent it is forbidden to eat meat, eggs and dairy produce. The Greek Orthodox Church has quite complicated rules about what can be eaten when, down to specific foods permissible only on certain days of the week.

So what have you given up for Lent? And why have you given up perhaps something special that you really like? Does it make you feel closer to God, or give you that spiritual high? We in the church in the UK tend to think of Lent as a rather sombre time when we should examine ourselves and our motives and try to live our lives in a better way. From somewhere in our heritage we even decree that in many churches flowers should be banished for the duration. I wonder

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Clean Monday on Crete is a happy springtime occasion. It is a public holiday where traditionally everyone goes out into the countryside and adults and children alike fly kites and enjoy a picnic. Well, I know UK weather may be against this but we could try!

Lent is a time of repentance and self-control. In the Greek Orthodox Church Clean Monday is preceded by a Sunday evening service culminating in the Ceremony of Mutual Forgiveness.

All present bow to each other and ask forgiveness.

In this way the faithful begin Lent with a clean conscience; and more importantly with renewed Christian love. They don’t even follow our tradition of putting ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday.

Matthew’s Gospel tells us not to have a sad of face when we fast and to act so that other people won’t know we are fasting, but only God will know. So should we proudly announce to all and sundry that we have given up chocolate for Lent? I wish you all success with you Lenten fasting as you prepare for the great feast of Easter. But do pause for a moment and ask yourself what you are achieving.

Wishing you all a fruitful Lent and a joyful Easter.

Revd Terry Wilcock, St Patrick’s Church, Patterdale

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The Wainwright Society 2016 Photographic Competition The Wainwright Society’s annual Photographic Competition has just been judged by Derry Brabbs, the photographer who collaborated with Alfred Wainwright in the 1980s to produce seven of his ‘large format’ books.

There were 62 entries in the two classes, a Themed Class and an Open Class with an overall Best in Show photograph.

The winner of the Themed Class (Limestone Country) and judged Best in Show was David Harrison with his photograph, Exiting Gordale Scar Derry commented: ‘This is a perfect photograph and ticks every box regarding composition, lighting and fulfilling the brief. The absence of sunlight works so well because with this kind of subject, bright sunlight also means shadows and they abscise vital landscape detail. Not a square inch of this composition is superfluous and the way that the perfectly sharp triangle of limestone pavement leads the eye onwards into the savage landscape of the dry valley is truly inspirational. Brilliant effort!’

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Heavenly Light over Castlerigg © Terry Abraham In selecting Exiting Gordale Scar as Best in Show, Derry said: ‘After much agonising deliberation, I have decided that by the shortest of short heads, the accolade of BEST IN SHOW has to be awarded to the THEMED CLASS entry. I just loved the moody sun and clouds of the OPEN CLASS winner but although this was a great opportunist picture, I have to go with the meticulously composed image of the Limestone Dales. I admired both images immensely but in order to separate them, I imagined using each photograph to show someone who had never been to either the Lake District or Yorkshire Dales just what it was like and on that basis, the Limestone Dales came out on top.’

The winner of the Open Class was Terry Abraham with his photograph, Heavenly Light over Castlerigg.

Derry commented: ‘This is a

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spectacular picture that any landscape photographer would love to have taken and it matters not one iota that over half the image is either black or dark grey!

We all dream of being in the right place at the right time to capture such an amazing combination of light upon the landscape and it is just one of those magic moments that cannot be planned for - other than having a camera to hand. The gradated rays of light falling on the valley floor are perfect, backed up by the differing shades of grey hills rising up behind and, thankfully, the cluster of ghastly white caravans are nicely in the shade. A great effort and congratulations.’

If you would like to know more about The Wainwright Society, log on to the website at www. wainwright.org.uk or email secretary@wainwright.org.uk Derek Cockell Secretary - The Wainwright Society

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Bonnie Blues Update

By Karl Collinson

Penrith AFC have had a very disruptive month as many fixtures fell foul of the wet weather.

We hosted league leaders North Shields at Frenchfield Park on 8th February in what was expected to be one of the toughest challenges for Jim Nichols side, especially with 9 first team regulars missing through injury and personal commitments.

The Robins scored twice early on in the second half against a well organised and determined Penrith but Robbie Hebson pulled a goal back with a neat finish with 10 minutes to go.

The depleted Bonny Blues could and maybe should have earned a share of the points but Connor Shields and Kevin Connelly couldn't take late chances.

We also hosted Newton Aycliffe but the game got off to the worst possible start when the visitors scored after just 38 seconds.

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found ourselves 4 down.

Remarkably the lads showed great spirit by getting back into the game through a great finish from Grant Davidson and a Kevin Connelly penalty but that doesn't tell the full story.

Connor Shields hit the post, Connelly put a free header from 5 yards out inches wide and Jamie Street, Robbie Hebson and Shields all had very good penalty appeals turned down.

After a couple of postponements, we travelled to Silloth for the quater final of the Cumberland Cup on a very windy Saturday afternoon.

The home side got used to the conditions straight away and went 1 up early on but we had to rely on a last minute Andy Murray Jones goal to take the tie into extra time.

We eventually won 6-5 on penalties and now face Carlisle City at Frenchfield Park in the semi final.

We travelled away to Seaham Red

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Star in the league and came away with all 3 points courtesy of a 25 yard strike from substitute Jonny Murray.

Off the field we secured the services of ex Northern Ireland international Brian Gilfillan 32.

The ex Inverness, Peterhead, Annan and Gretna playmaker has added quality to an already exciting squad.

The club are still in talks with the local council to try and iron out their problems down at Frenchfield

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Park, with the playing surface being at the top of the agenda.

The Wannasee music festival returns to Hutton in the Forest on the August bank holiday weekend this year.

Established in 2003

The club would like to urge people to buy their tickets through Penrith AFC either on match days or message them via the website, Facebook or Twitter.

Or you can contact Ian White ianwhite77@hotmail. com Penrith AFC Juniors are having another very successful season with a number of different age groups reaching semi finals and finals of their respective cup competitions and both the girls and ladies teams are playing some excellent football.

All 3 Westmorland league sides have impressed this last month with the highlight being our reserves beating local rivals, Wetheriggs Utd 2-1.

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April 2017 Eden Local Issue 92 Can you Help?

Lee Stockdale and Jack Slessor have set their target to raise £5,000 by cycling from Lands End to John O'Groats on Sun 2nd July 2017 in aid of the Great North Air Ambulance.

Both of them work for Hart Distribution in Penrith and have lived in the area all their lives.

You can donate towards the lads worthy cause by following this link justgiving.com/lakeslads

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