Windermere, part of the Lake District National Park Unesco World Heritage Site, is home to more than 14,000 people. Its scenery, rare species and cultural heritage attract seven million visitors ...

Lake Windermere is being “choked” by sewage, Environment Secretary Steve Reed has admitted as he set the ambition of stopping discharges into this treasure of the Lake District. An ...

Windermere attracts seven million visitors a year but campaigners say it is treated like an "open sewer" Environment Secretary Steve Reed has pledged to work towards ensuring that "only rainwater ...

As of Monday, 10 March 2025, we are a significant step closer to ensuring Windermere is protected for future generations. Monday was a truly historic moment for our lake. Over the last four years, our ...

The U.K. government is pledging to clean up Lake Windermere, a sewage-clogged beauty spot that has come to symbolize the ...

FILE - A swan in the morning light of Lake Windermere in the Lake District of northern England Monday, June 28, 2010.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, file) 36,718 people played the daily Crossword recently.

LONDON — The U.K. government pledged Monday to clean up Lake Windermere, a sewage-clogged beauty spot that has come to symbolize the filthy state of Britain’s waterways. Environment Secretary ...

A new BBC Two drama, The Windermere Children, tells the little-known stories of some of the 300 orphaned Jewish refugees who began new lives in England’s Lake District in the summer of 1945.

The Lake District National Park Authority (LDNPA) said the lease of its Brockhole-on-Windermere site would be put on the market, with nine staff having already been made redundant as part of the move.

Last year United Utilities was accused of failing to report more than 100 million litres of untreated sewage it illegally dumped in Windermere, in the Lake District, over three years. CEO Louise ...