A FLEDGLING cancer charity has revealed ambitious plans to host an international dragon boating event on Windermere. Breast cancer charity Paddlers For Life (PFL) hopes to stage Cumbria’s first dragon boat event to raise awareness of the disease and build community partnerships. The week-long Celebration of Life event would cost £400,000 to stage and could [...]
A BLAZE of colour and hum of Asian pipes filled the streets of a Lake District town as hundreds of Hindu worshippers headed to the area for a pilgrimage to their religious figurehead. The holy day in memory Gurudev Adya Acharyapravar Jeevanpran Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa – founder of Maninagar Shree Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan – saw [...]
A POPULAR South Lakeland show that has been blighted by weather problems in the past staged a successful event at the weekend. The 2008 renewal of the Lakeland Country Fair in Torver even had to be cancelled because of poor conditions underfoot, but organisers this year ran out of programmes as the glorious weather attracted [...]
THE pursuit of one of England’s rarest mammals has started in South Lakeland. A coast-to-coast 15-day search across northern England aims to track down the rare and elusive pine marten. As many as 200 volunteers could be getting involved in the search, which began in Grizedale Forest. The pursuit, involving a mix of hiking and [...]
HUNDREDS of people are being invited to take part in the creation of a major piece of public art on two Cumbrian beaches. London-based artist Everton Wright will be creating a Walking Drawing on the sands of Morecambe Bay on September 16 and on the shoreline at Silecroft on September 15. A walking drawing is [...]
SHEPHERDS’ whistles, barking dogs and monsoon-like rain all served to ensure a treasured Lake District event was a memorable one. The 107th Vale of Rydal Sheepdog Trials and Hound Show took over Rydal Park, Ambleside, thanks to Richard Le Fleming and tenant farmer Chris Hodgson, who gathered the sheep down from the fells for dozens [...]
LUNESDALE Agricultural Show is ‘back to its former glory,’ according to organisers, after a record number of entrants turned up to the Kirkby Lonsdale event yesterday. Chairman Bert Metcalfe said he was delighted to see so many people enjoying the show at Underley Park after three years of difficulties – including a foot-and-mouth scare in [...]
ULVERSTON is gearing up for the re-opening of the Sir John Barrow Monument with a special celebration. The iconic tower, on top of Hoad Hill, will be officially unveiled by Sir Anthony Barrow, the seventh Baronet of Ulverston, on Sunday, August 22. A gala of songs and stories has been organised at Ford Park by [...]
MORE entries than usual came flooding in to Ambleside’s Summer Flower Show and Craft Fair. It left the organisers in the big marquee hunting for extra tables for the bumper entry of home-grown flowers, fruit and vegetables, wines, eggs, cookery and crafts. Show president Peter Howarth predicted there could be even greater numbers of exhibitors [...]
THE South Lakeland studio of a famous German artist is to be opened up for the public. Abstract wartime painter and Dada collagist Kurt Schwitters worked in the Merzbarn building as a commissioned artist for the New York Museum of Modern Art. English Heritage are opening his workplace, situated in remote Langdale woodland, from 9 [...]
