We have all been shocked by the scenes of widespread flooding across Cumbria recently after torrential downpours across the county. 

Community volunteers from Wasdale, Barrow, Asby, Newbiggin and Burgh by Sands came together yesterday (8 December) at a workshop held in Great Asby.

Friends of the Lake District is against the development of all three proposed major greenfield sites for new nuclear power plants along the west Cumbrian coastline.

The recent battering Cumbria has received from the weather didn’t stop representatives from almost all the National Park societies across the country attending the annual National Park Societies conference hosted by Friends of the Lake District at the weekend (27-29 November).