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leanliness is a pretty basic requirement but it doesn’t always happen.

On a recent trip to the suburbs of South Manchester I was struck by the degree of dog fouling… or rather the fact that there wasn’t any.

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I questioned a local resident and was informed: “People just won’t stand for it any more; dog owners are responsible and fouling is largely a thing of the past.”

So it is heartening to note that here in Carlisle the ongoing clean-up campaign is reporting a significant reduction in 10 targeted areas in the city.

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A review of Botcherby and Currock has shown that the area, which has been the target for enforcement and education as part of Carlisle City Council’s Love Where You Live campaign has achieved a reduction in fouling of between 22% and 72%.

It proves, not only the success of the campaigning by the City Council, but also that communities can improve their own areas. The next review will be in April and it’s hoped that targeted education, enforcement activities and people’s support will further cut the incidence of dog fouling in all target areas.

Coun Elsie Martlew, the city councillor responsible for the environment said: “The aim to promote a change of behaviour, not a quick fix solution so the council needs information from people to target patrols more effectively… and that’s a definite “doggy do”!

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Contents: The Carlisle Guide Magazine

March/April 2013

EXCLUSIVE

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The Stranglers Live at The Sands Centre

We speak to lead Singer Matt Bowman

24-25 The Pigeon Detectives

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LOCAL Features

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To re-run Les Mis

Radio Cumber Presenter

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Festival Season 2013 Whats coming up....

BEAUTY

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Beauty by Bridget Foster DreamsDay Spa A world away from the city

FOOD

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44-45 Alan Spedding Recipe

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44 Degrees Salmon

Cumbrian BBQ Pork

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MOTORING & SPORT

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May 4-5

Its just Maddening

58-59 Carlisle Untited WHAT’S On

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The Sand Centre listings Whats coming up in March 7

Performing Live at The Sands Centre Carlisle, March 28 7PM

Staying power... EXCLUSIVE WITH Jean-Jacques Burnell Guide music writer, Luke Stamper, talks to The Stanglers bass-gitarist, Jean-Jacques Burnell about the secrets of the band’s extraordinarily long life and popularity; its inspirations and how karate has helped!

Luke Stamper: HAVING survived as a band for nearly 40 years what is the secret of your success?

Jean-Jacques Burnell: Well, I’d like to say talent, but I’m sure that it’s not only that. I suspect that we have hit a nerve with people of all ages over the years. I think that we have never played by the rules, we’ve written our own rules and it seems to have appealed to people. It’s just worked for us. I think with the coming of the X-Factor generation, some people like the fact that we are genuinely organic. Some of our songs still get played so we must remind people that we exist.

LS: In the later 1980s, The Stranglers were described as ‘more notorious than successful’, how did you react to statements like that at that time and how do you feel about it, as part of the band’s, history over 20 years on?

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JJB: Well, we deserved all the notoriety that we got... I think. We did get involved in an awful lot of events and some of them were very well documented, and others less so. We left a trail of destruction and notoriety in our wake.

Obviously, it all left us in good stead really.

LS: Do you feel like your sound and creative process as a band has changed?

JJB: Well I’m sure that it must have but I don’t really feel like that’s for me to comment on. I think the proof is in the hearing and listening. I’ve never really analysed it but as people, we must have changed over the years. I’d hate to think that we were still pretending to be 17-year-olds. That would be pretty pathetic. The recording process has changed due to technology but the way we get inspired as a

band hasn’t changed that much.

It’s just what happens in the world and what goes on around us which, I suppose, is universal to us all.

LS: Obviously, there are things besides the band you enjoy doing. I read that you were also a Karate expert?

JJB: Yeah I teach Karate, I’ve been doing it as long as I have been in the band, longer. I’ve been doing it for 43 years now. I was a student around the age of 18 when I got into it. It was quite fashionable at the time with people like Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris being very popular so it was part of the zeitgeist. I’ve gained a lot from it and it’s always held me in good stead. It’s also introduced me to the Japanese culture so yeah; it’s done well for me actually. I’ve seen people of my generation who have

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abused themselves far too much.

They had a good time but there’s a price to pay and I think that a lot of them aren’t around now or if they are they look decrepit.

LS: As a band, are you still delivering the same ethics and opinions to your listeners?

JJB: Well probably not. As I said earlier, people evolve. The essence of the band hasn’t changed that much.

LS: How do you feel about playing songs that were big hits when first released, when you play gigs now?

JJB: Well, it’s interesting you ask that because it’s a bit of dilemma.

Fortunately we’ve had more than a couple of songs that we’re successes because there has been times where we have just stopped playing songs like ‘Golden Brown’ and ‘Peaches’ because frankly, we couldn’t stand playing them any more. In particular, ‘Peaches’, has been played on films, television adverts and we didn’t play it for 12 years because we just couldn’t

stand it. But you rediscover songs like old friends. We dump them and then rediscover them.

White’, that’s generally how is started but it’s become more of a habit now.

LS: Your band’s been described as: probably the most enduring band of the UK punk/new wave era, while at the same time being the least celebrated. Do you think that is correct?

JJB: I think that’s about right.

What a cool place to be!

LS: Of all the music that you have released with The Stranglers, do you have a favourite album or even a favourite song?

JJB: Not really, no. Different tracks and albums represent different points in my life and the lives of my fellow band members. I can only speak for me and I know it’s a bit of a cliché but, I’ve created my own soundtrack for my life and I’ve shared it with 40 million other people.

LS: Throughout the years, the band seem to have been consistent in wearing a lot of black, is there a real purpose for this?

JJB: Not really, it’s very unsuperficial now. It’s just what’s in my wardrobe. It did used to mean something I suppose. At the time that we started to wear black a lot of other people were wearing strange colours and weird 1980s costumes. We just wanted to be pure and hardcore. We just wanted to show ourselves as being puritanical and say that you’re either with us or against us. It also coincided with the release of one of our albums called ‘Black and

LS: Well good luck for the upcoming tour. Hope you enjoy playing in Carlisle.

JJB: Thanks very much, I haven’t played there for years. I think that the last time I was there, the police were looking for me. Let’s hope it goes better than that time.

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o t t r a t son s g n i Sizztl ival sea fes IRST up this festival season with F a stunning line-up of brilliant blues musicians in the heart of the Lake District is the Bowness Bay Blues weekend in Bowness on Windermere, from March 22-24.

The second Stepping Stones Festival – mainly a folk and acoustic music festival – takes place in Brampton, over the early Bank Holiday week-end of 3/4/5 May 2013.

Growing on the success of the first festival, last year it’s the brainchild of former Steeleye Span singer, Maddy Prior, who lives in the area. It will once again be based around four main musical concerts in the 400-seater hall at the Irthing Community Centre, but there will be a series of smaller concerts and events elsewhere in Brampton to create a Festival atmosphere throughout town.

A world-class lineup of artists should attract visitors to experience live music, arts and crafts and enjoying friendliness and hospitality. Those expressing an interest are: The Bailey Sisters; Brass Monkey; Dessislava Stefanova; Eden Valley Ceilidh Band; Ethan Thomas; Giles Lewin; Good Wife Hot; Hannah James; Hicks & Goulbourn; Karine Polwart Band; Keith Donnelly; Les Barker; Maddy and The Girls; Maddy Prior; Mano Panforreteiro; Merry Hell; Nette; Nick Hennessey; Nikolay Baldaranov; Peter Little; Pidwigeon; Red Priest; Red Ruff; Rick Kemp; Stooshie; The Swing Commanders; Taffy Thomas; and Tilly Dalglish.

Last year’s first-ever festival, in the picturesque setting of Bowness-on-Windermere, proved a great success; was very popular; raised over £4,000 for charity and made a lot of music fans very happy. This year’s event promises even more.

There will be top-quality music – ranging from sizzling electric to mellow acoustic blues and foot-tapping R’n’B – in some wonderfully atmospheric venues.

Headline acts will include highly-acclaimed Irish blues singer Grainne Duffy, hot young guitar-slinger Ben Poole, and John O’Leary’s Sugarkane, one of the best blues ensembles in the UK. Tickets from www.bownessbayblues.co.uk – book early to avoid disappointment.

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It kicks off with a lively Ceilidh on the Friday night and the dancing theme will continue throughout the week-end with clog and circle dancing, plus a variety of workshops. Other ‘happenings’ will include street theatre, storytelling, poetry reading, craft demonstrations, painting competitions and singing, instrumental and percussion workshops by some of the performing artists.

A big Farmers and International Food Market is planned at the Moot Hall on the Saturday, plus a Funfair along Market Street on the Sunday. The town should thus come alive with many shops, pubs and

cafes remaining open throughout the week-end.

Email info@steppingstonesfestival.co.uk or ring 016977 48833 if you have any questions.

ONCE again Britain’s leading jazz bands and international names will come together at the 22nd Keswick Jazz Festival, from Thursday May 9 to Sunday May 12.

New Orleans comes to Cumbria! This is a key theme this year in Keswick’s forthcoming feast of traditional and mainstream jazz.

Direct from the Crescent City come thrilling trombonist Lucien Barbarin and trumpet star Duke Heitger. Also from America are top New Orleans style pianist Butch Thompson and dazzling banjoist Jimmy Mazzy along with regular favourites Jim Fryer and Jeff Barnhart.

As always, case much of Europe’s finest jazz talent will be there to be seen, including Alan Barnes, Brian Carrick, Doc Houlind, Enrico Tomasso, John Hallam, Karen Sharp, Keith Nichols, Matthias Seuffert, Mellow Avstreih, Nicola Farnon and Spats Langham.

The four jazz-filled days finish with a not-to-be-missed traditional jazz parade through the town.

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The Enemy Sound of Guns

The Farm

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The Book Club The Moon Kids

Deadbeat Echoes See Emily Play

The Wulfs

The Last Party

SOLFEST 2013

The 10:04s

August 23-25 2013

Other Artists performing include:

Early Bird Tickets Now on sale

Jolan, The 45s, The Arkham Karvers, Micky P Kerr, John Mackie, Cheap Cuts, Eocene, Ken Lavender and The Sunshine, Papa Quebec, Project 9, Bad Bad Me, Gav McKew, Ryan Kitto, Emma Dockeray, Sarah Dockeray, Kenny and Curly, Tom Salmon, Claire Jackson, Arran George, 100 Hand Slap.

Solfest 2013, in their tenth birthday year, have already booked some great artists in the shape of folk legends Oysterband and roots music giants Afro Celt Sound System and they have still got loads more acts to confirm.

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Gates open 3pm Friday, Noon on Saturday.

WEEKEND TICKET £35 SATURDAY TICKET £27 FRIDAY TICKET £20 UNDER 12’S DAY TICKET £5 TODDLERS ARE FREE

Tickets available from: Threads, 16 King Street, Whitehaven, 01946690008.

Yankees Pub, Workington 01900 65644.

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Early Bird tickets are an online exclusive and won’t be available from the over-the-counter outlets so make sure you get yours right away www.solfest.org.uk Tarnside Farm, Tarns, Near Aspatria, Cumbria, CA7 4NQ

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2013 Organisers have introduced a two-tier pricing system for CockRock 2013 which rewards festival goers who wish to buy early. Tier 1 tickets will be on sale on Thursday 7th March and will give festival goers the opportunity to benefit from a discounted rate. There are only a limited number of tickets available in Tier 1 so once they’re sold tickets will then be sold at the standard price in Tier 2.

Due to popular demand the festival has also introduced two additional types of tickets for CockRock 2013 which include a Thursday camping pass priced at just £10 (valid with a weekend & camping ticket) and a Live in Vehicle pass priced at £25 per vehicle. 12 and unders still go free as do OAPs and a limited amount of day tickets will also be on sale.

The festival which is based at Wellington Farm, Cockermouth is promising big things for

2013 including new additions to the site and an exciting line up. After last year’s festival including high profile acts such as Fun Lovin Criminals, Tinchy Stryder, Zane Lowe, The Subways, Buzzcocks and Lower than Atlantis the 2013 line up is eagerly awaited. The line up is being kept under lock and key at CockRock HQ for now but there are hints that it might be released soon.

Tickets will be on sale from: Ticket Hotline: 0844 888 9991 and online @ www.cockermouthrockfestival.com.

Cockermouth: Billy Bowmans & 4 Play CyclesMaryport: Alauna Salon Lancaster: Mint Cafe Bar Workington: The Carnegie Theatre & Times & Star Office Whitehaven: Whitehaven News Office Carlisle: News and Star Office - Bank Street and Cumbrian News head office - Dalston Road.

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StagedRight to re-run ‘Les Mis’ at The Sands Centre

By Sarah Briggs

“The most wonderful musical ever written…”

“The best film I’d seen for years…”by Sarah Briggs

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N JUNE 1832 rebels, led by students, rose up in Fr ance against the monarchy. In June 2013 the stage version of the musical Les Misèr ables, its second half set during that short-lived and ill-fated revolution, comes to the Sands, in Carlisle.

To state that Les Misèrables is about the French revolution of 1832 is to simplify the story too much. This is a story about redemption; about human relationships; about becoming mature as a human being. Several of the roles are complex, requiring the actor/singer to begin one way and end the show differently.Val Jean grows from being a potentially violent convict to becoming a loving and honourable father, and ages 17 years during the story;

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Marius seems at first a rather wimpy, idealistic character but develops into a man who has seen all his friends die around him and been close to death himself. Similarly the music itself is not simple to sing, with a wide range needed for several of the parts and, unlike most musicals it is more like an opera as even the dialogue is sung.

Bringing the show to Carlisle was no easy task either and David McNeill of Staged Right Youth Theatre certainly had long dreamed a dream to stage it again in the city. He also had the foresight, when he saw that the film was coming out early this year, to start negotiating for the rights to stage the musical. His organisation last performed it six years ago to sell-out houses. Since then restrictions on how the show can be performed have increased, and for this production only 500 seats will be available for each performance.

Feature This provides David with a challenge in terms of staging Les Misèrables as there will be no stalls seats at the Sands and therefore potentially a large void between the front row of seats and the stage. David plans to overcome this by having two catwalk-style stages bringing the performance towards the audience, making the Sands’ stage larger.

He has also opted for a larger barricade than normally used, one which is in two halves and slides on and off the stage rather than revolving, as well as choosing to have an archway at the rear of the set with open double doors and a bridge: particularly relevant for Jalvert’s solo scenes.

He says that the set company he uses for many of StagedRight’s shows has become used to his taking a basic set and then customising it to suit his own vision. Despite any challenges David loves the Sands and says “you can do things at the Sands that you can’t in a theatre: it’s a multi-purpose performing venue and with creativity you can do anything”.

The entire Youth Theatre is keen to take on the challenge and auditions promise to be closely fought. StagedRight’s rehearsal studios have been marked out to replicate the stage for Les Misèrables (as well as for Smike, which the junior section performs at West Walls Theatre on 1st June) and drama coach, John Metcalfe, is a French history expert, so he will be providing performers with an understanding of the historical background as well as coaching them in how to act the parts.

Andy King, Managing Director of Carlisle Leisure, the company which manages the Sands, says “my Mum and Dad raved about the London show, which was unusual for them. Getting the rights to stage this in Carlisle is fantastic and it’s exactly the sort of thing we want at the Sands. My sons have been asking for the music to be played in the car”.

So while staging a successful production of Les Misèrables requires a huge amount of unseen backstage work, David’s creativity and innovation should ensure that this will be a huge hit in Carlisle.

Tickets went on sale at 10a.m. on Monday February 11 and cost £13.50 plus The Sands Centre box office fee.

Shows will run from Thursday June 20 to Saturday June 22, including a Saturday matinee.

The Cumberland Building Society, Story Homes and AST Signs are major sponsors of the production.

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SARAH BRIGGS talks to Radio Cumbria’s popular presenter, Mike Zeller, about how he became switched on to radio in particular and why Cumbria is where he loves to be.

MIKE LIKES THE HOME SERVICE BEST

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HEY say that home is where the heart is and, for Mike Zeller, coming home to Cumbria it is certainly true.

He speaks of his pride in the county and in his home town of Carlisle and with pleasure of his job at Radio Cumbria. One picks up a sense of a man who feels deeply contented: who has truly ‘come home’.

He described the moment when he was a teenager, turned on BBC Radio One and was immediately sure that being involved in radio was the job for him. He hasn’t wavered since, and while he speaks of” being lucky” a lot of hard work and persistence has gone into his career, although he has also made the most of opportunities when they occurred.

While Mike was born in Carlisle, is of Cumbrian stock on his father’s side and has been a Carlisle United supporter all his life, he and his parents moved to Preston when he was at school and he moved around as his career progressed before returning to his roots.

He worked for hospital radio in Preston and then at Red Rose radio, making cups of tea, filing records, and doing the jobs nobody else wanted to do. He speaks with some amusement of even writing horoscopes: “My parents couldn’t work out at first why theirs were so accurate… if they were going shopping they were ‘travelling’ with ‘spending money’ involved”!

He is a man with deep feelings and loyalties: radio, Cumbria, his family, his fiancée Emma. So when radio was pulling him elsewhere he went: but what could be better than to be back at home, working for BBC Local Radio in Cumbria? And what could be more appropriate for Radio Cumbria than to have a Cumbrian presenting The Breakfast Show?

Eventually he got an overnight show with Red Rose, and he continued to do this while he was an undergraduate at University in Leeds, where he read Public Media and Sociology. Sometimes he drove from Leeds to Preston and back again several times in quick succession as well as doing all his course work. “I was shattered, but I was

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Mike his fiancée Emma young, and I could see the longer term… I was earning money and obtaining invaluable experience.”

While on the course he met the programme controller at Viking FM, in York. Straight after his finals he sent a demo tape off and as a result got his first ‘proper’ contract job. For a while he shuttled between Hull and Preston, sleeping at odd times, presenting evening shows in one place and overnight shows in the other. It was a punishing schedule but Mike’s capacity for hard work has helped him in his career. Ultimately he started to move over to the managerial side of radio. By the time he met Emma, through a mutual friend in Birmingham, he was working for Heart FM, as deputy programme director and was not on air at all.

When he moved to Guernsey to run Island FM he quoted “If I never go on the radio again it would never bother me”. Three months later he was presenting the breakfast show and had fallen in love with presenting all over again.

He speaks with warmth of his time on the island: the show, which he co-presented with Andrea, was ‘an organised laugh’ and one of his proudest career moments was when the station achieved the best audience figures it had had for eight years.

And yet he perhaps never felt part of the community there in the way he does in Cumbria. He had a call on air during his first week on Radio Cumbria from a childhood friend of his Dad. And, while sadly his father died 18 months after Mike had moved back to the area, he is glad they had that time together and that he is now near to his mother.

He and Emma weren’t living together when he worked on Guernsey, but it was there, on their favourite quiet beach at twilight, that he proposed to her. With a romantic gesture like that, is it surprising that Emma is now living with him in his beloved Cumbria?

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NGTOWN

THE SYCAMORE TREE CAFE, LO

You’ll want to linger longer Y

ou will be made to feel warmly welcome at The Sycamore Tree Café, where Margery and John Fothergill pride themselves in running a homely, warm and friendly café which invites people to linger.

The high standard of customer care ensures that there is a great deal of repeat business which is itself a recommendation and people travelling through the area detour off the M6/A74 especially to stop at the café or stay in the two beautifully-furnished letting bedrooms which are popular with business people and families alike.

John, a trained chef, hailes from Durham, where for many years he ran two pie shops. Having moved west he opened The Sycamore Tree Café eight years ago. A widower, he then met Margery, a widow: and they fell madly in love with each other. They now run the café together with a multi-skilled Margery running front of house and John cooking his delicious food and you can often walk into the café to the mouth-watering aroma of freshly-cooked lasagne.

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Meals are not only available in the café but also to take away. They include a “full breakfast in a box,” or a roast Sunday lunch. Another service offered is ‘meals-to-thedoor’. Margery says: “We like to keep a caring eye on some customers: for example a lady who lost her husband and had a fall – we take her Sunday lunch out to her”.

Each Wednesday is ‘Senior Citizens’ Special’, £4.95 for a

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The Sycamore Tree can also do outside catering where required, providing a range of hot and cold buffets.

John Fothergill serving one of his breakfast specials What is perhaps most impressive is the range on the coeliac menu. All the soups are home-made and gluten free; gluten-free lasagne and African stew are available and if you are a coeliac and want to enjoy a roast Sunday lunch with all the trimmings, then order in advance and Margery and John will be happy to ensure your Yorkshire puddings and gravy are coeliac-friendly. They have even sourced a tray-bake which is gluten-free, wheat-free and dairy-free.

Tuesdays and Fridays are steak nights, where for a set price you can have a glass of wine, a steak (lamb, beef or gammon) or broccoli bake, followed by dessert. The café has just started offering 16oz T-bone steaks: when a customer saw one being delivered to someone else’s table recently it looked and smelled so mouth-watering that he immediately requested one for himself.

Nor are children forgotten. Safety gates, socket covers, a small bed and a travel cot are all available if needed, and besides the specific children’s menu, ‘small’ sizes of adult meals can be provided.

So next time you’re in the Longtown area, don’t miss the opportunity of visiting at the Sycamore Tree café for refreshment. And if I haven’t convinced you, look at the photo of moist, delicious home-made chocolate cake on the website….

Booking in advance for Sunday lunch and steak nights is recommended.

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ADIO CUMBRIA wants to hear YOUR music and then let others hear it too… on air.

tracks. You can update your profile information whenever you like.

Since mid-January its “Introducing” series of programmes has been featuring talented musicians from all over the station’s broadcast area with presenter Richard Nankivell, showcasing the best in local and live music in a programme called “Introducing” which is broadcast on Thursday evenings from 6 to 7pm and repeated on Saturdays from 8-10pm Nationally the series has been running on some local radio stations since 2007 but has just been launched locally.

Once the upload process is complete, you’ll see the track appear on your profile page. Using the postcode given when you register, your local BBC Introducing show is notified whenever you upload a track.

It’s producer, Nell Gordon, told us that musicians are invited to register online, create a profile and upload their tracks onto the BBC uploader at: www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing/ uploader where you click on “Create a Profile”, then fill out the profile page with information about you/your band and upload your first track.

Currently the programme is scheduled to run indefinitely and for aspiring artists it must be an offer you can’t refuse.

Once your profile is set up, you won’t need to do it again.

From then on, you can simply sign in to your BBC iD membership, click “Go to your profile” and upload more

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Then a local BBC panel will consider the merits of the music; decide who and what to play on air and perhaps issue an invitation to appear live as guests for one of the programmes.

Performers who, so far, have featured are: Fiona Clayton; Sid Wright; Jakarta Club; No Soap No Radio; Evie Plumb; The 45s; Katie Gentry; 99 Mr Bens; Room full of Mirrors; Cat Like Thief; Heidi and Tony; Laura James; 13 Stars; Life in a Glasshouse; Christian Moss; Judith Jones; and Christopher Wolf.

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by The Railway Touring Company and operated by West Coast Railways, of Carnforth.

It departed from and returned to Manchester, making Carlisle its half-way halt and went back to Victoria Station, via the glorious Carlisle to Settle line.

Forget Ski-Sunday… It was Snow Saturday and, as a result of the conditions, it proved to be a unique and magnificent steam journey that you would wait a very long time to repeat.

As everyone gazed in wonderment from the windows there were superb, constantly-changing snowscapes, which regularly emerged from between dramatic clouds of white smoke and steam to reveal some simply stunning scenes, with the output of the two Stanier Black Five locomotives 44871 and 45407 almost matching the wide, wintry whiteness.

Eat your heart out Michael Portillo…

Having breakfasted (full English) on the train on the return leg from Carlisle we ate a delicious four-course dinner, with silver service, across the Yorkshire Moors; still munching as we crossed the famous Ribblehead Viaduct in the gathering gloom of night before belting on to Blackburn and back to Manchester.

CAN there be any better way of arriving in Carlisle than on a train pulled by a steam locomotive?

In fully cry the train was a truly impressive sight and attracted hundreds of photographers everywhere it travelled… in even the most remote places, and surprised, startled then smiling faces as the train steamed past were something I’ll long remember.

Words: Chris Breen

Photography: Claire Breen

Well yes, actually…on the one pictured above, which was hauled from Manchester by TWO steam locomotives.

My wife and I recently revelled in that unique opportunity, thanks to a thoughtful and generous Christmas gift… tickets for the Cumbrian Winter Mountain Express, run

The 12 hours of the journey seemed like 12 minutes which were engulfed in waves of nostalgia and childhood memories. Suffice to say it was an experience we’ll treasure and for anyone of a certain age such a steam journey a must…. and for everyone else? Essential!

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Regional Manager: Keiran Farrer

New leasing firm can get you ANY car M

OVE LEASING, one of the UK’s leading independent vehicle contract hire and leasing brokers has recently open a franchise in the Carlisle area; offering its services to individuals and companies across Cumbria and the North East.

Move leasing offers Personal Contract Purchase (PCP), HP, finance lease and outright purchase but specialises in car leasing, van leasing, vehicle leasing and contract hire.

Contracts are available from 0-6 months, 7-12 months and 13-18 months.

Whether you need assistance in managing an entire fleet or simply require a competitive quote for one vehicle, Move Leasing will be able to help.

If you are looking to lease a new car or van, you may be unsure whether business contract hire or personal car leasing is the most cost effective and tax efficient way for you.

And Keiran is always more than happy to offer free, unbiased contract hire and car leasing advice on the best way to fund your next new car or van.

No matter what the car Move Leasing can get it for you; from Audi to Jeep to Mercedes-Benz. Every vehicle manufacturer is available in the UK. The advantage of using Move Leasing is that business can be done on a personal level because Kieran Farrer who runs the Carlisle franchise will travel to you or you can go to him in person to discuss contracts.

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Exclusive Shockingly, the band are not best known for their ornithological crime solving prowess, but they are one of the latest groups to have been adopted by the West Cumbrian music scene. They headlined last year’s “At The Playground” festival and in April return to Whitehaven to play the Civic Hall as part of their album launch tour.

We Met At Sea sees the band take a more grown up approach to indie rock and lead single Animal is out now.

“There was a focus in writing the new album on how the tracks would translate live, and how they would come across on stage - so the gig will reflect the energy of the album. Plus Animal is a free download from the website well, you say free, but we want your email address! We’ve got another single off the album to come hopefully in the next month and then the full album will be out on April 29, three days after our gig in Whitehaven” “It’s gonna be exactly what you expect from a Pigeon Detectives gig, the band will give their all and hopefully by the end the crowd will be giving it everything too. We try to get the audience involved as much as possible”.

Matt and his band, hailing from Yorkshire, burst onto the indie scene back in 2007 with their swaggering, chantalong album, Wait For Me. “But we’re all getting a bit older and a bit wiser, so there might be a bit less crowd surfing and a few less karate kicks off the kick drum.You don’t turn up to a show expecting us to hit every guitar solo note perfectly but on the flip side, you get to see the songs in the environment they were written for - on a stage”. Matt also guaranteed that the band will be playing a mix of the old and the new, so fans will be able to hear their hits and their newer sound. Interestingly, the band came up with a clever idea to help promote their latest album whereby pre-ordering, you can actually have your own name printed on the cover. “Well, If I could go back 10 years and get my name on Is This It (seminal Strokes album), or something like that, I’d keep that record forever! In this day and age when music is such a throw-away commodity, if we can give the fans a chance to actually be a part of the album it would be something they could treasure and keep hold of”. Not just a very clever marketing ploy.

Matt offered some simple, concise advice for any young bands making their first, tentative steps on the long path to rock ‘n’ roll stardom: “Gig, gig, gig, gig, gig, it’s all about getting gigs. Gig the sh*t out of it”. So, promoters of Cumbria, and the North, let’s have a couple more gigs please.

The tickets for what promises to be a storming set on April 26 at the Civic Hall, Whitehaven, are available on 01946 690008 or 01946 514960.

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ITH summer slowly approaching and the nights getting brighter it’s the perfect time to invest in that conservatory you’ve been thinking about for years.

And if you’re looking for a more personal experience then Anthony Moore (above), of Geltsdale Windows, is the man for you.

Anthony has been in the window business for 25 years but set up Geltsdale Windows three years ago, which offers windows, conservatories and guttering work. Anthony works with one other which means that the process is a lot simpler and you will always deal with the same person.

It was the personal side of the business that encouraged Anthony to set up his own business because he enjoyed building relationships with his customers.

In the three years that Geltsdale has been running it has already established itself a glowing reputation for

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its services from previous satisfied customers and wordof-mouth has been an invaluable way of bringing in new customers.

Having already carved out an enviable reputation, which may be down to the personal side of the business it may equally be because the prices that Geltsdale’s offer are incredibly low despite the fact that they use the finest quality glass available. The Brampton-based business offers its services throughout Cumbria and into South West Scotland.

Geltsdale Windows offers: Windows and Doors, Composite and Bi Folding Doors Conservatories and Fascias, Cladding and Guttering Soffits and All Roofline Products, Repair and Replacement Service For Glass & Panels.

Geltsdale Windows is at 120 Dacre Road, Brampton, CA8 1BS. Tel: 016977 42779 Email: geltsdale-windows@live.com

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illoth Green was on the agenda at Westminster and Parliament as part of Cumbria Day, in a bid to drum up support for the Friends of the Green and volunteers who work to hold events on The Green.

Last year The Green was refurbished thanks to a £1.2million funding boost from the heritage Lottery Fund.

The county council project managed the refurbishment, which attracted around 400 people when it opened in May. County councillor Tony Markley, the member for the Solway Coast Division which includes Silloth, went to Westminster on February 13 to help promote tourism as part of Cumbria Day when. Workington MP Tony Cunningham also raised The Green as a motion in Parliament, to ask the House to support Friends of Silloth Green and the volunteers who give up their time to organise events there.

Silloth Green Day’ (May 26) was also highlighted. It will mark the first anniversary of the transformed Green and take the form of a family fun day and present a chance for businesses and groups in Silloth to feature what it is that they do.

say, photograph and video the day’s activities. Results will be uploaded to the new Silloth Green website currently under development. Coun Markley has contributed £2k from his Local Member Scheme allowance towards the costs of developing the website.

Young volunteers are also wanted to become Young Friends of The Green. They’ll help develop more events for young people, particularly during the summer. Tony Markley said: “I strongly encourage the people of Silloth to join our team of volunteers to maximise all the possibilities that The Green can bring.”

The following other events are already planned for The Green during 2013, Vintage Rally, June 15-16, Kite Festival, July 19-21, Carnival Day August 26, Silloth Beer Festival September 5-8.

For enquiries about becoming a volunteer or young volunteer contact Anna Malina, Community Engagement Officer on 07900922818.

Arrangements for entertainment so far include a Punch and Judy show, magician, balloon man and DJ, local musicians and bands including a rock band, face-painting and Cumbria Cookery demonstrations that will focus on products Silloth has to offer. Much more entertainment is in the pipeline including secret negotiations for a surprise appearance hinting at Silloth Green’s past.

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Hire Paul’s Passion-wagens PAUL BRADBURN from St Bees is in the passion business… his and yours.

He readily admits his love for classic Volkswagen vehicles and wants to share it with you. Paul, a welder and fabricator by trade, has personally restored his firm’s three “vintage” Volkswagen vehicles – two Beetles and a highly-prized, rare, and valuable split-windscreen camper van – and now you can hire them for your wedding day or for most other special occasions you care to arrange. Birthdays and corporate events can be catered for too.

Lake District Vintage Wedding Cars offers a personal, chauffeur-driven vintage service that is relaxed, friendly and professional. It’s a family-run business born out of that passion for classic air-cooled Volkswagens.

Their cars were re-fashioned with passion. Paul spent an average of nine to 12 months personally working evenings and weekends to get each restoration just right and you will receive the same level of care and attention to detail when you hire a Lake District Vintage Wedding Cars vehicle.

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“When you hire our vintage Volkswagens we will provide a unique experience and do our utmost to meet your full expectations,” Pauls says. “We will endeavour to deliver a quality service in order that your special day will be an experience to fondly remember”.

Based in St Bees, Lake District Vintage Wedding Cars, are more than happy to cover events of any kind, anywhere the UK and during the relatively short time they have been operating they have already travelled as far afield as South Wales, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and they regularly travel to Carlisle and the Scottish Borders for events, as well as to the South Lakeland area.

Last summer they took a Penrith Wedding Party to the Kendal Calling Music Festival where his camper van caught the attention of Dizzee Rascal’s party and was much photographed. “That was quite cool!” Paul admitted.

Currently he offers a beautiful grey 1963 Beetle; a stunning red and grey 1964 split-screen camper and a stylish white 1973 cabriolet (convertible) Beetle… in effect a wagen to suit most occasions. He also has another, later, classic camper van awaiting restoration.

“Please feel free to come and view our classic VWs to get a sense of the experience,” Paul suggested,” and if you do decide to hire a vehicle or vehicles you’ll be certain of the best attention from this friendly family-run firm, for your driver will be Paul himself, his dad Danny and one of Paul’s personal friends.

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Tally-ho! Trends for 2013

By Amber Phillips

2012 showcased historic events such as the Royal wedding, Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics and this has influenced the creative minds of designers 2013 collections. Navy and plum tones are still popular on the catwalk and prominent on the high street, but there are key details to look out for - Amber Phillips has the low down.

Classic B&W

The classic white shirt and black trousers combination is something a lot of us associate with work attire, but do not underestimate how effortlessly beautiful it can look when put together with attention (and with the intention of wearing it to look good). Often we think to add colour to black, but stay clear, this season white is the new black.

Giles played around with full length black dresses with a simple white shirt underneath for an Edwardian feel.

If you are unsure how to work this trend then look for a shirt that is slightly see-through, buttoned to the neck and ensure the buttons are pretty. Warehouse and French Connection have shirts that could be worn for a daytime or evening look.

Red

Red is the colour this season. If you feel like you cannot wear it then invest in a red clutch bag, or failing that, crack out that nail polish!

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Clutches

Yes, they are back. The clutch bag is back in circulation thankfully. Opt for a style that is bursting with detail and that is the size of a small handbag. Net-a-Porter has some wonderful designs, but to update that black clutch bag from years ago add broaches and flowers. A colourful clutch bag with lots of detail is the perfect accessory to an all black outfit.

Equestrian success

Thanks to the success of the Olympics equestrian sports are now under the spotlight, and so is horse riding attire.

Tweed jackets were admired on the Ralph Lauren and Gucci catwalk, and the design of the collar was seen on Marc Jacobs. The beauty of tweed is that it is so versatile and timeless and it comes in so many different designs.You can get a really good quality tweed jacket from TK Maxx that is ex-season, but it won’t matter because tweed is tweed! For a twist on the original olive and beige palette opt for a multicoloured number – Zara and H&M offer some playful designs.

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Miss Cumbria finalists made up about their prizes

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hen I returned to Carlisle from working in London, I attended networking events and met talented Carlisle portrait photographer, Louise Crouch.

We worked together on a few test shoots where I learned she has a real passion for her work. Her images are unique, yet classic. She takes time to understand her clients and their characters and personalities imbue her work. They are left feeling empowered and proud.

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Louise and husband Peter have a warm, welcoming, beautiful and adaptable; studio in Fisher Street, Carlisle. Clients love it and so do I. Recently we worked with finalists in the Miss Cumbria 2012 competition. Pete and Louise recorded the event and contributed photography prizes and Louise put together an offer especially for the event.

The winners’ prizes included a makeover photo shoot preceded by a two hour session with me. Louise was to get Louise engaged me for most of her ‘Boudoir’ shoots, and we some beautiful professional images of them and the results built up a strong working relationship. As a hair and make-up were, as you can see here, clean simple and stunning! artist my role is an essential part of such a shoot – a role often overlooked in many low-budget shoots whereas our I know what hair styles and make up techniques work best relaxed and creative approach builds all-round trust. on camera. Special occasion make up and catwalk can be 32

Lifestyle photographing head shots and private clients it’s important to enhance and work with the client’s natural style and taste rather than create an arty piece on them. That’s what I do for Fashion shoots where models are booked as a blank canvas.

I examined the girls’ clothes to decide what colours and looks would go well. With portraits I make sure I concentrate on structure and definition rather than splash colour on. It can always be added later.

Georgina Gonclaves, third place Junior Miss Cumbria Georgina has beautiful long hair and her large eyes and big smile. She often wears a strong colour on her lips, but was happy to allow me to do as I wished. She had some really different styling outfits including a leopard print cat-suit, which I loved.

But I took the risk and gave Georgina a slightly different look. I wanted to define her eyes so I kept the colours on the eyes quite natural, but defined, in order to complement all outfits. I wanted to add movement and bounce to her hair but keep it young and fresh with a middle parting winged and pinned back loosely. I used GHD’s for most of the curls but large tongs around the face to create a modern wave.

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very different in terms of texture. Shine can look beautiful on the catwalk and a glow works during a wedding but isn’t right for head shots or lifestyle shoots.

Soft curls or a bouncy blow dry within the hair is a classic look for boudoir and lifestyle but can be adapted to suit most occasions. Modern, yet classic and hair can be played with during the shoot without looking rough. A light backcomb if needed, waves and body with only a touch of hair spray is often all a hair style needs, or simply just a soft blow-dry.

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Alice Simpson, third place Miss Cumbria Alice, who was beautiful without make up, again allowed me a free hand although she did say she liked eyeliner, so I played on a good line, inside and outside the eye. Her skin was beautiful and warm toned so I left it alone. I don’t cover skin that doesn’t need it.

Alice said her hair didn’t look right when it was down so I gave her a messy, textured ponytail with lift at the crown but a middle parting around the face a modern, chic and flattering style. I’m sure you can all agree that Alice looks like she has been cut out of a lifestyle shoot or fashion catalogue …very professional.

To see more of the people we have worked on together see Louise’s blog at: www.pinktulips.co.uk/our-blog

Alex Baugh, Junior Miss Cumbria winner Alex was an absolute pleasure to work with. I could see she was just enjoying every minute. And although we had such a giggle getting her ready I could see she was taking in everything I was doing. I enjoyed applying her make up as she could take a lot of warm colours with her dark hair and dark eyes! I used a mixture of taupes, purples and a flash of pink. I curled her hair softly and pinned it back with loose curls framing her face. Being a junior it was vital not to give her a style that was too old for her.

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IFE at times demands a little luxury…YOU deserve a little luxury at DreamsDay Spa we will send you into “A world away from the city”

With a five bubble-rating, a finalist in “The Good Spa Guide” 2012, and a “best” massage recommendation too.

We are a DreamsDay by both name and by nature. DreamsDay Spa is an award winning day spa which offers a high standard of luxury and a retreat from the busy world of work and home. So enjoying a little escape time at DreamsDay Spa is an affordable luxury. Since the business relocated from Port Road, seven years ago, their loyal staff have continued meeting their customer’s expectations.

Among them is Karen who has been with DreamsDay Spa since it opened in December 2005 when the business, then Aileen’s, moved. Karen has been a valued member of the reception team for nearly nine years. She understands well the demanding role of a mother and keeping a good work-home balance.

Mum’s the word with Annabel. She joined the ‘Dream Team’ of therapists after several years working in the Lake District and has dedicated her time to specialised treatments such as pregnancy massage and maternity reflexology.

Specialising in these fields makes Annabel stand out in the profession of Spa therapists and DreamsDay Spa values her experience and dedication to her therapy. Annabel works closely with a large number of expectant mothers to help make sure their pregnancies go smoothly. Annabel is also our remedial massage therapist, working hard to improve the body and relieving tension in the back, neck and hips.

Louise Joined Aileen’s team of professionals straight from college and has been an exceptional therapist throughout the eight years she has been working. She prides herself on her skills of bespoke waxing, and on keeping up with today’s trends in the world of high definition eyebrows, individual lash extensions and makeup. Louise is Dreamsday’s fashion expert, Louise also has two girls who like herself enjoy the world of fashion. Louise always addresses clients’ needs professionally and honestly, with the extensive knowledge of skin coupled with a love of facials she makes it her mission to satisfy her clients skin concerns.

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PURPLE LOTUS, CARLISLE

Calmer in the city centre

Louise Ceres, Rachel, Tony and Wendy

our bustling city centre there a true haven of calm.

INexists Step behind the shops into Treasury Court, and you will find the Purple Lotus holistic therapy centre and wholefood café, ready to relax and revitalise you.

Enter the building and an atmosphere of tranquillity and history wraps itself around you, as the sunlit spaces of this converted medieval barn allow the stresses of everyday life to slip from your shoulders.

Feng Shui is used to create an environment which feels cocooned and safe.

But whatever relaxes you, you will find it here.

Five types of yoga class are on offer, ranging from gentle yoga to ‘hot’ yoga beloved of sports people; meditation sessions are free; Nia dance classes transport you to the vibrancy of a jazz bar or nightclub (but without the alcohol!); and just reading about the therapies on offer is enough to make you want to lie down straight away and have a back or 36

Indian Head massage, or even the two combined.

Several different types of massage are available, all using bespoke aromatherapy oils, as well as Reiki, reflexology and facials. I loved the sound of the Rose Absolute Facial which uses rose damask oil and is based on an Egyptian facial, and the Chocolate Oxygen facial massage sounds delicious…

The Centre prides itself in not only being a therapy centre but also a Centre of Excellence, including carrying out teacher training. Several of the staff are volunteers, working there because they love the ambience.

And after all that relaxation and serenity why not slip into the café for some baking, “home-made by Grandma with love”, before facing the world again!

Readers who present the original of this page at the Centre will receive a free class or free afternoon cup of tea or coffee in the café.

T. 01228 596306 www.purplelotus.co.uk Treasury Court, Carlisle, CA3 8RF

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We’re wearing more in the nether regions HERE is a pattern in what women wear to bed T and where they live, with one major department stores’ sales figures showing the further south you go the skimpier the night attire.

It seems that women the capital are the least covered up whereas those in the north are completely covered up in long sleeved tops and matching pyjama bottoms. For 87% of women in the north of the country, perfect sleepwear is a comfy set of flannel pyjamas - ordinary and practical PJs - and some soft slippers; possibly due to colder climates.

What wear?

North: Flannel pyjamas and slippers - the most traditional style of nightwear and reflect a conventional personality.

This style suggests a person who prefers comfort and warmth to unbridled passion.

Midlands: Shorts and vests - Not trying hard to seduce or impress, playful and comfortable with who they are. Aren’t quite bold enough to go fully nude, preferring to tease rather than reveal.

South: Undies or nothing - The uninhibited sleeper, who slips under the sheets in just their undies, or nothing at all, is not afraid of their passionate side. Bedtime may be more about sensuality and intimacy than it is about sleep.

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Centre is owner Lisa Swan-Fletcher, with Laura Burton and Adele Swift

Get a boost for the Bikini season A

S clichéd as it may sound summer is just around the corner which means it’s nearly bikini season; the time of year where early morning TV shows and magazines launch “The perfect bikini diet”.

If you’re in need of a kick start to a diet or just a bit of motivation to start eating healthier and drinking more water a Shrinking Violet body wrap, which Orchid Beauty Rooms now offer, may be just what you need.

Shrinking Violet body wraps work by Lipolysis; a revolutionary method to remove unwanted fat by breaking down the fat in fat cells, removing those unwelcome inches from areas such as the stomach, bottom, hips thighs and upper arms. Results can be seen after the first treatment however a course is recommended followed by regular maintenance treatments.

For the effects to be maintained you have a small but significant role to play by eating a balanced diet, drinking plenty of water and undertaking exercise.

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Pharmacist Mark Stakim

FREE 20 minute health check gives instant results

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T‘S not every day around here that you get the chance of something really worthwhile that won’t cost you a penny... but this really is one of those rare opportunities and whatsmore it couldn’t be easier to take advantage of.

THERE‘S NO CATCH. Thanks to the NHS a free 20-minute health check / MoT is being offered to you, by Dalston Pharmacy at their premises in Dalston and Harraby, if you are aged between 40 and 74.

There aren’t many men who wouldn‘t jump at the chance of a free MoT for their car, so why not do the same for yourself? You’re worth it.

But many men and many women too, see going to the doctors as dreadful; something designed to scare the life out of us and so, Ostrich-like, press on with life, only consulting their medical practices as a last resort. But nowadays, with so many medical advances having been made, it’s important to spot potential problems as early as possible which is 40

what this is all about. The big plus is that it’s local and the results will be availabe instantly... no worrying waits before being told how fit and healthy you are.

Mark Staikam from Dalston Pharmacy told us: “This free health check is to try and spot the warning signs of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and kidney disease.

The only people in this age range who would not be eligible are those who are already being treated by their doctor for high blood pressure, high colesterol, diabetes or kidney disease.

“So If you would like to take advantage of this free test, or if you have family, or friends who are elegible, then let them know about it and then call in at or telephone either of our pharmacies in Harraby (01228 523312) or Dalston (01228 712506) to arrange a convenient appoinment.

New 111 number for GP out-of-hours calls

Temergency service, Cumbria Health HE county’s after-hours GP

on Call (CHOC) formerly Cuedoc, has a new telephone number from March 21.

It will be 111.

The 111 number is being introduced nationally and calls will be handled by NHS Direct who bid for and won the national franchise. The idea is to give people a simple number which will become as easily remembered as is 999.

CHOC will be slightly ahead of the switch because, as Hannah Mason, of CHOC explained: “The switchover had been scheduled for April 1 but that is Easter Monday and the Easter weekend is one of our busiest, so to avoid any confusion we felt it better to switch slightly sooner.”

“But here will be no change whatsoever to the service provided by CHOC,” Hannah told The Guide.

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…and I never knew Janice was a hair-nerd

by Sarah Briggs

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auburn hair: but underneath the exuberant exterior is someone whom, surprisingly, describes herself as a hair nerd or a geek.

Listening to Janice telling me about hair science over a cup of coffee is revealing. To all appearances she is a lively 40-something woman, extrovert and confident with bright,

Having been brought up by her widowed grandmother, after taking her ‘A’ levels Janice got a job in hairdressing where she funded her own training “and did every hair dressing course going: including one which covered skin grafting”, and obtained 100% in her Hair Science exam.

Nowadays she spends a lot of time and energy trimming wigs for children with cancer, for no fee, and raising funds for children’s national cancer charity, CLIC Sargent, as well as running her salon in Brampton.

hen hair guru Janice Grieves told me that some older women have problems with hair loss because they use rosemary shampoo, my curiosity was piqued.

Janice herself specialises in dealing with hair loss and colour correction, which many hairdressers are wary about. She’s seen many problems: clients coming in with layer upon layer of colour on dry, distressed hair; clients losing hair who have had patches glued to their heads, preventing the hair growing back.

She may come across as strict, but insists on a skin test and, if necessary, a strand test before treatment; for example if a client has had a black henna tattoo and then gets his or her hair dyed with a colour containing PPD (paraphenylene diamime, of which there is a particularly high percentage in dark dyes) an allergic reaction may occur which is potentially fatal.

Likewise if you have coloured your hair with henna and then use a product with peroxide in it, a chemical reaction can occur.

At the same time she warns against some of the off-the-shelf ‘organic’ and seemingly more natural products. For a start, some of them may only contain 70% natural products and 30% of far nastier things.

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Lifestyle Even natural ingredients can be aggressive, for example rosemary (potentially very stimulating and drying) or citric acid. As Janice says: “Don’t do to your hair what you wouldn’t do to a mohair jumper”. She firmly believes in a balance of science and nature, whereby scientific research can prove or disprove which products, natural or otherwise, work.

“Janice will be blunt with you about what the problems and solutions are” Via Twitter she is involved with many people carrying research out into alopecia. There are several main causes of hair loss; stress (for example, that caused by bereavement, by work or by personal problems); hormones (the menopause and other times when hormones may be changing); diet (bulimia and anorexia; iron-deficiency); medication (recreational drugs or prescribed drugs); and finally, hair extensions or even frequent severely tight pony tails (traction alopecia). Janice will not put in hair extensions in her salon because of the link to hair loss, although she uses temporary hair enhancements.

The good news is that in most cases of alopecia in women the hair will re-grow. She says your body sees your hair as an appendage, not as something essential. Therefore if your body is under stress then it will protect and maintain your vital organs before your hair. Get your body healthy again and the hair should grow back.

If anyone has any hair anxieties, be warned: Janice will be blunt with you about what the problems and solutions are.

She carries five or more hair product brands in her salon, insisting that no single brand is perfect for everybody, though the Spanish brand Montibel.lo is probably close to it and she also likes Nioxin, developed by a scientist and hairdresser. She is also qualified to use pharmacyonly products and has attended courses which assess the suitability of some of these.

My eyes have been opened by Janice’s in-depth knowledge and thirst to carry on learning about such a wide-ranging field. I leave breathing a sigh of relief that my only hair problem seems to be that I am going grey.

Janice can be found on Twitter: @salonchatter and her website is: www.hairdoctor.co.uk For papers relating to research into certain substances in hair dyes and their potential to create fatalities see: www.ajol.info/index.php/ajnt/article/viewFile/57599/45978 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18583736 43

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44 Degrees Salmon

Words & Photography by Alan Spedding

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ight now I’m currently in holiday mode and busy counting down the weeks to a hot sandy beach. I need to keep a positive train of thought in my eating habits at the moment and I’m in no doubt that there`s also quite a few Guide magazine readers in the same frame of mind. In that case I think it`s probably a good game plan to stick with another healthy recipe for this issue.

The recipe I’m doing here is a variation of a dish from Chef Raymond Blanc’s repetoire, Salmon with Apples.

It`s an unusual cooking method as the Salmon is partially ‘cured’ and then cooked ever so gently in Olive oil at 44 degrees.

This cooking method guarantees the most wonderfully moist and perfectly cooked fish you`re ever going to experience. It isn`t raw but it`s just caught at the stage before the connective collagens in the fish begin to break down and turn the Salmon into dry flaky flesh.

Method To cook the fish, first add Olive oil to a pan to a depth deep enough to cover the fish. Heat the oil gently to 44 degrees over a very low heat and keep it at that point. Gently lower the pieces of Salmon into the oil and allow them to cook gently at 44 degrees for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. You will notice the fish starting to turn colour so that`s a signal to remove it before it overcooks.

The Salmon needs to look raw and not pink but at this stage it will be cooked to perfection. It might sound pretty complex but its a novelty idea, a bit of fun and the end result is a beautiful taste experience.

I like to serve it as the photos here show, a little scoop of creme fraiche, Apple sauce, marinated Apples, Apple jellies and Herb oil.

To simplify things then you could just sit the cooked fish on some seasoned mixed leaves with freshly buttered brown bread.... Very healthy, low calorie and totally dressed to impress.

You`re going to need a thermometer for this one so don`t attempt it without. I just bought a cheap one off Ebay for a few pounds.

Ingredients So for the Salmon you`ll need to buy some quite thick and nicely trimmed skinless fillets. The first stage is to “cure” these in a mixture of - 1 cup of Sea Salt, half a cup of sugar, the grated zest of a lemon, a bunch of chopped fresh Dill and some white pepper. Put everything together in a plastic bag, mix it all up, add the fish and gently rub everything together to coat the fish with the mixture.

Leave this to cure for an hour and then you will see all of the water has been pulled out of the fish and that the flesh has noticeably firmed up. Remove the fish from the bag and wash the mixture off under cold water. Dry the fish off which will now be partially cured and already very edible, please try a little slice and you`ll see.

Follow Alan at: www.alanspedding.co.uk www.cumbriafoodie.wordpress.com

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FRIED RICE

This simple, healthy (no add MSG) and wonderful recipe for Thai Chicken Fried Rice will please everyone at your table. It’s easy to make and just as tasty as the fried rice you’ll get at your favorite Asian restaurant. If you happen to have ‘old’ rice (left over from other meals), fried rice is the perfect way to use it up; but even freshly-made rice makes for great fried rice when fried up in the right way and with the right sauces. This recipe will teach you how to do just that, so your fried rice tastes as light and flavorful as it possibly can.

Ingredients

1 cup cooked jasmine rice, day old (a bit dry) is best 1/4 cup sliced white onion 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic 1tablespoons chopped spring onions (both white and green parts) 2 cherry tomatoes 1/3 cup small slices of chicken meat 1 teaspoon of fish sauce can be substituted with salt 1 teaspoon white soy sauce* 1/4 teaspoon oyster sauce* 1/4 teaspoon white sugar 1 egg white pepper powder garnish with coriander, lime wedge and cucumber slices

Instructions

1. Prepare all your ingredients: cut haft cherry tomatoes, slice the onion into thin strips, finely chop the garlic and cut slice cucumbers and chicken.

2. Heat the oil on medium until hot. Add the garlic and the chicken. Stir well. Keep flipping the chicken until it’s white on all sides.

3. Add onion. Stir well untill it’s softened. Add the rice and stir well.

4. Push the rice to the side of the pan and add a bit more oil. Crack an egg on the oil and mix in the pan. Let set.

When solid, flip the rice on top and mix well.

5. Add the soy sauces, oyster sauce, sugar and fish sauce or salt. Turn off heat.

6. Topped with spring onions,cherry tomatoes and white pepper powder. Turn onto a plate and garnish with the rest of coriander, a piece of lime and the cucumber slices.

Serve with a small bowl of fish sauce,lime juice with sliced chilies for those who like it extra spicy, and ENJOY! Note: You can substitute any meat you want - beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, crab meat, cooked chicken (boiled or baked), ham, hot dogs, chinese sausages, beef jerky, salted chicken, whatever...be creative. For vegetarians – try kale,white cabbage or fried tofu pieces with the rice, or just leave out all together. *For GLUTEN FREE check Soya and Oyster sauce for gluten free symbols when purchasing.

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Cumbrian BBQ Pork Peter Sidwell

Peter Sidwell, said: “Belly pork is an all-time favourite of mine. It has so much flavour, plus it’s a forgiving cut of meat as it’s not easy to over-cook. Just start it at a high temperature, then turn it down to cook for a few hours until tender and melt in the mouth. This recipe was inspired by a trip to the USA, when I was asked to be a judge at a world barbecue championship in Lake Placid, upstate New York. The blend of flavours is sweet and smoky, with just a hint of aniseed that works so well with pork”.

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t’s said that you’d no sooner leave the Isle of Man without kippers than leave Blackpool without a stick of rock, but at home it can be harder to find the real thing – there are a lot of imposters out there.

The Isle of Man has a long tradition of fishing and kippering. Herring, originally caught in home waters but now from further afield, are split from head to tail, gutted, brined and then cold smoked in kilns. The finished kippers are a deep bronze colour, with a gently insistent, rich flavour edged with salt and smoke.

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Ingredients 2.5kg (5lb) belly of Cumbrian pork 2–3 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp sea salt 2 onions 2 apples 1 star anise or 1 tsp Chinese five spice 2 tbsp maple syrup 2 tbsp ketchup 2 tbsp brown sauce 2 tbsp dark soy sauce

Instructions Preheat the oven to 220 ̊C/425 ̊F/ Gas Mark 7. Using a sharp knife, cut into the skin of the pork. Make around 10 cuts about 1cm (1⁄2in) deep, so that the flavour can soak right into the centre of the meat.

Dry the skin using kitchen paper, as this will help it form some serious crackling – when you cook belly pork, crackling is what it’s all about. Drizzle the oil on to the pork and rub it into the skin so it becomes shiny. Season well with sea salt flakes, opening up each cut to make sure some of the salt has got into the meat.

Chop the onions and apples into chunks and put them in a roasting tray. Sit the pork on top, skin-side up and cook for 20–30 minutes until the skin starts to crisp up. Turn the oven down to 150 ̊C/300 ̊F/Gas Mark 2 and cook for 2–3 hours until the pork is tender.

While the pork is cooking, make the barbecue glaze.

Crush the star anise, if using, with a pestle and mortar.

Mix the star anise or five-spice powder with the maple syrup, ketchup, brown sauce and soy sauce.

When the pork is tender and the skin is crispy – after 2–3hrs – brush it with the sauce, making sure it gets into the cuts in the skin. Put the pork back in the oven for 20–30 minutes so the sauce caramelises and becomes sweet and sticky.

When the pork is ready, please, please rest it before carving. Take it out of the oven, cover with a sheet of foil then place a tea towel over the top to keep it warm.

When you have set the table and got everything else ready for your meal, then – and only then – cut the pork into thick slices and chop the crackling into pieces.

The Shop Demonstrations Programme of Events Quick Family Meals on your AGA

by Jaki McKitrick.

12pm - 2pm. Sat 16th March. £15 Beginners Guide to your AGA

by Margaret Anderson.

6pm - 7.30pm. Tues 26th March. £15 Beginners Guide to your AGA

by Margaret Anderson.

12pm - 2pm. Tues 16th April. £15 Beginners Guide to your AGA

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6pm - 7.30pm. Tues 7th May. £15 Summer Entertaining on your AGA

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6pm - 7.30pm. Tues 17th Sept. £15

www.aga-web.co.uk T. 01228 590031 The AGA Shop, 2/2a Lowther Street,Carlisle, CA3 8ES

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India Gate

Buffet style restaurant offering a sophisticated dinning experience with charming staff makes sure that customers come back for more. The building has been transformed to a sophisticated restaurant to offer a pleasant experience whatever the occasion.

Indiagate dishes are derived from traditional Moghul cuisine cooked in the authentic tandoor oven style of North West India. Executive Chefs regulary devise new and seasonal dishes to keep updated menus innovative and modern. Open Monday - Sunday: 11.30am - 10pm

Offering a sophisticated dining experience...

30/34 Bochergate, Carlisle, CA1 1QS T. 01228 819409 www.indiagate-carlisle.co.uk E. reservations@indiagate-carlisle.co.uk

The Prior’s Kitchen Restaurant at Carlisle Cathedral A warm welcome awaits you at the Prior’s Kitchen Restaurant where you will find finest hand made food served in the beautiful medieval surroundings of the Cathedral’s Fratry Undercroft.

Gluten free meals/locally sourced produce/Organic/Fair-trade/Daily Specials.

Open Monday to Saturday 9.45 am to 3.30 pm For enquiries please telephone the Prior’s Kitchen on 01228 543251 or visit our website: www.carlislecathedral.org.uk

Le Gall Cafe Bar Open 7 Days a week. Food served from 9am Large choice and varied menu. Also Daily Special Board Gluten Free Menu Available Private Room available for hire, contact for further details Wines l Draught Beers l Spirits l Cocktails

T. 01228 818 388 7 Devonshire Street, Carlisle CA3 8LG

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RIME MINISTER David Cameron got a taste of Cumbrian in mid-February when more than a dozen food and beer producers went to Westminster today as part of Cumbria Day, at the House of Commons.

Organised by Taste Cumbria, Cumbria Tourism and the six Cumbrian MPs, the day gave many of Cumbria’s award winning producers to show off their finest products.

The event followed the campaign to launch an Associate Parliamentary Group on Cumbrian Tourism, which also had its inaugural launch that day.

‘Cumbria Day’ – gave a selection of Cumbrian businesses a chance to market and promote themselves to a wide audience of MPs, Lords and guests from the tourism industry.

Tourism is important to Cumbria with the county now attracting around 30 million visitors a year.

Mary Houston, Food Tourism Co-ordinator, Taste Cumbria explained, “Food, drink and agriculture is vital to our visitor economy. Recent research showed that £429m was spent by visitors to Cumbria on food and drink in 2011 - the highest spend of any other tourism activity in the county, even accommodation.

Suppliers from all over Cumbria provided samples of Cumbrian delicacies. Grasmere Gingerbread, Cartmel Sticky Toffee Pudding, damson oils, and Cumbrian cheeses joined Cumberland sausages, black pudding and rum butter, washed down with county ales.

Philip Cranston, whose butchery Cranstons took part said: “All the meat served to the MPs and dignitaries was Cumbria’s finest and a great representation of what farms all over Cumbria are working towards - great quality and taste, unique to our region.”

Business which attended the day in Westminster included the Cumbrian Pencil Company, New Balance Trainers, Stobart Air and representatives from Visit England, the National Trust, English Heritage, the Lake District National Park and Cumbria County and District Councils.

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Richard Burns’ theme

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OR 2013, the long-established Carlisle-based Pirelli International Rally is to be renamed The Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally”.

May 4 - 5

It pays tribute to Richard Burns, the 2001 World rally Champion who tragically succumbed to a brain tumour at the age of 34, just five years after claiming rallying’s highest. The Richard Burns Foundation was set up in his memory to fund research into astrocytoma, a particularly virulent form of brain tumour and to help people affected by this serious illness.

Pirelli’s Motorsport Director, Paul Hembery, said: “The Richard Burns Foundation is currently focusing on raising funds to provide a “Brain Bus” which will open up to a wider audience the issues and treatment needed for brain and spinal disorder. We are delighted to lend our support to this fantastic cause and hope that our support for the Richard Burns Foundation will enable Richard’s name to continue to be visible in the world of rallying. We feel it is a fitting tribute to England’s only world rally champion”.

A spokesman for the Cumberland Sporting Car Club, the rally organisers, added, “Richard drove on our event on several occasions, winning it outright in 1993 on his way to the British title, so we feel a great affinity both with Richard and the foundation set up in his memory.

We are honoured to have Richard’s name associated with our portfolio of events and will endeavour to a rally worthy of his memory”.

The Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally takes place over the weekend of May 4/5 and sees a ceremonial civic start in the city centre, while rally headquarters, the Pirelli rally Show and the central service area will all be located at Carlisle Racecourse.

The Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally” is, for the 22nd successive year, a round of the MSA British Rally Championship.

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The two day rally has always been very popular with the country’s top drivers and attracted interest from abroad to compete over the challenging forest stages in the North of Cumbria and the adjacent Kielder Forest.

Motoring

It will be based at Carlisle Racecourse where there will be a number of added attractions such as seeing all the competing cars at close quarters and having a go on the unique Pirelli Rally Simulator. Enthusiasts will be able to wander around the purpose built “Rally Village” with its huge selection of displays and trade stands. It will give spectators plenty to see in between watching the competing cars being worked on the Service Area.

The Pirelli Historic Rally takes place on Saturday May 4 with 55 miles of special stages in Kielder Forest before the finish at the racecourse.

For further information on the 2012 Pirelli Historic Rally, visit the website: www.pirelliinternationalrally.co.uk

The rally itself features a new, short, sharp punchy format with a Saturday lunchtime start and the rally running through into the evening before an overnight halt precedes a Sunday morning loop, with the leading crews arriving back at the Carlisle finish just after lunchtime. The event is open to a much wider range of competitors this year, so many more club drivers are expected to take part.

The Pirelli Historic Rally runs in tandem with the main event and will be the third round of the ever popular Mintex MSA British Historic Rally Championship, bringing a horde of evocative makes from yesteryear to compete over the Cumbrian forest stages.

The event’s Media Manager, Ed Graham, said: “It will be great to see all these classic cars in action on the Cumbrian stages.”

The 2013 Pirelli Historic Rally will incorporate the newly announced Oldstager Clubmans’ Challenge, the Mini Cup and, new for 2013, the Imp 50 Cup which will celebrate 50 years of the Hillman Imp. The rally will also feature a host of famous names, such as Porsche, Escort, Cortina and Anglia Fords, MGBs, Volvo Amazons, Mini Coopers and high-revving Saab two-strokes.

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It’s created a new purpose-built HQ to bring together the various branches of the firm’s business on a seven acre site, and the furniture, antiques and general sales business has benefitted greatly. With better access and ample parking for sales-goers, and new under floor heating the new premises and sales hall provide warmer, more comfortable surroundings which should attract a wider range of would-be buyers to their regular salesroom events, says auctioneer Stephen Farthing.

Photography by Jim Davis

Hopes hold sales of antique, reproduction and modern furniture and effects fortnightly on Mondays and whole and part house-clearances are undertaken and they also offer a valuation service. They draw customers and sales-goers from as far afield and Kendal, in the south of the county, to Dumfries in the north, and East to Hexham and currently offers a particularly attractive buyers’ premium rate of 12.5 per cent, which including VAT, equals 15 per cent and compares very favourably with other “industry standard” rates usually in the 20 to 30 per cent range.

Steve Farthing, ready for their first auction at Hopes new premises in Wigton

Auction firm opens the bidding at new Wigton headquarters

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T’S all auction stations at Wigton, with the town’s big sales company having moved to a new site.

Hope’s of Wigton have relinquished their town centre premises and moved to a new location on the edge of town, at Syke Road.

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A lotting fee of £1 per lot is normally charged to sellers in addition to commission fees of 15%, but Guide readers are being offered an exclusive 10% rate (see advert below). Viewing takes place on the Friday before each sale, from 8am to 5pm and on the morning of sale from 8am.

FORTHCOMING SALES: March 11, 18, 15, April 8; April 22. And Boat, fishing and leisure sale on April 6.

FORTHCOMING ANTIQUE FAIRS: on Sundays, at The Greenhill Hotel, Wigton, March 31; May 12; June 23; August 4; September 15; October 27 and December 8.

For further details telephone auctioneer and valuer Stephen Farthing on 077340 43578.

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i? x a M ld o n a Maxi? r o f ustin A £20k you last see an WHEN did

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aybe you have never seen one and some people might not think that’s a bad thing since the 1970s big brother of the Mini never even came close to approaching the Mini’s ubiquitous status.

Introduced in 1969 the Austin Maxi wasn’t and still isn’t well regarded…even among those who love classic cars. At the opposite extreme lies the Mark 1 Ford Escort. Rally success over the decades has made it the much sought-after classic it is today and even rusty –two door examples fetch silly money for what was a very basic car, while examples with sporting pedigree can fetch beyond £30k and the price of genuine top grade competition cars with provenance have gone off the radar and as for one which competed in the 1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally…well who knows!

Commenting recently on the end of their rally, Tina Kerridge said: “Something like four inches of rain fell in an hour; we simply got bogged down in the most desolate area, in the middle of the night. It was so disappointing as we had been going so well”.

Tish Ozanne later contested European events in the car which is now back in its original World Cup Rally livery. The car is in excellent condition; is road legal and drives well with 38,000 recorded miles. A guide price of £19,000 - £24,000 was suggested by the auctioneers.

Only one other rallying Maxi from the event exists and it’s in a museum.

Yet there’s a chance of owing a Maxi which took part in that event for under 20k. It went to auction at Historics at Brooklands, in Surrey, on Saturday, March 9, and is a real tribute to three women who took it on a 16,000 mile epic, Tish Ozanne, Bronwyn Burrell and Tina Kerridge. Of 106 starters, just 26 finished and Tish’s team were sadly to succumb to glutinous mud in Argentina, which forced their retirement through being out of time at a control point, a sad finale after being placed 35th after the European rally stages.

MCE 7G - one of the first 500 Maxis built - contested the gruelling 1970 rally, flagged away from Wembley by Sir Alf Ramsay. It was professionally-prepared by a BLMC dealer with the full co-operation of the BLMC works motorsport department.

British trio of Tish Ozanne, Bronwyn Burrell and Tina Kerridge with the 1970 World Cup Austin Maxi.

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It’s just Maddening Carlisle United by Ross Brewster

Photography courtesy of Yeovil Town AFC

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HEY reckon nothing makes fools of men like slow horses and fast women.

In the case of football managers, you can add to that players who do nothing special while you’ve got them only to move on to a new club and become a goalscoring revelation from right out of nowhere.

So how on earth can you account for a player who, in a few short weeks, goes from Madden to Messi simply by transferring to another club in the same league?

In fairness to Carlisle United manager Greg Abbott, few supporters of the Cumbrian club could have foreseen the amazing goalscoring burst which Paddy Madden was about to launch on his sideways switch to Yeovil Town, a team with similar financial restrictions and attendances on a par with United’s.

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Madden’s undistinguished time with United? Managerial genius or a simple stroke of luck? A kite-flying signing of a young player who plainly needed a move to reinvigorate a becalmed career has paid dividends even the experienced Johnson could not have anticipated in his wildest dreams.

Only time will tell whether Madden’s scoring run will go on.

Sport From Carlisle’s point of view his time at Brunton Park is history. Whereas a few months ago getting a few thousand pounds for a player who had hardly figured in the team might have seemed a decent deal, there’s now the possibility that United will finish up with egg on their face. I only hope they negotiated a good sell-on clause with Yeovil.

This season has been remarkable for the performances of several ex-Carlisle players. Nakhi Wells at Bradford City, Glen Murray at Crystal Palace and a couple of youngsters playing their way back into the game from the Blue Square Premier League, Ryan Bowman a prolific scorer for Hereford and Andy Cook looking set for League Two football next season with Grimsby Town. Former Carlisle players hogging the scoring charts in four divisions.

Again wisdom is easy after the event. One TV pundit suggested the other day that Murray might make a belated run for an England striking spot. Would anyone seeing an average Conference forward at Carlisle have forecast that?

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Carlisle have put some distance between themselves and the relegation places, but there is no room for complacency.

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It works both ways of course. Carlisle have profited over the years from other clubs’ cast offs. None more so than when Alan Ashman snapped up Hugh McIlmoyle from Rotherham for a song way back in the 1960s. Next season, 42 goals. Somebody at Millmoor was left saying whoops. What did Ashman know that they didn’t?

Such are the sweet and often frustrating trials and tribulations of football. Moments of managerial judgement, made in good faith and on all known evidence, turned upside down by a change of scene and a new manager’s motivation.

angle has been the arrival of a good, old fashioned no frills defender in the substantial shape of Sean O’Hanlon.

He has stiffened the leaky defence and is the sort who leads by example, not afraid to put his head in where it hurts. No star, but just what was needed in the circumstances.

Carlisle have put some distance between themselves and the relegation places, but there is no room for complacency. Each season the bottom teams suddenly start improving and one side generally slips from mid table security into the danger zone.

United’s problem has been inconsistency as well as some shocking defensive displays. This is a time when fans are looking rather nervously towards who stays and who goes at the season’s end. But in the meantime United must not be distracted and the sooner they get those wins that make another year in League One certain the better. Only then can we start worrying about what next season might bring.

FIXTURES Sat Mar 2 Notts County Away Tue Mar 5 Crawley Town Away Sat Mar 9 Brentford Home Tue Mar 12 Doncaster Away Sat Mar 16 Leyton Orient Away Sat Mar 23 Yeovil Home Fri Mar 29 Shrewsbury Home Mon Apr 1 Sheffield United Away Sat Apr 6 Oldham Away Sat Apr 13 Preston North End Home Sat Apr 20 AFC Bournemouth Away Sat Apr 27 Colchester Home

For Greg Abbott, judgements have to be made in what must this year be increasingly stringent financial climes.

With Rory Loy returning from his broken leg and Lee Miller feeling his way back after another injury, Madden would have been superfluous to Carlisle’s immediate needs and you just can’t keep players hanging around not playing.

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Pets have your dog in as a dog in fear will at some point reach breaking point and snap, putting this stress on your dog is also detrimental to their health.

So what is the alternative?

by Wayne Southwell from Wayne’s World of Pets, Whitehaven

Don’t choke you dog!

Some of you may remember in the past we had an amnesty on dog choke chains to try and get people who use them to make an alternative choice. Well it’s time to reinforce why, at Wayne’s World of Pets, we don’t recommend them.

First and foremost they can be bad for your dogs health, standard choke chains put a lot of pressure on the top of your dogs spine this has been shown in some cases to cause paralysis in the dog’s limbs as well as breathing difficulties caused by continued pressure around the neck.

Secondly most people use choke chains to stop a dog pulling, well it’s a fact that in most cases a dog will pull more on a choke chain than on a normal collar or harness. The reason for this is that a dog may pull a little, the choke chain will then tighten round his neck, this results in less oxygen getting to his brain which causes the dog to panic and pull more – a very vicious circle.

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For us you can’t beat using a quality harness, particularly one that is very comfortable for your dog. Many dogs will walk better on a harness as the pressure is put on your dog’s shoulders rather than the throat, which is much more comfortable for your dog. If this doesn’t work on its own a series of training classes will soon give you the skills to have your dog walking well and are a very good investment for a dog of any age.

If you would like to give a harness a go we have a lovely range of fleece lined harnesses (made in the UK) in store that we would be very happy to fit out your dog with, making sure of a perfect fit. It is important with any harness to get the fit just right so why not come for an expert fitting today?

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ndi & Gill Duncan are proud to have been running Kerri’s KAMP K9 Cumbria Doggie DayCare for over two years… but now there’s so much more to it.

Our New Ventures

In February this year we opened our very first Dunk ‘n’ Go in Carlisle. It’s a D-I-Y dog wash… where you bring your dogs to our place to save your own bathroom. You can also ask our staff who will be happy to help. We have a student Dog Groomer who will help, trim or cut your dog, but after July we will be offering a full grooming for your dogs.

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Bark ‘n’ Ride Pet-to-Vet Transport One-to-one Training Small Group Training (max six places) Puppy Socialisation Adult Dog Socialisation

We also run a small Rescue Centre called Blu’s K9 Rescue, where we take dogs that people can no longer look after and find them a good home. It is non-profit making and money from KAMP goes to fund all our rescue dogs. So if anyone would like to donate anything, food, treats, blankets, towels or money we would be most grateful.

In 2012 Andi gained her Diploma in Dog Training, so we decided to change our name to...

KAMP K9 Training Centre. You get the same great service but with an in-house trainer to help with the Positive Training.

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Your guide to all that’s best in Carlisle, West Cumbria, Keswick from

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What’s On in Carlisle and West Cumbria for March/April

Music Theatre Film Comedy Other Music

Thur Mar 7 Carlisle Jazz Club Every Thursday Evening 8.30pm 11pm. Everyone welcome, different bands every week. Tel: 01228 596767 Carlisle Jazz Club, Carlisle Rugby Club, Off Warwick Road, Carlisle Fri Mar 8 Public Service Broadcasting, Watchers + Oven The Brickyard, Carlisle Sat Mar 9 Lastwind, Badland Bandits, A Ritual Spirit The Brickyard, Carlisle

Thur Mar 21 Carlisle Jazz Club Every Thursday Evening 8.30pm 11pm. Everyone welcome, different bands every week. Tel: 01228 596767 Carlisle Jazz Club, Carlisle Rugby Club, Off Warwick Road, Carlisle Fri Mar 22 The Halle Orchestra The concert will provide a rare chance to hear Mahler’s Symphony No.4 and Sir Mark Elder’s interpretation with the Hallé will be a truly memorable musical occasion.

The Sands Centre, Carlisle Gaz and Daz’s Vinyl Spintacular The Brickyard, Carlisle

Thur Mar 14 Carlisle Jazz Club Every Thursday Evening 8.30pm 11pm. Everyone welcome, different bands every week. Tel: 01228 596767 Carlisle Jazz Club, Carlisle Rugby Club, Off Warwick Road, Carlisle Fri Mar 15 Jim Malcolm The Sunset Suite, Brunton Park, Warwick Road, Carlisle Siphon plus Supports The Brickyard, Carlisle Sat Mar 16 Hip Hop Night The Brickyard, Carlisle Re-launch in Cafe Sol as “Thirsty One” LIVE music from Kontiki Suite 7pm Thirsty One, Castle Street, Carlisle Sun Mar 17 The Bootleg Beatles The Sands Centre, Carlisle

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Thur Mar 28 The Stranglers 7:00pm - 10:00pm The Sands Centre, Carlisle Carlisle Jazz Club Every Thursday Evening 8.30pm 11pm. Everyone welcome, different bands every week. Tel: 01228 596767 Carlisle Jazz Club, Carlisle Rugby Club, Off Warwick Road, Carlisle Fri Mar 29 Simple Minds Simple Minds will be performing their ‘Greatest Hits Live’ on a huge 28 date tour. 7:00pm - 10:00pm The Sands Centre, Carlisle Fri Mar 29 Open Mic Night Foxes Cafe Lounge, Carlisle Orbit This is going to be one epic night for hard rave masters of the universe!

Featuring six hard house/hard style DJs from all over the North of England. 10pm - 3am The Brickyard, Carlisle

Thur Mar 28 The Stranglers Sat Mar 23 Sensational 60s Experience Starring The Tremeloes, Hermans Hermits, The Union Gap UK and The Ivy League. 7:30pm - 10:00pm The Sands Centre, Carlisle Poizon + Spandex Rising The Brickyard, Carlisle

Sat Mar 30 Jake Bugg The Sands Centre, Carlisle Tonnes of Reggae- The Return of Mungo’s Hi Fi The Brickyard, Carlisle Tristan Henry A fantastic personality. A superb male soul singer Soul In The City, Carlisle Sun Mar 31 Meta-Stasis, Triverse Massacre, State Control, Hellion Rising + Victimized The Brickyard, Carlisle

Whats On Thur April 4, 11,18, 25 Carlisle Jazz Club Every Thursday Evening 8.30pm 11pm. Everyone welcome, different bands every week. Tel: 01228 596767 Carlisle Jazz Club, Carlisle Rugby Club, Off Warwick Road, Carlisle

Sat Apr 13 Subdue Presents: Subdue Vs. Scyence The Brickyard, Carlisle Fri Apr 19 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra The evening will start with a rare orchestration by Stravinksy of one of Chopin’s most dramatic piano works.

The Sands Centre, Carlisle Martin Stephenson Plus Supports The Brickyard, Carlisle

Fri Apr 12 Colt 45 Fri Apr 5 The Big F*ck Off Rock Night The Brickyard, Carlisle Sat Apr 6 Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, I am Spartacus + Ben Singh (Kontiki Suite) The Brickyard, Carlisle Fri Apr 12 Anna Massie and Mairearad Green The Sunset Suite, Brunton Park, Warwick Road, Carlisle Fri Apr 12 Colt 45, More From Jim, Car Crash Radio + Bad Transmission The Brickyard, Carlisle

Sat Apr 20 David Knopfler (Dire Straits) + Claire Hamill 7pm The Brickyard, Carlisle

Sun Apr 28 Willie Nile, Micky Kemp The Brickyard, Carlisle Fri May 3 While She Sleeps, Feed The Rhino + Dead Harts The Brickyard, Carlisle Fri May 3 - 5 Stepping Stones Festival Stones Barn, Roweltown Sat May 4 The Vaccines The Sands Centre, Carlisle A Kay New to the club, highly entertaining personality Soul and Motown singer Soul In The City, Carlisle

Sun Apr 21 Rose-Marie The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Fri May 10 Colum Sands The Sunset Suite, Brunton Park, Warwick Road, Carlisle

Thur Apr 25 Nately’s Whore’s Kid Sister, Claustro + Robots with Souls The Brickyard, Carlisle

Sat May 11 Jungle Fever The Brickyard, Carlisle

Fri Apr 26 Kieran Goss The Sunset Suite, Brunton Park, Warwick Road, Carlisle Fri Apr 26 Open Mic Night Foxes Cafe Lounge, Carlisle Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash, Claire Hamill + Ken Nicol The Brickyard, Carlisle The Pigeon Detectives Whitehaven Civic Hall

Fri May 17 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra The BBC Philharmonic returns to perform two great Scandinavian masterpieces by Grieg and Sibelius, alongside Brahms’ Violin Concerto The Sands Centre, Carlisle Sat May 18 One Night Of Queen The Sands Centre, Carlisle The Sun Explodes - Album Launch The Brickyard, Carlisle

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SIMPLE MINDS

The Sands’ 2012-2013 International Orchestral Concert Series continues with the Hallé. With masterpieces by Haydn and Mahler, conducted by the honoured Sir Mark Elder and guest soprano Ailish Tynan, this is a night not to be missed.

Following a summer of festival appearances and their hugely acclaimed 5X5 tour, Simple Minds will be performing their ‘Greatest Hits Live’ on a huge 28 date tour, stopping off at The Sands Centre along the way. Simple Minds are one of the UK’s most successful rock groups to date. Having topped America’s billboard chart, the Glasgow band have achieved six No.1 albums in the UK as well hitting the top spot in countless other countries including Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Australia and New Zealand.

The Sands Centre, Friday March 22

Founded in Manchester by Sir Charles Hallé in 1858, the Hallé gave its first concert in the city’s Free Trade Hall on 30 January of that year. Sir Mark Elder became Music Director in 2000.

The Hallé performs over 70 concerts a year in The Bridgewater Hall, its Manchester home, as well as making over 40 appearances annually throughout the rest of Britain. Its reputation for artistic excellence has led to many international tours, broadcasts and televised performances: in August 2012, the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder toured to San Sebastian and appeared in the BBC Proms in London, before embarking on a tour to China in October.

Hallé performs on Friday March 22 at 7.30pm.

Tickets are available from The Sands Centre Box

T. 01228 633766 www.thesandscentre.co.uk

The Sands Centre, Carlisle, CA1 1JQ

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The Sands Centre, Friday March 29

Expect to hear songs from their extensive back catalogue including ‘Alive and Kicking’, ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’, ‘Waterfront’ and more. The show will be in two halves with an interval and no support - a whole evening of Simple Minds, who will be releasing their greatest hits collection ‘Celebrate’ in March to coincide with the tour (and which will include 2 new tracks).

“When we started Simple Minds our objective was to be considered as one of the great live bands. A band that had the desire to go all around the world - playing everywhere and anywhere. That challenge is on going and we will relish touring all over the UK next Spring, getting up close to so many who have supported us over the last three decades and more.”

Jim Kerr. Simple minds are Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Mel Gaynor, Andy Gillespie and Ged Grimes.

Simple Minds perform on Friday March 29, doors open at 7pm.

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JAKE BUGG

The Sands Centre, Saturday March 30

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Friday March 15. 8PM

Jake Bugg, the fast-rising hit-maker from Nottingham, will perform his debut Carlisle appearance at The Sands Centre on Saturday March 30. This will be his biggest UK headline tour so far and will follow his forthcoming sell-out autumn tour, as well as dates in Europe and the US with Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Snow Patrol.

‘Jake Bugg’, his eponymously titled debut album, was released on 15th October 2012 alongside the new single ‘Two Fingers’. His debut album, clocking in at under 40 minutes, is 14 songs that belie his eighteen years. Sharp, observant and honest, they inhabit a world no other new UK act is currently operating in.

It opens with recent single ‘Lightning Bolt’, a scorching blues number with his Telecaster to the fore. New single ‘Two Fingers’ follows with its swaggering chorus, whilst the likes of ‘Country Song’ and ‘Broken’ are more reflective. It’s a perfectly paced record, one that marks Jake as one of the most exciting new UK acts and manages to effortlessly straddle the gap between authenticity and mainstream appeal. He counts Noel Gallagher, Lily Allen, Elton John, Chris Martin, Damon Albarn and Snow Patrol amongst his fans and has supported Michael Kiwanuka, Example, Lana Del Rey, Snow Patrol and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

Jake Bugg performs on Saturday March 30, doors open at 7pm

Birds Vs Planes EP LaunCh Thursday March 21. 8PM

Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun Saturday April 6. 8PM

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Music Theatre Film Comedy Other

Tue May 21 The 1975 + Supports The Brickyard, Carlisle Fri May 24 Vampires Rock The Sands Centre, Carlisle The Skints, Current Swell + Gecko The Brickyard, Carlisle Sat May 25 - June 2 Carlisle Music City 2013 Various Venues, Carlisle Sat May 25 Terry Reid + Supports The Brickyard, Carlisle Tue May 28 Pete Best - Carlisle Music City Event Crown and Mitre Hotel, Carlisle Fri May 31 Open Mic Night Foxes Cafe Lounge, Carlisle

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ful. Next evening he has apparently acquired a replacement partner while Charlotte ..... has another husband.

West Walls Theatre, Carlisle Fri Apr 5 Family Theatre: My Brother the Robot 11am & 1.30pm. 1 hour. Age 4+ Rheged Centre, Penrith Tue Apr 30 Grease - 7pm - 10.30pm Whitehaven Civic Hall Fri May 3 Hormonal Housewives Large, Live Orchestra Following 2012’s celebrated reception as they caused mayhem and mania in theatres across the land, the irrepressible Hormonal Housewives are back and return to The Sands Centre. This year the ladies are led by British pop icon Toyah Willcox and writer Julie Coombe 7:30pm The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Mon Mar 18 - 23 The Real Thing - written by Tom Stoppard Comedy starts when Max discovers his wife Charlotte has been unfaith-

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Film Mon Mar 11 7:45pm Shadow Dancer (15) Tullie House, Carlisle Mon Mar 18 7:45pm Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (15) Tullie House, Carlisle Fri Mar 22 Identity Thief Vue Cinema, Carlisle Jack the Giant Slayer Vue Cinema, Carlisle Wed Mar 27 GI Joe: Retaliation 3D Vue Cinema, Carlisle Trance Vue Cinema, Carlisle

Thur Mar 7 Shakespeare 4 Kidz - The Tempest A storm! A shipwreck! An enchanted island! All under the magical spell of one man.

The Sands Centre, Carlisle Sat Mar 16 La Boheme Large, Live Orchestra Sung in Italian with English surtitles 7:30pm - 10:00pm The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Sat May 25 - 26 Rapunzel ‘Hair-raising’ fun for May Half Term 2013. A fantastic panto version of Rapunzel. 3pm & 7pm The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Fri Mar 29 The Host Vue Cinema, Carlisle Fri Apr 26 Iron Man Vue Cinema, Carlisle

Fri Apr 5 My Brother the Robot Mon May 13 - 18 Hay Fever written by Noel Coward Directed by David Wood West Walls Theatre, Carlisle

Fri May 17 Star Trek Into Darkness Vue Cinema, Carlisle The Great Gatsby Vue Cinema, Carlisle

Whats On Comedy Sun May 5 Micky Flanagan - ‘Back In The Game’ tour Two award winning comedians who have won critical acclaim for their stand up acts.

The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Sun Mar 10 Collage Creations Explore our collections in fun, imaginative ways with our family friendly sessions. 1pm - 4pm Tullie House, Carlisle Mothering Sunday Afternoon Tea 2pm - 4.30pm Tullie House, Carlisle Thur Mar 14 - 15 U Dance U.DANCE Cumbria is part of a national celebration of dance performance across the UK The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Sun May 5 Micky Flanagan Mon May 27 Sean Lock - Purple Van Man The Sands Centre, Carlisle

Other Tue Mar 5 Dorothy Wordsworth: The Wonders of the Everyday 1pm - 1.30pm Lecture Theatre, Tullie House, Carlisle Wed Mar 6 Charity Quiz Night 7.30pm Carlisle Rugby Club, Warwick Road, Carlisle Sat Mar 9 - Sun May 12 TRANSMITTER / RECEIVER: The Persistence of Collage A touring exhibition from the Arts Council Collection Tullie House, Carlisle Sun Mar 10 Table Top Sale - 10am The Sands Centre, Carlisle Mother’s Day Activities Walby Farm Park, Crosby-on-Eden, Carlisle

Sat Mar 16 & Thur Mar 28 Ciseaux: Upholstered Footstool Workshop Allengrove House, Allengrove, Heads Nook, Brampton, Carlisle, CA8 9AP Sat Mar 16 Kenton Cool - Everest Kenton will be talking about his mountaineering adventures with particular reference to Everest and his 2012 expedition. £15. 7pm Rheged Centre, Penrith

Sat Mar 30 - 31 10-5pm The Spirit of Cumbria Holistic Event Rheged Centre, Penrith Sat Mar 30 Easter Saturday Family Day Carlisle Racecourse Sun Mar 31 Antiques and Collectables Fair The Greenhill Hotel, Nr Wigton Mon Apr 1 10-4pm Rheged Easter Food & Gift Fair Seasonal day out with the chance to find lovely Easter treats from local craftspeople and producers. Free entry.

Rheged Centre, Penrith Tues 2 & Wed Apr 10 Children’s Kitchen with Peter Sidwell Join local celebrity chef Peter Sidwell to make delicious home-made treats! Age 5+. 10am, 1.30pm & 3.30pm Rheged Centre, Penrith

Murder Mystery Evening 7pm Tullie House, Carlisle Sun Mar 17 Spotlight on... invention and discovery 1pm - 4pm Tullie House, Carlisle Sat Mar 23 - Sun June 23 Outside In From substance misusers to selftaught visionaries, the exhibition will provide a unique insight into the extraordinary breadth and vitality of work produced by individuals from outside the mainstream art world Tullie House, Carlisle Sun Mar 24 Runic Riddle Be inspired by our collections and exhibitions and unleash your creativity in our informal Sunday sessions suitable for all the family. 1pm - 4pm Tullie House, Carlisle Thur Mar 28 - Apr 1 International Market Carlisle City Centre

Sat May 4-5 Pirelli International Rally Wed Apr 3 Razzamataz Musical Theatre Workshop 11am, 12pm, 2pm: Ages 4-7. 3pm: Ages 8+ £4.00 Rheged Centre, Penrith Fri Apr 5 Ciseaux: Tassel Making Workshop Allengrove House, Allengrove, Heads Nook, Brampton, Carlisle, CA8 9AP

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Music Theatre Film Comedy Other Other

Mon Apr 8 Bird workshop with RSPB There will be bird related activities and the chance to make a bird feeder.

11am - 3pm Rheged Centre, Penrith Thur Apr 11 Animal Encounters Join the Llama Karma Kafe at Rheged for a hands-on workshop to meet all their wonderful creatures. 11am, 12pm, 2pm & 3pm Rheged Centre, Penrith Fri Apr 12 Ciseaux: Stylish Cushion Making Workshop Allengrove House, Allengrove, Heads Nook, Brampton, Carlisle, CA8 9AP Sun Apr 14 Colin Caygill Antique Fair Vintage and retro classics.

Admission £1. 10am - 4pm Rheged Centre, Penrith Sun Apr 21 Talkin Tarn Sprint Duathlon Talkin Tarn Country Park Wed Apr 24 Lunch & Learn with Peter Siddwell 10am - 2pm Join us for a morning with local celebrity chef Peter Sidwell. £20 Rheged Centre, Penrith Sat Apr 27 Carlisle Dance Academy 6pm The Sands Centre, Carlisle Sat May 4 - 5 Pirelli International Rally Carlisle Racecourse Sun May 5 Cumbria Baby and Toddler Show - 10am - 4pm Richard Rose Morton Academy, Carlisle Sun May 12 Antiques and Collectables Fair The Greenhill Hotel, Nr Wigton 74

CELEBRITIES ON ICE

The Sands Centre, Thursday 10 – Sunday 12 May 2013 The Sands Centre is pleased to announce that the national tour of a sensational new Ice show will visit Carlisle this May. Celebrities on Ice is a spectacular variety show on ice, for all the family.

Hosted by national treasure Christopher Biggins and starring, from Dancing On Ice, rugby legend Gareth Thomas, Matt Lapinskas, Olympian Beth Tweddle, Kyran Bracken, the irrepressible Chico and professional ice skater Colin Ratushniak. The celebrity cast will be joined by the highly talented Russian Ice Stars, who have performed at The Sands Centre with previous Ice productions. Additional celebrities will be announced soon.

Celebrities On Ice promises to be a family packed show with spectacular skating, death defying aerial acrobats, juggling, circus tricks, singing, audience participation and laughter in abundance.

Celebrities On Ice - Thursday 10 May to Sunday 12 May with matinee and evening performances.

Tickets are available from The Sands Centre Box 01228 633766 or you can now book online at: www.thesandscentre.co.uk

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Whats On DJs in the world, and the first woman to gain such an accolade. Still, she is arguably the finest female DJ working today, both technically and in terms of popularity.

On April 6, Lisa will be performing an exclusive set at Workington’s Vine Bar. “Last year I was asked to play about 30 or 40 small clubs across the UK, but because of time restrictions or other problems I couldn’t do them. I don’t ever want to turn anything down, so I thought for this year, as I’m working on my next album and because I really like playing intimate clubs, I thought I’d utilise the smaller venues and get the chance to chat to people and go back to my roots, and where I came from!” And despite spending March performing in Helsinki, London and New York among others, Miss Lashes still feels the same energy and excitement that she felt at her first gig (on boat sailing down the River Severn in 1996, apparently).

“It is hard sometimes when you’re doing all the traveling and trying to find time for the studio but it still excites me. It’s great that I can go into a club, and that people get excited and that there is a really happy environment! I guess the alcohol helps too...”

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Lisa Lashes is in many ways the stereotypical superstar DJ - a career spanning some 15 years, relentless touring, an unrivaled passion for music and of course, severely damaged hearing.

She breaks the mould somewhat, by the fact that she is indeed a woman, and a very pleasant one at that: “In the beginning it was an advantage when I started the Spice Girls were at the top of the charts, and there was the whole girl power thing going on, so club promoters wanted to see girl DJs. But off the back of that, you had girls that looked great, but couldn’t actually DJ, which is really bad for us and makes our job harder. It pushed me to be as good as the boys”. And push her it did, as at the turn of the millennium, DJ Magazine announced her to be one of the top 10

Though she is most well known for exploring the harder, faster styles of house, in recent years Lisa has slowly been evolving to a much more trance-orientated sound, or as she described it without a hint of irony, “Trance with balls”. “It’s been a scary transition, I think when you get the accolade of “Number One Hard House DJ”, at first you think its amazing, which it is, but then you think about how it could stop; you moving on to other things. Music goes on and you’ve got to be able to move, thankfully people have responded really well”. Ahead of her “Boutique” tour, fans of Lisa can get excited by the prospect of a new album in the works, “I’m working on an artist album, probably 13 or 14 tracks long, and I’m doing a mix compilation too”. Together with her “Lashed” Podcast (currently ranking eighth on the iTune’s “What’s Hot” list), Lisa is as busy as ever, and her set at the Vine Bar promises to be one of the only chances we’ll get to catch a genuine DJ Goddess in your home county.

Paul from the Vine Bar added “Lisa is a massive event for the bar and we are expecting a really busy night. Tickets are on sale now from The Music Store, Oxford Street, Workington or The Market Cafe & Tea Rooms, James Street in Whitehaven, they can also be purchased from The Grapes Inn, King Street, Workington, which is open all day, every day.

(The Early Bird Tickets cost £10 if purchased before March 15, after then they are £15).

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Wildlife of The Solway Firth

The Herring Clupea harengus

By Mark Vollers

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ew fish are of such historic and economic significance as the Atlantic Herring or ‘Silver of the Sea’, and there are records going back thousands of years showing how whole fishing communities were dependant on their abundance.

Even today older fishermen in Solway Firth ports tell of their almost impossible abundance. However their reproductive ability could ultimately never compete both with modern fishing techniques and natural variance, so for some decades in recent times supply to the markets was severely restricted. Now, although numbers have recovered somewhat, public tastes have moved on.

The delights of kippers and roll-mops are waiting to be re-discovered by new generations. Nutritionally they are very high in Omega 3 fatty acids and increasingly people are becoming aware of the benefits of making them part of their diet.

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The Herring is a surface water feeder, filtering for plankton with mouths wide open, often in vast shoals that synchronise their swimming to optimise capture of evasive small prey.

Herring are an important food source for fish such as the Cod, Halibut, various shark species, seabirds and marine mammals such as dolphins, whales and seals.

Most of us will by now have seen some spectacular underwater filming of herring’ bait balls’ being harassed

by Humpback whales. We generally have some young herring on display at the Lake District Coast Aquarium, difficult to catch intact and requiring careful feeding to sustain. Because of their silvery scales and fast swimming habit they are also very hard to photograph. www.coastaquarium.co.uk

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