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Muncaster castle is taking steps to be as environmentally friendly as it can be, with plans for the installation of solar panels and even the creation of a bug palace. An application has been submitted to Copeland council to install solar panels on the Meadow Vale Maze, which used to be the old bear pit in the 1970s. Peter Frost-Pennington said: “At Muncaster we are passionate about the environment and protecting it for future generations of visitors to enjoy. Climate change is a huge issue for everyone. It has therefore been an aspiration of ours to reduce our use of fossil fuels in operating Muncaster with an aim to become carbon neutral if at all possible.”
£178,000 boost for Muncaster Castle
Muncaster Castle
Muncaster Castle has been awarded £178,000 from the Government to help it recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
It was among 23 organisations and venues in Cumbria to be given the boost from the Culture Recovery Fund.
The cash will help the tourist attraction, which also includes its hawk and owl centre, Â to continue safeguarding and increasing Muncasterâs varied cultural and conservation heritage offering
and will attract a wider audience.
Its owners say the funding will enable Muncaster to offer more education, cultural richness and heritage access while not excluding its already diverse visitor base.
Peter Frost-Pennington, of Muncaster Castle, said: âWe are overjoyed and delighted to have been awarded this grant from the Culture Recovery Fund.
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Tyne and Wear
For millions of readers around the world, the image of the country between the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear was woven by Catherine Cookson, the region’s most prolific and popular author. Cookson’s was a landscape of collieries, shipyards, rumbling coal trains, sooty-faced kids and the instantly nostalgic tones of pithead silver bands playing Haydn. While fragments of her world remain – mainly in the doughty cheerfulness of the locals – over the past four decades, as heavy industry has receded, a more distant past has emerged.
Twelve centuries before Dame Catherine began her career, the north-east’s first great literary figure, the Venerable Bede, was busy writing the histories that would help forge an English identity. Saint Bede (whose story is brought to life at the excellent Jarrow Hall Anglo-Saxon Village) divided his time between the twin monasteries of Saint Paul’s in Jarrow and Saint Peter’s in Monk
The International Festival of Owls is underway in Houston and online.
A modified schedules is in place for the three day festival, which has bird fans flying in from around the globe.
There are limited opportunities to visit the International Owl Center in Houston.
While this year’s schedule is different than in years past, Owl Center staff are still happy so many people give a hoot.
“We still have our parade of owls art tour that is always available. Twelve public owls sculptures in public places for people to see. Really fun stuff like chain saw carving, one is a bench that you can sit on,” said International Owl Center executive director Karla Bloom.