A QUESTION mark is hanging over an ambitious scheme to update and expand Windermere Steamboat Museum.
The multi-million pound plans to create a new visitor centre and display areas for the museum’s rare and historic vessels are to be scaled back because of the recession.
The organisation behind the venture, The Lakeland Arts Trust, confirmed it would [...]

AN INTENSE debate has been provoked by a new book which claims Arthur Ransome, the author of a much-loved series of children’s adventure stories set in the Lake District, was a ‘double agent’ – spying for both Britain and Russia.
Ransome, whose best-selling Swallows and Amazons books made him the J K Rowling of his day, [...]