A 23-YEAR-OLD workman suffered shoulder and chest injuries when he was in collision with a wagon and crushed underneath while carrying out road marking work at New Hutton, near Kendal, yesterday. The North West Air Ambulance was called to the scene accompanied
BATON waver Barry Sharkey takes to Kendal's Westmorland Hall podium for the opening night of the Mary Wakefield Westmorland Music Festival on Saturday, May 17 (7.30pm). A leading light in the region's musical circles, the eminent Mr Sharkey is the highly
SONGS by one of the greatest rock groups of all time will echo around The Lakes School hall as students put on Tommy this week. Arguably one of The Who's finest moments and featuring fabled rock tunes such as Pinball Wizard, I'm Free and See Me, Feel
THE distinguished baton of Barry Sharkey will be waving around the Westmorland Hall podium tomorrow night (Saturday, March 17, at 7.30pm), conducting Beethoven's fifth, a Glinka overture and a work by Grieg. Alongside Mr Sharkey and the popular players
AN APPEAL has been launched to help find members of a group of Eastern European Jewish girls who were evacuated to Windermere during the Second World War. One of these girls, Ruth David (neé Oppenheimer) is to give a talk about her experiences at the
This year I will be celebrating 26 years as a chef. And I can still remember my first day as I walked into the kitchens at the Swan Hotel in Grasmere back in 1980. Fresh faced, eyes wide open and scared out of my skin. I was going to be embarking on
THE date that would have been Donald Campbell's 86th birthday will be marked next week with special events at Coniston. The village's Ruskin Museum will be playing host to the record breaker's daughter, Gina Campbell, and his nephew, Don Wales, when
A windfall of cash totalling £100,000 could be on its way to Grange if councillors vote to approve a recommendation made to South Lakeland's cabinet committee next week. South Lakeland District Council has received an unexpected one-off grant of £348,781
THINGS are getting tense for Kendal Town in the UniBond League Premier Division and this weekend brings a must win home match against fellow strugglers Leek Town. Leek, six points behind Town, but with two games in hand, occupy the key 19th place in
DISCOVERING a new band is always exciting and you just want to share it with everyone else. That happened to me on a special family holiday we had over in Canada in the summer of 2005. I'd switched on the local television news just as The Trews unleashed
TOM Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was the first time I'd stepped over the Library Theatre's threshold for many a year. To be honest, I'd forgotten what a fantastic theatre it was. Although neatly tucked away under the architectural
FOUR top London musicians from the acclaimed LOOP collective will play the South Lakeland leg of their UK tour in Grange-over-Sands tomorrow (Friday, March 16). Led by vibraphone player Jim Hart - one of only a handful of outstanding instrumentalists
THE chances of a new type of health centre coming to Ulverston have gone after it was announced that the town was deemed unsuitable. Cumbria Primary Care Trust were looking at the town as a possible venue for a Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Support
"IF YOU want to know what makes me angry, it's packaging," rages the normally mild mannered, heart of gold, former Coronation Street star Shobna Gulati. "It makes me mad. "I'd rather not have it. "And I think companies should start charging for carrier
IN DECEMBER 2006 I ran a piece in the arts pages of The Westmorland Gazette's Leisure section about Jo Hutton, the originally Kendal, now Ulverston-based film-maker, who'd been flying the flag for Cumbrian film for a couple of years one way or another
A SCHEME to improve safety on the A590 near Kendal is scheduled to begin on Monday (March 19). The works will see the section of road between the Meathop Roundabout and Gilpin Bridge resurfaced with a special skid-resistant material and new markings
Our What's On choice for South Lakeland, Furness and the Eden Valley. Thursday, March15 MINIMUM and Maximum will be the subject in the spotlight at the next meeting of Kendal Recorded Music Society at Stricklandgate Methodist Church Hall at 7.15pm
