Date: Wednesday 20th September 2017
Held in Braithwaite Institute, Thornthwaite, Braithwaite and Newlands home and garden show suffered a small financial loss despite an increase in entries and visitors. However, there was an excellent standard of exhibits in all sections except for the garden produce which was affected by recent poor weather.
Date: Monday 11th September 2017
Penrith golfer Stephen Dudson notched a remarkable hole in one during a competition at Keswick. Stephen, a member of the Penrith club, holed out at the 16th for his first ace in 29 years of playing golf. The ball hit a tree at the back of the green and rebounded into the hole.
Date: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Eden youngster Hannah Moatt is following in her mother’s footsteps after being chosen to attend a prestigious educational dance school. Next week, 11-year-old Hannah leaves her Langwathby home for the Arts Educational School at Tring in Hertfordshire — one of only five schools in the country recognised by the Council of Dance Education and Training.
Date: Tuesday 29th August 2017
The prestigious European arts festival visit to Glenridding was due to get underway with a rousing parade through the village featuring eight giant puppets. The Jenkins Field site at Glenridding is one of only twelve venues for the festival in Britain. It was chosen for its beauty and because the area has limited permanent arts provision.
Date: Monday 27th March 2017
Eden youngster Alex Whitley has been accepted for the Royal Ballet School. Alex, 11-year-old son of Melmberby bakery owners Andrew and Lis Whitley, was one of only a handful of boys chosen following a gruelling twelve-hour audition day. He has been studying ballet since the age of four and has been a pupil of former professional ballet dancer Michelle Moatt since 1975, when she began her Langwathby School of Dance.
Date: Monday 20th March 2017
A 700-jobs boost could be winging its way to Eden from New Zealand, it was revealed. The district is being considered as a possible site by a New Zealand company wanting to establish a major meat processing plant within Europe. The firm, Fortex, which specialises in frozen and chilled sheep meat, has identified Eden, along with four or five other locations in the United Kingdom, as meeting many of its requirements. Eden Council officers are working on a promotional presentation to be made to company representatives when they visit Britain in June.
Date: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
A Bampton schoolgirl has won a regional competition aimed at helping children to “play safe” with electricity. Pupils at schools throughout Cumbria and North Lancashire were asked to design a badge highlighting the dangers of playing near overhead lines. Ten-year-old Laura Doherty, a pupil at Bampton Endowed School, was the overall winner in the Norweb-organised contest, which helped get the life-saving message across.
Date: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
An Appleby teenager has returned from a Buckingham Palace garden party where she met both Prince Philip and Prince Edward. Nineteen-year-old Debra-Marie Burns, of Drawbriggs Lane, was one of around 1,500 young people to attend the party for recent winners of the Duke of Edinburgh’s gold award. She was accompanied by her parents, Ronnie and Jennifer Burns.
Date: Tuesday 29th December 2015
A Penrith councillor’s attempt to cut Eden Council’s spending was thwarted by fellow purse-string committee members, who said they stood alone in Cumbria as the only authority to spend less than Government permitted allowances. The cuts move came from Mr. Ernie Bain, who suggested a further look at each uncommitted growth item across all Eden’s committees. The suggestion was made as members of the Policy and Resources Committee set their own spending for the coming year and then went on to approve the budgets of all Council committees.
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