England Originals is an amazing new product being launched to help promote our historic cities. Carlisle has played its part, along with 15 other historic cities, to create this unique...
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Regulations and your Food Business Made Simple
Thomas Jardine & Co in collaboration with ML3 Technical and Trading Standards Cumbria have developed a series of workshops to support food and drink businesses. These workshops are aimed at owner operators or managers responsible for dealing with food regulations in their business.
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Local food : where’s it been..where’s it going?
first published in Speciality Food Is local food the answer for speciality food retailers? Speciality food businesses have to find the balance between representing their food place and encouraging food...
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Innovate and save the world
Innovate and save the world
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Living with Amazon and thriving in times of change.
Not a day goes by without news of the rise of Amazon and the demise of the rest of us.
Commentators are eager to talk up the future of online shopping and the fall of the traditional food markets with everything from the corner shop to the giant supermarkets falling prey to this global phenomena.
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Cumbrian food producers get set to stand together at Farm Shop & Deli Show
Cumbrian Food and Drink Our county’s vibrant and diverse food & drink scene has made Cumbria a must-visit destination for foodies in recent years. Local food festivals and farmers markets...
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Big fish little pond or small fish big pond?
Defining your local place is never easy especially when you come to setting a border where everything beyond is not local…. Think about the political boundaries that already exist from...
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The Rise of Provenance
The Rise of Provenance
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Borderlands Conference
This is a brief summary of our take out from the Borderlands Conference held in Dumfries on the 18th June. The summary is mainly made up as a collage of comments from speakers, facilitators, businesses, local councillors (from Carlisle, Cumbria, Dumfries& Galloway, Northumberland and Scottish Borders), politicians and public sector officers.
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