South Lakeland, England News

Cumbria Rural Citizens Advice, which covers the South Lakes, was the biggest winner, after being given A 312,000 from the Big Lottery Fund.

A KENDAL pub has been slapped with a A 130 fine for selling alcohol outside permitted hours and allowing disorderly conduct on licensed premises.

Radiator blues: 65 councils have already introduced schemes to help cut residents' fuel costs, and another 50 are in the pipeline.

A NUMBER of South Lakeland pubs, B&B and hotels have been targeted by a male trying to make fraudulent bookings, police have said.

THE Holy Grail of British football is coming to South Lakeland as a group of friends pull a bus from Shap to Kendal.

South Ribble has the lowest proportion of people who walk to work in the North West, according to a new report.

THREE South Lakeland couples who tied the knot at the same church on the same day have all just marked their golden wedding anniversaries.

THE new political alliance running Cumbria County Council for the next four years is due to be sworn in tomorrow.

TV adventurer Bear Grylls will fly into South Lakeland later this morning as he joins 2,500 Cumbrian Scouts at their county camp and fun day.

A MENSWEAR chain's youngest manager has impressed her bosses after setting up a 'one-stop' wedding department in a previously unused room above their South Lakeland shop.

BOVINE TB is a devastating illness in cattle and there is undestandably much concern over the news that the disease has been discovered in South Lakeland and north Lancashire.

Information released following a Freedom of Information request from the Evening Mail has revealed that in South Cumbria there is A 3,634,108.71 outstanding in business rates.

SIR Alex Ferguson's boots will be 'hard to fill', claims the chairman of the Westmorland branch of the Manchester United Supporters Club.

A PUBLIC inquiry into the soundness of a council's plans to zone land for thousands of homes in the South Lakes will resume this summer.

HIGH street law firms are under threat from major reforms to the criminal legal aid system - local practitioners have warned.

It's all cheers again for the Lib Dems as it is announced Heidi Halliday takes the Lakes seat with 831, over Ben Berry's 584 and Sarah Costello's 99 "I am really pleased to be given the opportunity to work for my area for the next four years.

Cumbria Constabulary's end of year report showed crime in the district has fallen by 15 per cent in the last year.

PLANS to develop the Berners Close site in Grange-over-Sands will go on display at a one-day public consultation next week.

NEW TEAM: Back, from left, John Cooke, Amanda Marwood, Peter Briggs and David Lavelle.

FUNDRAISERS from a South Lakeland and north Lancashire charity are appealing for participants and volunteers to sign up for a good cause.