A FAST rising young tennis star has taken a big step towards future glory by winning a national junior trophy. Just days before Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer battled out one of the greatest games of all time at Wimbledon, Windermere's Billy Blaydes
WITH exams done and dusted and the last school term coming to a close for many of the pupils, schools have been celebrating the special occasion with a leavers’ ball, also known as prom. Schools from across the South Lakes have been sending in photos
SHAP Endowed Church of England Primary School has once again been rated as ‘good’ in a report by Ofsted. The standard of behaviour maintained was praised, as was provision for students with special educational needs and/ or disabilities. But
AN INCREDIBLE performance by St Martin and St Mary CE Primary School pupils saw them crowned county champions at the 2019 Cumbria School Games. The Windermere school qualified from both Cluster and District finals to compete in five team sports
A FARM-based mental health charity has launched a campaign in a bid to secure the volunteer-based organisation’s future. The charity Growing Well (GW), based at Low Sizergh Farm in Kendal, started the appeal in the hopes of raising more than £25,000
SOUTH Lakes MP Tim Farron has pressed ministers to rethink their decision to scrap hospitality training qualifications which would help the industry recruit local people. “With 20,000 non-UK staff in tourism in the Lake District, there is a desperate
PLANS to turn a Grange-over-Sands bric-a-brac shop into a coffee shop with ice cream kiosk have been lodged with South Lakeland District Council. Mr and Mrs Rob Popov plan to give the cafe at Beech House, Main Street, a "modern, urban, chic feel
I HATE statistics, but here goes. Despite Britain having some of the safest roads in the world, a study by the Road Safety Foundation found 60 per cent of deaths on our roads between 2015 and 2017 happened on just 12.5 per cent of the network.
I WENT to the open meeting re climate change at Kendal Town Hall. I should guess there were more than100 people there. South Lakeland district councillors Giles Archibald and Dyan Jones introduced the meeting with an excellent summary of the situation
ULVERSTON turned back time for a weekend-long celebration of musical heritage and vintage travel. The town was filled with festival-goers as it hosted the Furness Tradition folk festival and Retro Rendezvous. Owners of bicycles and cars from
BUSINESS leaders were among those who gathered to celebrate the second anniversary of the Lake District being granted UNESCO World Heritage status. Various people gave speeches during the event at Windermere Jetty, reflecting on the past two years
AS Kendal Town FC prepare to celebrate their centenary this year, it would be fair to say these are testing times for the club and its faithful supporters. But that century of football has seen some glorious times too, and there are plenty of golden
LUCKY students from Burton Morewood CE Primary School, Burton-in-Kendal, were chosen to be the 'Anthem Kids' for the semi-final of the Cricket World Cup. Year Six pupils accompanied the Indian and New Zealand teams out on to the pitch for their
AN exhibition first shown at Rydal Mount in the Lake District is to be displayed in London this autumn at the Royal Geographical Society. Dorothy’s Room will be part of the Landlines exhibition, the inaugural show of the Wilderness Art Collective
A NEW McDonald's set to open in Ulverston will be serving Big Macs before the middle of next year, bosses have revealed. Plans to build a McDonald's restaurant by Booth’s supermarket at Oubas Hill are finally coming into fruition as construction
A BUSY programme of outdoor activities by the 1st Grange and Cartmel Scout Group has seen an sleepover at Great Tower, Newby Bridge and a weekend camp at Urswick. Both of the group's Beaver Colonies joined the sleepover when s wild art project,
I ATTENDED a public meeting at Kendal Town Hall with a room full of people worried about what we can do as individuals and as a community to reverse the inexorable march to our own extinction. Climate change can no longer be regarded as scare-mongering
THE North Craven Heritage Trust held the Bill Mitchell Memorial Walk above Malham. Bill Mitchell (1928-2015), the editor of the Dalesman for 20 years and author of many books of local interest, was a past president of the NCHT and led its summer
STAVELEY’S Rob Jebb won the gruelling Wasdale Fell Race and his partner, Helm Hill runner Sharon Taylor, was the first woman to cross the line. The race covers 21 miles with at least 9,000ft of climbing and takes the runners over Seatallen, Pillar
UNCERTAINTY hangs over the future of a Lake District town’s much-loved outdoor spectacular held in the run up to the festive season. The Ambleside Christmas light and lantern parade has been entertaining thousands of gleeful visitors and residents
Kirkby Lonsdale Gardening Association's annual flower and vegetable show will be held at 1.30pm on Saturday, August 17, at the Lunesdale Hall at Kirkby Lonsdale The association aims to offer its members and those from the local and wider community
THE use of the word 'tender' in gardening is in reference to plants that are anything but hardy and either have to be a) provided with serious winter care to get them through our coldest, darkest months or b) are treated as annuals and at the end of
A COLOUR-coded map inspired by the London Underground has been designed to navigate green-fingered tourists around 17 gardens in Cumbria. Holker Hall, Levens Hall, Sizergh Castle, Brockhole, Blackwell, Brantwood, Beatrix Potter's Hill Top, Holehird
I refer to the letter from Jill Booth (Letters, July 4). I write as chairman of Kendal BID and I am very proud of the fact that for the first five years of its existence BID has provided financial support for the Unity Festival, RAF 100 Spitfire
