1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (384+ words) A highly respected doctor who has been treating patients at Keswick's Castlehead Medical Centre for the past 30 years hung up his stethoscope for the final time on Tuesday March 31. Dr Tim Hooper, 61, described retiring as being a "strange feeling" but…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (294+ words) A member of the public's suggestion that a dog-free zone be created in a popular Keswick park has been brought to heel by town councillors. Members of the council's parks trust debated at length the idea of banning dogs from…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (635+ words) You could almost sub-title Lark Rise To Candleford, the Spring production at Keswick's lakeside theatre, "Laura's Tale'. It's not a play that will hit you between the eyes with its power. It takes a more subtle, warming path into your…...

1+ week, 2+ day 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…...

2+ week, 10+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 2+ 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…...

2+ week, 5+ 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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (208+ words) A former business unit that has also housed a climbing wall and museum on Keswick's Southey Hill Industrial Estate is to be converted into a gym. Change of use planning permission for unit two on the estate, off Main Street,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (611+ words) A striking new artwork has been unveiled on the shore of Derwentwater which celebrates the restoration of Barrow Beck. Created by Northumbrian-based artist Daniel Weatheritt, the artwork sits beside the footpath near Ashness Gate jetty, at the point where Barrow…...

3+ week, 6+ day 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…...