Obituaries

The flag flew at half mast in Appleby for former town councillor, musical maestro and medical marvel Ian Potts, who...

After 20 years of living life as an inspirational “cystic fibrosis warrior” Penrith’s Keir ‘KJ’ Thompson has died.

A woman who threw herself into volunteering as well as bringing up a family and working, has died at the...

Robert Hill A larger-than-life Penrith character, whose support for local sport never wavered, has died aged 69. Robert Hill, affectionately...

Born in 1954, Geoff Silburn grew up in East Yorkshire, the son of Iris and Leonard Silburn who worked at...

A Labour peer and former MP who became a Lake District landscape campaigner has died aged 86.

The husband of Raisbeck woman, Ruth Frisch, who died earlier this year, has died at his home in Uruguay.

A Keswick athlete who achieved much in a sporting career which saw him excel at football, cricket and athletics has...

Appleby's Sarah Parkin, who ran the town's Parkin Greengrocers with her husband Ken and was a former manager of the...

David Porter The death has occurred of David Porter, former boss of steel fabrications firm D& M Porter Ltd and...