A MAJOR redevelopment of an adventure playground used by 60,000 visitors a year starts tomorrow. The £10,000 project at the Lake District Visitor Centre at Brockhole on the shores of Windermere will be fully installed just in time for the expected surge
A SKIP hire businessman who made a “cynical attempt” to evade a conviction at the magistrates court has been jailed for six months. John Cooper had disputed that a police officer found him using a mobile phone at the wheel of a wagon.
A YORKSHIRE Dales food firm has launched a new service to tap into a forecasted rise in self-catering and caravanning holidays. The Country Harvest shopping outlet and deli-cafe, on the A65 at Ingleton, has unveiled a new order and collect service to
FIRE fighters are tackling blazes at two Furness farms. Six fire engines raced to Low Moss Farm, in Broughton-in-Furness when a grass fire broke out at 7.43am. Rescuers are using hose reels to tackle the flames. Then at 12.15pm this afternoon, a grass
YOUNGSTERS who are seen as the future of agriculture will represent their county in a national final after engaging in friendly battle at a festival of public speaking, drama and sports. Members of Crook’s Young Farmers’ Club were celebrating after scooping
A HANDWRITTEN William Wordsworth manuscript is one of the items going under the hammer at a predicted quarter million pound fine arts sale later this month. The auction at Mitchell’s of Cockermouth will feature the manuscript that includes lines from
DETECTIVES have launched a murder investigation after a woman was attacked in Lancaster this morning. The incident happened at around 8.30am on School House Lane in the Halton area of the city. Police were called by members of the public to reports
THE HUNT for Netherfield Cricket Club’s new professional is over with the signing of Aussie Nick Kruger and when he arrives there will be first-class facilities in which to don his whites and pads. The new £320,000 changing-rooms project at
A NEW organisation set up to help protect the Three Peaks has reached its first milestone - its 100th member. The Friends of the Three Peaks was set up by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) to support and raise money towards the maintenance
POACHING and rural crime have been the target of a major operation by Lancashire, Cumbria and North Yorkshire Police. The cross border crack down has seen the three forces increase night time patrols in isolated rural areas to tackle criminals such as
OLYMPIC swimmer Keri-Anne Payne praised Dallam School’s strong sporting tradition as she opened the school’s £4m sports centre. The 22-year-old Olympic silver medalist cut the ribbon to cheers from Dallam students and pupils from five local
THE introduction of a bug to combat Japanese Knotweed has been met with cautious optimism by Cumbrian river organisations. The lice, known as a psyllid, is to be introduced at two secret locations in Britain by the Commonwealth Agricultural
SEDBERGH has been the centre of the fell-running world in the past few weeks. The last two Kendal Winter League races have been in the area and the latest race at Cautley was won by Howgill Harriers’ Sam Fisher, a pupil at Sedbergh School who pipped
KENDAL'S Director of Rugby Chris Hayton offers his weekly view. TEVITA’S tanks trundled on at Mint Bridge on Saturday and we were short of a Howitzer or two to stop them. Tevita Vaikona’s Hull team are a big unit, well drilled and with
NETHERFIELD Cricket Club have announced they have signed Australian Nick Kruger as their professional for the 2010 season. Queensland player Kruger, aged 26, is a left-hand batsman and right medium pace bowler and has been playing Sheffield Shield Cricket
THREE species of butterfly could become extinct if Britain’s recent run of wet summers continues. But organisations in South Lakeland and north Lancashire are putting up a fight to save the Duke of Burgundy, the High Brown Fritillary and the
