Hidden away in the Public & Legal Notices of this week’s Westmorland Gazette, measuring barely 3cms. square is this notice

Not many readers will notice it and of the few who do most will not understand what it means but, in the week following the cancellation of this year’s Torchlight Carnival, it must raise questions about SLDC’s funding of “street festivals”.

The Torchlight Carnival street collection raises thousands of pounds for charities .

The collection at the jointly run Kendal Arts International (the Mintfest organisers) and Manchester International Arts event to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic Torch went to ……………………………….themselves (see above).