Dodd Fell News Today

Here is a roundup of the best dog-friendly walks in the Lake District.

TWO of the ‘Dales 30’ mountains lie to the south of Hawes making for an enjoyable and satisfying circular walk.

A man captures footage of Bassenthwaite Lake joining with Derwentwater as flooding hit Cumbria.

IT took 58 days of pushing himself to his limits... . But Wigton man Charles Deans has now achieved his personal wheelchair challenge, covering 874 miles in 10 weeks - a distance equivalent to a road trip from John O’ Groats to Land’s End. His gruelling fundraiser is part of Charles’s incredible fightback from disability - and his chance to help two good local causes while honouring the memory of his late sister Helen Deans, 43, who died last year from pancreatic cancer. His wheel...

A CARLISLE man who has taken on an epic fund-raising challenge has seen his efforts backed by a local solicitors. Charles Dean is attempting to travel the distance from Lands End to John OGroats in his wheelchair on Cumbrian Roads. The Wigton man was paralysed 16 years ago, but recently climbed Dodd Fell and Latrigg with his family. He is now attempting to travel 874 miles - the distance between Britains most northern and southern points - on local roads. Part of the fund-raising campai...

A WIGTON man who has taken on an epic fund-raising challenge has seen his efforts backed by a local solicitors. Charles Deans is attempting to travel the distance from Lands End to John OGroats in his wheelchair on Cumbrian Roads. The Wigton man was paralysed 16 years ago, but recently climbed Dodd Fell and Latrigg with his family. He is now attempting to travel 874 miles - the distance between Britains most northern and southern points - on local roads. Part of the fund-raising campaig...

Charles Deans A Carlisle solicitors office is backing a county-wide competition offering school children the chance to win one of two bikes. Wragg Mark-Bell is getting behind local man Charles Deans’ attempt to travel the distance from Land’s End to John O’Groats in his wheelchair to raise money for two local charities. Part of that fundraising campaign will also include a competition for all primary school children in Cumbria to design a T-shirt for Mr Deans to wear on the final...

A Cumbrian man has climbed his first two Wainwrights – 15 years after he was paralysed – and has just launched a massive fundraising challenge for two local charities.   Charlie Deans, 46, climbed Dodd Fell and Latrigg with his family and says it will be the first of many...

IT was a magical moment... Sitting silently in his wheelchair at the summit of Dodd Fell, Charles Deans gazed at a spectacular Lakeland landscape, the pale winter sunlight illuminating distant peaks as mist filled Bassenthwaite Valley below. The 46-year-old had every right to feel proud. “My wife, Sara, took the photo,” says Charles, from Wigton. “I was just sitting there, enjoying the moment. It was perfect.” In many ways, conquering Dodd Fell on December 30 last year was the...