A CLASSIC playground game for children has been resurrected to help save wildlife in Cumbria. Top Trumps – the card game where you ‘trump’ your opponent by having the highest value of a subject – has a new British Wildlife series, designed and chosen by National Trust conservation experts. The card game features 30 British [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

LAKE District conservation charity has been experimenting with an ancient technique to build footpaths – using native sheep wool. Stone and gravel alone was not enough for the large, deep peat bog at Mart Crag Moor between Langdale and Borrowdale as it would have sunk into the bog and disappeared. But the Fix the Fells [...]