A bid to save a village pub has moved closer with its first milestone. The Lowther Arms Community Project Ltd (LACP) has managed to raise £250,000 through the sale of community shares and support from Co-operatives UK who match-funded shares up to the value of £100,000 in a bid to save the Mawbray pub. Chairman of LACP, Christopher Atkinson, said: “£250,000 is quite an achievement, and we’re absolutely delighted to reach our minimum target. “We’d like to say a huge thank you to every one of our 244 shareholders!” Most are from Cumbria, but people have shown an interest in having a share in the pub from as far away as Canada, USA, Kenya, Switzerland, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, and France and in the UK from Devon, Kent, the Isle of Mull and Norfolk to Tyne and Wear.