GLORIOUS sunshine and a host of beautiful blooms greeted thousands of visitors to the 18th Holker Hall Garden Festival. The three-day eventis hosted by Lord and Lady Cavendish at Holker Hall in the Cartmel peninsula. It features around 80 stalls selling an eclectic range of local produce from jams and cakes to Damson gin.

SHEEP can always be found grazing on the Lakeland fells, but visitors to Cartmel this summer will discover an unusual new flock of 31 rare-breed ruminants. The brightly-coloured sheep will be found grazing around Cartmel village until July 16 as part of a major initiative raising funds for the Flookburgh-based charity Bay Search and Rescue. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A RECORD 16,000 people basked in the sunshine as the Cartmel Races got underway at the weekend. It was one of a number of events which attracted bumper crowds and it still proved popular despite the rain this week. People travelled from all over the country for this year’s Cartmel Races – which was named [...]