NEWS: Ambleside Here is the latest round up for Ambleside from our correspondent Jane Renouf. Lakes Parish Council welcomed news of the recently re-established Ambleside Chamber of Trade as “wonderful” and looked forward to organising a meeting with the 45 businesses that have joined the Chamber so far, to discuss what Parish Council and the Chamber could do for each other. Lakes PC Vice-Chair Brian Hewitt suggested a marketing initiative to revive tourism in 2021 with the slogan ‘Spring into Summer’. “This is exciting news, to have co-operation with the shops and traders who are the lifeblood of Ambleside. We need them – so let’s work with them,” he said at the recent Council meeting.
14 Dec 2020
ROYAL PARTY: The three kings, from left, Ian Kirkbride, Sarah Fells and Angus Wheeler
COVID-19 may have put paid to many events in 2020, but clergy at Barnard Castle’s parish church were determined the show must go on for one of the biggest services of the year.
The crib service normally attracts between 500 and 600 people to St Mary’s Church on Christmas Eve tea time.
And while the current Tier 3 restrictions make such a gathering impossible, Revd Canon Alec Harding has ensured the service will go ahead – with a little help from members of the Castle Players, the imaginative use of puppets and a script written by players’ chairman Laurence Sach.