Sketching a year in Lakeland
An Ambleside-based artist has created a pen, ink and watercolour journal of life in the Lake District over an entire...
Read moreEileen Jones is a journalist and writer who runs Cumbria PR in the Lake District. She's a member of the Gritstone Publishing Co-operative and author of two books about parkrun, and a biography of Neil Kinnock. A former course leader for the Journalism degree at Huddersfield University, she has worked for a range of publications, from the Yorkshire Post to Holland Herald. She has been a theatre reviewer for many years, leading a team of writers blogging as Stagey Lady.
An Ambleside-based artist has created a pen, ink and watercolour journal of life in the Lake District over an entire...
Read moreEnvironmental campaigner Kate Rawles rode the length of South America on a bike to highlight biodiverity issues, now she’s written...
Read moreOne giant Lakeland fell features prominently in a new one-woman exhibition opening soon in the Lake District.
Read moreAn exhibition devoted to an education pioneer, who believed in outdoor learning is now open in the Lake District, with...
Read moreThe spy thriller turned madcap comedy, The 39 Steps, has opened at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake, and audiences are...
Read moreWhat happened to the children of unmarried mothers who had to be adopted? Jo Horsley from Kendal wanted to find...
Read moreAs the YHA is forced to sell some 20 properties across the UK, Eileen Jones looks at how hostelling has...
Read moreLake District swimmer Wayne Singleton is heading out to sea this summer to raise money for the charity Brathay.
Read moreAlan Plater’s ‘The Blonde Bombshells of 1943’ has opened at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake.
Read moreThe world premiere of a new play with the unwieldy title Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play launched the Manchester International...
Read moreA marathon reading of one of the Swallows and Amazons stories by Arthur Ransome will take place at the Windermere...
Read moreArtist Nick May is taking a show of his work about water, ‘Hydrosphere Blues’, into the heart of the Lake...
Read moreMusician Kenneth Wilson has played his cello in many strange places, including the top of a Lakeland mountain
Read moreThe descendants of William Wordsworth are on a mission to raise awareness of the poet and his work, and they’re...
Read moreThe free weekly events known as parkrun are about much more than just running, as Eileen Jones explains
Read moreA magical new musical based on ‘The Lost Spells’, the phenomenally-successful book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, has opened...
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