The community is being asked to continue supporting a mountain rescue volunteer who was seriously injured on a callout – his team are now asking the public to push the fundraiser to £1 million. Chris Lewis, a lifesaving volunteer from Patterdale Mountain Rescue, was seriously injured earlier this month when rescuing a tourist who had become ill when wild camping. He plunged 150 metres and sustained an injury to his spine that will see him in need of support for the rest of his life. A Just Giving fundraiser set up by the Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association has raised £815,233 at the time of The Cumberland News going to press.
Fourteen young people from Cumbria and the borders swore the Oath of Allegiance yesterday in a virtual ceremony as they prepare for their lives in the Army. The new recruits will soon be off to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, in preparation for their future, serving their queen and their country to train for 23-49 weeks. They will be joining a whole range of different corps from Royal Signals Corp to the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers to Royal Artillery. Paul Imrie, an army recruiter who served from 1985 until 2017, described life in the forces.
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