Contractors apologised for causing long traffic jams in tourism hotspots Bowness and Windermere earlier this week.
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A modern-day group of volunteer soldiers has helped to carry out much-needed maintenance work in and around Cawfields, in Northumberland, thanks to an initiative from Hadrian's Wall Heritage Ltd.
Film: Need for speed 4:15pm today Speed Racer (PG)
Tale about a racing driver facing problems on and off the track, starring Emile Hirsch.
Walk: Bridges over the becks 3:31pm today Scale Beck, Eskdale, results from the union of Cowcove Beck, which quietly cuts its way across moorland above Scale Gill, and Catcove Beck, which runs below Cat Crag, and topples down a delightful tree-lined gully. For all its length the Scale falls in a series of foaming cascades and dramatic falls. The narrow gill is tucked away between the swelling flanks of Brock Crag and Dawsonground Crags. The steep sides are covered with mosses, liverworts and ferns. Oaks, birches, hollies, hazels, ashes and rowans clothe the gill and are the haunt of long-tailed tits, robins, blackbirds and thrushes.
A LOCAL coroner has been elected president of the Coroners' Society and intends to use his new role to raise funds for a charity project in cyclone-hit Burma, reports Matthew Connolly.
I'm writing to ask walkers to join me on May 25 for a Sunday morning stroll with a difference - a sponsored walk across the sands at Morecambe Bay. The walk will raise vital funds for the Meningitis Trust, the UK's longest-established meningitis charity, supporting anyone affected by this life-changing disease.
