THIS year's Appleby Horse Fair will be busy if telephone inquiries are anything to judge by.
A meeting of Appleby Town Council's tourist information centre joint working party heard the centre had received 400 calls about the horse fair in January double the number in January 2002.
It was thought this rise might be due to recent publicity about the event.
February 13, 2003 16:00
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