STAFF have been on the run from a pair of finger-snapping crabs at the Aquarium of the Lakes. The two huge Edible crabs, with shells the size of dinner plates have been at the aquarium in Newby Bridge for two weeks and have already proved a handful for
FORESTS in and around South Lakeland could soon be attracting film-makers keen to recreate the woodlands of Medieval England or the dense vegetation of British Columbia. The Forestry Commission has held talks with the Film Commission in London in an effort
A STRING of " mischievous" attacks on a Kendal shopping area have taken on a sinister edge, which left a shopping centre manager nursing cut hands. Vandals have pulled down hanging baskets, ripped out Christmas lights and spread soil around Blackhall
EMERGENCY repairs on the A685 at Docker Bridge near Grayrigg are forcing a 100-metre stretch of the road to be closed for a week. Cumbria County Council highways engineers are to close the road on Thursday, November 7, to work on a drainage culvert under
SEDBERGH School has sent best wishes to its latest 'old boy' to be capped in the England Rugby Union team for Saturday' s big match against the All Blacks on Saturday. James Simpson-Daniel, who is already a star with Gloucester in the Premiership, will
EMERGENCY repairs on the A685 at Docker Bridge near Grayrigg are forcing a 100-metre stretch of the road to be closed for a week. Cumbria County Council highways engineers are to close the road on Thursday, November 7, to work on a drainage culvert under
COLLEGE staff were manning picket lines yesterday during a one-day strike over further education pay. Lecturers and support staff from Kendal College and Barrow's Furness College joined in the nationwide industrial action called by the UNISON and the
