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A BRAMPTON born artist has waxed lyrical about the romance of local farming. Robin Oliver, who grew at a farm at "the foot of Cold Fell" has penned Valentine's Day on the Farm, A Lifetime Wedded to Hard Graft, about the area he loves and February 14 visits to a heart shaped mound of stones at a fell's summit.  Robin said: "It is about recording a moment or feeling captured in time.  "A response to what is there in front of you, imagined, or memories from childhood.  "They say that the best art has an emotional response in the beholder or reader. 

The joy – and agony – of completing the toughest cycle ride in Britain, which includes a hill so steep there's a danger of toppling backwards (and riders face it on the 94-mile mark) The Fred Whitton Challenge is a one-day circular cycle ride that takes in almost the whole of the Lake District  After 94 punishing miles riders are faced with Hardknott Pass - one of Britain's steepest roads Cyclist Josh Reid has completed the 113-mile sportive four times. Here he reveals the highs and lows It's a road bike event, but mountain bikes are allowed, too, along with tandems. Choppers are banned ...