Friends of the Lake District's Flora of the Fells project is all set for it's first ever Fell Care volunteer day on Thursday.

As part of Windermere Reflections, a three year Heritage Lottery funded programme, Friends of the Lake District launched their new ‘Secret Windermere' project last week on the shores of Windermere near Bowness, with Windermere Junior School.

Honister Slate Mine's controversial proposal for the construction of a 1200m zip wire on Fleetwith Fell was rejected by members of the Lake District National Park Authority's planning committee today.

Defra, the Government department for the environment, has published proposals to amend the system of registering new town or village greens, which could make it more difficult to legally protect greens from development.