As we opened the doors for the start of our 43rd season, members of staff got together to raise a toast to 2010.
The major refurbishment of the Loughrigg Suite is nearing completion, with the carpets being laid tomorrow, and should be ready for the first guests by the end of the week.
The season got off [...]
BUSINESSES in Bowness and Windermere are to be given permission to grab a slice of the action at one of the Lake District’s most lucrative events.
On a one-year trial basis only, traders will be allowed to set up stalls and outdoor seating on the Glebe during the two-day Windermere Airshow. Windermere town councillors voted to [...]
AMBLESIDE Police Station has reopened its doors to the public after 12 years – thanks to the support of the local community.
Five local residents have been recruited by South Lakes Neighbourhood Policing team to staff the front counter at the Rydal Road station after officers appealed for help. They came forward as a result of [...]
A CONTINENTAL-style cycling endurance event will be running through North Lancashire and South Lakeland to raise money for charity.
The 112-mile Wrynose or Bust cyclosportive takes place on Sunday, April 25, and will prove a testing challenge for experienced cyclists.
Cyclosportives are hugely popular events – which originated in mainland Europe – that see hundreds, or thousands, [...]
A SECOND investigation is being planned to find Windermere’s legendary monster after video evidence previously recorded “something big”.
A team of experts, led by Dean Maynard, claimed to have filmed their best ever video evidence of ‘Bownessie’ during their first attempt. The evidence featured on Sky News, which has prompted the team to investigate the lake [...]
THE Lake District’s new fell top assessor’s prediction that an avalanche was imminent on the fells has come true.
As warmer wet weather entered Cumbria on Friday, Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were called to assist three climbers struck by an avalanche in Hind Crag Gully, Seathwaite, Borrowdale valley.
Jason Taylor, the Lake District’s fell top assessor, recently [...]
TWO of the Lake District’s larger bodies of water have frozen over.
Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite Lake have a layer of ice almost entirely covering their surfaces.
“It is absolutely spectacular,” said Penny Webb, National Trust countryside officer for Borrowdale. “There is also snow over a lot of the ice so it is very white. It has [...]
THE Treasury is facing increased pressure to refund tax-es to mountain rescue teams in the wake of the November floods and the winter freeze.
Rescue group leaders say their long-running campaign for relief from VAT and fuel duty has been strengthened by the way teams responded to both emergencies. Ambleside-based Stewart Hulse, a member of the [...]
A LIMOUSINE carrying 12 football supporters became stuck in deep snow and ice on a treacherous Lakeland road on New Year’s Day.
Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team spent more than an hour and a half evacuating the group – who were travelling to a Barrow AFC match – on Kirkstone Pass.
The Hummer stretch limo became [...]
KENDAL is the unlikely setting for a new crime thriller set to be filmed in the New Year.
South Lakeland is relatively crime-free but writer and director Rick McLeod, who lives in Old Hutton, is keen to set a crime movie in the area. Former Eastenders actor Leslie Grantham – famous for his role as bad [...]
