ONE of Britain’s best-loved character actors, Timothy Spall, is to join his wife, Shane (above), on the stage at next month’s Words by the Water festival.

EDEN and Allerdale red squirrel conservation workers have been nominated for national recognition.

THE Keswick-based funky folk band Stooshie has been booked to play in the studio at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake on 30th March.

RELAXING: Some of the volunteers enjoying a well-earned trest after collecting trash.

RESIDENTS of an Eden village are counting the cost of more vandalism at their recreation ground.

Peter Huntley

TRIBUTES have been paid to the former managing director of a bus company who died after falling around 200ft near High Street in the Lake District.

BRITISH-based multinational coffee chain Costa is to open a second outlet in Penrith, as part of the Co-operative store’s new cafe.

THE average council tax payable for a Band D property in Eden for 2012-13 will be £1,559.25 an increase of 0.5 per cent from the previous year.

David Keetley

KIRKBY Stephen Grammar School has secured £120,000 of Olympic legacy funding from Sport England’s Inspired Facilities Fund.

CUMBRIA County Council has been “staggered” by public reaction to plans for the closure of six recycling centres countywide, says a member of the authority.