A village in the Lake District which was deliberately flooded to make a reservoir has re-emerged due to the lack of rain fall. Mardale Green disappeared in 1939 after the nearby Haweswater valley ...

Lake District walkers urged to look out for England’s only mountain butterfly Butterfly Conservation is calling on the public’s help to track the fortunes of the rare mountain ringlet.

For more than a century, North England’s verdant, hilly Lake District has attracted nature lovers. The great poet Wordsworth lived, trekked and was inspired here. Advertisement 2 ...

A spokesperson for United Utilities said: “We have seen a period of dry weather in Cumbria and this has seen reservoir levels drop below where we’d normally expect them to be at this time of year.

UU, the company for north-west England, began work in 2017 on a project to move water from the Thirlmere reservoir in the Lake District through more than 100km of new and replacement underground ...