Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Looking at the big picture

Fiona Robson photo

When 35-year-old stepmum Fiona Robson joined a campaign to save her local cinema from demolition, she never saw herself as a key player in shaping the future of a forward-thinking city.

Ex-pats

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Past & Present

Life at the Victoria Hotel, by Charles, aged six

hotel09lou In response to a photograph published in The Cumberland News in February 1957, Charles Armstrong of Cliburn wrote to say “how pleased I was to see a picture of the Victoria Hotel in English Street”.

Agenda

Looking at the big picture

Fiona Robson photo When 35-year-old stepmum Fiona Robson joined a campaign to save her local cinema from demolition, she never saw herself as a key player in shaping the future of a forward-thinking city.

Arts News

Jazz is alive and well. In fact, Cumbria is simply swinging

potts09lou Jazz fans have been drawn from near and far this week to Keswick’s renowned jazz festival.

Reviews

Singers meet challenge from six centuries

The Wordsworth Singers, St Mary’s Church, WigtonThe choir, under the direction of conductor Edward Caswell, are to be congratulated upon their deft singing of a very difficult and demanding programme of music from the 14th to the 20th centuries.

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