Welcome to Checkout, our weekly guide to local, seasonal and speciality food and drink. This week Checkout welcomes to new participants – Sillfield farm shop at Endmoor and Airey’s farm shop at Ayside, just off the A590. To Endmoor first (open Friday
OUR new Love Local campaign returns this week, after its successful launch last week, with the focus falling on Ulverston’s Market Hall. A devastating fire and increasing competition from supermarkets has not been enough to stop Ulverston’s Market Hall
ARNSIDE and Silverdale will be going green with a climate change event at the end of the month. Local climate change organisation Local and Effective Sustainable Solutions (LESS) will host Connect to Your Carbon on January 31 at the Arnside Educational
Hawkshead Parish Council is entering further discussions to resolve the town’s car parking problem. The council is arranging a meeting with local traders to involve them in the issue. The council clerk is also writing to the Lake District National
With the death at the age of 91 on January, 11 of Mrs Betty Harrower, South Westmorland has lost a vibrant personality who in her day played a prominent role in the life of the district. Betty was born in 1917 at The Smithy, Ackenthwaite, Milnthorpe
With the popularity of social networking sites and forums, it was only a matter of time before something like Yelp came along to give 'social' reviewers a place to post opinions about eateries and retail/service outlets. www.yelp.co.uk .
REGENERATION organisations West Lakes Renaissance and Cumbria Vision have welcomed the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) announcement that it expects to nominate land adjacent to Sellafield as a potential site for nuclear new build.
A NEWLY wed who spent two nights sheltering in a shooting hut after getting lost while walking the Pennine Way is “lucky” to be alive. The alarm was raised and a 16-hour rescue mission launched in severe weather conditions on Monday after Thomas
STAFF at an Eden food store will go to work in their pyjamas, dressing gowns, nightcaps and slippers as part of a fundraising campaign. A giant alarm clock will also welcome customers at Kirkby Stephen’s Co-operative on Redmayne Road on Tuesday (January
TWO vehicles have been burnt out in seperate incidents of suspected arson that saw residents evacuated from a Kendal block of flats for their own safety this morning. Fire and police investigators are examining the charred remains of a Vauxhall
Despite the reality of the recession, online entities seem to be defying the gravity of the situation and are floating ever upwards. Google surprised everyone with final quarter revenues up 18% year-on-year and up 3% on the previous quarter. www.google.com
WORKERS at South Lakeland District Council have been asked to step forward and take voluntary redundancy or early retirement as bosses try to bridge a £1.8million shortfall. Wage slips dished out to staff this week contained a letter seeking
A CROWD of supporters turned out to a heated public meeting to discuss the future of Hornby High School this week. Local county councillors met with school staff, pupils and parents on Tuesday and were invited to make a decision on the county
THE Westmorland Gazette’s ‘Love Local’ campaign was put in the national spotlight this week when Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron tabled an early day motion in the House of Commons. “It’s about giving this campaign an extra bit of publicity,” said
A MAJOR change that would lead to registration of individuals working within residential estate agency is being proposed by a leading industry figure. Bill McClintock, chairman of the board of the company operating the Ombudsman for Estate
A GRATEFUL community has rallied to support a popular pub manager who faces the axe as part of a proposed brewery shake-up. Around 70 residents demonstrated at The Albion in Arnside yesterday after bosses at Thwaites Brewery drew up plans to
A MAGICAL charity event that sees hundreds of women of all ages, shapes and sizes take to the moonlit streets of Kendal looks set to spread even more sparkle in 2009. Now in its third year, the CancerCare Star Walk 2009 is gearing up to be
Experts at The University of Manchester are to produce a detailed picture of the public’s views on the uncertain future of a 250-mile-stretch of coastline. Large parts of the coast between Anglesey and Carlisle are likely to be adversely affected
A MULTI-MILLION pound business estate and park and ride scheme could soon be created within the borders of the Lake District National Park. The £70m development would see a 16.5-hectare site in the South Lakes transformed into modern employment
THIS splendid walk starts at Castlerigg Stone Circle, just two-miles from Keswick, and continues through the delightful Naddle Valley to the church of St John’s-in-the-Vale. The return is beside the lonely, lovely Tewet Tarn. The views are magnificent
A LOCAL fisherman has expressed anger at the local fishing authority’s decision to close cockle beds in Morecambe Bay. Steve Manning, of the Morecambe Bay Fisheries Association says the local fishing authority is not doing enough to protect
WHEN the weather has been bad, and I haven’t been doing anything particularly interesting in the garden, it can sometimes be a bit of a struggle to think of things to write about in this column. Looking for inspiration this morning, I fell to gazing
THIS was a trip really to get your teeth into ... Like Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Budapest is a staging post on a journey deep into the land of the undead. But, having studied that mystical text, the Cosmos Balkans and Transylvania
A mother from Chester has been named the North West’s ‘Mum of the Year’ following a nationwide survey by parenting website Netmums. Aimee Holme was nominated for her work with local teenagers, helping to empower them to make decisions about
SOME people (obviously not you, or you wouldn’t be reading this) think that astronomy is boring because nothing ever “happens” in the night sky. They couldn’t be more wrong. On any clear night you can follow the slow, graceful rising
AMBULANCE bosses have agreed to scrap a “ludicrous” rule which has led to minor injuries patients from South Lakeland being treated in Lancaster Royal Infirmary instead of Westmorland General Hospital. Responding to mounting public pressure, the North
HARD-PRESSED mountain rescue teams are taking their fight for VAT exemption to the European Commission. Mountain Rescue England and Wales is asking the EU to intervene after the Government said it was unable to refund tax paid by rescue teams
THE clock is ticking on a public consultation that could lead to a dramatic increase in the size of South Lakeland's key settlements over the next 16 years. Residents in the district have a few weeks left to express their views on a formal
