Movember

Okay, so it's November again, which means Bonfire night comes and goes, supermarkets' Christmas adverts start seven, eight and even nine weeks early, and huge numbers of men once again try to grow a moustache to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer.

I'm still trying to work out what growing hair on your face has to do with anything, but that's my problem.

Many of you will remember that I grew a 'mo' last year, and it was hardly a challenge: not shaving my top lip is something I'm pretty good having had the 'evil-twin' goatee beard for more years than I care to think about.

But the truth is that Movember isn't about hard work, it's not some kind of endurance test, it's about raising awareness in a simple and sometimes funny way.  Don't believe me?  Check out these moustaches.

In fairness, I don't think any of these were actually grown for Movember, but they still show that facial hair can be funny.










For more information, check out https://uk.movember.com/ 

Local news

A devolution deal giving more power to Cumbria continues to move forward.

Devolution basically means that a lot of the decisions affecting Cumbrian people will be made in Cumbria, rather than decisions being made in London by people who don't know what life is like up here in the frozen north.

The deal could boost our economy by as much as £1.3billion, which is quite a lot of money I'm sure you'll agree.

Note: this is $1billion not £1billion