GARDENING guru Monty Don was back in the South Lakes at the weekend.

BARROW went head to head against Britain’s Got Talent at the weekend – and wasn’t remotely found wanting.

OLYMPIC Gold medallist Adrian Moorhouse flew into Flookburgh to cut the ribbon on a new £2.3m swimming pool.

AMBITIOUS plans to expand Dalton zoo to three times its original size would see it become an even bigger tourist draw. (14 comments)

STUDENTS behind the academy protest say they are overwhelmed with the amount of support they have received, and believe it can help them stop the scheduled September opening.

VISITORS and patients at Furness General Hospital could easily have been forgiven for thinking that a major disaster had taken place.

HOW often can any of us ever claim to take time out from our busy schedules? Quality time out, as opposed to zoning out in front of the TV? Tai Chi instructor Chris Shaw is giving us the opportunity to do just that.

IF all the world’s a stage James Macpherson’s is condensed to a seven-foot diameter which he shares with two palm trees and a lobster. Anything that doesn’t fit in the back of his van is superfluous. (1 comment)

Click on the headline above to watch a video from Cartmel Races first meeting of the year.

A BARROW couple were winners in more ways than one when they celebrated their wedding at Cartmel Racecourse.

A BARROW beauty was today celebrating being crowned Miss Cumbria. (1 comment)

A 30,000-TONNE cruise ship with more than 600 passengers became the first liner to visit Barrow port for three years. Watch the video here. (27 comments)

ANNIE the milking cow is just like one of the class. Pupils at Newton Primary School first met the four-year-old Holstein at their summer fair when she was just a one-week-old calf.

THOUSANDS of people descended on Ulverston to witness the unveiling of the Laurel and Hardy statue.

CHILDREN came face-to-face with cute creatures during an Easter workshop at a Barrow store.

FURNESS Morris dancers wowed the crowds in glorious weather with a traditional play that dates back to 1963.

HUNDREDS of visitors flocked to Forum 28 in Barrow on Saturday to the first day of Furness Model Railway Club’s 47th annual exhibition yesterday.

TWO hundred talented pupils took to the stage to celebrate the works of William Shakespeare.

The Enterprise Masterclass ‘Reaching Out to a Global Audience’ – held at the Waterside House Enterprise Hub in Barrow on 2 April 2009 enabled over 40 retail and commercial business owners to see the potential benefits of combining traditional retail marketing with the Internet to increase opportunity to reach a global customer base.

GOVERNMENT minister Beverley Hughes ended a top-level tour of the area by listening to some ‘donk’ dance music.

THE Evening Mail was on the front line with police in the war against drugs. We joined 55 police officers on Operation Arrowhead.

Robert Johnson spends a day training with the army.

The Designer Wedding Show, which took place at Barrow’s Forum 28 yesterday, is the first of two annual wedding shows in the town that makes organising your special day as easy as saying “I do”.

THIS was certainly a maths lesson with a difference.

MANY of the 800 workers who lined Devonshire Dock Hall’s vast platforms for yesterday’s keel laying ceremony witnessed a scene also played out before their parents and grandparents.

WHAT came first, the chicken or the egg?

IT was bound to happen – as soon as my 88-year-old nanna unwrapped her shiny new Wii at Christmas, I knew I was in for a pasting.
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BEEFED up body work, tuned engines, blinged up wheels and paint jobs, and superb sound systems.

MORE than a dozen bags of venison and an air gun have been seized from a Millom home following a police crackdown on poaching.

PLAYFUL primates are recycling a Christmas tree in a novel way.

Marching into history... The book was finally closed on the illustrious history of Cumbria’s former King’s Own Royal Border Regiment (KORBR) when its colours were laid up in an emotional service at Carlisle Cathedral.

MOTORISTS were stopped during a crackdown on faulty vehicles. A total of 25 vehicles were stopped in Barrow on Saturday evening for a number of transgressions, such as having overly large exhaust pipes and tinted windows.

MOUNTAIN rescuers have commended two climbers who continued to trek down a fellside after one suffered a broken leg.

IT’S bewildering to think that this hunk of steelwork, rivets and sculpted metal was the boat in which Donald Campbell made history.

A FURNESS pupil is a hero after stepping in to save his school’s Christmas play.

A MASSIVE blaze ripped through a farmhouse and barn today threatening to blow up 3,000 litres of diesel and gas canisters.

UNHEARD recordings of the late, legendary Danny Patterson are set to be released 10 years after they were performed.

THE annual festive drink drive crackdown has kicked off with some hard hitting messages for motorists.

IT'S not every day you get to see how a national award-winning cartoonist creates his cartoons which appear in the Evening Mail six days a week.

WE all produce it, but when it comes to dealing with waste it’s most often a case of “want not”.

THE Hairy Bikers got Barrow in the Christmas spirit at the weekend with the big lights switch-on.

HUNDREDS of people turned out at Barrow’s Remembrance Day service to mark the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day