Photo credit: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire Councillors will decide today whether to grant a premises licence to the new Premier Inn set to come to Keswick. Allerdale Council s licensing panel will meet today to decide whether to grant a premises licence for the 71-bedroom Premier Inn, set to be located on High Hill. The proposal for a premises licence, from Whitbread Group which owns the Premier Inn brand, requests permission to show films indoors between 10am and half past midnight, Monday to Sunday. It also requests permission to serve late night refreshment indoors, from 11pm to midnight, Monday to Sunday, and to sell alcohol both on and off the premises between 10am and half past midnight, Monday to Sunday.
CUMBRIANS have been invited to attend a two-and-a-half-week festival celebrating the county s dark skies. A series of live online events next month features an evening with acclaimed filmmaker Terry Abraham and a talk from Dr Martin Kitching, director and senior guide of Northern Experience Wildlife Tours, on creatures of the night. The festival is being held by charity Friends of the Lake District (FoLD). A spokesman for the Lake District National Park Authority said on social media: Our February evenings will light up with online events celebrating the wonders of the night during the @FriendsofLakes Cumbria Dark Skies Festival. Astronomers, filmmakers and others will challenge us to think about darkness in a new light. Book now.