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  • Casualty airlifted to hospital after injury at Scafell Pike

    A CASUALTY was airlifted to hospital following an injury on the Corridor Route to Scafell Pike. Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team (WMRT) was called to the report of an ankle injury near Criscliffe Knotts at around 2.50pm on Wednesday. A WMRT spokesman

  • FARMING DIARY: Developments in the fight against bovine TB

    By Iain Richards, veterinary ecologist, Heversham: BOVINE tuberculosis (bTB) remains one of the biggest challenges in livestock farming in the UK. It has huge impacts on the farms caught up in the disease. This isn’t just due to the numbers of

  • Big changes with ELMS

    THE UK’s departure from the European Union has provided a ground-breaking opportunity for significant new agricultural domestic policy. DEFRA are proposing a flagship Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELM) to encourage sustainable farming practices

  • Norman Holloway’s Kendal quiz: Where is it and what is it?

    LAST week’s picture - above - showed a pair of stone faces on either side of the front window to the Castle Dairy in Wildman Street. Built as a farmhouse in the 14th century the dairy was refurbished by Anthony Garnett in 1564. Containing a sixteenth-century

  • Rescuers called after man, 71, 'taken ill' at beauty spot

    RESCUERS were called after a 71-year-old man was 'taken ill' at a Yorkshire Dales beauty spot. The Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) attended the incident at around 2.40pm yesterday. A CRO spokesman said: "A visitor was taken ill at the top of

  • Sheep rescued from sinkhole

    RESCUERS helped out after a sheep became stuck in a sinkhole in the Yorkshire Dales. The Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) attended the incident at around 7.15pm yesterday. The animal was trapped near the path down from Ingleborough to Little

  • Restaurant lets you make your own menu

    ROTHAY Manor is marking its reopening with the addition of a new way to enjoy your meal. Head Chef Dan McGeorge will introduce the 'creation your own tasting menu' experience for customers. Customers of Rothay Manor can choose either a five-course

  • Cumbrian butchers proved they are stars above anyone else

    CUMBRIAN— butchers have picked up multiple honours in the Q Guild of Butchers 2020 Smithfield ‘Star’ Awards. Cranstons Butcher + Maker, with food halls and shops across Cumbria, clinched a best of the best Diamond accolade. The business, which

  • CropTec Show 2020 face-to-face event

    AFTER months of event cancellations, postponements and transitions onto virtual platforms, Cumbrian farmers and agricultural organisations can rest assured there is at least one event still on track to take place face-to-face in 2020. Recently,

  • 'Mini-MBA' sessions focus on better leadership skills

    A series of ‘mini-MBA’ taster sessions has been launched with the aim of creating better business leaders to take Cumbria forward following the coronavirus crisis. The events are the brainchild of Dr Steve Gibbs, senior lecturer in business at the

  • Tourism and building ‘key to restarting the economy’

    Eden District Council is using a “twin-track” approach to get the local economy back on track as the lockdown from the coronavirus pandemic continues to ease, chief executive Rose Rouse has said. Speaking about what the authority has done to help

  • Plans submitted for more than a dozen homes in Kendal

    AN application has been submitted for more than a dozen new houses in Kendal. A planning application has been submitted to South Lakeland District Council for 19 new homes south of Underbarrow Road on the western edge of Kendal. Of the 19 homes

  • NEMSA sheep sale season on

    THE North of England Mule Sheep Association (NEMSA) is again looking forward to its annual sale highlights at northern auction marts this autumn. While it is still uncertain if marts will be allowed to stage livestock shows because of Covid-19 restrictions

  • Kendal drug driver gets ban

    A DRUG driver has been banned from the road for a year. Adam Barcroft, 41, of Lowther Street in Kendal, was said to have had a breakdown product of cocaine in his system when he drove on Milnthorpe Road on October 5. At South Cumbria Magistrates

  • Decision revealed on David Gill's riding centre plans appeal

    An ex-zoo boss whose bid to open a horse-riding centre at his farm was thrown out by planners has had his appeal against the decision rejected. David Rivera wanted permission to launch the venture at Windsor Farm in Wasdale but the Lake District

  • Man accused of £47,000 fraud to appear in court

    A MAN is due to appear in court accused of defrauding another man of £47,000. Andrew Hogg, 43, will face South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on August 3 after being charged with fraud by abusing his position of power of attorney for Peter Hogg.

  • Glebe market is to go ahead

    THE GLEBE Market, Bowness is to be held on August 2. The organisers said the "first one last month, went really well, with no problems in social distancing. The traders were very happy and one-way system worked well." Further markets are being