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THE 2012 Olympics may still be 609 days away but Cumbria is already going for gold as the county aims to make the most of the nation’s biggest sporting occasion.

THE other day while my husband Keith was out on his bike - it was a little too cold for me to venture into my lycra and he hadn’t quite got 2,000 miles this season on his super slim light weight racing machine so it just had to be done - I indulged

CUMBRIA'S Woman of the Year has been named as Deb Muscat - a driving force behind the county's flood relief fund, formed in the wake of last November's devastating storms. Ms Muscat, acting director of the Cumbria Community Foundation, received

A RETIRED policeman who encouraged his 'vulnerable' son to join him in an £85,000 fraud centred on his Sedbergh-based private ambulance business has been sent to prison for two years. Former sergeant Dalvin Dawkins, 54, got his 21-year-old

TRAINS are now running on time after a lorry hit a railway bridge in Kendal. Network Rail was contacted shortly after 1pm today by a lorry driver who said he had collided with the railway bridge on Sedbergh Road. Engineers closed the

A MOUNTAIN Rescue team have stumbled across an unexploded bomb while on a training exercise near Coniston. Members of the Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team found the World War II mortar on Blawith Knott, near Coniston Water. The device was

A PROPOSAL to charge for on-street parking in Cumbria has been slammed by Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron. The move is one of a range of proposals published by Cumbria County Council this week as part of its £50m budget cuts.

AS NOVEMBER slides into December, and we all start to drown in the festive madness of mince pies, late night shopping and gift-buying, an old, familiar friend makes a very welcome and comforting return to the night sky. Look to the east after 9pm on

ONE of Eden’s best known musicians has recorded his first EP of Celtic and blues-inspired folk songs. Talented musician Paddy Rogan, 23, of Tebay, is a familiar face on the Cumbrian music scene, having notched up hundreds of performances on his acoustic

A walk from Malham THIS is a glorious walk through the dramatic limestone countryside above Malham. The village was once a centre for great sheep fairs. Two abbeys, Fountains and Bolton, had granges - high-level grazing - in the dale. Sheep farming

THIS weekend sees the start of National Tree Week, an opportunity to appreciate the trees around us, and get involved with planting some more. Now the leaves are off, the trees are dormant and it really is the best time to get them into place before

TWO Grasmere photographers inspired by Ruskin’s theories on nature have created a stunning new book of photographs of the Lake District. Using an enormous Victorian style camera weighing 35 pounds, Angela and David Unsworth have spent the past

THE popular Bay Potters, plus invited artists, are holding a Christmas market, at Beetham’s Heron Corn Mill Barn, on Friday, December 3 (6.30pm-9pm) and Saturday and Sunday, December 4/5,(10am-5pm). The show - opened by local potting legend

PLANS for a sustainable world-class convention centre on the shore of Windermere have been announced by a family-run leisure company. English Lakes are set to submit new designs to national park planners for an iconic facility at Low Wood Bay that will