In February 2003,
The Westmorland Gazette reported how the three teams fielded by Windermere Sports Club in the Westmorland Talbot Insurance League boasted seven sets of footballing brothers. And the club had worked out that in its recent history 22 sets of brothers had pulled on a Windermere shirt. Also in 2003 the Gazette reported how a pair of keen conservationists were leaving behind the South Lakeland winter and heading for the lush jungles of Sri Lanka to take part in a primate study. Kendal women Valerie Macconnell and Mary Ulrich were due to fly out to south Asia to work alongside leading scientists and fellow volunteers in a study of the macaque society.