If you need to sort your leg up buttock from your insidehipe, then a new exhibition celebrating Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling at Florence Arts Centre in Egremont is the place for you.

Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling is a traditional formof “backhold” wrestling with origins going back to Viking times. It has strong cultural connections with farming and heavy industry; men would wrestle after work in their long-john underwear.

“Wrestle” tells the story of the sport through original artwork by Janet Moss, contemporary photography by Chris Routledge, archive photos and costumes and a community embroidery project.

And to celebrate the exhibition’s opening, a demonstrationof some of the holds and tactics was put on too. Tom Speight went along to watch to find out more…

Tullie, in Carlisle, describes itself as a museum, artgallery, community hub and generally a great place – as well as being a home for the eternally curious.

It’s 130 years old now. And it’s just undergone a £4.5 million transformation, fully reopening in April. Funding came from the government's Town Fund and Future High Streets Fund, Arts Council England and Cumberland Council.

So how’s its first summer being fully reopened gone ? And who’s been visiting ? Tom Speight’s been along to find out, and as the hugely successful Dinosaur Revolution exhibition draws to a close, he met a few young dinosaur experts on the way as he was shown around to discover how the new Tullie has been blended with the old…

For a few days every summer Andy Smith is in charge of thethird biggest town in Cumbria. Kendal Calling, which he set up when still a teenager, has grown to the point where its size has eclipsed the actual Kendal.

It's a stat that Andy looked back on with pride during aninterview with Tom Speight celebrating the festival's 20th anniversary at a networking event held by LA23NET atEden Arts’ base the Old Fire Station, in Penrith.

Lessons he shared: never say no to a music agent, knowing Blondie's songs doesn’t help if you don’t know who Blondie are, and the value of lawyers in getting your first big headliner to play…

It was also the launch of a new weekly arts newsletter for thecounty, Curated Cumbria.