AROUND 15,000 children in Cumbria are to be entitled to free school meals this autumn. The change follows national legislation requiring all schools to provide a free meal for all pupils in reception and Years One and Two. Cumbria County Council's
ONE of the world’s most renowned collections of historic books on climbing and mountaineering has found a permanent new Lake District home. The Fell and Rock Climbing Club’s library of 2,000 books was received by the Armitt, Ambleside, at a reception
THE royal seal of approval has been given to the owner of Grasmere’s new post office. Roger Halliday, husband of Lakes councillor Heidi, officially took over the reins of the village’s post office on Friday. Housed in a new gift shop called
AFTERNOON visiting to a hospital ward at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary is to be suspended for two days this week to allow a 'deep clean' to take place. The University Hospital of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust plan to undertake a major cleaning
A GROUP of Lake District singers have been crowned Stagecoach’s Choir of the Year. The Lakes Choir was awarded the prestigious title after beating eight choirs from across the country in a national festival at Birmingham Symphony Hall. Hannah
TENANTS of South Lakes Housing are being urged to show off their gardens by entering its annual gardening competition. Judging will take place in early July and the winner will receive a £100 gardening voucher, while five runners up will bag £20
A FORMER army officer was overpaid more than £3,500 in benefits after failing to tell South Lakeland District Council that he was working and receiving an army pension. Nicholas Cross, 62, of Lingmoor Rise, Kendal, was receiving Jobseekers Allowance
THE Queen's Head at Troutbeck will 'rise from the ashes', owners Robinson's Brewery has confirmed. The 17th Century inn was partially-destroyed by fire on Friday night, which tore through several bedrooms after beginning in the laundry room.
A YORKSHIRE Dales farmer who caught a naked cyclist answering the call of nature in his field has urged people attempting the Tour de France route to find a proper toilet. A farmer in Wensleydale spotted the rider stripped out of his Lycra kit and
ULVERSTON: Tuesday, June 3. Weekly sale of livestock. Prices - lambs: Texels to £113 each (average 101.83) or 272.50 pence per kilogram (246.99); Suffolks 117 (109), 255.67 (244.12); Charollais 109 (95.81), 258.06 (239.47); Jacob 97, 186.54. Hoggs:
HE may have played with and against some of the finest players in the world, but former New Zealand international Jamie How believes team-mate Terry Hunte has true batting vintage. After a slow start to the season by his own incredibly high standards
PENRITH: Monday, June 9. Fortnightly green market sale of prime, OTM and store cattle. Forward: 305 store cattle of all classes. Prices - Prime Bulls: Blonde d’Aquitaine to 213.5 pence per kilogram, or to £1,417.52 each; Limousin 192, 1,600.10; Charolais
LANCASTER: Monday, June 9. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 19 bulls and 1,309 spring lambs. Prices - Prime Bulls: Hereford to 121.50 pence per kilogram; Limousin 201.50; Charolais 147.50; Montbeliarde 119.50. Spring Lambs -Prime Lambs: Suffolk to
KIRKBY STEPHEN: Tuesday, June 3. Weekly sale of primestock including 21st year anniversary show. Forward: 709 spring lambs, 385 cast ewes and rams, 108 prime hoggs. Judge: D. Morland. Results - Continental cross (pairs), champion &1 A. Maughan
KENDAL (J36 Crooklands): Thursday, June 5. Annual Beef Breeding cattle sale. Prices - Stabilser cross to £1,550 each; In-calf Limousin cross heifer 1,320; Charolais Breeding bull 1,800; Heifers with heifer calves 1,900; Heifers with bull calves 1,780
HAWES: Tuesday, June 3. Spring show and sale of livestock. Forward: 129 spring lambs, 94 prime hoggs, 107 cast ewes, 8 ewes with 11 lambs at foot. Sponsor: Horner Shearing. Judge: A. Slack, Appleby. Results - Continentals, champion 1&2 W.H. Harker
CARLISLE: Monday, June 9. Weekly sale of primestock and store and breeding sheep. Forward 369 cast cows, stock bulls, prime cattle and beef bulls, 1,370 prime lambs, 74 prime hoggs and 140 cast ewes and rams. Prices - Cast Cows & OTM Cattle: Limousin
BENTHAM: Wednesday, June 4. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 76 rearing calves, 4,502 sheep, comprising 1,528 cast ewes, 1,763 spring lambs, 1,211 prime hoggs. Prices - dairy cattle: Newly-calved heifers to £2,100 each. Sheep with lambs at foot:
FULSOME tributes to the retiring headteacher of Giggleswick School have been paid by governors and staff at the school's speech day. Headmaster Geoffrey Boult is leaving the school after 13 years in charge - and leaves a legacy which will be hard
LEIGHTON Hall wel-comes The Festival Players on Tuesday, June 17 (7.30pm) for an alfresco perform-ance of The Comedy of Errors. Shakes-peare’s shortest play and a brilliant farce of misunderstandings and mistaken identities. It will be staged
GULLS in Cumbria are being fitted with GPS ‘backpacks’ to see if their feeding and flight patterns are being disrupted by wind farms. A research study by the British Trust for Ornithology is following the birds over the next two years by fitting
Ambleside: Replacement of 8 balconies, at 1-16 Neaum Crag Court, Skelwith Bridge, for R. Adams; tree 200, crown reduce Sycamore by 20%; tree 200b, reduce limbs on Sycamore to 2-3m; tree 203, reduce Oak to 4.5m; tree 204, remove deadwood from Oak; tree
BLINKING and yawning their way into the world, these two new arrivals may play a crucial role in the survival of their critically endangered species. Snow Leopards are extremely rare. The cubs are the first ever to be born in the North of England
Pupils at Burton Morewood Primary School at Burton-in-Kendal have raised £300 to sponsor three guide dog puppies to be trained over the next two years.
An emotional charity gig will be held in memory of an ‘amazing man’ who died on Eel Crag, Keswick. Before his untimely death six years ago, James Marshall dedicated his life to helping Orphans in Burma. He was planning another visit to Myanmar
Interiors with Sarah Jane Nielsen, owner and director of Sarah Jane Nielsen Limited, at Staveley. On the subject of home offices - is yours just the ‘spare room,’ a work place filled with files, books and usually a general dumping ground? Nowadays
EARLY season expectations may have been exceeded but GBmoto Racing Kawasaki rider James Ellison believes the time has come to up the ante. The 33-year-old currently sits third in the MCE Insurance British Superbikes Championship standings following
One of the two nuclear reactors at Heysham 1 power station will be shutdown for planned maintenance on June 11. During this shutdown, known as an 'outage', engineers will inspect one of the four boiler units attached to the reactor and also undertake
A BARMAN told a court he had altered the takings at Kendal’s Ivy Leaf Club in a bid to ‘flush out’ a suspected thief. Brian Allen, 55, of Kendal, said he had not mentioned his plan earlier because he wanted to appear at court to reveal what really
THE managers of a Kendal car park have been fined £95,000 and ordered to pay £50,000 costs following the death of a pensioner who was hit by a delivery van. Jaymar Estates Ltd, which manages the Station House car park near Kendal Railway Station where
Essential ingredients: It's definitely the obvious ones which are salt, pepper and butter! I think every chef would be lost without these. First kitchen I worked In: The first kitchen that I worked in was at The Tarn Hows Hotel, which has now sadly
VANDALS damaged a playhouse and 'other items' in the play area in a Kendal primary school. The offenders entered the pre-school area of Castle Park Primary on Saturday (June 7). Anyone with information is asked to contact PC Tina Berrill of
DESPITE his immediate future being far from certain, Kendal’s Garry Thompson insists he is ready to embrace the new chapter which lies ahead after his release from Bradford City. The 33-year-old made 102 appearances during an eventful two-year
A GRANGE nursing home is to celebrate its centenary with a day of retro fun. Cartmel Grange was set up to provide care for soldiers who were affiliated members of the Working Men’s Club and Institute Union. It then became known as the ‘miners
THE FIGURES are finally in and they support what many suspected – last year’s hot summer was a tourism record-breaker. Lured by the warm summer, visitor numbers were up 4.5 per cent and tourism spend spiked by eight per cent, according to new statistics
