VILLAGERS at Brough are staging a protest march on Saturday at plans to close the village post office.

Brad Reed and his fiancee Gemma Binks.

THE future is looking bright for Penrith teenager Brad Reed after he became engaged to his girlfriend, Gemma Binks, from Burrells, Appleby.

PROPOSALS for a wind farm at Hoff Moor, near Appleby, have been turned down by a planning inspector following a public inquiry at Penrith last month.

Home-made pies and coffee served up by landlords Anton and Penny Flaherty were the order of the day for voters at the Strickland Arms.

A PUBLICAN should not talk about “politics, sex or religion”, according to Anton Flaherty, licensee of the Strickland Arms, Great Strickland, but that did not stop him from allowing the dining room of his pub to be used as a polling station for an Eden Council by-election.

THE Ethel Austin store in Penrith looks set to remain open for the time being at least despite the Merseyside-based company announcing this week that it had gone into administration.

A BLIND man has been found guilty of murdering his fiancee, Appleby mother-of-two Nicola Bisset, and sentenced to life imprisonment after a judge branded him a "danger to women".

EDEN Council has decided to temporarily halt the removal of graveside tributes at Penrith cemetery following a public backlash.

FORMER Newton Rigg assistant director and lecturer Andrew Humphries has been made MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Headteacher Jenny Dixon, school staff and children celebrate their top Ofsted rating.

STAFF and pupils at Armathwaite School are delighted with the fantastic results of their recent Ofsted inspection.

“A TOTAL environmental disaster” was how one Appleby resident described the rubbish-strewn streets of the town during New Fair week.