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Campaigners dig deep for Miners Arms
A community in Cumbria has formed a consortium to buy its pub, the Miners Arms in Nenthead, which closed in 2020 and was recently put up for sale. Sit...
Country’s top four pubs revealed
CAMRA has announced the final four fighting to be crowned its National Pub of the Year 2023.
Cockermouth brewing revival at the Bitter End
A new brewery is set to rise in Cockermouth from the ashes of the now closed Jennings. Last November, Carlsberg Marston’s shut the Jennings brewery, b...
Fears for future of Jennings artefacts
CAMRA’s West Cumbria branch has raised concerns over the future of historic artefacts from the recently closed Jennings brewery in Cockermouth. The br...
Closed brewery’s past celebrated
A brewery in operation for close to 200 years had a display dedicated to it by West Cumbria branch. Closed last November, Jennings brewery in Cockermo...
What is CAMRA to you?
CAMRA has been an integral part of my life for more than 20 years – since before I even knew it – and I’m hugely grateful. I’d been following Blackpoo...
CAMRA condemns Jennings closure
Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) confirmed its plans to close the historic Jennings Brewery, Cockermouth in early October. And there will be...
Derelict railway pub back on track
More than a decade ago, local lad Danny Horsley (pictured) would regularly drink in the Black Tom pub in Camerton, West Cumbria. He also served behind...
Fears for Jennings brewery
A Cumbrian brewery popular with tourists and locals has closed its shop and no longer offers tours. Jennings brewery in Cockermouth has been closed t...
Pub’s village shop initiative
Rebecca and Joseph Richards (pictured) have come to the rescue of local residents by opening a new village store at the Royal Oak Hotel in Beckermet,...
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