Eileen Jones previews a remarkable new book about the Lake District, called Forty Fells

Wordsworth’s home Rydal Mount, in the Lake District, looks forward to a stimulating future in the hands of the Wordsworth...

Wings to fly is the story of Keswick’s Theatre by the lake, written up by Vicky Robinson and reviewed here

Julian Cooper comes from a family of artists, and his latest book is a testimony to his life and his...

A women’s team intends to pull a car all the way to the top of the Lake District’s highest road...

A weekend of adventure on the water to learn paddleboarding is being offered at a Bowness hotel in the Lake...

The Lake District Hotels Association is at the forefront of employing older people, which has advantages both for businesses and...

Is parkrun tourism ethical in a climate conscious world? Eileen Jones looks at the issues around the global 5k running...

Rebecca Scott is heading to home territory for a new exhibition of her work in Grasmere, at the Heaton Cooper...

An Ambleside-based artist has created a pen, ink and watercolour journal of life in the Lake District over an entire...

Environmental campaigner Kate Rawles rode the length of South America on a bike to highlight biodiverity issues, now she’s written...

One giant Lakeland fell features prominently in a new one-woman exhibition opening soon in the Lake District.

An exhibition devoted to an education pioneer, who believed in outdoor learning is now open in the Lake District, with...

The spy thriller turned madcap comedy, The 39 Steps, has opened at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake, and audiences are...

What happened to the children of unmarried mothers who had to be adopted? Jo Horsley from Kendal wanted to find...

As the YHA is forced to sell some 20 properties across the UK, Eileen Jones looks at how hostelling has...

Lake District swimmer Wayne Singleton is heading out to sea this summer to raise money for the charity Brathay.

Alan Plater’s ‘The Blonde Bombshells of 1943’ has opened at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake.

The world premiere of a new play with the unwieldy title Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon Play launched the Manchester International...

A marathon reading of one of the Swallows and Amazons stories by Arthur Ransome will take place at the Windermere...

Artist Nick May is taking a show of his work about water, ‘Hydrosphere Blues’, into the heart of the Lake...

Musician Kenneth Wilson has played his cello in many strange places, including the top of a Lakeland mountain

The descendants of William Wordsworth are on a mission to raise awareness of the poet and his work, and they’re...

The free weekly events known as parkrun are about much more than just running, as Eileen Jones explains

A magical new musical based on ‘The Lost Spells’, the phenomenally-successful book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, has opened...