?2m campaign to take Lakes upmarket

Tourism bosses in the Lake District have hired an agency to take the region upmarket.Cumbria will now be marketed as a destination aimed at ‘chic seekers’ looking for a sophisticated weekend away.Quite what the ABC1s will make of the thousands of Gore-Tex-clad walkers and climbers traipsing through their upmarket playground remains to be seen.

Three Peaks: take three

Our third batch of photographs from the Three Peaks Race is now uploaded. You can see the collection by clicking here. You can also order pictures fro...

Brit climber's Everest burial trip

The skewed ethics of high-altitude mountaineering are back under the microscope as British climber Ian Woodall returns to Mount Everest to bury the bodies of three people who perished there.Woodall attracted flak for leaving American climber Francys Arsentiev dying on the Himalayan peak.

Hat trick for Three Peaks winner Rob Jebb

King of the fells Rob Jebb today made it three Three Peaks wins in a row as he took the crown in the one of the country’s toughest fell races.Bingley Harrier Rob beat 509 other runners to complete the course in his fastest ever time.Rob, 32, completed the 24-mile course in 2 hours 51 mins 49 secs, nearly 2½ minutes less than his effort last year.

grough's new look

The more perceptive among our readers will have noticed that grough has had a spring makeover.We’re coming up to our first birthday, so we thought we’d give you a new-look website, with easier-to-read typefaces and a more logical layout to ease navigation.

Memories of Kinder mark anniversary

Did you get out today? Did you get the chance to stroll across the moors or take in a fell or a crag.If you did, spare a thought for the five young me...

Miliband courts Left at Kinder event

While the political world debated a young Labour politician’s decision to vote for a certain candidate in his party’s leadership elections, outdoor enthusiasts were mulling over his pronouncements made in a packed little hall in a small Derbyshire town.David Miliband in cheerful mood at New MillsDavid Miliband’s profile hit a peak this weekend with his stated support for Gordon Brown as next leader and therefore Prime Minister, but devotees of the mountains, fells and moors of Britain were dissecting his thoughts, made public before an audience of walkers, climbers, politicians and an odd comedian – we’ll let you decide which best fits the label – at the celebrations marking a piece of civil insurrection by a young Manchester Communist.Clearly, Miliband was out to court the traditional Left with much of what he said at the Kinder Scout mass trespass 75th anniversary event.

Broadcaster's will benefits outdoor groups

Outdoor groups will benefit from a share of more than £½m left by broadcaster Tom Weir, who died last year.Most of his £586,273 was left to his widow Rhona Dickson, but the John Muir Trust will benefit to the tune of £5,000 and the Friends of Loch Lomond will receive £2,000.The woolly-hatted mountaineer who, in 1952, was one of the first mountaineers to explore the previously closed regions of Nepal, was best known for his long-running Weir’s Way on STV.

Kinder anniversary events

The Derbyshire town of New Mills is the setting for most of the events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Kinder Scout mass trespass.The plaque in Bowden Bridge quarry, Hayfield, which commemorates the Kinder mass trespass of 1932Environment Secretary David Miliband, who recently gave his blessing to the idea of a coastal access corridor, will be among speakers at the celebrations on Saturday, 21 April, in the town hall.The event is free, but organisers say only 300 people can attend the event, so they are advising those wanting to take part to get there early.