An international conservationist is appearing at Kendal Town Hall to give Friends of the Lake District's annual Kirby Lecture on Tuesday September 29.

 Friends of the Lake District's 75th anniversary edition of its members' magazine ‘Conserving Lakeland' is published this week.

Volunteers got their feet wet repairing a watergate at High Borrowdale recently. The conservation day on Friends of the Lake District's land at Borrowdale, north east of Kendal, was organised to keep sheep and deer off an area of new woodland.