Learn to innovate...

A FREE networking event for Cumbrian entrepreneurs is being staged at Rheged, Penrith, on October 12. A number of businesses support organisations, including Campus Ventures, Business Link Cumbria and Cumbria Chamber of Commerce, are behind the event, called Living Innovation 2004. The event will feature case studies from inspirational entrepreneurs together with practical advice on how to start and grow a new business. For more details and to reserve a place, contact Rachel McCormick at Campus Ventures, tel 0161-276-8362 or email: rmccormick@campus-ventures.co.uk Legal briefing...

ISSUES relating to employment law will be put under the spotlight at a one-day course for voluntary and not-for-profit organisations at Kendal Town Hall on Thursday, October 7, from 10am-4pm. The course, which is aimed at managers, management committee members and trustees, is being run by the Cumbria Association of Councils for Voluntary Service. For details, contact Mark Payne on 01768-242128.

Capital deal...

BURLINGTON Slate of Kirkby-in-Furness won an order to supply natural slate roofing used in London's first new public square in more than a century. Some 2,000 square metres of slate was specified as the roofing material for the Duke of York Square, a prestigious new retail development in London's West End.

New tenants CHRIS O'Connor and his partner Heather Hunt have taken a ten-year lease on the Braddylls Arms at Bardsea. The pair said they were partly attracted to the pub, which has a 50-seat restaurant, because it was a free house, allowing them to serve a selection of real ales.