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Nostalgia for nights out in Carlisle in the 1990s and early 2000s have seen clients queuing up for artist Krista Presch’s prints and coasters Did you prefer Front Page or Fat Fingers or hanging out on the stairs up to Pagoda? Do you remember reading the graffiti outside the Twisted Wheel and dressing to impress at Buskers? For nightclubbers in the 1990s and early 2000s these were the places to be seen, the highlight of a night out in Carlisle. Now artist Krista Presch has preserved me...

The Presence, Winter Art Exhibition, runs until December 20 at 9 Crosby Street, Carlisle. It features about 68 of the countys artists, who range from the professional to the gifted amateur. Its the brainchild of abstract artist Daniel Ibbotson, 52, who lives in the city. It follows on from a similar event, called Proseed in the Summer which displayed the work of about 40 local artists. Hes kickstarted a bigger and better exhibition because he thinks that the area’s artists were not ...