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5 days ago

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot

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…

3 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…

4 months ago

'Tipp-Ex divorcee' is locked in High Court libel fight with property developer over his plans for housing in grounds of her £6.75m castle

Sally Nightingale, 66, who took over the 900-year-old Cumbrian estate after her split from millionaire lawyer Christopher Nightingale, is being sued for libel over a letter she sent to planning offic…

5 months ago

Newcastle step up pursuit of Burnley’s £40m-rated goalkeeper James Trafford

  • Trafford was disappointed deal fell through last summer

  • Newcastle ready to sell Longstaff or Willock but not Isak

Newcastle hope to succeed where they failed a year ago by signing the Burnley and Engl…

7 months ago

Preserving English eccentricity: 20 years of the World Marmalade Awards

The contest now draws in more than 3,200 entries from as far afield as the Czech Republic and South Korea

  • Oranges are not the only fruit: Cumbrian marmalade awards offer blend of fruits

What could unit…

8 months ago

PETER HOSKIN reviews Atomfall: It really is grim up north in Atomfall - a Great British spin on Fallout (complete with teashops, bandstands…and gangs of thugs)

PETER HOSKIN: Ah, what a beautiful Cumbrian village! A church steeple rising above thick stone walls and slate roofs. A bakery with little iced cakes in its windows.

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11 months ago

How Eddie Stobart steered his family through heartbreak and scandals to help turn his small Cumbrian business into Britain's most iconic haulage firm

Eddie Pears Stobart - the man behind the Eddie Stobart lorry firm - faced a life of tragedy, heartbreak and scandal as he sought to keep the wheels on his family's multimillion-pound business.

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