Posted on Monday, September 7, 2009 in Carlisle, Stanwix | Comments Off on Visit Carlisle – Stay in Stanwix
Carlisle is one of the most under rated destinations on the holiday itinerary of the travelling world. As one of the few places (only 2 in England) that can lay claim to the status of being a 2000 year city, Carlisle has sat in the background for long enough. Under-rated Oasis Where the Reivers Once Roamed Where else, in the north of England, has seen: Roman, Reiver, Jacobite, siege, Castle, Cathedral, city walls, Railway and Canal, come – go and hide away to tease the unwary visitor? So...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 in Carlisle, Community, Stanwix | Comments Off on Stanwix Carlisle Gains a Community Web Site
Stanwix, site of the largest fort on Hadrian’s Wall, now has its own http://stanwixcommunitycentre.org.uk website. Its information will grow for local residents, community organisations, local businesses and visitors. Starting from years of web experience as a lost soul browsing his way down the road to nowhere and an almost pathological reluctance to make a website, Ray had to learn fast. With help from Nigel Burnie who ran Digital Solutions UK from his home in the area and another...
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Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in Carlisle, Community | Comments Off on The Other Side of Islam
At the Recent Conference organised by the local rotary organisations and the University of Cumbria, I bumped into a striking looking bloke. he was big and carried himself confidently and was about as Asian as I am Irish. As we chewed our way through 2 contrasting plates of conference nosh, conversation drifted round to the similarities between the Irish and Kashmiri approach to life. I won’t bore you with the minuteae – suffice to say we had a good crack about life, business and...
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