An online chat group has begun meeting all over the UK to raise funds for charity. And they are coming to town. The AOL chat group, Life Begins At Forty, have started holding meetings around the UK to get to know their cyber friends in person, and at
PARLIAMENTARY spokesman for Westmorland and Lonsdale Liberal Democrats Tim Farron has warned the Government of potential legal pitfalls over the planned post office rescue package. Mr Farron is worried that European competition law means the £500 million
AN INVADER capable of cracking concrete, toppling tombstones and undermining buildings is at large in South Lakeland. The invader is an alien species called Japanese knotweed, which the Environment Agency rates as the most invasive weed in Britain. Natland
NEXT week the local branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) holds the seventh Westmorland Beer Festival in Kendal Town Hall on Highgate. This marks the return of this well-established annual event to the venue of Kendal's first beer festival back
The government recently fulfilled every school pupil's dream when it renged on its pledge finally to banish chips from school dinner menus. Britain is a nation with a long and proud history of school meals. After all, free meals for schoolchildren were
Not-for-profit clubs, groups and organisations are taking advantage of the no-cost, build-your-own web site solution offered by www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk - The Westmorland Gazette web site. The new, easy to use, build your own web site service called
A CAMPAIGN for strategic development alongside the M6 designed to give a massive boost to the region's economy could soon be on the starting blocks. Areas such as South Lakeland and Eden could reap the benefits of a series of developments if the scheme
Thursday's Westmorland County Show will definitely go ahead according to Society Chairman John Geldard. Mr. Geldard told the Gazette: "The Show is definitely going ahead. We accept that in one way or another the fuel crisis is going to affect us. But,
