English Lake District Daily Briefing for Tuesday 13th May 2008
Updated on Monday at 8.40pm
Sunday's Lake District Pictures
Where is this? (click here to see)
The view across Buttermere to Rannerdale Knotts, Grasmoor, Whiteless Pike, Wandope, Crag Hill and Sail [11/5/2008 by David Hall]
Other Recent Lake District pictures
Bluebells at Loughrigg [9/5/2008 Find out more about this picture at "By A Mossy Gnome"] 
As isolated as many a Scottish Loch, the boathouse stands sentinel at the end of the summer's day... but where is it? (click here to see)
Devoke Water, [7/5/2008 from The Hiley's Website]
I'd Rather Be in the Lake District
This section shows photographs from Lake District Now visitors going about their daily lives. If you would like to take part please take a suitable photograph and .
Marloes Beach, on the Pembrokeshire Coast [12/5/2008 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
Lake District Fire at Grisedale Pike, Keswick
BBC News - 12th May
A large area of grassland went up in flames after lightning struck at Grisedale Pike, near Keswick. The blaze, which broke out mid-afternoon on Sunday, was brought under control by early evening.
Today's Web Sites
Lakeland Cam - Tony Richards holidays on the Pembrokeshire Coast
Lake District Walks - David Hall walks around Buttermere for Marie Curie Cancer Care
Loweswater Cam - The Hiley's walk a circuit of Devoke Water including Rough Crag, Water Crag, White Pike, Woodend Height and Seat How
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