WANTED:
Your news, mobile images, videos and photos!

Be A Gazette Online Community Correspondent

Volunteer to provide community news for thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk and you will get....

training on our easy-to-use website
your own website page or blog
promotions online and in paper
support from our team.

Contact Kate Whiteside, Web Editor

kate.whiteside@kendal.newsquest.co.uk
01539 7101783 or 01229 588634

Click on image to go to our Video section - with Gazette and the public's contributed videos...

Submitting Video Clips

We will post contributed videos - music, news and features - on our site. If you have a music video, contact our Off The Record reporter Ellie Hargreaves. We prefer video clips to be in QuickTime format, MP4 files, and smaller than 10 mbs. Videos under 2 minutes in length are best. For enquiries, feel free to email the Web Editor, Kate Whiteside or phone her at 01539 710183.

See it! Snap it! Send it from your mobile

From your mobile you can send us your short video clips and pictures by:
1. Simply starting the message by entering the keyword KENEWS, leave a space and then key in description of your news, picture or video and your name, contact details.
2. Then send it to 80360 (make sure your picture or video is attached!).
We will send it to the Web Editor, whose decision about use is final.
This service is FREE ,but you may be charged at your normal mobile operator rate. Service provided by Newsquest Media Group.

Sending Photos by Email

Falcon caught by Badger Press staff member Nick Gledhill in Bowness

If you have a photo of a news event you want us to look at for posting in the Public Gallery and possible use in News sections, please send it to the Web Editor in jpg format 72 pixels per inch.
Please include all your contact details and a description of the time and location of the event. Editor's decision final.

Or use our online image email submission form.

Visit the Public Gallery section.

Photos, sized to 72 pixels per inch, and video clips (smaller than 2 mbs) can also be emailed to the Web Editoror sent in on CD to the Web Editor, The Westmorland Gazette, 1 Wainwright’s Yard, Kendal LA9 4DP, or dropped off at any of our offices (Kendal, Ulverston, Lancaster).

Post your events free...

Join our online community calendar - sports, crafts, arts, festivals, films, meetings, gigs - and more.

Submit your event to our FREE calendar listings.

Join our Forums

Our Forum section allows for a wide range of topics from community-specific to global. Join in or start one.

Your News

We now have over 50 town and village news sections. If you have a story, send it a story to us using the simple form on this site. Go to Submit Your News.

Keep in Touch

The Web Editor.

News Desk.

Picture Desk.

Sports Desk.