A PINT-sized drinking venue has been launched on a north Lancashire railway station platform. The Snug Micro Pub, at Carnforth Train Station, is only 300 square feet in size but the owners have given it an atmosphere of its own. Their new venture
A CAMPAIGN to bring back a direct bus link between Grange-over-Sands and Westmorland General Hospital has been launched. It follows an announcement by Stagecoach that it is scrapping the X35 bus which ran directly between the Furness Peninsula
ONE in every five of the construction sites visited by inspectors in South Cumbria last week failed safety checks. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) carried out two days of intensive inspections in South Lakeland and Barrow on Thursday and Friday
JOHN Huck put in a captain’s performance as he struck an unbeaten 99 to give Netherfield a comfortable 115-run victory over Darwen. Having been asked to bat first, Netherfield scored at a healthy run rate although their start wobbled when Ben Haddrick
THERE was a ‘riot of colour’ as the green fingered and creative made the Westmorland Horticultural Society’s 78th annual show a great success. Hundreds of people filed through the doors of Kirkland Parish Hall to see the ‘tremendous’ exhibits put
GARDENERS from towns and villages across South Lakeland have celebrated winning Cumbria in Bloom awards for their communities. The 26th year of the event honoured ambitious groups that have transformed their local area with cleaning projects and
LINES of excited people camped out on grass verges and along pavements to welcome the cyclists into Kirkby Lonsdale. The queues stretched from the town centre all along Devil Bridge and out of Kirkby. Flags were waved by young and old on-lookers. People
FORMER Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion has added his voice to those who want to extend two of England’s largest national parks He has called on the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson to expedite proposed extensions to Lake District and Yorkshire
CROWDS of people gathered in Shap to cheer on Olympic hero Bradley Wiggins and a host of other top cyclists. As the Tour Of Britain passed through the town, people of all ages lined the streets to witness the spectacle. Race leader Lee Howard and the
BARROW and Furness MP John Woodcock has written to new roads minister Stephen Hammond to urge him to keep his predecessor’s promise to visit the ‘dangerous’ A590 road junction at Greenodd. Following a long-running campaign to provide a roundabout at
A KEEN Kendal basketball player has said that giving up her time to work at the Para-lympic Games had been an ‘inspirational’ journey. Aimee Garner, 20, has just returned from London after spending two weeks as ‘a games maker’, where she looked
STUDENTS and teachers at Kirkbie Kendal School have been praised for their hard work in a year which produced record GCSE successes. In his annual prize-giving day speech, on Tuesday, headteacher Phil Hyman described the GCSE performances as ‘brilliant
HUNDREDS of enthusiasts lined the streets of Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale and Shap as the Tour of Britain rolled through Cumbria on stage four yesterday (Wednesday). Mark Cavendish reigned supreme in a tense finish in Blackpool, just pipping Steele
FREEMASONRY is renowned for secrecy - but on Saturday the Cumberland and Westmorland Province of Freemasons will hold an open day to explain their wider community credentials. Organisers of the event - at Milnthorpe Masonic Hall - say they want
ULVERSTON Flower Show president Pat Rushton is keeping her late husband’s memory alive by growing prize-winning geraniums. Pat is propagating brilliant blooms using seeds from flowers grown by Joe Rushton before his death six years ago. Joe
THOUSANDS of people in Cumbria are being invited for a free health check at their GP practice over the next five years. Those invited, aged 40 to 74, will be offered screening for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and kidney disease. Together
GREEN Door artists are going from strength to strength with two new dedicated galleries, their first Summer Exhibition at Kendal’s Outlet Gallery; a further group show in November at Sedbergh’s Farfield Mill and the recent opening of their new studio
ONE of the leading vocalists in Jools Holland’s acclaimed Rhythm and Blues Orchestra is going solo in Barrow. Ruby Turner - who has a prestigious Gold Badge Award for her contribution to British music - takes to the The Forum stage on Saturday,
THE number of exhibitors at Over Kellet & District Horticultural Society’s 64th annual show was well up on last year. There were 520 entries compared to 411 in 2011 with the show being helped by good weather in the lead-up. As well as being
GROWERS in a Yorkshire Dales town were praised for their endeavours over the wettest summer in memory. The president of Ingleton Horticultural Association, John Tennant thanked all exhibitors at the 50th annual show. Someone who did not let
A MAN who used a knife to confront a group of youths who had been tormenting his father has been spared a prison sentence. Carlisle Crown Court heard that up to about 20 young people had gathered on the evening of Friday February 13 in the Chapel Street
DUBBED the ‘most innovative commercial wind farm in the world’, a new scheme to provide renewable energy off the coast of Barrow will be officially launched next week. The 30 turbine, 150MW Vattenfall Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm will be inaugurated
