Kirkby Stephen

And, you know, I don't want to sound too hard nosed about it.

um but obviously in a rural county with lots of teeny tiny villages i work our office in kirby stephen which is you know quite remote tourism brings money and money revives communities and means that local people can find jobs and not just in tourism of course but peripheral jobs that support tourism so I don't, nobody likes to talk about money.

It's the, you know, we all want to be ethereal.

But I really believe that this sort of tourism brings money into the county, but also really nice.

I think it brings really nice sort of tourism into the county as well.

So I see it as really, really important.

So I thought it would be good to take a moment just to acknowledge Kirby Stephen.

So this is where I believe you live and work.

Yeah.

So a cannabis gardener who today marked his 33rd birthday has been jailed after police caught him tending a crop worth almost 500,000 at Kirkby Stephen.

The sophisticated growing operation at Market Square was discovered on July 1st when police raided the property, finding the defendant and nearly 300 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity in several rooms Carlisle Crown Court heard.

Jim Kajipi admitted a cannabis...