CHARLIE Ratcliffe, a well-known Orton resident, has died at the age of 90.

ONE of Cumbria’s best-known members of the hound trailing fraternity, Jimmy Glaister, died at the age of 70 at his Bewaldeth home.

JOHN Strutt, who died at Stobars Hall residential home at Kirkby Stephen after a long illness, will be remembered by many in the town as “the man with the parrots”.

A FORMER chairman of Kirkby Stephen Cricket Club and a past president of the town band, Bryan Thornborrow, who was a very active member of the community, has died, aged 78.

“DOWN to earth and with time for anyone” is how relatives have described Wendy Robertson, who died days short of what would have been her 46th birthday.

A POPULAR brownie guide leader and Alston choir member, Mrs. Margaret Smith, has died at the age of 87.

A MAN who spent more than five decades at the helm of one of Penrith’s most enduring retail businesses, Deryck Scott, has died.

FARMER’S son and former Penrith Newton Rigg College principal Michael Boothroyd has died.