A SOLD out Cumbria music festival has announced a celebration of ale to go alongside.Thirsty fans listening to the likes of Elbow and Snoop Dogg at Kendal Calling this year can expect hand-picked local beers and other tipples at its Real Ale Festival.Organisers
The Amen Cadence by JJ Salkeld Amazon Kindle, £1.99This is the fourth eBook in Cumbrian crime writer J J Salkeld’s Carlisle-set Border City Blues series.The new novella brings DS Samantha ‘Pepper’ Wilson’s battle with local criminal king-pin Dai Young
RAIL passengers travelling on the West Coast Mainline can expect more misery this bank holiday weekend.Work is set to take place on the route between Carlisle and Wolverhampton as part of a £250m upgrade from Friday (May 1) to Tuesday (May 5).Further
In the fourth part of a series, Bryan Rhodes continues to look at some of the men involved with the Stramongate Auxilliary Hospital at Kendal during World War OneThe medical staff for Stramongate Auxilliary Hospital were initially provided by the West
A RANGE Rover parked on a Furness street has been vandalised. Cumbria Police is investigating the report of criminal damage caused to the wing mirror of the green vehicle which was parked on High Kepplewray, Broughton, on Friday (April 24).
A WHEELBARROW load of food gathered during the 2013 harvest festival at the Church of St James in Staveley set parishioners on the road to becoming the top food provider to the Windermere and District Foodbank.With almost half a tonne collected since
A LAKE District engineer has spent more than eight months restoring a 19th century church organ that has remained silent for years.Roger Mallinson has worked on the instrument in St Luke's Church, Torver, near Coniston, almost every day since August -
A SCHOOL girl who was reported missing has been found safe and well. The 12-year-old disappeared at 12pm in the Burneside area yesterday (April 24) and she was later found.
How many prospective political candidates have disturbed your day by knocking at your door? Are you persuaded by their arguments, their promises or perhaps like many you are undecided? Or do you think they are all the same, out for themselves?
