Date: Monday 17th September 2018
The oldest resident of an Eden nursing home celebrated his 101st birthday. When James William Cooper was born in 1892, Queen Victoria still had several years left to reign. Mr. Cooper, a resident at Brownber Hall, Newbiggin-on-Lune, celebrated his birthday milestone with family and friends.
Date: Wednesday 12th September 2018
Penrith-based company Lilliput Lane sparked a property boom, with hundreds of cottages changing hands for record sums at a major auction. The properties concerned were, of course, miniatures and, at the auction in Leeds, rare pieces from the model company’s early ranges were sold for hundreds of times their original retail value to a packed gathering of avid collectors.
Date: Monday 3rd September 2018
The new face of secondary education in Penrith emerged as both schools began admitting pupils across the full 11-18 year age group. Both Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and the renamed Ullswater Community College reported a smooth move into the new school year and the new system of 11-18 education.
Date: Tuesday 28th August 2018
Most people say it with flowers, but county National Farmers’ Union chairman John Findlay said it with a noxious weed. Mr. Findlay, a Culgaith dairy farmer, thought he would create a favourable impression‚ and make a subtle point, with local MP and Home Office minister David Maclean when he presented him with a clump of poisonous ragwort. The unusual bouquet formed part of an NFU effort to ensure the Government leaves in place a statutory weed control measure.
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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