THIS week's chosen Camera Club photographs. If you would like to join the Gazette Camera Club, search for 'The Westmorland Gazette Camera Club' on Facebook and send a request to join the group.
IN THIS week in the Gazette - 100, 50 and 25 years ago: 100 YEARS AGO - 1920 TWO Silverdale farmers have been summoned and fined for selling milk without having their names inscribed on the cans in which it was conveyed. One of them asserted
THIS lovely photo of a curious mink was taken by Gazette Camera club member John Dodds. He spotted the creature along the River Kent in Kendal.
EIGHTEEN people are at risk of being made redundant as a Kendal factory restructures its operations. Kendal Nutricare, which manufactures nutrition products including Kendamil infant formula, said the move was due to a restructuring of its packaging
An award-winning photographer is to open a new gallery with his focus on the advertising world. David Stewart’s Paid Content exhibition launches the White Elephant Gallery in its new Euston Road location in Morecambe on February 8. Lancaster-born
A BUTCHER has scooped an award at a world championship for one of its pies. The Dales Traditional Butchers, of Kirkby Lonsdale, has taken the Diamond Award for its Scotch and Haggis Pie at the 21st World Championship Scotch Pie Awards. Organisers
ACTRESS Colette Redgrave is returning to her Cumbrian roots when she brings a play to the county at the start of next month. Colette – part of the Redgrave dynasty of actors – grew up in Bowness until the age of 11. And she is returning to Cumbria
A LAKE district hotel is offering to pay couples to enjoy a romantic break away. The Daffodil Hotel & Spa is asking for the UK's most romantic couple to test its luxury facilities for Valentine's day. The Grasmere hotel will give guests £100
WHEN he was a youngster Chris Weeks clearly remembers his dad returning from their local theatre in a great state of excitement. “He’d been to a matinee of a show and thought it was so brilliant that he dragged my brother and I back for the evening
Kendal's Castle Dairy will be re-opened this month. Kendal College said it is re-opening "as an historic resource, open for the community to access and appreciate". The building, on Wildman Street, is the oldest, continuously occupied, medieval
A LAKE district hotel is offering to pay couples to enjoy a romantic break away. The Daffodil Hotel & Spa is asking for the UK's most romantic couple to test its luxury facilities for Valentine's day. The Grasmere hotel will give guests £100
I HAVE just been to the busy Haddock Paddock in Sedbergh for the usual excellent, Friday night fish and chips. The Sedbergh upper car park is opposite and the only place to park. It was pitch black except for weak street lights. I was taken aback
YOUNG farmers from across Cumbria put their skills of deception to the test at the county final of the 'call my bluff' competition. Eight teams assembled at The George Hotel, Penrith, to trick their opponents into believing incorrect meanings for
AN internationally renowned musician is heading to Cumbria to work with players from across the north west. Flute player Stephen Clark, who has performed in 128 countries and as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras, will be leading
THIRTY-six senior residents from the village met at Sawrey House Hotel for the annual lunch which was organised by the Sawrey and Cunsey social group.
HOW many drinks would you have when you're out with your kids? It's a question that's sparked a debate on social media after it was revealed Wetherspoon pubs limit parents to two alcoholic drinks each if they have children with them. The rule
1. Walk past the post box and 40 mph sign and turn left onto the Private Road with a footpath fingerpost for ‘Rosthwaite Allotment’. On meeting a road turn right and after 75 yards left onto a footpath signed ‘Rosthwaite’. Follow the uphill woodland
A DISGRUNTLED painter and decorator who claims he is owed £500 for his work has taken revenge - by daubing a message on the side of an old pub he had worked on. Dean Reeves, 50, wrote in large black letters: "Want your house painting? Don’t be like
When it comes to choosing between a greenhouse or a polytunnel, the main factor I suspect foremost in your decision making will be the visual implications of having either option in your own garden. The aesthetic qualities of a polytunnel are few
THE North West Air Ambulance charity is urging people to put on their hiking boots and sign up for the 40-mile Keswick to Barrow Walk on Saturday, May 2, to help fund its lifesaving work. Teams of between four and 12 people are being encouraged
I WONDER whether any other fell folk or visitors have notified an unusual and special visiting bird this winter - a white and grey-mottled larger falcon, a gyrfalcon? Recently I watched one hunting jackdaws. They are not easy prey: intelligent,
ANTICIPATION is building among residents of Kirkby Lonsdale ahead of next week's release of Dolittle - the Hollywood adventure starring Robert Downey Jr as the doctor who can talk to animals. The crew of the $150 million movie spent three weeks
AT THE parish council meeting, the chairman announced that there would be elections in May for the parish council, the district council and for the Police and Crime Commissioner. The police report noted three significant incidents in the area:
A trio of council leaders have made a strong pitch for greater powers to be handed to the Morecambe Bay region – but have pulled up short of explicitly demanding it should become a new local authority. The leaders of Lancaster City Council, South
