KENDAL College bosses are hoping a radical plan to create a Swiss-style hotel school in the Lake District will rescue the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus. The debt ridden university want to mothball Ambleside’s campus to save money, but Kendal College’s principal Graham Wilkinson is urging them to adopt his hotel school idea. He said: [...]

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 [...]