EWE-GENE is back after doing a disappearing act for more than a week.
The bright yellow woolly wanderer, who miffed organisers of Cartmel’s Sheepy Village Trail when she went walkabout from outside the Cavendish Arms, has been found safe and unharmed. And they are none the wiser as to who waltzed off with the life-size fibreglass [...]
A VICTORIAN castle once used by Beatrix Potter as a holiday home could be given a new lease of life.
The Lake District National Park Authority has received an application from a developer to transform the castle on the banks of Windermere into a 27-bedroom hotel and spa. It is believed up to 20 jobs could [...]
FORMER Baywatch star Pamela Anderson is looking for a new beachside home and Morecambe Bay is hot on her list, according to a national newspaper.
The blonde bombshell has fallen in love with Britain after appearing in a pantomime in London and has set her sights on a sea-side holiday home. Sources told the Sun she [...]
THE fight to save the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus has been taken to 10 Downing Street.
A 5,500 signature petition calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to intervene in the university’s funding crisis was handed over by Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron on Tuesday. He said the aim was to put pressure on the [...]
A BID for £250,000 is being made to keep rare documents used by famous fellwalker Alfred Wainwright in Cumbria.
A collection of memoirs, correspondance, notes, photographs, sketches, maps and papers used by Wainwright – affectionately known as AW by his legions of devotees – to write his pictoral guides is being offered for sale by his [...]
A RARE dragonfly that is on the brink of extinction in South Lakeland is set to be re-introduced to an area where it hasn’t been seen for decades.
Records show that the white-faced darter was present on the Witherslack Mosses in the early 1900s but it is thought to have become extinct as a result of [...]
A QUIET Lunesdale pub was the scene of some dodgy dealing when it was used by a local film crew as one of the locations to shoot a low-budget crime thriller.
Former Eastenders actor Leslie Grantham chatted and joked with the cast and crew of Prelude while filming a cameo at The Sun Inn, in Kirkby [...]
NATIONAL Grid said a big thank-you to the people of Ambleside for their support during the recent gas cut by donating £3,000 to the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team.
The energy company used the mountain rescue’s Lake Road centre in Ambleside as its headquarters as they reconnected more than 1,200 homes. Paul Clarke, incident controller [...]
CARTMEL Priory has officially opened its new book and gift stall following a £27,000 refurbishment.
The stall was originally set up in 1986 in order to bring in a bit more income for the church – but a lot has changed since the days of just a folding table and a couple of dozen books and [...]
THE Liberal Democrats have made a manifesto pledge to give mountain rescue teams a grant to cover the amount they pay each year in VAT.
Vince Cable, the party’s Treasury spokesman, has agreed to include the £200,000 cost of the measure as part of spending commitments to be announced ahead of the General Election. The promise [...]
