THE Great Easter Newt Hunt will take place from April 22 to May 2. The project aims to find out how widespread newts are in Britain’s garden ponds. Participants are asked to spend 20 minutes on one day over Easter looking for the amphibians. Anyone
GOALS from Alex Taylor and Mark Jackson got Kendal back to winning ways at Frickley Athletic with a 2-0 away win. Town had lost their previous three matches but Alex Taylor gave them an early 10th minute lead when he slipped past two defenders in the
THE University of Lancaster has become the latest institution to announce plans to charge students £9,000 in fees. The university said charging the maximum amount allowed would reflect its teaching and research standing. The new fee will be introduced
CUMBRIA Police Authority has published its Policing Plan, giving details of how it intends to deal with its £18.7m budget deficit. The force is facing cuts each year until 2015 and has already said it will have to reduce officer numbers by
Ulverston’s Furness Bach Choir perform Handel’s biblical oratorio Israel In Egypt at St James Church, Barrow, on Saturday (7.30pm). The exciting narration of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt features some of Handel’s most dramatic music.
PROPOSALS being considered by the BBC to cut local programmes on its Radio Cumbria station have been met with widespread concern. The corporation, facing its biggest cost-saving measures in years, has suggested BBC Radio Cumbria only provides
‘VERY knowledgable’ staff at a popular Kendal attraction are celebrating after securing a top accreditation. Kendal Museum has been accredited as a Quality Assured Visitor Attraction - an assessment run by Visit England and recognises customer
AN electrifying collaboration between Paloma Faith, Graham Coxon and Bill Ryder-Jones -is set to be a summer sizzler. 'Desire' is made up of Paloma's unique, sultry voice together with Graham's and Bill's guitar mastery- resulting in an original
MORE people than ever turned out to support Sedbergh Spring Show. The People’s Hall in the town was taken over by some of the finest examples of arts, crafts, plants, cakes as more than 300 enjoyed a day out. Show chairman Margaret Milburn
North Women’s Hockey League Division One Preston 7, Kendal 4. KENDAL Ladies will be hoping for a close match when Preston face City of York on Saturday as a second-placed finish will see them promoted to the Premier Division. Kendalm, who
HUNDREDS of thousands of bees will have the opportunity to spread their wings at a new apiary in North Lancashire. Lancaster Beekeepers members have built six colonies in Yealand Conyers as part of a £34,000 project to help the native black honey bee
The A590 has been closed at Mill Brow between Dalton and Barrow after a one-vehicle road traffic collision this afternoon. An injured male is currently being treated at the scene. Police have said that the road is likely to remain closed
KENDAL United won for the second time this week to move six points clear at the top of division two. Having defeated Windermere 2-1 on the road thanks to a Jason Tucker brace on Tuesday, United travelled to Coniston, where they came from behind to win
PENRITH cinema is to remain open after the building's owners have a change of heart. Graves (Cumberland) Ltd have agreed a 10-year extension to the current lease on Eden's only current release cinema. Rory Stewart, MP for Penrith and
MORE than 5,000 racing fans flocked to Whittington’s point-to-point course for the annual Holcombe Hunt Steeplechases - once known as the Millworkers’ Grand National. Linda Nuttall, a member of the organising committee, said: “The day was a great success
A RARE signed photograph of speed fiend Sir Malcolm Campbell, in his famous Bluebird K4 on Coniston Lake has gone under the hammer for £1,800. The photograph was signed and inscribed in the lower right corner, ‘To P. Wood from Malcolm Campbell
SMOKERS in Cumbria are putting their lives at greater risk during surgery. Cumbria Primary Care Trust has warned that people smoking ten cigarettes or more a day are six times more likely to suffer complications after surgery. And it has said taht research
THIEVES have stolen garden ornaments worth nearly £2,000 from two houses in South Lakeland. The first incident occurred, between 8am and 3:30pm on Friday (March 25) when a 4ft glazed pot planter was stolen from the front garden of a remote
A CHUNK of publicly-owned forest could still be sold-off despite fierce opposition over plans to privatise England’s woodlands. Plans to sell-off almost 100,000 acres of the Public Forestry Estate in the next four years to raise £100m were back on the
THE first steps towards building a super surgery in a Dales town have been made after years of doctors fighting red tape to make the vision a reality. A small crowd of dignitaries, doctors and onlookers turned out to witness the beginning of
A DRIVER has spoken of his ‘absolute horror’ when he realised a car was speeding towards him the wrong way down a motorway. Eden senior road policing officer David Kerry was driving north on the M6 towards Carlisle when he confronted a car travelling
IF YOU missed the much-hyped ‘SuperMoon’ because of the foul weather, please don't feel too bad; it really wouldn't have looked much bigger or brighter than usual. The thing is, the Moon is always super, especially when you see it through a telescope
EXPORTING dairy prod-uce and focusing on milk producsts could boost the Cumbrian farming economy, according to a local farmer and an MP. Russell Bowman, the county’s NFU Dairy Board chairman, believes moving into commodities such as yoghurt and milk
MOTORISTS reported a car travelling the wrong way along the M6 in Cumbria last night. The incident forced traffic to slow with the matrix sign set to 20 mph on the northbound carriageway between J39 (Shap) and J40 A66 (Penrith).
