TWO new professionals in Jamie How ( New Zealand) and Brady Barends (South Africa) are bound for Kendal and Netherfield respectively, making it an intriguing prospect for the start of FBS Northern Premier League season on Saturday week.
FUNDRAISERS hope a series of events will help raise funds to spruce up a rundown playground in Kendal. Beck Community Play Area, in Heron Hill, needs £45,000 for a new scheme and so far £13,000 has been collected through grants and activiies. The next
WORRIES over road safety and access led councillors to reject ambitious plans for a car park in Broughton-in-Furness. The town’s information centre, which is run by volunteers, had applied for permission to transform grazing land behind Victory Hall
A MAN who hid a stash of illegal drugs in a dry stone wall near Windermere has been sent to prison for 18 months. Carlisle Crown Court heard that John James Hicks, 31, planned to sell the tablets around nightclubs in the area. The pills – all variations
A BIG fortnight lies ahead for Milnthorpe Corinthians who take on Lytham in the semi-finals of the West Lancashire League’s Challenge Cup on Saturday. Seven days later Cors face Westmorland League First Division 1 leaders Kirkoswald in the
CROOK B beat Natland B to ensure their top flight survival in Division 1 of the Kendal and District League, while at the same time condemning Natland C and Dallam A to Division 2 next season. It was only Crook B’s third win of the season, but their
THE father of a ten-year-old boy found hanged at his home believes the ‘mind-altering’ drugs he was on led to him taking his own life. An inquest heard that Dalton-in-Furness boy Harry Hucknall was tak-ing Ritalin and Fluoxetine to treat depression and
GHYLL Head has fished well to orange lures. Those that have fished without a gold head and stripped back quickly have done well. Fishing on Killington Lake has improved and rainbow trout are coming out to bibio flies and green and black lures. Anglers
THE Rothay Bowling League begins its 50th season next week. Formed in 1961 largely due to the efforts of Wilf Nicholson, then president of Ambleside Bowling Club, the founding four clubs are now 14 from an ar the four founding clubs were Ambleside
PLANS have been unveiled to regenerate two areas of rare natural Lake District juniper woodland in one of the most popular walking areas of the national park. Provided government permission is granted, nearly 30 acres of Glenridding Common will be fenced
THE canoeist who died after being recovered from Ullswater, yesterday, has been formally identified. Samuel John Yarwood, 22, from Poole, Dorset, was recovered from Ullswater Lake at 9am, after reports someone had capsized in the water.
TOP comic Jimmy Carr is on his way to South Lakeland this spring. The star of shows such as 10 O'Clock Live and 8 Out Of 10 Cats will perform on Thursday, May 23, at lakes leisure Kendal. Below you can read a new interview with the stand-up
A ONCE failing secondary school is now being hailed as ‘outstanding’ by education watchdogs. Ofsted inspectors have awarded Ulverston Victoria High School with the top grade just three years after they placed the 1,100 pupil school into ‘special
HELM Hill’s James Knox claimed victory in the first race of the English Championships when he took top spot in the under 16 Pendle Fell Race on Saturday. A full team of Helm Hill juniors headed down to Pendle for the championship races and Knox led
KENDAL player/coach Ian Voortman offers his weekly view: Our bus was full of tired, but very satisfied bodies on the way back from Herefordshire at the weekend after becoming only the third team to beat Luctonians at their place this season. A second
KENDAL Town boss Lee Ashcroft promised the club’s supporters that the team would give of their very best in the remaining matches despite the quest for a play-off place looking out of reach. Town’s up-and-down form continued as they followed a 5-2 defeat
THE UPWARD curve in form Kendal have found continued with a vital 29-22 over sixth-placed Luctonians after the long trip to Herefordshire on Saturday. Head coach Jon Nicholson said: “Last Saturday’s hard-earned win was built on a fantastic first-half
THE Kendal 9/10 girls A team of Brodie Swallow, Imogen Burrow, Emily Reay and Josie Bates finished third in the 200m medley and freestyle relays at the Cumbria County Championships in Carlisle. After strong qualification swims, the quartet had to settle
SUB four-minute miler and Commonwealth Games 800m runner Neil Speaight swapped his track spikes for trail shoes and won Saturday's opening 10km event at the Lakeland Trails in Cartmel. Belgrave Harrier Speaight made light work of the mud after
LAKELAND’S Adam Bartlett and Hannah Cleary-Hughes and Barrow’s Sarah Jones are Northern Orienteering Champions in their M14, W14 and W16 age classes. Former Kendalian Charlie Adams, now of South Yorkshire Orienteers, is M45 Champion. They achieved their
CHIEF Dan George will join Aintree’s folklore for Jimmy Moffatt’s Cartmel stable if winning the world’s most famous steeplechase, the John Smith’s Grand National, on Saturday. The 11-year-old star of Pitt Farm Stables heads to Liverpool for
THE first episode of The Dales TV series pulled in more than four million viewers. The ITV programme, presented by Bradford-born comedian Adrian Edmondson, follows some of the people living and working in the Dales, including Craven vet Neil
THERE is no doubt the arts are very precious. I don’t know anyone who is not interested in something arty, whether it be literature, music, the visual arts or theatre. Music and books at the top of my personal list; although as a one-time amateur operatic
LAKES-based TV adventurer Paul Rose has completed a stunning underwater tour of Britain’s coastal waters for a new BBC series. The marine explorer, who lives in Windermere, will front the BBC 2 programme Britain’s Secret Seas, which begins
A PAIR of ospreys have returned to their nesting site in the Lake District. The birds are back at Bassenthwaite Lake - 10 years after the first male osprey chose the area for a nesting site. The bird, known as No Ring, was the first
LANCASTER Castle is set to feature in a BBC programme this summer. The BBC's production team is currently at the castle putting the finishing touches to filming for 'Country Tracks'. The series of programmes focus on the countryside
A COMMUNITY is rallying to support the family of a young boy diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Kind-hearted school children at Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School have raised nearly £2,000 from a sponsored walk for fellow pupil Arron
A SOUTH Lakeland farmer is doing his bit for the environment and wildlife after joining up with the RSPB on a conservation project on his land. John Atkinson, who runs Pyes Bridge Farm, near Milnthorpe, is restoring 15 acres of wet grassland, which he
Dorothy Hornby (nee Grisedale), of Milnthorpe, recalls life at Kendal High School during the Second World War. On Saturday mornings before the war, country people, especially farmers’ wives, would take their produce to the Market Hall at Kendal
KENDAL’S Shopmobility scheme could be axed, potentially leaving ‘hundreds’ of disabled people ‘prisoners in their own homes’. The charity says it has only enough cash to last until September after South Lakeland District Council turned down
FRUSTRATED mountain rescue team leaders have condemned techno-reliant walkers who are trying to use mobile phones ‘apps’ as navigational aids. Increasing numbers of gadget-loving hikers are going astray on the Lake District fells and have contributed
THE story of a former soldier who spent almost the whole of the the Second World War as a PoW in Germany has been published by his widow. James Bryan Stilling, whose parents lived at Castle Rise, Kendal, joined the Territorial Army in April 1939, and
A FARMER is being forced to consider the future of his business after one of his rare pigs was mutilated and killed. Police say the five-month-old Gloucestershire Old Spot was left with four horrific wounds from either a machete or an axe.
