3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (299+ words) A super talented Threlkeld artist has won the top "best in show" award at the UK Coloured Pencil Society's silver anniversary exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. Pauline Stuart won the prestigious accolade for her stunning drawing Where Time…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (183+ words) Walkers wandering the northern Lake District fells around Keswick in recent days will no doubt have done a double take after encountering some weird and wonderful characters as they hit the slopes. They could have come across a prisoner on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (583+ words) A pianist travels from his American home for a month twice every year to entertain customers as he tinkles the ivories at Chinty's cafe in Keswick. Ninety-one-year-old Jim Barnes, who lives at Stillwater in Oklahoma, has been visiting the popular…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (399+ words) It's August 1982 " Princess Diana gives birth to Prince William, Ron Greenwood's England flop at the World Cup in Spain and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher oversees the Falklands War. And in Keswick, hordes of fun-lovers are having the time of their…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago  (538+ words) A long-standing family pub business and award-winning brewery have been recognised at the Cumbria Food Awards. Ian Bradley, the brewer behind the successful Coniston Brewing Co and his mum, Susan Bradley, jointly received the top award at the fifth annual…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (303+ words) An appeal has been launched by JD Wetherspoon to get a daily three-hour extension to the opening hours for the external customer seating area at the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Keswick. The pub chain wants a variation…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (318+ words) The final countdown to the 2026 Cumbria Food Awards has begun. The much-anticipated annual event takes place next Thursday, March 12, at Kendal College with TV presenter Chris Bavin doing the honours as host. Fully independent, they are judged by a panel…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (755+ words) Tourism operators in Keswick have voted three to one in favour of the introduction of a vehicle levy when entering and moving around the Lake District National Park. Forty-five business owners attended a Keswick Tourist Association meeting to discuss the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (797+ words) Police were given the answer to the mystery of an incident in which a boat was found drifting on Derwentwater last Thursday when a guest arrived back at a local hotel sodden and cold. Police had to carry out checks…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (313+ words) Keswick's representative on Cumberland Council says that "there is some reason to be optimistic" that the town's condemned leisure pool could reopen again. Cllr Sally Lansbury told the January meeting of the town council that "the door has not closed…...