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  • Lake District Summer Music has another five-star line-up

    CUMBRIA'S flagship music festival begins this weekend celebrating its 30th year with more than 40 events staged across 14 venues. Lake District Summer Music opens on Saturday (August 2, 8pm) with leading chamber orchestra Manchester Camerata at

  • Coroner's safety call after canal tunnel tragedy

    A CORONER is calling for safety improvements in a canal tunnel where a retired Lake District guest house owner fell off a narrowboat and drowned. It comes after Michael Holgate’s widow desperately tried to raise the alarm to save her husband in

  • Police warning to 'tombstoners' at Devil's Bridge

    ‘SENSELESS’ daredevils are putting their lives at risk by repeatedly leaping from a South Lakeland bridge into a notoriously dangerous rock-strewn river. People were photographed tombstoning and back-flipping from Devil’s Bridge in Kirkby Lonsdale

  • Medieval invasion at Lancaster Canal

    Authentic medieval tents were erected, Knights saddled up, the castle walls echoed with the glancing of sword on shield; as the crowds stepped back into the 12th Century and lapped it up! More than 3,000 people turned out to immerse themselves in a

  • LETTER: Please join us at the Cenotaph

    Kendal Branch of the Royal British Legion would like to extend an invitation to anyone who would like to join us at the Market Place Cenotaph at 10pm on August 4, 2014, where we will be joining in with the Legion’s ‘Lights out’ initiative in commemor-ation

  • PODIUM: We should not be so swift to lock people away in jail

    Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner Richard Rhodes argues the country’s criminal justice policy needs addressing to prevent crime in the first place rather than simply locking up criminals in prison We all have views on the issue of prisons

  • Beauty and the beats at mountain festival

    KENDAL Mountain Festival’s first summer fringe event took place in Langdale last weekend. It featured tales of climbing derring-do by Andy Kirkpatrick and his daughter Ella and live bands Handbrake Shirley, Righteous Bees, Scrogans Run and The

  • Millie and Cameron scoop football shirt design prizes

    TWO lucky youngsters have scooped fantastic prizes by winning The Westmorlnad Gazette’s ‘Design a Football Shirt’ competition. Millie Stewart, aged five, of Levens, won the aged four-seven category and will receive a five-day Chewits sports course

  • Urine poured through open car window in Kendal

    URINE was poured on to the driver's seat of a car through an open window, said police. Police said the incident happened on Hayclose Crescent, Kendal, sometime on July 29. Anyone with information contact police on 101.

  • Take time to commemorate remarkable anniversary

    OVER the past seven months, we have become increasingly gripped by the centenary of the First World War. All around the UK, people have been marking, or planning to mark, the occasion in a host of different ways - from special church services and

  • Stranded M6 drivers praise the kindness of strangers

    A NEW mother’s nine- hour nightmare on a gridlocked motorway was eased thanks to acts of kindness from strangers. When a cement truck crashed into a HGV near juntion 34 of the M6 it caused a 30-mile traffic jam. The road had to be resurfaced

  • Royal couple made special visit to sedbergh School

    The 1917 visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Sedbergh was captured in the Sedbergh School magazine from a schoolboy’s perspective, with a detailed run-through of the royal couple’s day, writes Katy de la Riviére. Seven years to the day after

  • New chilli festival set to 'bring the heat back to the Lakes'

    FOODIES with a flame proof palate will be heading for Dalemain this weekend for what is being billed as the North West's Biggest Chilli Festival. The ‘Bringing the Heat Back to the Lakes’ event returns after a three year absence. It will feature

  • Trees create a Great War legacy

    CUMBRIANS have planted more than 3,000 trees as part of a national campaign to mark the centenary of World War I. The Woodland Trust has given away free trees to community groups and schools who wanted to create a lasting legacy for those involved

  • 'It's no joke being shelled out of bed before daybreak'

    Historian Arthur Nicholls, of Kendal, finds some of the soldiers’ letters reproduced in The Westmorland Gazette in the first weeks of the war both graphic and moving. September 12. Letter to the Gazette from ‘a member of the London Scottish’:

  • Ambleside set for annual sports

    A real family treat is on the cards today (Thursday) as the spectacle that is the annual Ambleside Sports comes round again. This 200 year old popular event just keeps getting better, adding more activities and attractions each year at Rydal Park