A very happy Christmas to you all! Its a real ‘Christmas card’ scene here in Ambleside – even though there has been no further snowfall, there is still about 5 inches lying on the ground although all the main rads are clear.
A bright, sunny but cold day – ideal for a walk after all that turkey [...]
A number of people have been in touch to say they heard Anne-Marie on the Radio 4 programme ‘Woman’s Hour’ on Christmas Eve morning, in an interview talking about our ‘Scrabble Holidays’ .
We didn’t know it was going to be in air again as it was originally aired in November 2008. Journalist Kate Arkless Gray came [...]
After the rain – comes the snow! It started snowing yesterday afternoon and by evening there was a good covering. There was no further snow overnight but it started to snow quite heavily around 8.30 this morning and continued until 1pm. After a brief spell of sunshine, the snow returned this afternoon and we now [...]
A CARNFORTH businessman has rescued the former car of comic legend Eric Morecambe from the scrapheap.
Just days away from being dismantled, the 1971 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was discovered at a Shrewsbury scrapyard by Peter Yates – who runs a wedding car business. He now plans to restore it to its former glory. “It was [...]
A MAJOR estate which has been practising organic farming for eight years is set to return to conventional husbandry on 3,500-acres of Eden farmland.
Managers of Lowther Estate, near Shap, took the decision to protect the long-term interests of the estate and ensure the farm remains ‘viable and thriving’. The trustees and family said the lowering [...]
A FISHERMAN found a 40ft Minkie whale beached on the sands of Morecambe Bay. Ben Barker, owner of The Sands pub in Grange-over-Sands, found the enormous creature washed up on the north shore near Meathop Park Farm, Meathop, on Monday night. He said: “Sadly it was dead when I found it, though I got the [...]
Entries have opened for the 2010 British Gas Great North Swim to coincide with the launch of the Great Swim TV series, which will be shown on Channel 4 this winter. The swim will return to Windermere on Saturday, September 4 and Sunday, September 5. People can enter online at www.greatswim.org .
The British Gas Great [...]
LAKE Windermere has been used to film scenes for a Coronation Street storyline involving Gail Platt.
The popular soap’s film crews have spent the last week filming scenes in the area and Windermere and Bowness Chamber of Trade secretary Adrian Faulkner believes it can only be good for the area. He said: “It will be good [...]
A DECISION to end undergraduate provision at Ambleside’s historic educational centre has been described as “madness” and a “huge blow” to the town with economic comparisons being made to the damaging recent floods.
Bosses at the heavily indebted University of Cumbria are seeking to save £2 million a year – and the institution’s future viability – [...]
