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A former construction worker is building a new career as a home care assistant with a Kendal-based company.

The bank holiday and half term week — coupled with some of the hottest days of the year — meant that the Lake District experienced a large influx of visitors. That brought a welcome boost in trade to cafes, coffee shops, restaurants and retail outlets, who are keen to make up on lost business due to the pandemic. But there have been reported problems with littering in the southern lakes area. Ruth Kirk, the landscape engagement officer at Friends of the Lake District, said with more people holidaying in, and visiting, the Lake District, due to Covid restrictions, there had been a ...

A RUBBER duck, bra and even a cash register from the 80s were among items found by hundreds of volunteers during The Great Cumbrian Litter Pick.

A collective community effort of almost eight-hundred volunteer litter pickers on this year's Great Cumbrian Litter Pick on the 21st and 22nd May saw seventy-five groups right across Cumbria cover a distance on 311 gathering over 500 bags of rubbish. LITTER: Hundreds of bags of litter were collected The annual event, organised by the conservation charity, Friends of the Lake District, brought together schools, community groups, organisations and businesses to highlight the problems of littering and the huge amount of voluntary work that goes into keeping the county clean. Ruth Kirk, the...

A RUBBER duck, bra and even a cash register from the 80s were among items found by hundreds of volunteers across the county during a major clean up mission. Almost 800 litter pickers took part in this year’s Great Cumbrian Litter Pick, held on May 21 and 22. Covering a distance of 311km 75 groups including Hawkshead Primary School, St Walney Junior School, Lake District Diving and the Lakes Plastic Collective filled over 500 bags with rubbish at locations including Roosebeck and Windermere. The annual event organised by conservation charity Friends of the Lake District aims to highl...