NO PROMISES, but it's still worth keeping an eye on the northern sky after dark, just in case the 2014 Noctilucent Cloud season decides to go out with a bang and give us one last beautiful display. Cross those fingers! The sky is now pretty dark
ON MONDAY, August 4, the nation will be encouraged to switch off lights and return to candle power for the evening as a mark of remem-brance for those who gave their lives in World War One. Candles will be available in St Andrew’s Church at £5
STUDENTS will learn how to nurse animals when Kendal College opens its wildlife rehabilitation and rescue centre later this year. Housed in the college grounds, the centre will feature an operating theatre, X-ray machine, an intensive care room
A STRATEGY to maintain high standards of health and wellbeing outlined in a five-year plan has been supported by South Lakeland District Council. Members voted at last night’s full meeting of the authority to adopt the council’s Public Health and
SHEEP meat exports to non-EU markets rose by 40 per cent last year, according to an annual industry-wide survey. The total value of lamb rose by eight per cent to £381.6 million, as revealed by the AHDB/EBLEX Cattle and Sheep Yearbook 2014.
Tuesday, July 22. Weekly sale of livestock. Prices - Prime Lambs: Beltex to 177.53 pence per kilogram (average 177.53), or £79 each (average £79); Charollais 182.50 (170.91), 79 (72.57); Suffolk 182.81 (168.37), 77 (75.10); Texel 193.02 (166.62), 84
Monday, July 28. Fortnightly red market sale of prime bulls and cast cows. Prices - Prime Bulls: Black & White to 152.5 pence per kilogram, or £1,006.56 each; British Blue 1,084.60. ALSO: Wednesday, July 23. Weekly sale of sheep and fortnightly
Monday, July 28. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 1,171 prime lambs and 148 cast sheep. Prices - Prime Lambs: Suffolk to £75 each; Mule 63; Horned 62.50; Charollais 72.50; Texel 89; Lleyn 68. Cast Sheep: Suffolk 72; Masham 64; Mule 64; Horned 42;
Monday, July 28. Fortnightly sale of cast and OTM cattle. Prices- Cast Cows: Limousin to £1,274.74 each, or 150.5 pence per kilogram; Charolais 1,184.91, 155.5; British Blue 971.88, 155.5; Black & White 854.10, 119.5; Aberdeen Angus 612.11, 109.5
HAWES: Tuesday, July 29. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 13 calves, 654 prime lambs and 192 cast ewes and rams. Prices - Calves, British Blue crosses: Bulls to £325 each (average £314); Heifers 300 (251). Limousin crosses: Bulls 235; Heifers 195
CARLISLE: Monday, July 28. Weekly sale of primestock. Forward: 288 cast cows, 70 bulls, 60 prime cattle and 961 breeding sheep. Prices - Cast Cows & OTM Cattle: Simmental to £1,126 each, or 139.50 pence per kilogram; Charolais 1,708; British Blue
Weekly sale of livestock and monthly sale of stirks. Forward: 94 rearing calves rearing calves, 33 dairy, 1,316 cast ewes, 2,085 prime lambs and 173 stirks. Prices - Dairy, N/c Black & White: Cows to £2,010 each; Heifers 2,120. I/c Black &
Ambleside: Remove 1 mountain ash, at Beck Grove Cottage, Lake Road, for Mrs Wilson; fell 1 larch tree (no 115) due to severe dieback and proximity to lodges, at Kemp Tarn, Neaum Crag, Foulstep Lane, Loughrigg, for P. Aldridge; White Moss and Rydal
ARNSIDE Pier Union Flag will be lowered to half-mast at 10pm on Monday, August 4, and remain at half-mast for one week in commemoration of the start of World War One.
GIANTS of a bygone age rolled into South Lakeland for the 42nd Cumbria Steam Gathering at the weekend. And it was full steam ahead for the thousands of visitors who travelled to Flookburgh airfield for the historic event. Around 25,000 people
THERE will be special memorial services on Monday, August 4, at Austwick War Memorial at 10am, Clapham Churchyard at 11am and Keasden Churchyard at noon to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One.
A KENDAL businessman has created what looks certain to become the next big thing in ‘glamping’, or glamorous camping. Hamish Foulerton has devised the ‘Go Yurt’ which incorporates the high-quality comforts of a yurt with the portability of a trailer
A DESIGN & Technology student from Sedbergh School has won a prestigious national award. Charlie Smith topped the 17-19 year-old category in the Manufacturing Technology Association’s Technology, Design and Innovation Challenge 2014. His
THOUSANDS of pounds of tools have been stolen from an 'isolated building' close to Kirkby Lonsdale. Police are appealing for information after £7,000 of tools, including drills and hammers, were stolen from the premises in Middleton sometime over
HOLOCAUST survivor Joanna Millan spoke about her experiences to year nine history and religious studies pupils at Kendal’s Queen Katherine School. Joanna Millan, who was born Bela Rosenthal in 1942 in Berlin, was less than a year old when her father
ST MARK’S Church will hold an exhibition to mark the centenary of the start of World War I on Sunday and Monday, August 3/4. The exhibition will remember the 17 men from the parish who lost their lives, two of whom are buried in war graves in the
A WOMAN has sustained a head injury after falling while walking on the Kentmere Horseshoe. Cumbria Police attended and called out the Kendal Mountain Rescue Team following the incident at 3.25pm yesterday. The woman had taken a fall near the
THE remarkable story of how the contents of a leather wallet saved the life of a Cumbrian soldier has been revealed almost a century later by his son. Edwin Murray, who served with the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, had already twice survived
EUROPE’S first indoor via ferrata has been opened in South Lakeland. The high octane attraction, built at the Lakeland Climbing Centre in Kendal, allows people to experience the thrill of climbing huge cliffs without the need for technical knowledge
TWO Eden men are fighting for their lives in hospital after their car plunged across a busy road and crashed through the wall of a popular cafe. The two men, both from Appleby, were rushed to hospital on Sunday night after the vehicle they were
EIGHTEEN young dancers from South Lakeland have been entertaining residents of care homes around the district. The performers – all students of Kendal troupe Dance Attik – had to be light on their feet after taking on the challenge of dancing at
WORLD WAR ONE will be commemorated on August 3 at St Oswald’s Church, with an organ recital at 3pm. The organ was given in memory of Nellie Taylor, the only woman to be named on the Grasmere War Memorial. On August 4, at 7.30pm in the Jerwood Centre
CARNFORTH Town Council will hold an ecumenical service on Monday, August 4, at the War Memorial gardens to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, starting at 7pm. The service will be conducted by the clergy of all five town churches
COASTGUARDS had to be called out after a fishing vessel broke down off the coast of Morecambe Bay. A lifeboat attended from Barrow after reports of a flat battery on a day fishing boat with a two-man crew. The incident occurred at around 3.44pm
POLICE are investigating the theft of a mountain bike which went missing from outside a Kendal church. The incident occurred at around 3.15pm on Friday, after the specialised mountain bike with silver writing and front suspension was stolen from
BURNESIDE Heritage Group is holding a coffee morning on Saturday (August 2) from 10am-noon at St Oswald’s Church as part of the World War I commemoration and an exhibition, which will run from July 31 until August 4 between 10am-4pm.
THE literary heritage of the Lake District took a ‘small’ turn when the landmark Lindeth Howe Hotel branched out with a special display of haiku poems. Bosses at the hotel – a property once owned by author Beatrix Potter – invited children aged
LANGDALE will mark Lights Out – One Million Candles to Remember beginning at next Sunday’s service at Holy Trinity Church at 10.30am when the British Legion will lay a poppy posy on the altar. After the service, Langdale Valley Association will
business-to-business trade show for the UK’s outdoor retail sector. The two-day event at Kendal Leisure Centre, saw 50 key firms and more than 100 premium brands represented. Kendal-based Clive Allen, of Ascent Marketing Communi-cations, who
