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Lakes 'checkpoint' will advise walkers heading for hills

Walkers heading for the Lakeland fells next weekend will face a checkpoint to ensure they have the correct gear.

Kinder gains national reserve status

Kinder Scout, the upland plateau at the centre of the historic fight for access to England’s mountains, is to become a national nature reserve.

Cow attack puts Dales Way walker in hospital

A walker was hospitalised after being attacked by a cow in the Yorkshire Dales. The incident happened as 86-year-old Ken Honeyman was on the Dales ...

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Naomi will keep an eye on national park

Walkers in the North York Moors have a new ranger to look after their landscape. Naomi Dillon has been appointed senior ranger for the northern are...

Hillwalkers restore student's trust after mountain test

A student’s experiment in trust has seen hillwalkers take the moral high ground. Paul Bellis Jones, a 24-year-old keen walker from Glan Conwy nea...

Rescuers search wrong fell after walkers change plans

Rescuers spent the morning searching the wrong Lakeland fell today for a missing couple who had changed their planned route.

Farmers' signs will warn walkers of cattle danger

In a sign of the times, the Ramblers are teaming up with the National Farmers’ Union to warn walkers of the dangers of strolling with dogs through fields with cattle in them.

Friends together: walkers urged to put something back into Three Peaks

Standing proud in the south-western corner of the Yorkshire Dales national park are three fells that, for centuries, have been the centre of mankind’s curiosity.

999 roaming will mean easier calls for rescue

Walkers and mountaineers can now reach the emergency services by mobile phone in remote areas even if they cannot access their own network.

Police seek walkers' help in Peak murder probe

Police in Derbyshire are appealing for information from a group of walkers seen near the scene of a murder.

Murmuring, muttering and mood music – a change to the munros is almost upon us

How people will feel if their completion munro suddenly gets kicked off the list?...

Kate joins Sir Ran in magazine's list of country greats

The woman once described as the ‘high priestess of the countryside’ is again listed among strange bedfellows in the latest rollcall of leading figures in Britain’s countryside.

Lake District Friends wade in with watergate project

Volunteers have waded in to help protect an area of Cumbria destined to become part of an enlarged national park.

Rescue team passes 100 mark four months early

A Lakeland mountain rescue team has reached its century – four months early. The Keswick team’s tally of full callouts passed the 100 mark this...

Walks will mark late Natural England head's birth date

A series of walks will take place in the autumn in memory of Natural England’s first chief, who died of cancer, aged 59, earlier this year.

Work starts on Pennine Bridleway link

Work has started on the latest link in building a new national trail up the backbone of England. The Pennine Bridleway will run for 330km (206 mile...