Simple tools help volunteers win award for cairns project

A project to record and repair Bronze Age cairns on Dartmoor has won an award. Volunteers from the Cairns Project worked at their own expense on th...

Julia says: 'get on your feet' as walking day doubles in size

Walking celebrity Julia Bradbury is heading a move to get the nation on to its feet and walking. The Ramblers president, who recently announced she...

Protests continue as campaigners warn forests still at risk

Outdoor enthusiasts are being urged to head into the woods as campaigners warned the battle to save the nation’s forests is not over.

Mark Weir's final words before helicopter crash: 'I love you'

The partner of the Cumbrian businessman who died in a helicopter crash on a Lake District fell revealed today his final words to her were: ‘I love you’.

Campaigners to fight renewed bid for windfarm on Bowland fells

A power company has submitted plans for a scaled-down windfarm after planners refused its original application.

Walking festival will follow whisky trail and drovers' roads

Walkers in a national park festival will be able to follow in the footsteps of illegal whisky distillers and cross-border cattle drovers.

England's uplands at tourism forefront in Government review

England’s hills and mountains will be at the centre of a push to support rural tourism, the Government said.

First ever Base jump from north Harris crag recorded on video

So what are your first thoughts when you gaze at a huge overhanging gneiss rockface? If you’re Dave MacLeod and Tim Emmett, it’s: let’s see i...

Wainwright Whit walk challenge will help disabled charity

Aficionados of the late Lakeland author Alfred Wainwright will follow in his footsteps in a marathon challenge to raise cash for charity.