WORK will begin this month on a £5m refurbishment project which will help boost the regeneration of Barrow Island. Esh Border Construction, which has offices in Kendal, will deliver the renovations for Barros Trading Ltd, including £1.4m of landscaping
The Lake District - Dymond Guide by Christian Dymond, £14.99YOU could fill an entire library with guides to the Lake District and be forgiven for assuming there is no need for any more.But if they have to exist, then this bright and lavishly illustrated
SANDY KITCHING discovers some fun activities to keep the kids amused this Easter.Spring is the time when the landscape is dotted with newborn lambs and duck eggs are hatching beside the region's rivers and streams. If you want to get close to baby animals
Arthur R. Nicholls discovered a First World War story in the Westmorland Gazette in 1914. Mr and Mrs R. Mooney and their two children, a Kendal family, were returning to England from South Africa in the Union Castle liner "Galicia" on July 28,
AN annual competition to help embrace bowls takes place next month to signal the start of the new season. The Super 32 competition is held each year to help develop the game and introduce new bowlers into the sport And the Kendal and District Bowling
POLICE in south Cumbria are seeking a man who is said to have behaved 'inappropriately' after approaching a teenage girl. Officers say the man went up to the 15-year-old in Friars Lane, Barrow-in-Furness, at around 7.30pm yesterday evening.
THE Morecambe Bay hospitals trust has become one of just two in the country to be awarded ‘gold standard’ status for providing end of life care.Ward 23 at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary achieved the highest level in the Gold Standards Framework (GSF) Quality
THE importance of being adequately equipped while out hiking has been highlighted after two walkers got into difficulty on the shore of Ullswater yesterday (Friday) evening. Patterdale mountain rescuers were called out to help the two walkers after
A PARK which was donated to the people of Kendal by the widow of a popular doctor is at the centre of a quarrel between the town's civic society and the council.In 1929 Nobles Rest, at the end of Maude Street, was dedicated in the memory of local surgeon
KENDAL is set to be launched as a dementia friendly town at an event at the town hall on April 14. The Alzheimer's Society is supplying their lead on policy as a speaker for the event.
CUMBRIA’S Police and Crime Commissioner Richard Rhodes has announced new support services for victims of crime in the county. From April 1 victim referrals which were previously forwarded to a Victim Care Unit in Manchester will now be handled
