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Chindits Rise to Blind Veterans Challenge
Peter Watson It was the first time that any team from Cumbria had entered the Cadet and Youth Challenge and, against UK wide competition, the Chindit Company of army cadets…
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Santas Leave Their Sleighs at Home for Dash
Alison Cowen The weather was being kind to the 99 Santa’s that took part in the Santa Dash on Sunday 15th November from Whitehaven Rugby League ground, Whitehaven. It was…
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Dawn’s Good Citizen Award
By Edna Branthwaite Visitors come from all over the world to tour Cumbria’s Lake District but Cumbrian lass, Dawn Raynor, had a different agenda when she set out on her…
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Paralympics Affirm Human Rights
Says Alan Alexander Well the Olympics were certainly a first for me this year and the Paralympics even more so. I was trying to decide why I found the Paralympics…
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Grainne’s Big Coffee Morning
Edna Branthwaite Come autumn you can guarantee that someone near you will host a World’s Biggest Coffee Morning to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. So where better to find…
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Amy’s Angels
“My Dad was a huge impact in my life and taught me to stand up for what I believe in. He taught me to fight for what is right and…
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Ceilidh to support Harriet’s placement in Ghana
“Harping Harriet can fiddle too,” we wrote cheekily in 2004 about the performing talents of Harriet Lamb on violin and harp. Now she is in her final year of medical…
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The Rewards of Kindness
By Michelle Denwood The School of Human Sciences, Kobe College in Japan decided to analyse human kindness. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a “counting…
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Sharing Life Experiences
By Natasha Wadsworth At the heart of the Tanzanian Link, a charity which has been running in Cumbria for 25 years, there is the exchange of culture and life experience…
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Together We Build
By Rebecca Lewis A secondary function to our ‘Cumbria-Rungwe Community Link’ is the project work that runs alongside the youth exchange. The fundraising, which allows for the project work to…
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Gary’s Olympic Spirit Honoured
“We don’t know what our limits are until we push ourselves.” This declaration by Gary McKee is as true to the Olympic spirit as the resolution of any gold medal…
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Our Cast-offs Can Transform Lives in Tanzania
Our picture does not represent the frantic activity that was going on in Hodgett’s Hall a few minutes before it was taken. It was packing day less than three days…
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Darren Carries the Flame
The honour of carrying the Olympic flame into Whitehaven will always be cherished by Darren Blanks as a chance to be involved in the biggest sporting event in this country…
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Cyclists’ Prodigious Feat for Sick Children’s Trust
Gratitude to The Sick Children’s Trust for helping to save the life of his baby daughter, Amaia, moved Adam Powe to organise a cycling event to raise money for the…
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E2D Belongs to You. Claim It!
With this issue we complete our first year as E2D. Although we set up as a ‘Social Enterprise’, we have made it on no income except advertising revenue. Our aim…