A FLEDGLING cancer charity has revealed ambitious plans to host an international dragon boating event on Windermere. Breast cancer charity Paddlers For Life (PFL) hopes to stage Cumbria’s first dragon boat event to raise awareness of the disease and build community partnerships. The week-long Celebration of Life event would cost £400,000 to stage and could [...]
A BLAZE of colour and hum of Asian pipes filled the streets of a Lake District town as hundreds of Hindu worshippers headed to the area for a pilgrimage to their religious figurehead. The holy day in memory Gurudev Adya Acharyapravar Jeevanpran Shree Muktajeevan Swamibapa – founder of Maninagar Shree Swaminarayan Gadi Sansthan – saw [...]
MORE entries than usual came flooding in to Ambleside’s Summer Flower Show and Craft Fair. It left the organisers in the big marquee hunting for extra tables for the bumper entry of home-grown flowers, fruit and vegetables, wines, eggs, cookery and crafts. Show president Peter Howarth predicted there could be even greater numbers of exhibitors [...]
A FEARLESS team of monster hunters will set sail on Windermere in a fresh search for ‘Bownessie’. Lakeland hotelier Thomas ‘The Gladiator’ Noblett and celebrity psychic Dean ‘Midas’ Maynard will embark on their second journey into the depths of Windermere in search of the fabled monster. The two men led a team of investigators to [...]
A HINDU pilgrimage will see hundreds of worshippers flock to a South Lakeland beauty spot this month. Dhol drummers and Asian pipe bands will pave the way for followers of the Hindu faith Shree Swaminarayan Gadi. The group will lead a procession up to the Glebe in Bowness to commemorate the life of a religious [...]
Personal postcards from top celebrities and sports stars are being exhibited at the Lake District National Park Visitor Centre later next month to celebrate the county’s progress after last year’s floods. Almost 100 postcards written by some of Britain’s biggest celebrities will be showcased at the free ‘Wish You Were Here’ touring exhibition in the [...]
A BOWNESS woman braved storms and attacks by jellyfish to become the first person this year to swim the Channel. Michelle Lefton, 23, completed the arduous crossing in 17 hours. She dedicated the swim to the memory of her late cousin, Richard Scowcroft, who died of cancer in 2004, aged 30. She has already raised [...]
CUMBRIA is only days away from a hosepipe ban unless there is ‘significant’ rainfall, which is not forecast, United Utilities has warned. But the threat has been criticised by Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron, who said the water company needed to modernise the way it managed its resources. “We are the wettest county in [...]
A TV documentary on the Lake District looks set to boost business in the area this summer. Prime-time ITV show The Lakes will return for another 12 episodes after the success of the first series, which drew in more than four million viewers each week. Leeds-based company Shiver Productions returned to Cumbria this week to [...]
A SOUTH Lakeland retailer has trumped giants Marks & Spencer and John Lewis to be voted Britain’s best shop. Windermere-based family firm Lakeland came out on top in a survey of 14,000 customers by independent watchdog and consumers’ body Which? It is the first time the 49-year-old firm has scooped the Which? award, after customers [...]
