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Charity cash will help mountain rescuers' training

Lake District mountain teams will be able to improve their training for flood and water rescues thanks to a grant from a charity foundation.

Kinder project aims to reduce flood risk

They are the source of drinking water for millions of inhabitants of northern towns and cities, but the Peak District moors can also deliver devastating floods when torrential rain pours off the peat uplands.

Repairs to flood-damaged paths will cost £3.2m

A major restoration scheme has been agreed to repair damage to footpaths and bridges devastated in the Lake District’s worst ever floods last year.

Journalist guilty of mountain rescue hoax calls

A journalist has been found guilty of making hoax calls to mountain rescuers at the height of the Cumbrian floods in November last year.

Challenge walkers needed to aid mountain rescue team

Walkers and runners can help a Pennine mountain rescue team – and have a day out on the fells of the Peak District.

Helicopter lift after floods leave walkers stranded

A helicopter airlifted a stranded walker trapped by flood water at the foot of Northern Ireland’s highest peak.

Labour bid to stop VAT hike for mountain rescuers

Opposition front-benchers have launched a bit to stop mountain rescue teams paying the increased VAT rate announced by the Coalition Government in George Osborne’s emergency budget last month.

Golfers will trek to raise mountain rescue cash

A group of golfers will play two rounds of the game on Lakeland courses – with a 35-mile mountain trek between them.

Mountain festival aims to lift flood-hit Cumbrian town

Keswick Mountain Festival kicks off tomorrow, with an eclectic mix of events for lovers of the Lakeland hills.

Grant will help mountain rescuers train for floods

Mountain rescue teams in the Lake District will receive a cash boost to help them train for future flood rescues.

Mountain rescue hoax journalist jailed for three months

A journalist who made two hoax calls to mountain rescuers during last year’s Cumbrian floods has been jailed.

Mountain rescuers welcome hoax call verdict

Mountain rescuers have welcomed a court’s verdict on a journalist who made hoax calls at the height of last year’s Cumbrian floods.

Lawyer withdraws as mountain rescue hoax trial begins

The trial of a journalist charged with making hoax mountain rescue calls during the Cumbrian floods last year began yesterday in Workington.

£5m project aims to protect peat moorland

A project to save some of the peat uplands of northern England will benefit from a £5½m European grant.

MPs throw out mountain rescue tax-freeze bid

MPs have rejected a move to freeze the VAT hike that will hit mountain rescuers next year. And they threw out a Labour move to produce a report on ...

Record-breaking dry spell brings fire risk to mountains

Britain’s weather continues to break records, with the announcement today that the country has had its driest first six months of any year since 1929.

Mountain rescue tax pledge missing from coalition list

The mountain rescue community must wonder what it has to do to squeeze any cash out of Whitehall. For more than three years, representatives of Mou...

Journalist charged over Cumbria flood calls

A journalist has been charged following an incident during Cumbria’s floods last November that allegedly led to a mountain rescue team being called out to a Lake District mountain.