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LAKE District conservation charity has been experimenting with an ancient technique to build footpaths – using native sheep wool.
Stone and gravel alone was not enough for the large, deep peat bog at Mart Crag Moor between Langdale and Borrowdale as it would have sunk into the bog and disappeared. But the Fix the Fells project [...]

PASSENGER flights could bring thousands of tourists from all over the world direct to Cumbria as soon as next year, says the boss of Carlisle Airport.
Andy Judge, director of the airport – which is owned by Stobart Air – has told the county’s tourism leaders that passenger flights could be landing at a revamped airport [...]

A QUESTION mark is hanging over an ambitious scheme to update and expand Windermere Steamboat Museum.
The multi-million pound plans to create a new visitor centre and display areas for the museum’s rare and historic vessels are to be scaled back because of the recession.
The organisation behind the venture, The Lakeland Arts Trust, confirmed it would [...]

WATER and land speed record-breaking legend Donald Campbell will play his part in history once again as he joins nine other celebrated Britons on Royal Mail’s special ‘Eminent Britons’ stamps.
His daughter, Gina Campbell, helped launch the stamps and is thrilled her father was chosen as one of the distinguished people to be recognised by Royal [...]

LAKE District conservation charity is set to star in a popular television programme.
Members of Fix the Fells, which aims to prevent further erosion of upland paths, were filmed working alongside volunteers from the West Runton Christian Youth Group repairing a footpath near the Wrynose Pass for BBC 2’s Escape to the Country.
The programme, which will [...]

THE Forestry Commission has launched an online guide to help visitors savour one of nature’s most spectacular displays – the changing leaves of autumn.
As part of the leaf-watch campaign, woodland experts are recording Cumbria’s hottest autumn spots including Grizedale and Whinlatter so people can visit them in all their blazing glory.
Visit www.forestry.gov.uk/nweautumn.

A MAP showing grey squirrel control in the north of England is being created to help protect the threatened reds.
The Red Squirrel Survival Trust (RSST) has also set up a £40,000 control fund to pay for trapping projects.
Natural England and the Forestry Commission are working with the trust in the two initiatives, which aim to [...]

CUMBRIA’S wildlife lovers are being urged to search woods for half-eaten hazelnuts to help trace one of the UK’s rarest mammals.
The People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) has launched its third Great Nut Hunt to establish where the endangered dormouse can be found – numbers have fallen 39 per cent since 1992.
To encourage people to [...]

SEVEN of the smallest rodents in Britain have set up home at a Lake District tourist attraction.
Lakes Aquarium, near Newby Bridge, has welcomed the arrival of a family of harvest mice, which each weigh less than a two-pence coin. The miniature creatures are from a species that is the only mammal in the world with [...]