A dog had to be rescued after falling 15ft (4.6m) down a mine shaft. Coniston Mountain Rescue Team (CMRT) was called to the ...

A man's body has been discovered in a lake - shortly after an empty kayak was found floating on the surface of the water. Police officers were today investigating whether he had suffered some sort of ...

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It's amazing to think that decades after he wrote his books about the Swallows and Amazons, that Arthur Ransome should still be drawing the crowds. But Coniston has very strong links with the author ...

Donald Campbell's famous Bluebird boat will sail again on Coniston Water. The record-breaking Bluebird K7 has been fixed up and is now at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston, Cumbria. Donald Campbell died ...

On the shores of Coniston Water, in the shadow of The Old Man, is Brantwood the home of John Ruskin. John Ruskin was born in London in 1819. He was the son of a sherry merchant and a Croydon inn ...

In and around the Cumbrian village of Coniston, many aspects of the English Lake District’s history, heritage and geography converge. You would expect a place with a mining past to perhaps look a ...

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