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Seascale Golf Club Celebrates 125 Years
By Paul McGuirk A highly-regarded local golf club is celebrating its 125th year in operation this July with an exciting and entertaining full week of golf for players of all ages and skill levels. Seascale Golf Club was initially founded in 1893. The links were designed as part of a collaborative effort by the renowned Scottish […]
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West Cumbria Mining Community Update Event
Welcome to the latest Project Update newsletter, ahead of the next community update event planned for May. WCM will be hosting three public open days in their offices at the former Haig Museum on Thursday 17th May 2pm – 7pm, Friday 18th May, 10am – 4pm and Saturday 19th may, 9am – 3pm. These events […]
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Full Steam Ahead for New Exhibition at The Beacon Museum
An exciting new exhibition featuring West Cumbria’s historic rail network is chugging its way to The Beacon Museum. The locally produced exhibition Waggonways to Whitehaven: West Cumbria on Rails features a timeline of the west Cumbrian rail network from its inception until the modern day. Rail enthusiasts and newcomers alike will be drawn to the stories of […]
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Workington In Bloom Receives Support From The Cumberland
Workington in Bloom is set to receive a donation of £250 from the Cumberland. The Cumberland has supported the community gardening group since 2015. In previous years the funding has contributed towards a number of projects including floral displays, crocus planting and new trees. This year the money will be used on a new project […]
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Free Community Art Workshops
Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life in Carlisle Castle have teamed up with community venues around the area to encourage residents to be part of the Museum’s “Lest we Forget” commemorations. As part of the Heritage Lottery funded project, the cultural venues around the county will deliver creative workshops with local artists. Come along, be inspired […]
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Work continues at Siddick Woodland
The revamp of Siddick Woodland continues on Tuesday 3 April with a volunteer planting day from 11am to 1pm. Volunteers will assist with the planting of a variety of new shrubs on the site, including holly, hazel, crab apple and elder. The shrubs will contribute to the biodiversity of the woodland as well as complementing the fifty new […]
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Cumbrian Search to Take Place for Missing Colin Bamber
A community search is set to take place in Cumbria this week, organised by the loved ones of missing Colin Bamber. Merseyside man, Colin Bamber has been missing from Kirkby in Liverpool since 3 January. After his car was recovered from Ambleside in the Lake District, it was believed that the 50 year old had […]
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Local Woman’s Touching Gesture for a Friend in Need
Jacqueline Sewell (left) with colleagues A Whitehaven woman’s kind gesture and the story behind it has touched the hearts of the local community. Having received the all clear from breast cancer in only December last year, Wendy Kirkbride thought the nightmare was over. But the good news was short lived after an MRI scan revealed […]
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Exciting New Future to be Revealed at Scalesceugh Hall
After a year of intense local interest in how an Edwardian manor and its grounds were being developed, the gates will be opened to the public on 24 February. Scalesceugh Hall & Villas, located at Carleton, just south of Carlisle, is celebrating its first birthday since work began, with an Open Day, at which show […]
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Lionel Richie Announces Carlisle Show This Summer
International superstar Lionel Richie will return to the UK in 2018, with a show at Brunton Park, the home of Carlisle United FC on Sunday 17th June. The date is part of a summer tour which will be visiting iconic venues across the country. Tickets will go on sale on February 2nd at 10:00 AM. Performing hits from his extensive and […]
