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THE organisers of a Cockermouth exhibition to celebrate Dorothy Wordsworth were delighted to welcome some of her relatives.

Poet in residence appointed for Rydal Mount Kieron Winn The first person to be appointed poet in residence at Rydal Mount will take up his place next month. Kieron Winn will spend a week at the home of William Wordsworth, writing and meeting visitors to the house. Kieron’s first collection of poems, The Mortal Man, was published in 2015. He has twice won the University of Oxford’s most valuable literary award, the English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize. Kieron studied English at Christ C...

HERE are the latest announcements from our community news correspondent Jane Renouf for Ambleside.

TEAM: Eileen Jones and Jen Braithwaite Two Cumbrian businesswomen are joining forces to provide a complete package of help for local organisations and companies. Eileen Jones at Cumbria PR and Jen Braithwaite at JB Consulting are merging to meet demand as businesses try to recover from the pandemic lockdown. They will retain the two individual business titles, and still offer bespoke services to clients as needed, but will operate together as JB Cumbria. Ambleside-based Eileen set up Cu...

An award ceremony recognising young poets throughout Cumbria will finally be held after being delayed by lockdown. Schoolchildren across the county were invited to showcase their talents to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth last year. However, the Rydal Mount prize for young poets was halted amid the coronavirus pandemic. The theme of the competition was milestones to mark Wordsworths anniversary as well as 50 years since Rydal Mount, where the famous poet li...

Rydal Mount, near Ambleside, is where poet William Wordsworth spent the latter half of his life. The site was awarded £31,330 in the latest round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The money is being used to make a number of improvements at Rydal Mount ahead of its scheduled reopening on May 17, including to access and ventilation. New tables and seating will be installed in the tearoom and will extend on to the forecourt of the house. And, throughout the house, there will ...

More than 2,700 organisations have been awarded money. “Our record-breaking Culture Recovery Fund has already helped thousands of culture and heritage organisations across the country survive the biggest crisis they’ve ever faced,” said Mr Dowden. “Now we’re staying by their side as they prepare to welcome the public back through their doors - helping our cultural gems plan for reopening and thrive in the better times ahead.” The funding was reserved in the first round of th...

Scrooge, Oliver Twist, jilted Miss Havisham, David Copperfield, Gradgrind, Lady Deadlock, all of these characters are known even to those who have never opened a novel by world-famous and never-out-of-print Charles Dickens. He lives on. Hes 209 today and his books and his life still fascinate. Married at 24, by 40, Dickens had 10 children, seven sons and three daughters. He had an affair, left his wife, wanted scarlet geraniums on his coffin, asked that his horse be shot the day that he himself...

From rolling hills to craggy coastlines, theres much to explore on our doorsteps  Credit: Getty Love affairs start for all sorts of reasons – pandemics included. Unforeseen a short time ago, this unexpected liaison has brought a new way of looking at the world, new experiences, and new possibilities. On the back of a series of exotic, long-distance relationships, one of the finest travel destinations has been staring us in the face all along. Britain, where have you been all our lives? With ...

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