Date: Monday 14th May 2018
Eden tops the poll as the favourite holiday destination in the county for day trippers. Such is the area’s popularity for day trips that it attracts just under five million visitors during the main season — beating other districts such as the traditional tourist haunt of South Lakeland.
Date: Tuesday 8th May 2018
The controversial decision to allow selection of pupils at Penrith Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is to be challenged in the courts. Cumbria County Council formally got leave to apply for a judicial review of the Secretary of State for Education John Patten’s decision.
Date: Tuesday 1st May 2018
Staff at the Keswick Hotel found they had a surprise extra resident. The new guest, a female mallard duck, had taken up residence overlooking the garden at the hotel as a suitable place to bring up a family. The discovery was made when gardeners noticed a clutch of eleven eggs in one of their hanging baskets.
Date: Monday 22nd January 2018
Penrithian David Farrer returned to the scene of a historic incident, just 25 years ago, when his skills with a bow and arrow earned him a special niche in the history of Eden. Now living in Collory, near Sydney, Australia, 54-year-old Mr. Farrer is revisiting his home town for the first time in 22 years and staying with his mother, Mrs. Edith Farrer, Glasson Court, Penrith. His return has almost coincided with the 25th anniversary of the day in March, 1968, when the old stone bridge over the River Eden at Langwathby was swept away by the worst floods in living memory and he was called in to restore the telephone link between the Penrith exchange and the East Fellside, using his bow and arrow.
Date: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Eden Council chairman Eric Woof has defended the spending of £7,000 on commissioning a painting for Penrith’s new library. As he officially unveiled Blencarn artist Alan Stones’s vision of “Eden”, Mr. Woof rose to quell any criticism that the public money could have been better spent in times of recession.
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 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 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: 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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