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21 Oct 2014:
Mima’s new director on not trying to imitate London, the societal value of art and his quest to create the ‘useful’ museum
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31 Jul 2014: Terry Abraham’s beautiful film about England’s highest peak is showing at the IMAX at the Rheged Centre, Penrith, Cumbria all summer and will be doing the rounds at mountain/adventure film festivals this autumn. Here’s a sneak peek of what to expect
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27 Jul 2014:
Country diary: Lake District: I collected my trekking poles and stood stiffly upright before retracing my steps to the car
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15 Jul 2014: A wonderful new book, Lake District Icons, celebrates the people, places and landmarks that make Cumbria great. Here, author Michaela Robinson-Tate and photographer Phil Rigby profile the high passes of Wrynose and Hardknott
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9 Jul 2014: Close to 70% of homes in one village, according to head teacher, are not regularly occupied
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1 Jul 2014:
Keswick's Theatre by the Lake is two hours from nearest city but retains its £600,000 cheque to bring drama to the Cumbrian stage
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29 Jun 2014: Too often forgotten, Victorian social reformer Thomas Arthur Leonard's passion for the outdoors has inspired succeeding generations
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9 Jun 2014: Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 9 June 1924: A memorial on the top of Great Gable is dedicated to members of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club who were killed during the first world war
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1 Jun 2014:
Ambleside attracted the Romantic poets, but locals fear its homespun charms will be lost
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29 May 2014:
In these diary extracts, actors Peter Rylands, Rebecca Todd and Alan Suri record what it's like to switch from Dracula to Jez Butterworth at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake
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18 May 2014: Country diary: Lake District: Borrowdale came next, riders skirting Derwentwater below crags where buzzards soared and ravens spread their wings like black cloaks floating in midair
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9 May 2014:
A mountain in the Lake District has gone on the market, and the Friends of Blencathra group has set its sights firmly on it
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4 May 2014: Aristocrat forced to sell Lakeland peak complete with grazing rights for 5.471 ewes and 732 hoggets, to settle tax bill
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15 Apr 2014:
Leeds doctor Jeffrey Sherwin has collected hundreds of works by artists such as Roland Penrose and Merlyn Evans
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6 Apr 2014:
Country diary: Lake District, Bassenthwaite: This tranquil world, with its Arcadian views, is enough for one Cumbrian veteran, who sometimes just 'sits and thinks' and at other times 'just sits'
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