A BID for £250,000 is being made to keep rare documents used by famous fellwalker Alfred Wainwright in Cumbria.
A collection of memoirs, correspondance, notes, photographs, sketches, maps and papers used by Wainwright – affectionately known as AW by his legions of devotees – to write his pictoral guides is being offered for sale by his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BUSINESSES in Bowness and Windermere are to be given permission to grab a slice of the action at one of the Lake District’s most lucrative events.
On a one-year trial basis only, traders will be allowed to set up stalls and outdoor seating on the Glebe during the two-day Windermere Airshow. Windermere town councillors voted to [...]
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 assessor, recently [...]
KENDAL is the unlikely setting for a new crime thriller set to be filmed in the New Year.
South Lakeland is relatively crime-free but writer and director Rick McLeod, who lives in Old Hutton, is keen to set a crime movie in the area. Former Eastenders actor Leslie Grantham – famous for his role as bad [...]
LAKE Windermere has been used to film scenes for a Coronation Street storyline involving Gail Platt.
The popular soap’s film crews have spent the last week filming scenes in the area and Windermere and Bowness Chamber of Trade secretary Adrian Faulkner believes it can only be good for the area. He said: “It will be good [...]
AN appeal has been launched to raise money for those individuals and communities affected by flooding across Cumbria.
Set up by Cumbria Community Foundation, the Cumbria Flood Recovery Appeal has already received £50,000 from Nuclear Management Partner. General manager Graham Campbell said: “The situation in West Cumbria is unprecedented and it is vital that help arrives [...]
THE popular Lowther Show and Horse Driving Trials, which was first organised in 1973, will not be held again.
In August it was called-off for the first time when the ground became a quagmire and in 2008 the third and final day was cancelled through torrential rain.
Organisers said the event at Askham, near Penrith, in its [...]
A VOLUNTEER at Sedbergh School has discovered a stash of rare 19th century stamps worth up to £10,000.
Archive assistant Charlotte Dickerson was doing routine sorting at the Sedbergh Archive and Heritage Centre when she came across letters with Penny Blacks, Penny Reds and Penny Blues.
The Penny Black, introduced in 1840, was the world’s first adhesive [...]
