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A couple have said goodbye to the pub that they love after running it for 33 years. Melanie and David Surtees, known as Mel and Dave, have called last orders at the Shipwrights Arms, Whitehaven, after an incredible 33 years of service. Mel, 63, first started in the industry aged 22, in Bolton, she said: “I’d never been behind a bar before, never pulled a pint or worked a till, but I loved it. The pub trade was in my blood and the reason I never moved on from the Shipwrights was because I loved that pub.” They moved back to be nearer family and took on the Welsh Arms on Tangier Street, which is now the Candlestick, moving to the Shipwrights three and a half years later and liked it so much they stayed.
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The apparent meeting of Jupiter and Saturn in the skies – known as the ‘great conjunction’ – marks the birth of a new astrological epoch
‘Thinkers have used Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions to track history for thousands of years.’ Photograph: Pakin Songmor/Getty Images
‘Thinkers have used Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions to track history for thousands of years.’ Photograph: Pakin Songmor/Getty Images
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On Monday, Jupiter and Saturn – which are actually more than 400m miles apart – will appear to come together in the night sky, forming what is called a “Great Conjunction”. This is one in a series of meetings the planets make roughly every 20 years, due to Jupiter’s orbit of less than 12 years around the sun lining up with Saturn’s, which is 29.5 years long. On the night of the conjunction, the planets will seem as if they’re sepa