The final countdown is on to the new 'Appleby Summer Pudding', bringing together a fun-packed family festival with live music, jaw-dropping street circus acts and a vintage funfair by day, and a special evening gig featuring some of the best from across the UK's festival scene by night. There is now just over a week to go until this brand new boutique summer festival, as part of Appleby's fightback from the after-effects of Storm Desmond last December. It will be held in the spectacular surroundings of the medieval Appleby Castle from 12 noon on Saturday 20 August 2016.

The event is the brainchild of one of the North's leading arts organisations, Eden Arts, and is the first time the privately owned 12th century castle has opened its grounds to this type of major event. It comes as the historic market town bordering the Lake District and the North Pennines bounces back from last winter's floods and is taking place with support from Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership, Eden District Council and Arts Council England as part of Appleby's flood recovery programme.