Archive - Saturday, 15 December 2018

Claret for Christmas! Read Gerard Richardson's wine column
Christmas means lots of things to different people, peace, love, the time for giving and the time to sit on a chubby fellas knee but for me, it means it’s time for Claret. Yes, folks, claret, but definitely not the cheap rubbish and definitely not if…
Tributes paid to much-loved headteacher
A West Cumbrian school is mourning the loss of its headteacher, who has died at the age of 59.
Workington's singing penguins are a must for Christmas
If you do nothing else this festive season, visit the singing penguins at Dunmail Park in Workington.
Storm Deidre: Road closures in Cumbria
Road closures are in place as Storm Deidre strikes in Cumbria.
Give a plant for Christmas! - Toni Magean's gardening column
Christmas is coming in so quickly and I suspect I’m not the only one who still have presents to buy!
Copeland nostalgia: Lowca's long-gone iron foundry
THIS interesting old photograph, taken before the First World War, is of the long-gone Lowca Iron Foundry, near Whitehaven, a business first established in 1763 to make cannon for the fleet of local merchant ships but which in subsequent years, as the…
Cumbrian actor home for Christmas show after winning Hollywood award
WEST Cumbrian actor Billy Walker has won a top award at a prestigious Hollywood film festival.
Derek Wilson
WILSON Derek Passed away suddenly but peacefully in the West Cumberland Hospital, surrounded by his loving family, on Friday, 7th December 2018 in his 90th year, much loved husband of Elsie and a dearly loved dad, grandad and great grandad (Pop).…
Top chef opens Hong Kong restaurant
A RENOWNED chef with two Michelin starred restaurants in the South Lakes is set to expand his restaurant group outside the UK.