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Two Cumbrian environmental organisations have been awarded grants totalling £637,500. West Cumbria Rivers Trust will receive £388,000 for its ‘Restoring the Derwent Catchment’ project, which showcases nature recovery within a farmed landscape facing threats, including a rapid decline in nature and increase in severe flooding. New habitats will also be created and existing habitats joined together, increasing resilience of the catchment to climate change. Cumbria Wildlife Trust has been awarded £249,500 for its project, ‘Cumbria Peatland Restoration’ which will restore 302 hectares of peatland within the Lake District National Park, and survey a further 3,000 hectares to develop new restoration sites. The funding comes as part of the Government’s £80m Green Recovery Challenge Fund, aiming to kick-start a pipeline of nature-based projects to restore nature, tackle climate change and connect people with the natural environment. It will be distributed on behalf o
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11:25 AM December 19, 2020
Members of the Time Turners group playing the game in real life for the first time.
- Credit: Norfolk Museum Service
A board game created by a group of imaginative young people is now being sent out to 1,800 homes around Norfolk.
The ‘Time Turners’ group have worked with curators over the past few months developing the brilliant ‘A Trail of Trials’ Ancient Egypt-themed game inspired by the Egyptian collections at Lynn Museum.
The Trail of Trials board game developed by young people in King s Lynn.
- Credit: Norfolk Museum Service
The game is now being distributed to some of the county’s most vulnerable families as part of a package of art materials and activities designed to keep young people creative over Christmas.
The Very Reverend James Atwell, Dean of Winchester who was a popular pastor in the city – obituary
Atwell took a dynamic approach to tackling the cathedral s financial problems and dwindling congregations
Atwell: a genial personality
Credit: Dan Rosenbaum/FRPU (E) Royal Navy
The Very Reverend James Atwell, who has died aged 74, was Dean of Winchester from 2006 to 2016, and before that spent 11 years as Provost and then Dean of the Cathedral of St James at Bury St Edmunds.
In both places he was greatly admired and valued for his genial personality combined with a dynamic approach to the development of cathedral life.