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Cumbrian man's love of words pays off

Terry Jones photo For 22 years Terry Jones taught English Language and English Literature at Carlisle College. He left last year to turn his passion for poetry into a career. And his new life was christened by winning one of the world’s richest poetry prizes.

Last updated 3 February 2012
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How an ex-world champion boxer is helping to fight flab in Carlisle

Charles Shepherd’s workplace is on Raffles Avenue, Carlisle, in a sparsely furnished brick building called The Annexe.

Last updated 27 January 2012
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Fictional detective investigating crime in Carlisle 100 years ago

In Carlisle’s historic centre, along Paternoster Row, to the corner of Dean Tait’s Lane, through the cathedral grounds, Martin Daley is walking in other people’s footsteps to forge his own path.

Last updated 13 January 2012
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Life is good for Carlisle woman whose early career dreams were shattered by an accident

Carolyn Dunn had always wanted to follow in the footsteps of her father Brian by becoming a police officer. She left school at 16 to join the police cadets. All was going to plan.

Last updated 6 January 2012
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Cumbrian woman's motivation driven by tragedy

Jan Hawkins became chairman of the Friends of the Pride of Cumbria air ambulance in 2004. Her journey towards this vital fundraising role began many years earlier, in terrible circumstances.

Last updated 2 December 2011
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Camp Bastion matron Helen at Palace to receive MBE from the Queen today

A nurse who was brought up near Carlisle has a date with the Queen today. Proud Helen Singh, 45, is at Buckingham Palace to pick up an MBE for services in Afghanistan.

Last updated 18 November 2011
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‘They had the gun in my mouth. I thought my days were numbered’

When Ged Crooks smiles, two rows of pearly white teeth are revealed, bright against skin that sees a lot of Spanish sun.

Last updated 18 November 2011
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Carlisle Blues Festival is labour of love for its one-man organising committee

If Nick Westgarth decides to write a song, don’t be surprised if he calls it Hometown Blues. Nick is about to see all his hours organising Carlisle Blues Festival come to fruition.

Last updated 4 November 2011
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To the First Nation people, Cumbria's Kathleen Johnston is simply ‘sister’ – guided by a bear

Kathleen Johnston cuts an incongruous figure in one of her photographs. The tall Cumbrian, wearing plain black and white clothes, stands next to indigenous Canadians dressed in rainbow outfits.

Last updated 28 October 2011
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Cumbrian Olympic hopeful Ruth Edge has sights set on London 2012

Two Thyme stands in his field, contentedly munching grass and blissfully unaware of what could have been.

Last updated 14 October 2011
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Battling to make Cumbria less hostile towards gay people

"I think Cumbria is changing, slowly but surely,” says Pam Eland. “Unless you introduce things, it’s not going to change.”

Last updated 30 September 2011
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Ice baths in a wheelie bin and being sick in bushes - training is tough for Cumbrian athlete

Her head feels fuzzy, her legs are trembling and her stomach is churning like a washing machine. Angela Kelly’s hard training session has just become too hard, as she stumbles into the bushes and vomits.

Last updated 16 September 2011
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The barefoot shepherdess: An unlikely Cumbrian heroine

The door to Shacklabank farmhouse opens straight into a tiny, kitchen crammed with the kind of character guaranteed to strike Cath Kidston-doting urbanites down in a dead swoon.

Last updated 9 September 2011
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Cumbrian all-action hero at the age of 98

Joe Rawlings flicks through his albums and scrapbooks, containing neatly filed photos, newspaper cuttings and diary entries written in fountain pen.

Last updated 2 September 2011
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Joe, 98, an all action hero born and bred in Cumbria

Joe Rawlings flicks through his albums and scrapbooks, containing neatly filed photos, newspaper cuttings and diary entries written in fountain pen.

Last updated 2 September 2011
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SAS hero Chris Ryan visits Cumbria

Although Chris Ryan refers to a decade in the SAS as his past life, it remains with him.

Last updated 26 August 2011
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French exchange enriches the spirits

An exchange visit whose origins began in the 1990s between Carlisle and a French community took place this week.

Last updated 26 August 2011
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Man's love for Cumbria has always kept his feet on the ground

Bill Jefferson is a curious mix. Cumbrian through and through but a man of the world. Spoke only the local dialect during childhood, now fluent in Russian, French and Arabic.

Last updated 12 August 2011
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Happy to make a home in quiet Cumbria

They came to make hay while the sun was shining but then the dark cloud of the credit crunch appeared, and it was predicted the thousands of Polish workers who had moved here for higher paid jobs would flee the country for their relatively unscathed motherland.

Last updated 29 July 2011
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