THIS weekend 83-year-old running legend Joss Joss Naylor MBE completed a fell race he failed to finish in his 20s - the 1962 Lake District Mountain Trial. On Saturday Joss set off from Kirkstone Pass in heavy mist to complete the missing section
AS A student living in Grange in the summer of 1967 I managed to get a holiday job working as an assistant to the surveyors with the firm Huntings, who had been given the contract for the feasibility survey for a barrage across Morecambe Bay. We
FIVE gardens in Grange-over-Sands are to open to the public on Sunday, July 28, for charity. Following the success of their first National Garden Scheme event last year, which raised £2,000, Bruno Gouillon and Andrew Fairey, along with four other
IT IS CERTAINLY a bumper summer of art with scores of superb and must-see exhibitions running across the region. Another in the frame is the South Lakes Arts Collective show, lining the illustrious walls at Kendal Museum. The theme of the exhibition
A CELEBRATION of Grasmere Church and Music is being staged on Sunday, July 28 in memory of John F Taylor, who died earlier this year. John was a major benefactor of Grasmere church and village, his grandfather having purchased Helmside in 1897.
A KENDAL-based radio station is looking for volunteers to join its team. Bay Trust Radio, which broadcasts 24 hours a day to people across South Cumbria and North Lancashire as well as local hospitals, recently upgraded its equipment thanks to £5,000
A FOOD festival was hailed as a great success as nearly 1,000 guests flocked to the popular event. The Arnside and Silverdale Food Festival, held on Saturday in the Gaskell Hall in Silverdale, played host to a wide variety of local food producers
KIRKBY Stephen is marking Stage 4 (Gateshead to Kendal) of The Tour of Britain by hosting SPOKE - a celebration of all things cycling from Saturday, September 7 to Tuesday, September 10. SPOKE will be filled with a host of community activity for
AWAZ Cumbria is a social enterprise and community development organisation which aims to empower the voices of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) People and Communities in Cumbria. We work with people to improve the quality of their life; we support
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield on the Virgin Records label 1973, value £45-50 TUBULAR Bells is probably the most iconic instrumental record of all time, writes MICHAEL BROOKS. Often described as simply a prog rock record, it is so much more than
A SOUTH Lakes art group presented Bay Search and Rescue with £563, raised during an art exhibition. Station officer Gary Parsons was given the cheque by members of Arnside Art Group, on the promenade at Arnside. It was raised during an art exhibition
I AM writing a life of John Gough (1757-1825) who, as many readers will know, was born and died in Kendal. Gough was blind from an early age but nonetheless made significant contributions in several areas of science, particularly botany, meteorology
THERE have been a number of articles and letters in the Gazette commenting on the plans to build a barrage across Morecambe Bay after the recent talk at Kendal Town Hall. The proponents and opponents of the scheme would be well advised to read the
A PLAN to construct 19 industrial units on land in Staveley has been unanimously opposed by the village's parish council. The proposal details the development on land off Danes Road on the edge of Staveley into office and light industrial units
KENDAL Rugby Club was delighted to welcome a group of pupils from the Spanish village of Revenga, near Segovia in Spain, who have been visiting the town as part of a cultural and language exchange. The students spent the afternoon learning how to
GREEN Door is back within the stunning setting of Farfield Mill for a group exhibition which showcases a vibrant and wide variety of two and three dimensional work on the theme of Roots. Running at the Sedbergh arts and heritage centre until August
A COMMUNITY day at Warton Crag was held as part of a wider programme to improve the area. It is hoped ecological work can be carried out on the open space, picnic site and car park at the entrance to Warton Crag. This area serves as a ‘gateway’
Q. How should I start exercising? A. With summer in full bloom and the weather warmer, now is an ideal time to start exercising a little bit more, getting outside and enjoying our beautiful countryside. You may decide to start walking on the
ULVERSTON Outsiders next dramatic offering will be Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind. Running at the Coronation Hall from Tuesday until Friday, November 19-22, Woman in Mind is a very funny and thought provoking play and regarded as one of Mr A's darker
A MAN has been issued with a fixed penalty and fined £200 after he dumped his car in Grizebeck. A South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) spokesperson said they were informed by local residents that the car had been abandoned and this had triggered
Historian Arthur R. Nicholls recalls Sergeant Mondays in Kendal SERGEANT Monday was once a highlight in the municipal life of the town. Under the town’s charters the aldermen and burgesses were allowed to have two Sergeants-at-Arms-at-Mace as
A WARTIME nurse who later became a loyal RSPCA official has died at the age of 95. Ruth Pedley BEM, of Levens, dedicated her life to serving and caring for others and animals in the South Lakes. Born in Kendal in 1923, she moved to Levens when
PLANS to revive a former care home in Grange-over-Sands have been submitted to South Lakeland District Council. The new owners of Seaview Lodge Residential Care Home, formerly Westerley Christian Care Home, plan to reopen it with 10 part-time and
A NEW three-bedroom house has been planned in the garden of Brooklyn, at Morecambe Road, Ulverston. Mr and Mrs D McKenna, of the town's Sunderland Terrace, are seeking consent from South Lakeland District Council. The two-storey dwelling would
SOME time ago following a headline similar to July 4's Gazette ('Danger road action appeal) you printed a letter from me. May I reiterate the point I made then? There are dangerous drivers and, increasingly dangerous vehicles, but there is no such
