English Lake District Daily Briefing for Monday 12th May 2008
Updated on Sunday at 10.30pm
Sunday's Lake District Pictures
Looking across to Bampton Common and Fordingdale Bottom from the summit of Hugh's Laithes Pike, but what is the name of the water? (click here to see) [11/5/2008 by Andy Malcolm]
Haweswater Reservoir
Other Recent Lake District pictures
Derelict hut near Honister, presumably from the slate mine [taken on 2/5/2008 by Flickr user Andrew Pescod]
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
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Solva, on the Pembrokeshire Coast [11/5/2008 by Tony Richards]
Lake District TV
Mountain - Wednesday 14th May at 19:00 on BBC 2
Griff Rhys Jones travels through the Lake District, a place deemed dull only a few hundred years ago. The comedian discovers how the area inspired poet Wordsworth, whose writings did much to change people's perceptions of the region, and investigates the birthplace of the Quaker movement. He retraces the footsteps of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and talks to farmers about their role in keeping the mountains picturesque
A Place in the Sun: Home or Away - Thursday 15th May at 12:30 on Channel 4
Lake District v Castellon: Property experts Jonnie Irwin and Jasmine Harman meet Nottingham newlyweds Tony and Clare McGorisk, who have 200,000 to spend on a dream holiday home before their first baby is born. The mother-to-be prefers the Lake District, but her husband has bigger ideas and sees them buying property on the Spanish coast around Castellon
Agatha Christie's Poirot - Wednesday 14th May at 20:00 on ITV 3
Double Sin: The Belgian sleuth contemplates retiring while on a trip to the Lake District, but shelves his plans when Hastings meets a woman whose collection of valuable miniatures has been stolen.
News
Even the Himalayas can't compare with the beauty of Lakeland
The Independent on Sunday - 11th May
Sir Chris Bonington has explored the world's greatest landscapes, but his heart will always belong to the Lake District. On the eve of the Cumberland Ale Keswick Mountain Festival, he reveals his best-loved walks – and pints
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards holidays on the Pembrokeshire Coast
Gateway2The Lakes - Andy Malcolm walks the Naddle Horseshoe closely following that described by A Wainwright in his ‘Outlying Fells of Lakeland’
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