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 air next Tuesday (October 27) at 5.15pm, follows a couple who are hoping to move to Cumbria to run a Bed and Breakfast business and looks at issues affecting their potential guests, who are likely to be walkers.

The show’s host Alistair Appleton joined in laying stepping stones across a boggy section of the path from the Wrynose Pass to Red Tarn and chatted to the National Trust Fix the Fells project manager John Atkinson about the job of repairing and maintaining paths in the Lake District.