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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 – [...]
We’re delighted to tell you that here at Rothay Manor we have managed to escape the worst floods ever seen in the area – and indeed the country! Although we were more of an ‘island’ than normal for a while, with a new ‘lake’ in the garden, the hotel itself was free from any water ingress.
Ambleside was completely [...]
ORGANISERS of Ambleside’s community Christmas lights have “reluctantly” been forced to cancel the event because of the floods.
Thousands of people converge on the town each year to see Santa arrive by Windermere Lakes steamer and the lake shore is flooded with light from lanterns made by visitors. But with Rothay Park submerged in water members [...]
CARTMEL’S L’enclume has retained its number 13 slot in the 2010 Good Food Guide’s Top 50 Restaurants, while Windermere’s Holbeck Ghyll has moved up one place to the number 23 position in the presitigious listing.
The guide, founded in 1951 and published by Which?, also has a number of new entries for Cumbria including Windermere’s Miller [...]
A TEAM of investigators will scour Windermere in a hunt for a legendary monster that is claimed to lurk in its deep waters.
The search follows years of reported sightings of a big creature in the lake, the most recent being in July when Lake District hotelier Thomas Noblett was hit by a three-foot wave as he [...]
