Oct 13 2019 12:00AM
Marketing Business News - A Chinese marketing student has helped to promote the brand character based on the Bownessie legend of Windermere. Xiaohui He was recruited as an intern by the Cumbria Innovations Platform on a project to research the buying behaviour of international visitors.
Oct 13 2019 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - A collaboration between one of the north s leading independent cinemas and the home of the poet William Wordsworth will bring a new film festival to the Lake District next month.
Oct 03 2019 12:00AM
Technology Business News - A series of practical workshops to help small businesses identify their next innovation is being staged in Cumbria. The Coaching for Innovation mini-series has been organised by Cumbria Innovations Platform and The Harrison Network to help business owners identify changing customer needs and to explore how they can meet those needs.
Nov 12 2018 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - A family who rescued an iconic Lake District hostel are celebrating five years in business. Christine and Alan Thomas and their son Adrian were looking for a potential holiday home in the Lakes when the YHA decided to sell Elterwater Hostel.
Apr 03 2018 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - While most visitors to the Lake District head out onto the fells for fresh air and exercise, at one guest house they re encouraged to stay indoors and play the piano.
Feb 04 2018 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Visitors to a Windermere guest house might occasionally be joined in the dining room or sitting room by an unexpected character a teddy bear. The extra guest will be one of the collection of more than 300 bears owned by Mary and Philip Burton who run the guest house 1 Park Road.
Aug 08 2017 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Foraging is the buzz word in the top kitchens, but now a leading chef has teamed up with a beauty therapist to take the art to a new dimension.
Jul 10 2017 12:00AM
Property Business News - A multi-million pound development to provide luxury retirement homes in a pioneering project launches in Cumbria this week.
Jul 03 2017 12:00AM
Marketing Business News - Multi-tasking may be one of life s admirable aspirations, but there are times when precise and specific expertise is required. And those experts need to work in harmony imagine a building site where the bricklayers and the plumbers, the gas fitters and the electricians had no idea what each other was doing.
Jun 06 2017 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Poets from around the world will gather on the shores of Coniston in the Lake District this summer to read and write and ramble at an farmhouse venue. Led by David Whyte, American based Irish poet, the group will be based at a location with a strong literary heritage.
May 23 2017 12:00AM
Health Business News - A businesswoman with a distinctive range of natural beauty products and treatments has won a key contract with the Lake District s first world class resort hotel. Jo Evans who runs Bespoke Aroma will provide a specially-created signature range of products for the re-developed Low Wood Bay on Windermere.
May 23 2017 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Windermere s Cedar Manor hotel has taken the top prize at a major award ceremony in London. The hotel was named the best in the UK at the BoHos , the boutique hotel awards, and was also named the winner of the UK country and coast small hotel category.
May 09 2017 12:00AM
Construction Business News - A top northern web development company is leading the fight against a crime which is costing British firms millions of pounds tool theft. SYPO of Kendal has created a website for a new service designed to help trace tools offered for sale which have previously been stolen.
Apr 27 2017 12:00AM
Retail Business News - While politicians argue about trade agreements as well as boundaries, in the post-Brexit world individual online retailers who sell overseas are simply carrying on as normal. For the time being.
Mar 06 2017 12:00AM
Retail Business News - South Lakes web experts SYPO are winning a nationwide reputation as the leaders in web development and online selling. With more than 200 customers ranging from major enterprises to solo operators, their aim is always to simplify the process of trading via the internet, and to increase efficiency.
Feb 13 2017 12:00AM
Technology Business News - A dramatic change to safely accessing the internet with implications for anyone with a website is being highlighted by a web development expert. Google Chrome, the world s most widely used web browser, has started to flag HTTP sites as insecure, which will lead to loss of trust says Kendal s Alan Jewitt.
Jan 27 2017 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Windermere s Cedar Manor Hotel is listed in the top 20 in the UK in two different categories in a ratings chart published this week. The boutique hotel owned by Caroline and Jonathan Kaye comes in at number 9 in the Travellers Choice Most Romantic hotels list, and at number 19 in the best hotel for customer service awards.
Jan 11 2017 12:00AM
Retail Business News - Retired art teacher June Rodick has collected a new microwave oven thanks to the rock band Dire Straits. June won the oven in a competition organised by domestic appliance specialists Clocktower who are based at Milnthorpe. All they wanted to know was, which rock band sang a song about microwave ovens.
Dec 05 2016 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Top holiday cottage company Heart of the Lakes has joined forces with Ambleside Together as headline sponsor for next year s Festival of the Fells. The company, based in Ambleside, will help the local organisers fund the event which was a big hit when it was staged for the first time this autumn.
Nov 21 2016 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Windermere is getting a makeover. Not England s biggest lake, though, but the room named after it at the award winning Cedar Manor hotel not far from the water s edge.
Nov 14 2016 12:00AM
Retail Business News - A North West business is preparing for its 35th anniversary in the New Year, proving that there s still a place for local independent specialists in a world of anonymous online trading.
Nov 02 2016 12:00AM
Retail Business News - Wedding present lists get more exciting by the season. Gone are the days when a bridge and groom would ask their guests for dull but worthy household items to mark their special day.
Oct 26 2016 12:00AM
Technology Business News - Leading environmental campaigners have welcomed a new book about climate change produced by a Lake District-based photographer. Ashley Cooper s Images from a Warming Planet will go on sale shortly after launching at the start of a new exhibition in Grasmere.
Oct 21 2016 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Fans of Arthur Ransome s classic Lakes story Swallows and Amazons will have a chance to live the adventure for themselves next summer. Cumbria-based Swim the Lakes are hosting a weekend activity holiday which includes a sail on Captain Flint s houseboat and a swim to Wild Cat Island.
Oct 19 2016 12:00AM
Leisure Business News - Windermere s Cedar Manor has been chosen as the first European hotel to join the list of a prestigious American-based register. Select Registry is a collection of independent, boutique lodging properties which has recommended hotels and inns to travellers across the USA for 45 years.