Over 20,000 food lovers headed to Cockermouth last weekend for the second annual Taste Cumbria Food Festival. The streets of the picturesque Western Lake District town swelled with visitors from both in and out of the county as they came together to enjoy two days of food-related family events and activities.
World Arthritis Day was established in 1996 by Arthritis and Rheumatism International (ARi) and is celebrated each year on 12 October. It provides an opportunity for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) from around the world to join together to make their voices heard.
Save the date 24th - 28th October, as it's the fifteenth Energy Saving Week and this year the Energy Saving Trust is looking at how you can "Take back control of your energy bills". Energy Saving Week is a unique annual event led by the Energy Saving Trust and this year's theme draws on how consumers can take back control of their spiralling energy bills at home.
A love of walking in forests in her home country of the Philippines inspired the winning entry of 13-year-old Trisha Co Reyes in the 2011 International Children's Painting Competition on the Environment. Trisha beat over 600,000 other young people to win first place in the competition, which is organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
With Halloween fast approaching - along with the cold, dark nights - we think that baking is the perfect trick to scaring away those winter blues. But instead of a Pumpkin Pie or Candy Apple recipe, we have hopped 'over the water' to bring you a recipe from Ireland and the custom of baking a Barm Brack (báirín breac).
Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement and patron of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has died in Nairobi. She was 71 years old.
