KENDAL climber Stu Peacock has become the first British man to climb Everest three times using the notorious North Ridge route. Mr Peacock, leading a team of five Britons and six Sherpas, reached the summit on Sunday after taking advantage of a ‘short weather window’. A number of other team members, including the 33-year-old former [...]

A CASH-STRAPPED Lakeland treasure has been thrown a lifeline following a campaign in The Westmorland Gazette. Blackburn College has promised a no-strings-attached £10,000 to the Save the Armitt campaign, which will enable the Ambleside museum and library to re-open at Easter. The five-figure sum achieves the Gazette’s campaign target but will only bridge the funding [...]

A GOVERNMENT minister has backed The Westmorland Gazette’s campaign to save one of the area’s cultural gems from closing for good. Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has added his voice to the chorus of approval for the Gazette’s Save the Armitt campaign, which aims to help the Ambleside museum and library take crucial steps towards a [...]

ONE of the region’s major cultural attractions faces closure if it fails to find a financial lifeline. Ambleside’s Armitt Museum and Library needs £10,000 by the middle of March. If it does not reach that figure by then chairman of the trustees Peter Jackson told The Westmorland Gazette it will certainly shut. “The tragedy of [...]

THE fight to save the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus has been taken to 10 Downing Street. A 5,500 signature petition calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to intervene in the university’s funding crisis was handed over by Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron on Tuesday. He said the aim was to put pressure on [...]

AN UNUSAL water disturbance and a possible sighting have given further credence to the legend of Windermere’s mysterious monster. Lakes TV’s joint director, John McKeown captured the strange ripples measuring around 20ft, while filming a documentary about “Bownessie.” “I had gone up to the view point just before the Beech Hill Hotel to get some [...]

EYEWITNESSES, experts and a well-known psychic are scouring the depths of Windermere today (Saturday) in search of a mysterious monster. The search follows years of reported sightings of a big creature in the lake, the most recent being in July when Lake District hotelier Thomas Noblett was hit by a three-foot wave while swimming. This [...]

A TEAM of investigators will scour Windermere in a hunt for a legendary monster that is claimed to lurk in its deep waters. The search follows years of reported sightings of a big creature in the lake, the most recent being in July when Lake District hotelier Thomas Noblett was hit by a three-foot wave as [...]

PICTURES of the Vulcan which flew across the skies above the Lake District at the Windermere Air Show last weekend are being sought in a competition. Vulcan To The Sky, the charity which keeps the iconic aircraft flying, is holding the competition and the lucky winner will receive a prize that money can not buy. [...]

A BIZARRE swimming incident on Windermere coincided with the announcement that a team of paranormal investigators will plumb the lake’s depths in search of a giant creature. Thomas Noblett, 46, was swimming the lake this week when he was suddenly swamped by a three-foot wave of unknown origin. A spate of eyewitness sightings reported by [...]