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1 week ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
It was a very special night in Keswick Rugby Club’s long history when individuals and local businesses who had donated to the Big Build project were invited to a pre-opening preview evening. The club’s committee felt it pertinent that the significant donors, whose generosity had also been recognised with paving slabs on the terrace or around the bar, were the first to be shown around before the doors were officially opened to the public on May 9/10.
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1 week ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
In the early hours of Wednesday morning two ill-equipped teenage boys from Gateshead were eventually rescued from Helvellyn by an RAF helicopter, after spending the night stuck above a steep gully, following an all-night search by around 30 mountain rescue volunteers. After receiving mobile phone text messages from the two 18 year olds, members of Keswick and Patterdale Mountain Rescue Teams had spent the night scouring the Helvellyn range in an attempt to identify where they were situated.
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1 week ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
A £1m project to resurface a section of the A66 between Braithwaite and Portinscale will start on Tuesday (May 6). National Highways is resurfacing just over a mile of both the eastbound and westbound carriageways between Braithwaite Institute and Kentigern Bridge in a month-long scheme. It will provide safer, smoother and more reliable journeys for local road users as well as visitors to the north Lakes. Road markings and studs will also be renewed before the project is completed by Friday June 6.
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1 week ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
Post offices in Keswick and Penrith were used as a Cumbrian couple ran a £4.1m black market business by mailing illegally obtained prescription drugs around the world. The colossal criminal enterprise involving Christopher Templeman, 38, and 39-year-old Lisa Harper spanned three years, between January, 2020, and late 2022. Templeman sourced unregulated prescription drugs from a London-based crime gang.
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2 weeks ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
A parish council has repeated its objection to the construction of a new parking scheme with amenities at Ullock Moss, Portinscale, fearing it will attract additional traffic through the village.
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2 weeks ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
Readers of the Keswick Reminder regularly send in their pictures taken around Keswick, the surrounding area and further afield in Cumbria. Here’s a selection of our favourites published in print this month. Remember you can send your photographs in .jpg format to [email protected]We rise a daybreak: The spring solstice dawning at Castlerigg stone circle, by Stephen LightowlerOn the hoof: Fiona Coutts took this photo of fell ponies making their way across Caldbeck Common.
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2 weeks ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
The unsanitary actions of some campervan owners who have been parking overnight on the Lakeside car park and dumping human waste and rubbish in Cockshot Wood has prompted Keswick Town Council to call on Cumberland Council to take action. This is an issue that has been raised before at a previous meeting but town councillors heard that the problem was now more widespread.
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2 weeks ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
A plan by United Utilities to return a number of north Cumbrian reservoirs back to their natural states has met with opposition from local people. The water company has formally submitted planning applications for its proposals for Crummock Water, Overwater and Chapelhouse Reservoir near Uldale. In 2023, United Utilities (UU) stopped abstraction for public water supply from these three lakes and reservoirs as well as at Ennerdale Water.
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2 weeks ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
A new Keswick restaurant’s plans for live and recorded music to be played late at night has hit a wrong note with town councillors. The owners of Steaks of the Lakes, which is due to open in the former Sally’s Cottages premises on St John’s Street, have applied to Cumberland Council to play live music indoors on Fridays and Saturdays from 9pm to 10pm. They also want to play recorded music from 4pm to 11pm. It is planned to sell alcohol from the premises, Monday to Sunday, from noon to 11pm.
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2 weeks ago | 
keswickreminder.co.uk | Rob Sutton
Streetlights will be turned off in the Lake Road area as part of the Keswick Big Switch Off from 9.30pm onwards on Monday. The Friends of the Lake District is encouraging residents and businesses to turn off their lights overnight to see what a difference it makes to the view of the stars. Cockermouth Astronomical Society will set up telescopes in Crow Park, giving people the chance to see into the universe.
