KENDAL TOWN FC have arranged for the visits of two Unibond Premier Division clubs in their pre-season build-up. Ex-Parkside boss Tony Hesketh returns as manager of Lancaster on Saturday, August 3 (3pm), while on Monday, August 5 Town are hosts to Accrington
JOHN CARNIE had always been Lucky Jim but in four years and 8,000 hours writing a book, heartbreak and crippling illness enveloped him. Completing At Lakeland's Heart, the first detailed history of Ambleside and surrounding areas, was more than a labour
ALAN Gilpin and Roger Barrow won the man of the match titles when Cumbria met Shropshire home and away in the Senior County Championship. Barrow was the outstanding player in the away leg where Shropshire won by 229 chalks to 227 and Gilpin was chosen
KENDAL TOWN FC have arranged for the visits of two Unibond Premier Division clubs in their pre-season build-up. Ex-Parkside boss Tony Hesketh returns as manager of Lancaster on Saturday, August 3 (3pm), while on Monday, August 5 Town are hosts to Accrington
ARNSIDE kept up the pressure on Westgate at the top of the Cumberland View VW Westmorland League's first division with a bloodless nine-wicket win over Ingleton on Saturday. And the afternoon brought further good news for the dfending champions when it
KENDAL RUFC's newly-appointed coach Neil Rollings took the third week of pre-season training this week before accompanying a Cheltenham Colleges squad on a tour of South Africa. He will be concerned that several injury niggles will clear up before the
A CRITICAL stage in the season arrives this weekend with the top four clubs in The Bay Northern League's first division matched together by the fixture-list. And Kendal showed they are in great heart for it by piling up the day's highest score against
A DESTRUCTIVE innings of 70 from Netherfield skipper Grahame Clarke master-minded a vital victory over Preston in The Bay Northern Premier League on Saturday. Netherfield had dismissed Preston for 150, but hopes of a successful reply were under threat
THREE action-packed days for all the family is the promise of this year's Lowther Horse Driving Trials and Country Fair - one of the largest events of its kind in the North West. If you want to be in the front row, then make sure you enter this week's
NEW Forest eye is a diseases of the summer months which typically affects younger cattle, and it is important to take preventative action now, writes NADIS vet Richard Laven BvetMed MRCVS. New Forest Eye, or infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, is
COWS could provide the key to conservation on Whitbarrow Scar in South Lakeland. The important limestone pavement habitat on the 1,000 hectare Whitbarrow site is one of the most threatened areas of its kind in the world, according to the Forestry Commission
VACCINATION should be the first line of defence in any new fight against foot-and-mouth according to the Royal Society's scientific report into last year's devastating epidemic. The Royal Society Inquiry, headed by Sir Brian Follett, visited Cumbria in
COMMUNITY projects are set for a funding boost courtesy of a Government 'rural recovery and sustainable development' grant of £125,000 to be handed out by the Lake District National Park Authority. Grants of £1,000 are available to parish councils for
SPEED ban campaigners are expected to gather on Windermere on Tuesday as the Commonwealth Games baton is carried across the lake by boat. Tony Kemp, of lobby group Windermere Action Force, said 50 vessels carrying up to 200 people would sail alongside
Youngsters at a Kendal Barnardo's project received a selection of toys from visitors on a flying visit through the town. The visitors, who gave the toys and a camera and films to children at the South Lakeland Family Service Project, were employees from
PEOPLE who want to become foster carers are being invited to contact Cumbria County Council as part of this year's recruitment campaign. There are around 500 children in the county living with foster carers, which have been carefully chosen to meet their
STAFF at The Lakes School have said they will not be happy that a GCSE History paper mistake by the exam board has been dealt with properly until pupils have received their results, writes Justin Hawkins. Twenty-nine pupils at The Lakes School, at Troutbeck
A PLAN has been unveiled to give grants to South Lakeland's 52 councillors so they can access council information by computer from home. But the proposal, which is likely to involve South Lakeland District Council making a financial contribution, provoked
THE latest phase in the modernisation of the West Coast Main Line will result in considerably longer journey times this summer for South Lakeland passengers venturing south and tourists making tracks to the Lakes. Travellers can expect trips between the
Dales action CONSERVING species and habitats and promoting rural recovery following last year's foot-and-mouth outbreak are two priorities to be tackled by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority over the next year. Developing sustainable tourism,
RENOWNED broadcaster Eric Robson is the new figurehead of Cumbria Tourist Board after being voted chairman this week. The father-of-five from Wasdale told CTB's commercial members the industry needed 'sustainable success' and faced a number of challenges
FEARS that a major Sedbergh employer may close with the loss of jobs unless a new warehouse is allowed to be built prompted planners to order a site visit. JMP Foodservice, which employs 28 people, intends to renovate the old mill and build a large industrial
Picket lines sprung up outside public buildings and council depots on Wednesday morning as local authority workers throughout South Lakeland took part in a national one-day strike over pay. Members of the public wanting to change their library books,
In light of other requests, Mr Raymond said a report would be brought before South Lakeland area committee in October on the possibility of creating a mini-roundabout at the junction or a larger one-way system around the Rothay Manor Hotel. Following
Two RAF planes came within a whisker of disaster in the skies above Windermere in what has been classified as the most serious kind of near-miss. An RAF Hawk jet doing 480mph streaked past as little as 50 metres away from the wing-tip of a propeller-driven
VANDALS smashed a light surrounding Ulverston's famous Hoad monument with a brick. The cost of replacing the Philip's illuminator is expected to be more than £600. It was smashed between 5.30pm on Sunday, July 7, and 10.30pm on Saturday, July 13. Anyone
MANY festival-goers who visited Ulverston for the annual Furness Tradition Folklore weekend have promised to return again because of the friendly atmosphere in the town, reports Zoe Casson. The fourth festival to be staged in the town attracted more than
A MAN from Kendal who was living and working in Australia has died in a motorbike accident in Sydney. Wayne Mercer, 27, who attended Ghyllside and Kirkbie Kendal schools, died on July 10. A cremation has taken place in Australia, and Mr Mercer's father
SOUTH Lakeland magistrates granted the owner of the Kendal Hotel a protection order to run Jazz's nightclub despite police reservations about his ability to properly manage and control the licensed premises off Highgate. Russell Samuel Harris, who ran
A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD dream was finally realised when Nether Kellet Primary School officially opened its new purpose-built school hall, writes Victoria Clark. Former head teacher Dave Mallinder, who first had the vision to build a hall, was invited back to
GRANGE Town Council is bidding for a share of a fund set up to help tackle foot-and-mouth recovery. The council has applied to the First Aid for Rural Cumbria scheme for money to help replace stage drapes in the town's Victoria Hall following the centre
JOHN CARNIE had always been Lucky Jim but in four years and 8,000 hours writing a book, heartbreak and crippling illness enveloped him. Completing At Lakeland's Heart, the first detailed history of Ambleside and surrounding areas, was more than a labour
Two RAF planes came within a whisker of disaster in the skies above Windermere in what has been classified as the most serious kind of near-miss. An RAF Hawk jet doing 480mph streaked past as little as 50 metres away from the wing-tip of a propeller-driven
RENOWNED broadcaster Eric Robson is the new figurehead of Cumbria Tourist Board after being voted chairman this week. The father-of-five from Wasdale told CTB's commercial members the industry needed 'sustainable success' and faced a number of challenges
SPEED ban campaigners are expected to gather on Windermere on Tuesday as the Commonwealth Games baton is carried across the lake by boat. Tony Kemp, of lobby group Windermere Action Force, said 50 vessels carrying up to 200 people would sail alongside
Manufacturers in the North West saw sales and orders bounce back during the second quarter of this year. But business confidence remains fragile, according to the latest economic survey by the North West Chambers of Commerce and the Royal Bank of Scotland
CELEBRATIONS to mark the Queen's Jubilee have boosted business for Lake District brewer Jennings Brothers plc. Chairman John Rudgard served up an upbeat assessment of the company's future prospects, saying trading in the first quarter was also helped
HOPES are high that the number of new business start-ups in the county this year will return to pre-foot-and-mouth levels. Bob Clark of Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency (CREA) said while the number of people receiving pre-start advice was about the same
Kendal businesses are being offered the chance to cash in on the first-ever job creation fund for the area. Firms employing fewer than 50 staff could be in line for grants worth up to £10,000 if they can show the money will help to create ' high value
MOTORCYCLE road racer Andy Jackson joined the elite band of riders who belong to the Southern 100 Club after competing in the Isle of Man. Just in time for his 31st birthday on Sunday, he became only one of 55 riders ever to average 100mph on a lap at
SEARCHING for a chairman to replace retiring Richard Boddy, Cumbria Tourist Board asked for a person with vision, drive and enthusiasm to lead it through a period of change and development. The non-executive, part-time post is not salaried and offers
THE Royal Windermere 17ft Class yachts were in action twice over the weekend but though conditions were different each day, the result was the same with two more victories for Chas Ingham's Chameleon, writes John McVey. He won the Scott Words-worth and
BORROWDALE'S Andrew Schofield has hit a winning vein of form of late and his latest triumph was in the Wasdale Fell Race - one of the toughest events on the fell running calendar, writes Mike Addison. Schofield was almost six minutes clear of his team
WARMER weather produced faster times and a weekend double for VC Cumbria's Peter Brear in the Derwent Valley CC 10 and 25-mile time trials beside Bassenthwaite. The west coast rider won Saturday's 10 in 21min 20sec and Sunday's 25 in 55-21. But riders
MOTOR SPORT: Veteran stock-car racer Steve Hardy from Kendal is riding high at the top of the Warton Stockcar Club Super Bangers Championship. Hardy, who is a manger for Greenbank Tyres in Kendal, recorded a first and second in the heats and went on to
LIKE you, I have known for a long time that the prosperity of Kendal was built on wool. However, I am not sure that I always appreciated the huge part played by wool in the prosperity of England. The Government has been frowning on what it called the
AWARD-WINNING dry stone waller Andrew Loudon has already made his mark at one prestigious summer show, and has this week shown off his skills at another top-class event, writes Victoria Clark. Mr Loudon, 37, of Coniston, a Dry Stone Walling Association
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown's spending review appears to have come-up short of the money asked for by the Curry Report. Last year Sir Don Curry's Policy Commission report into the Future of Food and Farming said the industry needed £500 million to implement
25 Years Ago July 22, 1977 FRIDAY'S 150th ascent of Helvellyn by 82-year-old Tommy Hodgson was a tough one for the television crew who decided to film Kendal's old man of the mountains on his record-breaking climb. As Tommy, who has only one lung which
What's in the shops with the emphasis, where possible, on locally-produced, seasonal and specialty foods. Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Kendal Rough Fell Lamb (from farmer Steve Dunning at Orton) mini leg joints - £2.25 per 1/2 kilo. Dales butchers,
The new Austin Powers film is almost in the cinemas, so to get yourself in a generally swinging and groovy state of mind, tune into 'Groovy Baby!' From Jose Feliciano's Will Young beating (by 34 years!) lounge version of 'Light My Fire' to The Monkees
The sun's finally shining, so whether you're off to the White Isle or not this year, what could be better than the inaugural Ibiza compilation to give you a taste of that sun-soaked hedonistic experience. This 2 CD package starts promisingly with The
TRAIN drivers with First North Western have voted to stage three 48-hour strikes in puruit of more pay. Drivers for First North Western Trains - which operates local services in Cumbria and Lancashire - decided on Wednesday they would strike on July 28
A SOUTH Lakeland man working on a gas drilling rig has told how he heard a loud explosion and watched in disbelief as a helicopter nose-dived into the North Sea leaving five men dead, and six missing. Offshore electrician Warren Robinson was on the deck
A SOUTH Lakeland man working on a gas drilling rig has told how he heard a loud explosion and watched in disbelief as a helicopter nose-dived into the North Sea leaving five men dead, and six missing. Offshore electrician Warren Robinson was on the deck
TWO former friends faced each other in court to resolve a row about an unfinished music album and an alleged broken gentleman's agreement. Richard Davis, of Warton, gave singer-guitarist Barry Nelson £3,150 to buy recording equipment so he could produce
TENANTS have greeted moves to stave off the possibility of a council housing stock transfer as a major victory, writes Local Government reporter Beth Broomby. Yesterday (Thursday), South Lakeland District Council backed plans to hand over day-to-day management
URGENT action needs to be taken to prevent another tragic accident occurring at a dangerous and flawed junction, according to residents. On June 7, a 24-year-old woman pedestrian died after she was struck by a lorry which mounted the pavement following
TRAIN drivers with First North Western have voted to stage three 48-hour strikes in puruit of more pay. Drivers for First North Western Trains - which operates local services in Cumbria and Lancashire - decided on Wednesday they would strike on July 28
A FUND launched in memory of a brother and sister from Foxfield, near Broughton-in-Furness, who were killed in a car accident, has topped the £10,500 mark in only five months, writes Furness Reporter Zoe Casson. Rebecca Rossiter, 18, and her brother,
CAMPAIGNERS at Lowick C of E School have pledged to fight on despite a recommendation by education chiefs that the proposed closure should go ahead, reports Zoe Casson. Only hours after receiving the report by Cumbria County Council's director of education
A BLITZ on litter in the town centre and along the promenade in Grange-over-Sands will be tackled by volunteers on Saturday, August 17. The litter-pick is being organised by Keep Grange Tidy Group, and follows their latest highly-successful clean-up at
HOT on the heels of the successful Kirkland festival, plans have been drawn up for another wave of improvements to help regenerate the area. The Kirkland Partnership is consulting the public on its proposals for 2002-04, which include: lThe resurfacing
URGENT action needs to be taken to prevent another tragic accident occurring at a dangerous and flawed junction, according to residents. On June 7, a 24-year-old woman pedestrian died after she was struck by a lorry which mounted the pavement following
Information on a wide range of issues affecting businesses in South Lakeland is now available at the touch of a button. A new website aimed at local firms and businesses considering moving into the area has been launched by the district council' s economic
