A STALWART of the Air Cadets in South Lakeland has been presented with the British Empire Medal he was awarded in the Queen’s birthday honours last year. Norman Wileman received his BEM from Air Commodore Peter Smith RAF (Retd), Deputy Lord Lieutenant
FLOORING is the often-overlooked and unsung hero of every room, but is - literally - the foundation of our homes. Luke Rix-Standing runs through the key pros and cons of some of the most popular floor materials around today. A FLOOR must tie a room
KIND-hearted guests raised more than £11,000 to help equip a teenage Kendal boy with a new carbon-fibre wheelchair. Guests at the black-tie charity auction night for 16-year-old Joshua Hunter, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy and curvature of
PLANS to create a sculpture trail to link two South Lakeland communities is starting to take shape. The project is being overseen by Windermere and Bowness Chamber of Trade and the attraction will feature 16 sculptures of animals indigenous to the
COLONEL Guy Harnby has been appointed the new commandant of Cumbria Army Cadet Force. He is a regular army officer for 30 years and has been deputy commandant for a year. He will take up his new appointment in the summer. “It is an enormous privilege
A SMALL Lake District village school where children begin their day with a morning run continues to be "good", says Ofsted. The 52 pupils at Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School are "polite and very well behaved", said the inspector in her report. They
HOUSE hunters can discover the biggest and smallest properties their budget will stretch to by visiting newly launched website Mansion or Maisonette. Interiors specialist Hillarys is offering the online tool to show the variously sized dwellings
CUMBRIAN runners club travelled over the border to compete in the challenging Carnethy 5 Hill Race, also known as 'one of Scotland’s biggest hill races,' and one South Lakeland fell running team returned home clutching the much-sought Carnethy 5 Hill
THIS week I continue to pay homage to the birch tree and its varied and delightful forms, writes TOM ATTWOOD. I first came across the twisted stems of Betula pendula ‘Spider Alley’ several years ago in a plant catalogue. That same year I planted
RUMOUR has it that our so called 'cash-strapped' NHS is funding golf lessons for porky citizens. I’ve tried golf. I didn’t like it much - it ruined a good walk. I do, though, very much like hiking and it keeps me relatively slim and healthy
A POP-UP restaurant at Cartmel Racecourse will see the venue enter into a partnership with award-winning chef Simon Rogan. The menu will be created by Simon, who runs the L'Enclume restaurant in the village, using the finest ingredients from the
Ellis Butcher has been the Local Democracy Reporter for South Cumbria since October 2018. He is one of 150 reporters across the UK working in the BBC-funded role to help fill a gap in the coverage of local democracy issues. As the initiative celebrates
