A landscape charity has launched an online survey in an effort to get a clearer idea about the scale of littering and illegal camping in a national park. Friends of the Lake District said it wanted to ...

Basecamp North Lakes near Troutbeck has won approval to build seven eco-lodges in the Lake District, supporting sustainable tourism and ...

A pristine rural environment for centuries, Chongming island sits just north of Shanghai at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Locals know it as “the last paradise of Shanghai,” and even as it faces ...

The Lake District has been named as a World Heritage Site, Unesco has announced. The region, in north-west England, joins sites including the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon and Stonehenge on the ...

There's growing concern in Cumbria that a trail of electricity pylons could blight one of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain. The network of pylons will be needed to transfer electricity from a ...

'Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.' So says the introduction to the breakfast menu at Rothay Manor hotel in Ambleside, in the heart of the Unesco-listed Lake District National Park at ...

It was initially rejected but was then approved the following year. The campaign group Friends of the Lake District (FotLD) had attempted to quash the plan via a judicial review, which led to a ...

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