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. [...]

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 [...]