PRINCE Charles praised the quality of Ulverston Victoria High School’s (UVHS) English curriculum during a special reception at Clarence House. Pupils and teachers were invited to the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall’s personal residence in London
FOUR South Lakeland businesses run by entrepreneurial women have been recognised by a prestigious new annual award ceremony. The Lakeland Businesswomen’s Network has held its first presentation at the Netherwood Hotel, in Grange-over-Sands, to showcase
KENDAL has always been in the forefront in education. Its first school was opened in 1525 as a Chantry School, the fortunate few boys being taught in the Parish Church. It could not have been very comfortable. After the Reformation, in 1588, the school
FASCINATING documents unearthed in Ambleside’s Armitt Library have inspired a disturbing book on 19th century poverty in the village. Barbara Crossley, a volunteer worker at the museum, believes the letters and other records she came across had ‘never
A BIKER who died following an accident on Cartmel Fell had lost control of his motorcycle, an inq-uest has heard. David Bolan, 47, from Preston, died at Royal Lancaster Infir-mary on May 31, following fatal injur-ies which he suffered when his bike hit
A MOVE to get more people out of their cars and on to public transport is to be made by the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The authority believes that more effort should be made to get visitors to switch from car to train or bus after a survey
I’VE just come across a delightful little paperback about pipemoking that was published back in 1969 when the prospect of smoking being banned in public enclosed places was nothing more than a . . . um . . . pipe dream. The book - A Pipe Smoker’s Guide
A JUDGE has called for extra safety measures on a Lake District road where a soldier killed his fiancée after losing control of his car in a puddle. Judge Peter Hughes QC told Carlisle Crown Court the condition of the A591 between Keswick and Grasmere
An Ulverston man has been given a three-year community rehabilitation order for sex offences he carried out over 30 years ago. A court heard that Brian Haddow had already served the equivalent of about 15 months in jail while on remand. A judge at Preston
A NURSE who a hearing was told repeatedly turned up for a night shift smelling of drink and incapable of work was suspended for 12 months. A hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told that Alison Brunt, 45, once arrived at the Westmorland
A HOLIDAY park worker who can’t swim was one of two people involved in an heroic boat rescue at the flooded White Cross Bay chalet complex in Windermere, it has emerged. Amid the destruction, there was a tale of heroism when park employee and non-swimmer
ULVERSTON travelled back in time as characters created by one of the world’s most famous writers lined its cobbled streets. The annual Dickensian Festival took over the town at the weekend and locals and visitors got into the spirit of Victorian
THE South Lakes community has rallied around a family displaced by flooding near Coniston. Graham Nicholson, wife Pheona and his family of three child-ren lived in a National Trust property in Lower Yewdale that had its whole ground floor flooded when
RICHARD Foster has been named as the new chief executive at the Brewery Arts Centre. Mr Foster is the general manager of the World of Beatrix Potter and Old Laundry Theatre at Bowness and will take over the top job at the Kendal arts centre in February
THE former manager of a landmark Lake District hotel has been warned he could go to prison after admitting a £6,500 series of frauds. Nigel Parkin, 37, pleaded guilty to 35 criminal offences when he appeared at Carlisle Crown Court on Monday. These
AMBITIOUS plans to transform Bowness Bay have been labelled ‘too radical’. The Lake District National Park Authority (LDNPA) has put forward four options. One is to do nothing and option two is to build a hotel on the Windermere Aquatics site, improve
TOURISM firms are being urged to join forces to help spread the mesage that – despite the floods – Cumbria is still open for business. Cumbria Tourism research has revealed 70 per cent of tourism businesses believe they have been adversely affected by
A TEENAGER has been sent to a young offenders’ institution for three years after repeatedly taking Stagecoach buses and driving them around the South Lakes. Jamie Hoare, 18, took four buses – three double-deckers and a coach – in less than a year. And
KENDAL-born small-holder and councillor Peter Thornton has been chosen to fight the Penrith and The Border constituency for the Liberal Democrats. Mr Thornton, who represents Kirkby Stephen on Cumbria County Council, declared himself ‘delighted’ to be
Cumbria Police are appealing to potential witnesses who may have seen a fatal crash in Walney. They say six to eight people were at a bus stop outside Murray’s chemist when the crash happened in Central Drive on Monday. Pedestrian Hazel Lindow, 92,
THE Great Langdale Christmas Pudding 10k Races take place on Saturday and Sunday, December 12 and 13, and there is full entry for almost both races. The 10k a week on Saturday is full says organiser Rod Berry, while there are a few places left for Sunday's
STUDENTS took to the streets this morning to protest against the University of Cumbria’s plans to end undergraduate teaching at their Ambleside campus. Bosses at the debt-ridden university are looking to save £2million per year by withdrawing
BARNARDO’S has launched a unique campaign in which teens from across the UK will deliver their own “brutally honest” speech on Christmas Day. ‘The Teens’ Speech’ will be aired online on MySpace after lunch. The purpose of the project is to give
IF YOU believe - as I do - that food tastes better when it is local, then there is much to drool over in this week's Checkout column. From a window at Country Harvest at Ingleton, for example, you can see the farm from where the shop's barn-bred
The farmhouse at Howbarrow is sheltered in the lee of the hillside, the prevailing winds from the South West whipping over the chimney tops, with clear views across to the Eastern Fells the Howgills and beyond. Winter Easterly winds make the house
A DECISION to end undergraduate provision at Ambleside’s historic educational centre has been described as “madness” and a “huge blow” to the town with economic comparisons being made to the damaging recent floods. Bosses at the heavily
FEW would dispute that right now, Beyonce Knowles is the biggest and, most successful female artist in music and the three awards she scooped most recently at the prestigious MTV Europe Music Awards just further cemented her position of strength
Back with her first new album in seven years after her time in the music wilderness as a consequence of her well-documented drug problems during her ill-fated marriage to bad boy Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston is now clearly out to make up lost ground
FLOOD victims in South Lakeland will benefit from more than £1million donated to a charity fund set up following last weeks devastating floods. The Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund has received £1.1million so far to help families affected by the
