Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has joined a growing list of environmental activists backing the high-impact book of pictures by Ambleside photographer Ashley Cooper, Images from a […]

Puzzled tourists who may have wondered why two shop fronts on Ambleside’s busy Compston Road were boarded up might have thought they were victims of an […]

A man who died when his SUV plunged down the fellside near the summit of Wrynose Pass in Little Langdale last September was not wearing a […]

A zoo in Windermere, surely not? Well, no. At the time it was really Bowness. The new home for John and Beatrice Kenworthy was built by […]

An iconic island that inspired one of the National Trust’s founders to launch the conservation charity has been given to the organisation as a gift after […]

Work is soon to start on a £200,000 scheme to upgrade the play area at Rothay Park in Ambleside, which was badly damaged during the December […]

Hillary Clinton may have lost the chance to become the first woman president of the United States in November, but a Hilary (with one L) on […]

The last thing shoppers might be expected to come across in the centre of Ambleside on the last Saturday in March would be a fundraising cycle […]

Windermere Pale, a pint from Hawkshead Brewery, has been awarded the North West champion beer for the second time in four years, building on the regional […]