KENDAL Town trail FC Halifax 2-0 at half-time at The Shay. Town started well and forced an effort as early as the third minute when Keiran Walmsley unleashed a free kick from 35 yards but Danny Lowe managed to hook a foot to the kick and cleared it for
LEE Ashcroft has brought in veteran Southport keeper Steve Dickenson for tonight's Evo-Stik Premier League tie against FC Halifax at The Shay. Town's David Newnes had a recurrence of a thigh strain in Saturday's 3-1 defeat to Matlock and Ashcroft has
A GUITARIST has dropped his IT job to set up a shop for fellow music fans. Husband and wife Allan and Linda Evans opened their store Settle Music after rediscovering a passion for performance. The pair relocated to Langcliffe, just outside Settle, five
A STAFF team has scooped an international award for customer care after beating off 270 competing hotels. The Castle Green Hotel in Kendal won the gong at a prize giving event in Marbella, Spain. The independent business’s success was based on feedback
A COUPLE have opened a children’s soft play centre to scores of youngsters. Gill Pete and husband Jeff Farrow, of Silverdale, converted a listed building to house ball pits and a junior climbing wall. Their business, The Zone, has three tiers and caters
A REMARKABLE community “exchange” which has inspired similar projects around Cumbria and spread its influence as far afield as Iraq has celebrated its fifth birthday. Crosthwaite Exchange opened its doors to provide a much needed – and now much loved
DEDICATED volunteers at a radio station have had their hard work rewarded after receiving three nominations for top national awards. Presenters and producers at Kendal-based station Bay Trust Radio will attend the National Hospital Radio Awards. The
A SOUTH Lakeland valley threatened with losing its flood defences has been chosen as the pilot project for a new national land drainage scheme. Last year, landowners in the Lyth Valley were told pumps which keep thousands of acres from flooding were
A SOCIAL enterprise group called ACE (Ambleside Community Enterprise) has been set up in a bid to provide affordable homes in the town. The group has registered its interest in an area called Wanlass How, off McIver Lane, which was originally bought
COUNTRY Harvest is a combined shop and restaurant on the A65 just a mile west of Ingleton and was the venue for a mid-week celebration lunch. The dining area is airy and light with views out to Ingleborough and there is outside seating for use in the
A FORMER Lake District hotelier has won a £1 million legal ruling against his son. Eric Richardson, 71, who ran the Beech Hill Hotel, Windermere, took his 42-year-old son to court to claw back money paid to his ex-wife Harriet in a divorce settlement
A GRANT of £9,000 has been donated to mountain rescue teams in the Lake District and Pennine regions by The Wainwright Society. Sales of the society’s 2011 calendar raised the funds, which will be used in all aspects of the mountain rescue service.
A BURGLAR who broke into a Kendal man’s house while he was in hospital receiving treatment for injuries he had just inflicted on him has been sent to a mental hospital. Shaun Joseph Boyd, 20, was one of two men who burgled David Taylor’s house in Market
THIEVES have stolen around £15,000 worth of tools during a burglary near Kirkby Lonsdale. Overnight on January 19, a burglary occurred at Charlesworth tree care and Fencing Ltd in Middleton, Cumbria, where a number of high value tools were
KENDAL Town boss Lee Ashcrofty will be calling on his men to have an immediate response to Saturday's defeat at Matlock Town as they visit FC Halifax tonight, Tuesday. Kendal lost 3-1 at Matlock on Saturday and tonight face runaway leaders FC Halifax
KENDAL is to gain its first Academy when Queen Katherine School changes status on April 1. Governers of the high-performing secondary voted to become an Academy School following a period of consultation with parents. It will be the first
MORE monitoring of how money is spent on the arts has been called for as South Lakeland District Council agreed to continue supporting six cultural organisations. Councillors on SLDC’s cabinet agreed to continue spending £95,000 to fund half a dozen
A popular section of footpath in Cumbria has been temporarily closed by police and the county council's rights of way officers after a major landslip last night. The first stage of the coast to coast route between St Bees and Fleswick Bay has been closed
THERE are many good amateur choirs in Cumbria but, judging by their performance in the Victoria Hall, the Wordsworth Singers must rank as one of the finest. Under the title La Belle Epoque, and working under their talented musical director
A CONVICTED drug dealer, sentenced to two years after pleading guilty to supplying cannabis, has been ordered to pay back almost £13k. Stuart Bridges, 42, of Douglas Drive, Heysham, pleaded guilty to supplying cannabis and money laundering in March
CUMBRIA’S Sellafield nuclear plant has been given a formal caution for a radioactive leak. Environment Agency officials said contaminated liquid ‘in the form of a steady drip’ leaked from a pipe designed to drain condensation from a ventilation
Comic writer and raconteur Gervase Phinn is embarking on a 47-date theatre tour which comes to Burnley on March 29, Bolton on May 10, Barrow on May 11, Fleetwood on May 12 and Kendal on June 9. Dubbed ‘the James Herriot of Schools’, Gervase
POLICE are appealing for information after a spate of burglaries in the Carnforth area. The burglaries took place over a five day period in December and police are urging people to come forward if they have any information. The first burglary happened
A FOOD and tourism revolution has taken place in the aftermath of foot-and-mouth - which struck Cumbria ten years ago this week. Despite the devastation brought by the diease - which saw millions of cattle disposed of between February and September
ORGANISERS of this year’s World Sheep Dog Trials, Food and Country Festival are appealing for more sponsors. More than £35,000 has been pledged – but £200,000 is needed to stage the four-day event on the Lowther estate from September 15-18. International
CAMPAIGNERS are celebrating after the Government suspended the sell-off of public forests - but they warn that the battle must continue. Caroline Spelman, Minister for the Departmentment of Environment and Rural Affairs, said in a statement
A HEAD-on collision in the Carnforth area caused two people to be rushed to hospital with serious injuries yeaterday. Fire crews had to cut free a 62-year-old woman driver, from a Renault Megane, which collided with a Ford KA, driven by a 66
A MAN from Kendal has been sent to prison for having a forged passport. Ahmed Saleem, 28, of Aysgarth Close, had been using it since fleeing from his native Pakistan because of his homosexuality, Carlisle Crown Court heard. “Being gay
THE Mayor of Kendal's annual charity was such a success that around 40 people had to be turned away after tickets sold out. Caterers from Kendal College could not take any more than the 110 people who attended and helped to raise £2,500 for
