Fell races... Rydal Round: 1 J. Blackett; 2 B. Procter; 3 P. Brittleton. Fastest woman: M. Hurst. Fastest over 40: J. Blackett. Junior Guides, under 12: 1 T. Jessfony; 2 T. Doyle; 3 R. Croasdale. First girl: E. Fisher. Junior Guides, under 14: 1 J
Winner was nearly caught out' One hundred and ten red, blue, green, white vests gathered in a thick line, jostling for the best start position on this year's Rydal Round. Warm and sticky weather meant what was believed to be a record number of racers
The 20 A4 roadside signs that were stolen just prior to the Ambleside Sports cannot have confused many people, as around 10,000 visitors thronged the well-loved event yesterday (Thursday). Chairman of the sports Mike Blackburn said: "It's been fantastic
6. Who is involved in your project? The projects producer - Sarah Tierney - has been involved in the project since last October and had worked restlessly to try and get funding and promote the project. We both have experience in the field but this has
1. What inspired you to investigate the street kids in Kiev issue? I started researching for stories last year and decided to focus on social issues in developing countries within Europe. I stumbled across an article by Arie Farnam about the street
All the area's sporting fixtures this week. FOOTBALL Pre-season friendly Thursday (7.45pm) Kendal Town v Morecambe CRICKET NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE Saturday (1pm) Division One Blackpool v Kendal Netherfield v St Annes Division Two (1.30pm
LAST week's Gazette report about the bold new idea of a performance area to replace the clapped out Victorian bandstand on the Glebe at Bowness caught my eye. Looking at the artist's impression it occurred to me that it will have wonderful multi-purpose
SIR, In this age of high speed communication, your Comment (Gazette, July 16, Take with a pinch of salt') highlights not just our need to verify the sources of stories but also the worrying fact that people just do not know what to believe anymore. The
SIR, The Government's recently announced programme of measures to curb the ghastly cult of binge drinking, which has inexplicably affected the majority of today's youth of both sexes, is likely to have little or no effect. It is a simple fact of life
SIR, As a way of increasing seating capacity on a busy commuter train from Knaresborough into Leeds and providing a better quality service on the Leeds-Appleby-Kirkby Stephen-Carlisle line, a trial project was started 12 months ago. This makes for
Sir, Geoff Hoon's and the Defence Ministry's threatened abolition of The King's Own Royal Border Regiment (Gazette, July 23) is but the latest rash assault on the distinct identity of Cumbria by our metropolitan masters. But those of us who wish to
AMBLESIDE Zeffirellis, 015394-33845. King Arthur (12a) Spiderman 2 (pg) I, Robot (12a) Zeffs by the Park Farenheit 9/11 (15) Shrek 2 (u) Thunderbirds (pg) Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (pg) BARROW Apollo 4 Cinema, 01229-825354
FRIDAY 30: Bootleggers, Kendal: The Fabulous Picasso Brothers; Dickie Doodles, Kendal: Cat Dog; High Cross Inn, Broughton-in-Furness: T.J.Johnson's Bourbon Kick; Outgate Inn, Outgate: New Riverside Jazz Band; Forum 28, Barrow: Bayou Seco. SATURDAY
Old Kirkby Lonsdale and the Rainbow Parish By Michael J.Hall ISBN 1 84033 306 5; Stenlake Publishing £7.50 ONE cold December's night in Kirkby Lonsdale 70 years ago, a lorry driver on a late shift came across thick fog and missed a bend in the
TAKE five textiles artists, a passion for fibres, colours galore and what have you got the latest show at Farfield Mill Arts and Heritage Centre. Exhibitions have been coming fast and furious from the Sedbergh centre this year establishing Farfield
The Isle of Man, by Terry Marsh, ISBN 1 85284 399 3, and Isle of Man Coastal Path by Aileen Evans, ISBN 1 85284 400 0, both published by Cicerone and both priced £10. FEW people would consider the Isle of Man as a walkers' paradise, especially when
WAKEBOARDERS are used to being up in the air over their sport, but Louise Moore is up in the air more than most. She leaned her early skills at Pine Lake, Carnforth, before moving to Florida for special coaching that turned her into a world champion
LIVE, home-grown community entertainment can be every bit as slick, witty and well acted as anything on the British stage anywhere, as Grasmere Players showed in their recent production of a A Grasmere Get-together. Written to mark the centenaries of
EVERY July, Ullswater Yacht Club plays host to one of the biggest inland sailing events in the country. This year, the Lord Birkett Trophy, in memory of the man who saved the lake for public use, saw 197 entries descend on the club for two long distance
KEEP the kids amused and fit - at Kendal Leisure Centre where a whole host of activities are on offer. Weekdays (10am-3.30pm) until August 20, youngsters aged between eight and 12 can enjoy everything from swimming, tennis, canoeing and trampolining
GET fit and have fun at the same time with Kendal-based tennis coach Jon Griffin this summer. The head coach and his team will lead a series of one-week junior tennis courses throughout the holidays. The two-hour sessions will run Monday-Thursday at various
TRY your hand at sailing and help disabled people at the same time. That is the offer from Killington Sailing Club, which is holding an open day from 11am to 3pm on Saturday, August 22. In return for a £5 donation to the RYA Sailability charity, anyone
Friday, July 30 A GUIDED walk through woodland and open fell to the finest stone circle in Lakeland will explore the past 4,500 years of Lake District life from the Stone Age to early iron smelting. Meet at Broughton-in-Furness Information Centre at
There are a number of essential websites that everyone should have in their bookmarks/favourites for quick and easy access from your desktop. Whether searching for a site, looking for software to download or tracking people, these sites will make the
When we moved into our present house a couple of years ago, we inherited a garden pond. It's a formal, concrete-lined affair, rectangular in shape and about eight feet by four feet in size. In addition to the pond, we also inherited one black and orange
THE political knockabout at County Hall over the shocking news that, at the same time as stinging council taxpayers with an increase of just less than 12 per cent, Cumbria council was under-spending by almost £12 million, centred on whether this was
Historians have thought for centuries that King Arthur was only a myth, but the legend was based on a real hero, torn between his private ambitions and his public sense of duty, according to the new film, King Arthur. A reluctant leader, Arthur (Clive
With the start of the Olympic Games just a baton reach away, KEN BENNETT offers his quirky choice of enjoying your very own Olympic' holidays as a happy alternative to the real thing. Athens is set to become the world's busiest and noisiest city in
LAKE District Summer Music has something of a tradition of highlighting the stars of the next generation, and the 2004 Festival is no exception, with a new series bringing international prizewinners to Cumbria. In the first of the four Rising Stars concerts
Connoisseurs are taking another look at Sauvignon and Chenin - why not give them a try! No doubt most of you have heard of Chicago's Blues Brothers. Well, let me introduce you to their distant French brothers - the Blancs' Sauvignon and Chenin.
The Manchester children's doctor found dead in a Coniston slate mine committed suicide because of an affair, an inquest concluded yesterday (Thursday). South Cumbria coroner Ian Smith said Dr Richard Stevens took his own life as pressure mounted to reveal
...your guide to local, speciality and seasonal food & drink. Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Special offer 5lbs minced beef (from George Bell's Hereford beef herd at Holme Farm, Kirkby Lonsdale) - £6.50. Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale:
If it's great views of lake and mountains you are after - without the struggle of a strenuous uphill climb - then Cat Bells Terrace is a good choice. The road takes you to about 50m vertical height above the western shores of Derwent Water. From here
Brothers James and Dean Ellison demonstrated their staying power in the Suzuka, Japan, round of the gruelling World Endurance Championship. At the end of the eight-hour race in temperatures of over 35 degrees, the Kendal pair were 13th and 14th respectively
JUNIOR golf is thriving at Carus Green Golf Club and the Carus Green junior team donned new team polo shirts and jerseys, received courtesy of sponsors Atlantis Kitchens, for its home matchplay fixture against Kendal, on Saturday. The sponsorship is
Kendal: STEVE HAWES, 77-18=59, won the Atkinson Trophy at Kendal with B. Kitchen, 80-18=62, runner-up. Roger Airey, 83-18=65, was third, Mike Winkley, 79-13=66, fourth, Steve Jackson, 74-7=67, fifth and Colin Hughes, 82-14=68, sixth. Sam Doidge had
DAVE Armitage, Director of Women's/Girls' Cricket for the Cumbria Cricket Board reports on the Cumbria Girls U15 season. CUMBRIA Girls Under-15 team have shown much improved spirit and form this season so far under new captain Kirby Linton from Thorncliffe
ORGANISERS of last weekend's successful showcase of South Lakeland music talent Circa are cooking up plans for another night. Jim Tyson, of the Kendal music shop, said: "It went really well. We were very pleased. People have been asking when we're going
JUNIOR CRICKET: Fine bowling by Ingleton brothers E. Read (4-11) and L. Read (4-9) was not quite enough to save their side in a first-ound Under-13 Cup match. Morecambe had restricted the village youngsters to 49, J. Turton taking 4-12, and they reached
ONE of the most respected names in reggae is set to drop by at the Brewery Arts Centre. Culture bring their Rastafarian roots reggae sound to the Malt Room on September 3. Their debut album Two Sevens Clash recorded in the late 70s and released on
HOWARD Hague and Lava bring an indefatigable array of sounds to Kendal this weekend. Blues, ballads, rhumbas, tangos and more are on the cards for Sunday's performance which forms part of the Brewery Art Centre's Sunday music live series. The alfresco
PINT-SIZED popstars prepare to do battle at Ulverston's Coronation Hall next week as part of national talent competition The Dream Concert. Five talented youngsters will go head to head in a bid to bag a place in the brand new DKUK pop band. The night
MASTER wicket-taker Bob Baldwin grabbed a mid-innings hat-trick and recorded a magnificent 7-15 to rescue Milnthorpe from the possibility of humiliating defeat by lowly Ibis. Batting first, Milnthorpe lost Chris Baldwin in the second over and found themselves
MEMBERS of the public flocked to Holker Hall at the weekend as Countryfile presenter and Castaway survivor Ben Fogle once again donned his wellies for filming of BBC's One Man and His Dog. As cries of "come by" filled the grounds of the stately home,
TWO major players in the region's music circles team up next Tuesday (August 3, 8pm). Baritone Brian Lancaster and organist and pianist Hugh Davies perform as part of the Hawkshead Parish Church Music for a Summer Evening series. Brian is a member of
What better place to show an Art Nouveau collection than Blackwell. With interiors influenced by the movement which was popular in the 1890s to early 1900s, the treasured collection of Sir Colin and Lady Morna Anderson sit in the upper rooms of the Bowness
NOT too long ago the shout from those with a political agenda was "farmers must diversify and do something else". Now I never subscribed to that theory. No, the one that I could live with was where you change "must" to either "may" or "can, if they wish
THE new hall at St Mark's CE School, at Natland, was the venue for An Evening of Music given by the school choir and the Helm Wind Ensemble to a capacity audience. The Ensemble, conducted by Denis McCaldin, opened with Serenade OP 7 by Richard Strauss
Lake District Summer Music has grown into one of the finest music festivals in the UK, attracting top names of the classical world. Events open tomorrow (Saturday, 8pm) with popular players the Chilingirian Quartet performing at Ulverston's Coronation
ADRIAN Yate continued his outstanding season with victory in a windswept Border City Wheelers 25 miles time trial at Cockermouth on Sunday. The Kent Valley Road Club rider's time was 55mins 16secs. Kent Valley veterans Frank Kilburn and Fred Pickstone
THE music of Venice echoed round St Peter's Church, Heversham, when Levens Choir gave an uplifting performance of Italian music. Throughout the concert the choir was in good voice and made a joyful sound. The Cruxifixus by Lotti was beautifully crafted
TOMMY: A bad weekend is a polite way of saying how things panned out at the weekend as far as I am concerned. It was very disappointing to travel all the way to Fleetwood and then be comprehensively outplayed in every aspect of the game - but that's
THE term ended for Queen Katherine School GCSE/AS and A2 art students with a fabulous and inspirational show of work. Always bursting with talent the annual exhibition is a great way to sign off the school year and provides an excellent showcase for
Phil Graham, the former England Sevens, Waterloo, Manchester and Oxford University centre is set to join Kendal for the new season which starts on September 4. Cumbrian Graham, who lives at Wigton and with his partner runs a cycle shop at Penrith,
KENDAL-based Keith Byrne from The North Face Adventure racing team is set to compete at the World Adventure Racing Championships in Newfoundland, Canada from August 1. Keith (pictured below) will be joined by three of his team-mates who will run cross-country
KENDAL AC athlete Gemma Phillips began to make a name for herself on the national track scene last weekend. For many years Gemma has been known as an excellent cross country athlete, but this season she has sensationally lowered her track 5k and
NETHERFIELD Seconds' opener Danny Welbourne smashed 134 to help his side win Sunday's Second Division Cup match against Blackpool by 99 runs at Parkside Road. Welbourne hit eight sixes and 12 fours - in all 96 in boundaries during a thrilling 91-ball
According to the wild plants charity Plantlife, each county loses one wild flower species each year on average. To highlight the country's wild flower heritage it asked people to vote for a wild flower emblem for their county. For Westmorland, that flower
DEFEAT was not the talking-point but the startling manner of it for Netherfield on Saturday. They capitulated by 10 wickets to joint second-placed Fleetwood, underlining just how unpredictable cricket can be. Netherfield's batting prowess deserted
A PEPPERY 72 from Kendal opener Ikram Ullah was the mainstay of the innings and helped to set up a 13-run victory over Leyland Motors in Sunday's Thwaites Smooth Beer Trophy match at Sandy Lane. It was a belated first appearance in the competition
A VISIT to the Royal Windermere Yacht Club turned into a floating banquet for Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal during a much-anticipated visit, reports Michaela Robinson-Tate. The Princess, who was at the club yesterday (Thursday) as part of a string
FOR the third successive year United Utilities Water PLC has been named by the Environment Agency as the North West's worst environmental offender in terms of total fine levels. The company was fined a total of £46,500 for eight offences in 2003. The
SIXTY sign and banner-waving campaigners against change of use plans for a former presbytery and chapel at Dodding Green, Skelsmergh, to house a religious community - the Friends for a UK Cenacolo Community - turned out for a silent protest yesterday
HUNDREDS of Cumbria's civil servants staged a walkout yesterday (Thursday) leaving job centres, benefits offices and pensions centres across the county closed or short-staffed. The strike action, by members of the Public and Commercial Services Union
WHEN it comes to household chores, cleaning the oven comes somewhere behind the despised jobs of doing the windows and polishing the brass collection, writes Ellis Butcher. For many, it's probably the number one neglected task in the home - after all
HOTELIERS trying to adapt their businesses to accommodate sailing boats when the 10mph speed limit is enforced on Windermere have criticised "shortsighted" planners for hampering their efforts, reports Ellie Hargreaves. Hotel owners around the lake claim
THE number of Cumbria County Council staff earning £50,000 or more has almost doubled this year from 33 to 64. Figures released this week show that former chief executive Louis Victory was paid between £140,000 and £149,999 in spite of only working 11
WELL-LOVED Ulverston writer and community figure Dickon Abbott took his own life but it was not a case of suicide, an inquest has concluded. South Cumbria coroner Ian Smith decided that 42-year-old Mr Abbott hanged himself on February 23 as a result
CUMBRIA County Council has come under heavy fire after publishing figures showing an £11.7 million under-spend last year. Accounts approved at a full council meeting yester- day (Thursday) show that £11,743,000 went unspent in a budget of £449,390,000
Motorbikes revved, tractors clattered, and the smell of burning oil and coal drifted across Cark Airfield as the heavyweights of the steam world descended on Flookburgh. Rows and rows of vintage vehicles packed the massive site as crowds flocked in.
AMBLESIDE'S Armitt Gallery, Museum and Library has declared an amnesty on the return of any of its books which have found their way into local homes and private collections, reports Jane Renouf. Some families may not even be aware that there are Armitt
The former boss of an animal rendering company has told a court his firm was forced by the Government to cut corners in the way it disposed of thousands of dead cattle, sheep and pigs from Cumbria during the foot-and-mouth crisis. Edwin Metcalfe, managing
SOUTH Lakeland District Council has again refused to answer direct questions about the continued suspension of three senior officers or provide a progress report of the investigation into a wages anomaly. Months after three officers were sent home, when
The former boss of an animal rendering company has told a court his firm was forced by the Government to cut corners in the way it disposed of thousands of dead cattle, sheep and pigs from Cumbria during the foot-and-mouth crisis. Edwin Metcalfe, managing
FOOD lovers are being encouraged to dine out in South Lakeland during August to help raise funds for a cancer charity. Three hotel and pub owners in Grange-over-Sands, Ambleside and Kendal have agreed to take part in Marie Curie Cancer Care's Eat Out
BUDDING and professional photographers alike are being invited to take part in the Snap for Oxfam Photography Month'. Kendal's Oxfam is taking part in the campaign that is combining a camera sale and photographic competition to raise money for the fight
A SCHEME to convert a seaside nursing home into holiday homes has been given the go ahead by planners. Although proposals to convert Hazelwood Hall, Silverdale, into 21 holiday apartments were approved, owners have stressed for now it is business as
POSTPONING plans for a referendum on regional devolution has condemned Cumbria councils to a period of potentially damaging uncertainty. Until a Government U-turn last week, the people in the Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire areas were expecting to take
A YEAR in the life of a hill farmer, set in stone, was launched in Kirkby Stephen with the official opening of the £40,000 poetry path by director of the Wordsworth Trust, Dr Robert Woof. The East Cumbria Countryside Project to commission a local poet
A YEAR in the life of a hill farmer, set in stone, was launched in Kirkby Stephen with the official opening of the £40,000 poetry path by director of the Wordsworth Trust, Dr Robert Woof. The East Cumbria Countryside Project to commission a local poet
NAIAD clawed her way of the rocks to win the Royal Windermere Yacht Club's 17-foot class Atholl trophy for classic yachts. Paul Harkness put her aground soon after the start of the third and final race for the Forwood and Atholl trophies, but he battled
MOST people celebrate their 60th birthday with 60 candles but not Windermere man Terry Colley who has decided to mark the milestone by taking on a series of 60 Lake District peaks in 48 hours. At 8am today the event's organiser leaves Coniston for a
MANUSCRIPTS and material by William Wordsworth and his Romantic contemporaries will soon be re-housed as the state-of-the-art Jerwood Centre comes to completion, reports Lisa Frascarelli. The £3.15million Wordsworth Trust project will see its own collection
MANUSCRIPTS and material by William Wordsworth and his Romantic contemporaries will soon be re-housed as the state-of-the-art Jerwood Centre comes to completion, reports Lisa Frascarelli. The £3.15million Wordsworth Trust project will see its own collection
A housing development to help ease the "urgent and overwhelming need" for affordable housing in South Lakeland has been submitted to the Lake District National Park Authority. Kendal-based planning consultants Coates Associates are planning a development
THE Government's decision to make farmers leave an uncultivated two-metre strip along hedgerows and watercourses for environmental reasons has been greeted with anger by farmers in Cumbria. New regulations from Department for Environment, Food and Affairs
There is a new face striding the streets of Coniston as the village got its very own community bobby this week. As part of the Cumbria Police initiative to have 70 new officers each devoted to a single patch in the county, PC Jo Dyson took charge of
A south Lakeland parish council has decided to rename itself in a bid to create more political clout and better complement the community while another is considering whether to make the change. Windermere Parish Council ceased to exist on Tuesday night
County backs vision for town's canal side A vision to transform Ulverston's canal side from a slightly ramshackle collection of crumbling edifices to an enviable gateway to Furness edged closer to reality this week. Cumbria County Council's South
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help play a vital role in keeping Morecambe Bay free of flotsam, jetsam and everything else left behind by inconsiderate visitors. So if a morning or afternoon with others helping to collect rubbish from the shoreline appeals
LANCASTER University researchers have been digging deep into the bed of Bassenthwaite Lake in a bid to preserve the future of the rare Vendace. Just last week, technicians, research students and staff from the university's Geography department took a
WALKERS and visitors to a popular beauty spot near Coniston will soon be able to admire some long-lost views, reports Ellis Butcher. Panoramas which had previously been obscured by trees are being opened up around Tarn Hows, which lies to the north east
A HAIRDRESSER who has created countless coiffures is putting down her scissors after nearly 30 years, reports Lisa Frascarelli. Businesswoman Joanne Boardley has waved goodbye to the Kendal hairdressing salon she set up as a teenager. In her three decades
A wealthy benefactor who owns a field worth potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds to developers is set to donate it to the young people of his village. Dan Houghton, 83, of North Road, Holme, said his village was short of a sports field, the community
AS COMPETITORS take a summer break from the ProPrep-sponsored Stage Rally Championship run by KLMC, the club are putting the finishing touches to the next round, the WA Developments Pendragon Stages, on August 29. Being a round of three regional
AMBLESIDE'S Gary Thorpe was the best placed South Lakeland runner in the recent Wasdale Fell Race covering 21 miles and 9,000ft of climbing, writes Mike Addison. He finished seventh and third V40 in a race regarded by many as being the toughest on the
Former Kendal Town player Richard Barr and Stephen Jenkinson, both FA qualified football coaches with football/science degrees, are holding a series of two-day coaching sessions around the county. Both men worked with Bolton Wanderers FC while studying
AMBLESIDE athlete Graham Patten is in the process of organising an event that will appeal to the inexperienced as well as the more serious runner. The Garburn Challenge which is planned for Saturday September 11 is aimed at keep-fit enthusiasts and
FOOTBALL SCIENCE: Former Kendal Town player Richard Barr and Stephen Jenkinson, both FA qualified football coaches with football/science degrees, are holding a series of two-day coaching sessions around the county. Both men worked with Bolton Wanderers
BRITISH tennis star Tim Tiger' Henman visited Ulverston Indoor Tennis Centre and personally gave advice to aspiring young players. It was part of a project aimed at boosting the sport among schoolchildren. More than 100 young tennis hopefuls in Cumbria
BARROW had a seven-wicket win at Lancaster in the Northern Premier League after the home side conceded. Rain arrived with the scores at Lancaster 158-9 and Barrow on 158-3. Neither side wanted to go back on for the sake of one run so the scorers were
COMPETITORS from all three divisions of Kendal Putting Association's league, plus non-league players, contested the fourth of six Grand Prix Medals. League president and match secretary Kevin White had a woeful first round of 49, but hit a record-breaking
GILL GALE from Crosthwaite has been on top form and qualified five horses for the Royal International and clinched her first Horse of the Year ticket of the season by winning at Three Counties with cob Harper, writes Malcolm Bewsher. Harper was also
Cattle... President's Prize. 1 Messrs Dennison. Best three animals. 1 M. Towers; 2 Messrs Dennison. Dairy cattle. In calf cow: 1 M. Towers. Cow in milk: 1 J. Dennison. Cow in milk, under five: 1 Messrs Dennison; 2 M. Towers. Heifer in milk: 1&3 M.
Cattle... SOCIETY cup for supreme champion animal: Messrs Dennison. Barrow Corporation cup, supreme champion opposite sex: F. Saunders. Walmsley and Smith cup, champion beef: R.F. Tyson. Bibby trophy, champion opposite sex (beef): F. Saunders. AF PLC
In shirt sleeves and shorts, more than 2,000 spectators turned out to experience the traditional delights of this year's North Lonsdale Agricultural Show. Wednesday's Bardsea Park event got off to a soaring start in the hazy heat with an eagle and vulture
