Date: Monday 13th August 2018
Appleby mayor John Lewis welcomed an announcement by the National Rivers Authority that a major flood relief scheme for the town is to be dropped after residents gave the project an unequivocal thumbs-down. The NRA are now looking at smaller, alternative options after the proposed £1 million system of banks and walls designed to protect the town from floods was voted down.
Date: Monday 6th August 2018
An Appleby pensioner is resting his feet after completing a 100-mile walk in four days — just for fun! Geoffrey Turnbull, aged 72, of Lime Grove, Scattergate, took part in the 22nd international walking event in Nijmegen, Holland.
Date: Monday 30th July 2018
One of the nation’s most famous families had a Lake District holiday. They were the Websters — Kevin, Sally, daughter Rosie and Jonathan, the little boy Sally looks after in the nation’s favourite soap opera, “Coronation Street”. The familiar faces of Kevin and Sally — actor Michael Le Vell and actress Sally Whittaker — were seen among holidaymakers thronging around the steamer pier at Howtown and also in the vicinity of the nearby Howtown Hotel.
Date: Tuesday 24th July 2018
A plea for help went out from a group of Appleby shopkeepers who said excavations by North West Water had cut them off from the rest of the town. Traders in the town’s Low Wiend and Chapel Street said they were losing out on business during what should have been one of their busiest times of the year.
Date: Tuesday 24th July 2018
A plea for help went out from a group of Appleby shopkeepers who said excavations by North West Water had cut them off from the rest of the town. Traders in the town’s Low Wiend and Chapel Street said they were losing out on business during what should have been one of their busiest times of the year.
Date: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Lowther Castle is to be opened up to the public to mark the 21st anniversary of the prestigious horse driving-trials. The news came from the 70-year-old Lord Lonsdale as he spoke to the “Herald” of his retirement after forty years at the helm of the 72,000-acre Lowther estate.
Date: Wednesday 11th July 2018
Penrith-born surgeon Hugh Barr is being acclaimed for his pioneering work as a cancer specialist. He recently performed a world first operation on a patient with liver cancer and is now developing another new cancer treatment at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
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