Suspected illegal dumping of raw sewage into Windermere took place on up to 70 days in 2022, a year in which campaigners said the lake…
View More Up to 70 days of suspected illegal dumps of sewage in Windermere in 2022, analysis findsTag: Lake District
Keeping taps on and boosting wildlife: the race to protect the Lake District’s water
The mountainous region surrounding Helvellyn, the Lake District’s third highest peak, gathers a substantial portion of the rainwater that supplies homes, businesses and public buildings…
View More Keeping taps on and boosting wildlife: the race to protect the Lake District’s waterHeritage council says underground zip wire would ruin Lake District ‘tranquility’
An international heritage body has condemned plans for an underground zip wire attraction in the Lake District as a “theme park” that imperils the area’s…
View More Heritage council says underground zip wire would ruin Lake District ‘tranquility’‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own story
“I live with my husband, James, and we have four children – Molly, Bea, Isaac and Tom. There are also six sheep dogs, two ponies,…
View More ‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own storyRiver in ‘wettest place in England’ in Lake District almost completely dry
The upper River Derwent in Borrowdale in the Lake District – famous for its reputation as the wettest place in England – is almost completely…
View More River in ‘wettest place in England’ in Lake District almost completely dryDiversity returns to Lakeland stream after restoration puts its bends back
After months of hard work extracting spoil using diggers to reshape and create new channels and restore a Lakeland stream to its natural state, the…
View More Diversity returns to Lakeland stream after restoration puts its bends backSurge in Britons booking ahead for UK holidays in 2022
It is a conundrum that British tourist boards have struggled for decades to solve: how do you persuade holidaymakers to swap sangria in Spain for…
View More Surge in Britons booking ahead for UK holidays in 2022Welcome back! UK’s national parks brace for staycation invasion
From a campaign about poo, to advance booking for parking spaces, to a Zoom session advising farmers how to establish a pop-up campsite on their…
View More Welcome back! UK’s national parks brace for staycation invasion