AN all-action programme of events has been announced for the inaugural Ambleside Outdoor Festival. The event is to take place over four days in September at some of the Lake District’s most dramatic locations. Cyclists will be challenged to ride up The Struggle – the notorious one-in-four 1,489-feet climb to Kirkstone Pass – and there [...]

NATIONAL Grid said a big thank-you to the people of Ambleside for their support during the recent gas cut by donating £3,000 to the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue team. The energy company used the mountain rescue’s Lake Road centre in Ambleside as its headquarters as they reconnected more than 1,200 homes. Paul Clarke, incident [...]

MOUNTAIN rescue volunteers have taken part in a special training session to hone their helicopter evacuation skills. Key personnel from a number of Lake District rescue teams took part in the session, held at a playing field in Endmoor on Sunday. Using an RAF Sea King helicopter, they were taken through rescue scenarios by Wing [...]