The proposal for a 1200 metre zip wire attraction in a wild and remote Lake District valley has been postponed again and will go to the Lake District National Park Authority's planning committee next month, on Wednesday 6 October.

An updated set of free guides to help protect and care for open green spaces, including village greens, verges and informal play areas, is now available.

Twenty one Cumbrian wallers battled to rebuild walls at Friends of the Lake District's dry stone walling competition on Saturday (3 July).

Friends of the Lake District has voiced its serious concern to United Utilities over their application for a drought permit to abstract more water from Windermere in order to safeguard water supplies in the north west.