A CANADIAN comedy award winner will cross the Atlantic to perform at Arkholme next month.Writer and performer Melody A. Johnson will bring her show ‘Miss Caledonia’ to Arkholme Village Hall on May 10.‘Miss Caledonia’, which is a true story based on Johnson
AN Ambleside woman has lifted the lid on ITV’s new Lakes-set drama after working as the only Cumbrian member of the crew.Hannah Melling, 22, went from behind the till to behind the camera after taking a break from her cashier job at Spar in Ambleside
TWO hundred owls are being moved from their home at Muncaster Castle, ending links that go back more than a quarter of a century. The World Owl Trust (WOT) says it will move its renowned sanctuary to the West Midlands after controversially being
FOLK group Merry Hell are set to play at Ulverston Sports Club on May 15 in support of their new album, 'The Ghost In Our House and other stories.....'The band recently released a video to accompany The Baker's Daughter, one of the tracks from the new
THURSDAY: Bootleggers, Kendal: Ben Poole Band. Burgundys, Kendal: Tim Franks Quartet. Gregson, Lancaster: Folk Session. Queens, Windermere: Pete Lashley.FRIDAY: Bootleggers, Kendal: Massive Wagons. Brewery, Kendal: Edward II. Brickyard, Carlisle: The
THERE was cause for celebration at this year's Allithwaite and Cartmel Spring Fair which marked three special anniversaries.Among the plants, crafts and cakes on sale at the WI's annual gathering was a booklet produced by members to commemorate 100 years
TWO ospreys have returned to Bassenthwaite this year, delighting locals and sparking hopes for another successful year for the Lake District Osprey Project (LDOP). KL, a ringed female osprey, returned to the nest on April 7 – exactly a year to
THIS is the sixth week of our report on five South Lakeland folk who started their journey to the election ballot box as ‘undecided’ - but most say they are now settled on which way they will vote. HOTEL spa manager Peter Chadwick, 24, continues
A SERIES of public drop-ins are to be held before and after Appleby Horse Fair for residents to raise any concerns and give feedback. With the June 4 event fast approaching, members of the community are being offered the chance to chat with officers
AN HISTORIC building is to be brought back to life after Sedbergh School received a £76,300 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to rebuild it.The four-month long project will see the ruined Pepperpot, just off the Dales Way route, turned into a space
A MAN who brandished a broken bottle as he threatened three terrified people at a bus stop has been jailed for two years. Jason Irvine, 25, was high on drink and drugs when the incident occurred in Kendal on January 17. He urinated in front of
Images from the collection at Kendal’s Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry (www.lakelandmuseum.org.uk) Could this be Greenside or Coniston coppermines? Do please get in touch if you can help identify it – or if you or your family worked there and would
Central Government talks about improving the lives of older people but we need to ask if this is just rhetoric aimed at the ‘grey vote’?Does our Government know how isolation, even in some of our towns, impacts on the lives of some older and vulnerable
NOT since the era of the Lib-Lab pact in the 1970s has there been so much uncertainty and speculation over the outcome of a General Election. The race is so tight, the influence of minor parties is now of far greater significance. To many voters
CUMBRIA Constabulary has announced that the four year investigation into the deaths of mothers and babies at Furness General Hospital has concluded today (April 24) - and there will be no prosecutions. The investigation into the Barrow hospital
FOUR people suffered minor injuries in a crash on the M6 northbound, between Lancaster and Carnforth yesterday (Thursday). Emergency services were called to reports of a multiple pile-up after 11am. Three women and one man were treated at the
AN organisation which has provided life-saving training to hundreds of people from across the Lake District is under threat of closing.The Kendal Lifesaving Club, made up of a group of retired police officers, teachers and outdoor pursuit instructors,
RORY Stewart, Parliamentary candidate for Penrith and The Border, met with the headteacher and head of the sixth form at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith, to hear concerns about funding for rural schools. The QEGS senior management team
This week's lead story struck a chord with me! (Gazette, April 16, 'Beauty spot dog walkers cause a stink').Each day in my lunch break I take a walk up the lane opposite Country Harvest at Ingleton. I have been so disgusted by the litter that I now take
