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  • TV highlight: Stephen’s on a roll with game of chance

    Stephen Mulhern knows a thing or two about gameshows. Over the course of his TV career, he’s hosted a lot of them, including Magic Numbers, Catchphrase, Big Star’s Little Star and Pick Me. His In for a Penny segment on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night

  • TV picks, day by day – from game shows to the Gallaghers

    Our choice of programmes to watch week beginning Saturday, August 8 Saturday: Total Wipeout –Freddie & Paddy Takeover (BBC1, 7.10pm) Remember Total Wipeout, the show which ran from 2009 to 2012? It featured a series of interesting obstacles

  • WEIRD UK NEWS: Toddler gets his head stuck in toilet seat

    A TODDLER had a major mishap earlier this week when he got his head stuck in a toilet seat. Two-year-old Callum Souch has only just started using the toilet independently - and appears to still be learning how it all works. Callum emerged from

  • Prominent farming stalwart dies suddenly

    TRIBUTES have been paid to a prominent Northumbrian farmer who has died at the age of 37. Rachel Lumley died suddenly at the Cumberland Infirmary on Monday, July 13. The cause of her death is currently unknown. The former Blanchland farmer was

  • Silent tribute planned to a Cumbrian cricket stalwart

    A MINUTE’S silence will take place before all cricket matches in Cumbria and Lancashire this weekend following the death of Colin Bickerstaffe, a popular and long-serving representative of the sport. The First and Second team players of Whitehaven

  • Drink-driver banned from holding a licence

    A WOMAN has been banned from holding a licence for 12 months for drink-driving. Hannah Kate Huddart, 20, of Rydal Court, Penrith was caught with 50mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg per 100ml of breath. Huddart is banned