Date: Monday 14th January 2019
Penrith’s Gateway supermarket is to close at the end of the month before reopening under a new banner some time in May. Staff at the Middlegate store were told of the takeover by Iceland Frozen Foods. The store was the first purpose-built supermarket in Penrith and operated originally as Fine Fare.
Date: Monday 7th January 2019
Two hawks from the Lakeland Bird of Prey Centre at Lowther have been moonlighting at a second job over the past few weeks, working as a flying pest control patrol in the Midlands. The Harris Hawks from the centre have been in action helping out a developer refurbishing a 1960s shopping precinct at Longtown in Stoke-on-Trent. She said the hawks did not actually catch the pigeons. All they did was fly down the precinct and the pigeons would be off.
Date: Monday 31st December 2018
Penrith streets were alive with the sound of music just before Christmas as four schoolgirls busked to raise cash for their lessons. Sisters Sally and Aimee Johnson, Jane Siddle and Rebecca Wallace, popularly known as the Queen Elizabeth Quartet, fear after-school practice may be reduced because of cuts in the county music budget.
Date: Monday 24th December 2018
Eden Arts beat off stiff competition to win a runners-up prize in this year’s Northern Electric awards. The award was given to an individual or organisation making an outstanding contribution to the development of the arts. Melvyn Bragg, who hosted the event, praised Eden Arts for their work in Improving arts provision in a rural area.
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