Greg Sadler, chairman of the Eden Access Forum, and Eden Council chairman Joan Raine cut the ribbon watched (left to right) by Judith Clarke, joint museum curator; Annie Hamilton-Gibney, who led the museum’s fieldwalking project; Paul Brunsdon, the council’s architect, who designed the refurbishment; Doug Huggon, Eden’s leisure services manager; and Sydney Chapman, joint curator.

THE Penrith and Eden Museum has reopened following a £75,000 refurbishment with a new state-of-the art display area containing a specially commissioned audiovisual portrayal of prehistoric Cumbria.

AN appeals panel of Eden Council has upheld a decision to refuse to reveal to solicitors acting for shareholders of the former developer Lowther Manelli Properties information it deemed “commercially sensitive” on the Penrith New Squares/Sainsbury’s deal.

CUMBRIA police are warning festival goers about the dangers of so-called "legal highs" as they prepare for the Kendal Calling music festival at Lowther, near Penrith, this weekend.

FUNDING for the affordable housing element of Penrith’s New Squares development is under threat as the Government reviews its Homes and Communities Agency fund.

ANIMAL rendering company Alba Proteins has appointed an independent odour investigation team to help investigate and evaluate complaints about smells from the Wildriggs plant on the outskirts of Penrith.

PLANS to build 55 houses on fields next to Carleton Meadows, Penrith, have been resurrected by Persimmon Homes.

A MAN was lucky to survive a severe electric shock he received from overhead power cables while unloading a large metal shipping container from a lorry near Lowther Castle on Thursday afternoon.

Alan Brough with lion cub in the 1970s

AN Eden man arrested and then released as part of an RSPCA investigation is believed to have taken his own life after learning that his beloved horses had been seized.

AROUND 100 free additional parking spaces will be made available for visitors and shoppers to Penrith this summer after Eden District Council signed an agreement with Queen Elizabeth Grammar School to use its sixth form students’ car park (not the main school site) as a public car park from 30th July to 2nd September.

Princess Anne with voluntary shop leader Sally Barker.

PRINCESS Anne yesterday met and paid tribute to volunteers who work at Penrith's Save the Children charity shops during an official visit to the town.