The last wolf in England snuffed it in a few places, depending on which legend you believe, including Humphrey Head – a finger of limestone that points into the Cumbrian mud of Morecambe Bay opposite John Fox’s house on stilts on the shore.

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Summer 2011: can the sound of breaking glass in Manchester’s Arndale Centre be heard in the Lyth Valley? Pauline Yarwood’s left the door open, and she’s uneasy.

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In this week’s poem, Michael Baron is one of Two Men In A Boat on Loweswater. His companion is his autistic son.

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This week, Neil Curry rolls his trousers up and enrols as a student of waves …

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This week, Annie Foster turns grief into celebration with the aid of a bonfire.

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In the crisply titled No, Duncan Darbishire recollects receiving short shrift from the extravagently sideburned Norman Nicholson.

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In The Met Office forgot the Outer Hebrides, Mary Robinson vividly recalls a summer when the sun forgot to shine. Sound familiar?

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This week, in The Wall, Barrow-born Colin Jordan remembers cranes on the skyline from the leafy streets of Chiswick, W4.

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In this week’s poem, Martyn Halsall is transported back to Namibia by a crack of Lakeland thunder.

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