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A popular Carlisle bar has announced it's calling time permanently after having an ‘extremely hard year’.

Welcome to my home town: Why living in Carlisle makes me hopeful for the future Ruth Bushi © Provided by The Independent During lockdown, many of us made the pilgrimage back to our family homes – and rediscovered them through fresh eyes. Part guide, part love letter, “ ” is a new series in which we celebrate where we’re from. After all, it could still be a while before we can go anywhere else… When I tell people I live in Carlisle, I usually add that I was born in India, grew up in Northumbria, and “worked in London for a long time”. Sometimes I throw in that I...

BBC News By Julian O'Neill Published image captionJames McCann, 19, James Sloan, 19, Anthony Campbell, 19, Ambrose Hardy, 24, John Loughran, 34 and Brendan Maguire, 32 were all killed on 3 February 1973 The Attorney General for Northern Ireland has ordered a new inquest into the deaths of six men believed to have been killed by the army almost 50 years ago. It follows an application, to Brenda King, by relatives including some fresh evidence. None of the men were armed. The Attorney General's decision has been communicated to the court unit currently dealing with a five-year programme of trou...

New Orleans, known for its food, bars, and hospitality, had a transformative 2020, even more than most US cities. In a year that began with the grand opening of a new airport brimming with locally-owned restaurants and a food scene full of promising anticipated openings and exciting pop-ups, the industry came to a halt shortly after Mardi Gras. The city was hit hard and early by the pandemic, and by mid March the local and statewide bar and restaurant shut downs began. Now, we look back at a year marked by heartbreaking closures, an industry braced for disaster, old brands beginning new chap...

In September, around the six-month mark of the pandemic shutdowns, trumpeter James Andrews ended a conversation with Gambit on an optimistic note. Earlier this year, Andrews released a book with Monique Bornstein, “Born in The Treme,” and he was touring Europe when the shutdowns began. He scrapped the tour and got one of the last flights back from France. After that, he said, it was just a “domino effect” of lost work: Music venues closed, regular gigs were canceled and then the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and French Quarter Festival were first postponed and event...