A TOUR de France winning cycling legend was the guest of honour at the tenth anniversary bash celebrating a Cumbrian charity event. Stephen Roche, who won cycling’s most three most prestigious prizes in 1987, claiming the Tour along with the Giro Italia
A MAN has been arrested in connection with the brutal assault and robbery of an 89-year-old Pendle war veteran almost a year ago. Detectives investigating the incident, which left Bob Schofield in hospital for a number of weeks, said a 23-year-old
CONSERVATIVE councillors on Cumbria County Council have voted not to take a one per cent increase due in their allowances. Jim Buchanan, the authority’s Tory leader, said: “While recognising this is only a small saving for the council, it is clear this
AN EMPTY Furness pub is set to be bulldozed and replaced with new housing due in part to the failing hostelry industry. Barrow Borough Council’s planning committee gave the green light to Bryn and David Clark’s application to build five two storey houses
A BENTHAM milkman has completed his last delivery round after a 43-year career during which he took just one week’s holiday. Sid Hogg, 61, has gone to bed at 7pm and woken up at 1am for more than four decades to complete his round through Bentham and
AN HEROIC youngster who saved an elderly woman’s life while on his paper round has been named the UK’s news deliverer of the year, in recognition of his selfless act. Myles Whittaker, 15, of Coronation Drive, Dalton-in-Furness, was the star of the show
A WOMAN has been taken to hospital after an incident on a South Lakeland road. The 26-year-old driver, from Barrow, of a blue BMW was taken to Furness General Hospital with non life-threatening injuries after her car flipped upside down on the A590 near
GHOSTS and goblins will be the order of the day at a fundraiser for Help For Heroes. The King’s Head, in Ulverston, is holding the charity Halloween Party on Saturday (October 31) from dusk until midnight, to raise money for wounded service
A SUCCESSFUL farming scheme to combat agricultural crime which uses state-of-the-art technology to send messages to farmers’ mobile phones is to be expanded. FarmWatch already has more than 100 members in Carnforth and the upper Lune Valley
A FATHER-of-two is seriously ill with the potentially life-threatening Lyme Disease after being bitten by a blood-sucking parasite while in the Lake District. Father of two, Kevin Slater, 48, was walking in Grisedale Valley, Patterdale, when
A BOOK on the life of Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome has won a top biography prize. Roland Chambers, author of The Last Englishman: The Double LIfe of Arthur Ransome, took the £2,000 prize for best first biography at the Biographers’ Club
A MUSLIM teenager has blasted college bosses after a row over the veil covering her face. Shawana Bilqes, 18, said she was told by a staff member at Burnley College she must remove her burka as she attempted to enrol on a higher education course
Last week a new exhibition opened in Mill Yard Studios in Staveley, near Kendal. Lines Coming and Going may not be the snappiest exhibition title around but it does describe what is on show. Line work from six artists, the focus of each being shape and
