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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The big switch from analogue to digital TV starts in less than three months. Border Television, covering Cumbria and south-west Scotland, will make the move first, followed by other parts of the UK. The last television regions to go fully digital, in the Olympic year 2012, will be Meridian (in the south of England), Ulster, Tyne Tees and London and the South-east.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
Conservationists in Cumbria set 1,000 traps along the Scottish border to stem the spread of grey squirrels.
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frizzyLogic (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
I sort of knew my mother’s family was from Lancashire. I sort of know, I think, that her father’s family came from Kirkby Lonsdale which sits on the border between Lancashire and Cumbria. Since my mother’s grasp on reality wasn't the strongest it's difficult to know of the few things she said about her family [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Three people are arrested in Cumbria after a raid targeting illegal workers by the Border and Immigration Agency.
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gapingvoid (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
Just before Christmas, the groovy cats at Border TV made a half-hour documentary of my frequent partner-in-crime, Savile Row tailor, Thomas Mahon. [The full Google video page is here.] Cumbria for me seems a long way away from Alpine,...
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BusinessMatters (Free subscription) | 16/12/2007
Despite the ever increasing acceptance of new ways to communicate it is difficult to believe that an employee was dismissed by text message. That's what happened to Dale Stiles, a barman at the Border Terrier pub in Carlisle. The landlady,...
