Do iconic objects maintain their iconic status if you uproot them from their accepted location of authenticity and transport them to another place and time? Or is being an icon dependent upon remaining firmly at the centre of a certain…
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I’ve been really busy promoting and sending out PR materials a forthcoming conference to be held in the Lake District by Nurture Lakeland. It’s called the Visitor Giving Conference and it’s going to be held on October 17 and 18…
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Catapult PR’s managing director, Jane Hunt, has been invited to speak to a group of businesses from West Cumbria at a business event organised at Lakes College, Workington, on October 11. Businesses will first sample a fabulous lunch menu…
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I’m in one of those quandaries where I am torn between a green man and a spot of blacksmithing. I’m sure you get them all the time. Then again, angel willow sculpture is tugging at my festive heartstrings and I’m…
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I had a wild day yesterday, in the best possible way, sitting down with a group of committed private businesses and public sector charities who are all passionate about sharing Cumbria’s rich wealth of wildlife with visitors looking for wildlife…
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People just haven’t stopped talking about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, have they! It just seems to have been taken to heart by the whole nation, as part of the ‘proud to be British’ theme. This appears to…
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Yesterday, I watched a generation become inspired, not by gold medal ceremonies, or adoring crowds, but by their mums, dads and even a man colloquially known as “the tosser”! Yes, it was the 2012 All England Open Stone Skimming…
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Really pleased that press seem to be loving our tourism PR story about the new baby leopard tortoise that has arrived at tourism attraction Lakes Aquarium – a bolt from the blue and so, with a bit of irony thrown…
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A very strange thing happens as you drive towards Kirkby Stephen from the Newbiggin-on-Lune direction. There is a point in the road where the scenery ahead looks completely flat, free of undulation and resembling a flat sea on the horizon. …
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