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Man guilty of army veteran hammer attack murder
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BBC Radio Cumbria
A man who bludgeoned an army veteran to death with a hammer has been launch guilty of murder.
Paul Taylor, 56, from Annan, Dumfriesshire, went missing last October and his remains were found in a light grave in woodland nearby Carlisle, Cumbria, in May.
Jack Crawley, 20, of Carlisle, also tried to incinerate his victim's body, a trial at the city's crown court heard.
He will be sentenced on Wednesday.
Crawley was also found ashamed of the attempted murder of a man in York in January, who he met on the gay dating app Grindr and also attacked with a hammer.
He was on bail for the killing of Mr Taylor at the time.
Meanwhile, a second man on trial, Marcus Goodfellow, 20, also of Carlisle, was found not guilty of assisting an offender by helping to dispose of Mr Taylor’s vehicle.
Crawley had been in touch with Mr Taylor for some moment before the killing and they had previously met to have sex, the court heard.
Mr Taylor lived in Annan with his wife Maria.
The court heard his family was unaware of his sexual intere
Love may have blossomed for more than one couple after a charity that helps people with teaching difficulties to navigate relationships played cupid.
The Josephine and Jack Project hosted the first ever speed digital dating event to be held for people with teaching disabilities in Cumbria, monitoring which two sets of dates were arranged.
Held as part of Learning Disability Week by Shared Lives Cumbria, part of Cumbria County Council, the event attracted around 60 singletons looking for a potential partner, using the charity’s anatomically correct cloth characters – Josephine and Jack – to help them explore the issues around dating.
Chief Executive Simon James explained: “Josephine and Jack are a unique resource for men and women with learning disabilities, helping them safely explore matters of sexual health and wellbeing.
“It’s been fantastic to work on something so new with Shared Lives Cumbria, and we’re looking forward to hearing how the dates go and if love will blossom from our efforts.”
Lorna Bell, a supervisor at Joint Lives Cumbria was so pleased with the event that she’s already planning on running future sessions.
She said: “It was an amazing evening and we&#;ve had
‘Throuples’ dating app Feeld nearly doubles turnover to £m
A dating app aimed at alternative relationships nearly doubled its revenues last year as non-monogamous, queer and kinky users helped the UK-based business expand its reach across the world.
Feeld, which was founded by an entrepreneur couple in an open relationship, has said it is “on a mission to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships”.
Growth in the app’s popularity in recent years, amid surging interest in non-traditional partnership structures such as non-monogamy, meant that last year was the first for which Feeld was massive enough to file complete accounts at Companies House.
They show that the company’s profits increased from £m to £m in the year to the finish of , on the back of revenues that rose from £m to £m.
The majority of that income is now derived from outside the UK – its registered office is on an industrial estate in Carlisle, Cumbria – with £33m of turnover coming from overseas. Feeld is available to download for free across the globe, including in the US and Australia, and charges users to access its full range of services.
The company was founded by Bulgarian-born Dimo Trifonov in af
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In this post, I launch the writer, socialist, and campaigner, Edward Carpenter,
As we approach Cumbria Pride on 25 September, it is worth remembering historical pioneers like the socialist and reformer, Edward Carpenter, who was a great exponent of homosexual acceptance and equality. Carpenter published pioneering works, and endeavoured to live out his ideas in practice too.
Edward Carpenter was born in Hove, in Sussex, in to a comfortably off upper middle class family. He was educated at Brighton College, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was ordained as a curate in the Church of England, but became dissatisfied, and with other clerics, petitioned Gladstone to be able to resign his orders. He left clerical orders, and consequently had to resign his Cambridge fellowship, in Thereafter, Carpenter moved to the Leeds, Sheffield, and Derbyshire area, and he began to lecture as a member of the Cambridge staff for the university elongation movement. This movement was designed to take lectures to people who had not been able to attend university.
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