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Lake District

July 2024

  • Farmer and Fell runner Joss Naylor running up Wasdale with courage determination in the Lake District Cumbria<br>AJGF81 Farmer and Fell runner Joss Naylor running up Wasdale with courage determination in the Lake District Cumbria

    Joss Naylor obituary

  • Herdwick sheep which have jumped over drystone walls in the Borrowdale valley in the Lake District.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1949: it’s a hard life for the flockmaster and dog

June 2024

  • Rachel Cooke

    Notebook
    Following in the footsteps of David Nicholls’ characters turned out to be good for our soles

    Rachel Cooke
    A trip to a local, well-known outdoors outlet proved that the spirit of Michael and Marnie is alive and well in Penrith
  • View of Windermere

    Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first

    Statutory nuisance complaint lodged by Save Windermere against United Utilities is a first over sewage pollution
  • A view across lake Windermere on a dark, cloudy day, showing two wooden ramps , with mountains and sailing boats in the background.

    Protect Windermere from sewage, campaigners urge UK party leaders

    Open letter signed by naturalist Chris Packham and comedian Paul Whitehouse says pollution is degrading lake

May 2024

  • David Nicholls at the Hay festival

    David Nicholls warns readers against trying to visit novel’s locations

  • Trees and moss-covered woodland with bluebells

    Borrowdale rainforest in Lake District declared national nature reserve

  • A lake steamer close to shore on a large lake flanked by beautiful rolling hills

    United Utilities raises investor payouts a day after Windermere sewage discharge revealed

  • View from Lake District campsite on the edge of Derwentwater.

    Lake District caravan owners forced out by 60%-plus price rise

April 2024

  • Spring daffodils in front of Alnwick Gardens.

    Don’t drive tourists to the north-east – we won’t cope

  • A char swimming

    Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: Windermere char under threat from raw sewage

February 2024

  • View of Derwentwater in winter with a flooded field and gate, Lake District, UK.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1974: the fell path is a gouged-out watercourse

    25 February 1974: There is so much water that the only way is to squelch straight ahead and feel it strike cold even through thick leather

January 2024

  • The Cunsey Beck where it joins Windermere. The campaign group Save Windermere is calling for urgent reform of the Environment Agency.

    Huge loss of invertebrates detected in stream feeding into Windermere

    Campaigners say 76% decline in riverfly species’ abundance at Cunsey Beck is being caused by sewage discharges

December 2023

  • A campaigner takes water samples on Windermere during the lake’s worst summer of algal blooms in 2022.

    Environment Agency failed to find cause of toxic pollution near Windermere

  • Snowy road

    UK braced for further snow and ice on Monday

November 2023

  • Windermere

    Up to 70 days of suspected illegal dumps of sewage in Windermere in 2022, analysis finds

    Researcher says data suggests permit conditions breached on up to 70 days, but United Utilities disputes findings
  • Two people in the car

    From the agencies
    Vintage car hill trials in Keswick – in pictures

    The 54th edition of the Lakeland Trial is the penultimate fixture of the 2023 Vintage Sports-Car Club trialling season. It takes place in the harsh but beautiful landscape of the Lake District in autumn. A section near Honister slate mine is the only part open to spectators
  • Belted Galloway cattle on a hillside in Westmorland.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A different winter on the farm, for us and the cattle

    Westmorland Borrowdale, Cumbria: I head out to find them – they can be difficult to spot in such an extensive landscape, despite their distinctive wide belt

October 2023

  • Maddy and Danny Teasdale from Ullswater Catchment Management CIC at Thackthwaite Beck in the Matterdale Valley, Cumbria.

    Keeping taps on and boosting wildlife: the race to protect the Lake District’s water

  • Belted galloway cows near Tebay, Cumbria.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Thoughts already turn to spring – and a new bull for the farm

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