Roadside verges and lay-bys in Cumbria are being blocked off in preparation for a horse fair.

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Horse and carriage rides at a Suffolk country fair should have been stopped an hour before a horse ran into a crowd of spectators, an inquest has heard.

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That process will start on April 15 with the nomination of candidates, a step subject to a fair amount of backroom horse-trading.

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Some 500 bands perform on a dozen stages at the Fair Grounds, the horse-racing track that becomes a music stadium once a year.

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At least eight people have been injured, including one seriously, after a horse and carriage got loose at a country fair in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

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Ms Tyrrell told the court that the horse had not misbehaved on the day of the fair and he had not reacted to the noise of children playing or dogs barking.

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In all, eight Calumet horses have worn the roses on the first Saturday in May, and on Saturday afternoon, a horse hoping to be the ninth will go to the post at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans for the Risen Star Stakes.

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Carole Bullett, from Bury St Edmunds, was at a country fair at the town's Nowton Park in June last year when the horse and carriage went into the crowd.

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