A MAN will appear before Eden magistrates next month following an incident in Alston.

Roberta Jenkinson with her horse Fifi.

SEVENTEEN-year-old Roberta Jenkinson, from Watermillock, helped Team GB to a gold medal in modern pentathlon at the European championships, held in Bulgaria.

WELL-known auctioneer Adam Day, from Greystoke, has resigned from his job as mart managing director for Cockermouth-based firm Mitchell’s to become managing director with North West Auctions, which has livestock sales centres at Kendal and Lancaster.

A CUMBRIAN MP is appealing to local people to put themselves forward to become directors of the University of Cumbria — despite a report into the board’s effectiveness concluding that more representation from outside the region is needed.

A WOMAN escaped from a fire at her Eden home which started in a ground floor electric meter.

LEADING players in the telecommunications industry have been invited to a broadband conference in Penrith in September.

THE Princess Royal will be in Penrith and Cockermouth on Monday, 19th July, on an official visit to Save the Children charity shops.

EDEN Council has received more than 130 complaints in three weeks about smells from the Alba Proteins plant on the outskirts of Penrith.

ULLSWATER Steamers’ latest acquisition, M.V. Western Belle, will be lifted into the lake in the early hours of Tuesday, meaning closure of the A592 between Glenridding and Aira Force between midnight tonight and 6-30am.

THE closure of Penrith Magistrates’ Court would result in the “erosion of local justice”, according to Nick Swinscoe, chairman of the Eden Bench which sits there.