So children are animals? What does that say about adults?
Antony Hext reaches down to his friend Nathan Thomlinson’s left leg and stares at his sock. “Have you got your machete?” he asks. “Is it in there?”
Autumn: the time for nature's spectacular display
Autumn is a great time of the year for a spectacular display of colour. You have been sending in some lovely pictures and we are adding them to the slideshow started by our photographers
Strictly come old time dancing
SLIDESHOW: Nice to see you... in the Market Hall, Carlisle, for the 1968 Old Old Dancing Competition, staged to raise funds for the blind. But do you know any of those taking part?
Shy captain of the good ship Playground
Not everyone gets the chance to build a Viking Longship these days. Admittedly, not many would want to, but Alister Neville jumped at the chance.
Past & Present
Missing for months in the southern seas
News was breaking in February 1877 of “the fate of the missing ship the Ada Iredale of Liverpool”. At first there seemed to be no reason why this should be reported in the Carlisle Journal, but it soon became apparent that there were a number of local associations.
Arts News
Spirited Christmas fun
Theatre designer Martin Johns can be excused if he looks like he’s just seen a ghost. Actually he’s seen three of them! Martin is the man with the task of turning Keswick Theatre by the Lake’s festive season production of A Christmas Carol into a magical experience for thousands of theatregoers of all ages.Carlisle Green Room Club’s 2008 pantomime, Red Riding Hood, opens on Monday. Written by James Sparks and Michael Spencer it’s the epic journey of the original “Hoody in Red” (played by Mark Davidson), Grandma (Malcolm Dunn) and the Wolf (Lisa Moffat).
For many years the shops in our town and city centres have lived in fear of the giant shopping developments on the outskirts, open 24 hours a day and offering free parking.
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Wind in the Willows, Caldbeck Village Hall Ratty, Mole and Badger would have been proud of Caldbeck Players’ production of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows (which ran from Sunday to Wednesday this week).
Spend, spend, spend has been the message coming out of the Treasury and the Bank of England over the last few weeks.
