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I am standing on a stone bridge in the quaint - and, for 51 weeks of the year, blissfully quiet - Cumbrian town of Appleby as a tracksuit-clad child walks past pulling a tiny, ragged pony.
Travellers enjoy the sunshine at Appleby Horse Fair as police seize 99 dangerous 'pyramid rings' destined for Europe's biggest gathering of gypsies ⊕
Officers stopped the vehicle near the Cumbrian market town around 1am on Friday as it travelled towards the fair's trade fields.
28 days ago
What is the greatest distance between two football teams contesting a derby? | The Knowledge ⊕⊕
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“Carlisle and Barrow will play each other …
34 days ago
‘Now the village is dead. It’s awful’: why was one of Britain’s best pubs forced to close? ⊕
For 400 years, The Hare and Hounds in Bowland Bridge offered a warm welcome to locals and travellers. Then the rent doubled. With two pubs a day closing in England and Wales, can the community save t…
68 days ago
Sarah Hall: ‘Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina – I’ve never been able to finish it’ ○
The author on being inspired by Michael Ondaatje and how Hilary Mantel helped her overcome her aversion to historical figure novels
My earliest reading memory
The headteacher in my village primary s…
80 days ago
Scrambling, walking and swimming in splendid isolation: 75 years of the UK’s national parks ⊕⊕
Our writer first hiked in the Lake District, Eryri and Dartmoor in the 1970s. Their beauty remains unrivalled, but they are more popular than ever. So, here’s how to avoid the crowds
Before we enter t…
3 months ago
Another World by Melvyn Bragg review – portrait of the broadcaster as a young man ⊕
Leaving behind Cumbria for Oxford in the late 1950s, Bragg navigates class and culture in a world on the brink of change
It’s October 1958, and a nearly 19-year-old Melvyn Bragg is on the platform at…
It’s known for making submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian venue attract the world’s boldest musicians? ⊕⊕
In a park keeper’s lodge in Barrow-in-Furness, Full of Noises has hosted the likes of Julia Holter and Lonnie Holley – and is a model for why arts funding matters
Barrow-in-Furness sits on a windswept…
6 months ago
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts
How do you reckon our political system works? Perhaps somet…
9 months ago
Helm by Sarah Hall review – a mighty epic of climate change in slow motion ○
A Cumbrian wind is the central character in this hugely ambitious, millennia-spanning novel, which was 20 years in the making
Even if Sarah Hall did not begin her acknowledgments by saying that it’s t…