An Ambleside woman will set off from home on Saturday and walk all the way around Windermere for charity. Liz Stobbart, of Greenbank Road, will tackle the 26-mile marathon to raise money for St John’s Hospice in Lancaster. Gardener Liz and her partner Rob Powley have been training by walking the dog a little further than usual 'and getting a few miles from home'. Liz, a member of the Ambleside Sports organising committee, has never done such a distance before. “Every year when the (Brathay Windermere) marathon is on, I say I would love to do it, and never get on with it,” she ...