Donald Campbell's Bluebird is to return to the site where he broke his first world speed record 70 years ago. The pilot ...

a picturesque former mining village that sits on the tip of Coniston Water, a five-mile-long lake where visitors can take a trip on a 19th-century steam yacht gondola. The six-mile route ...

Sound Waves' has been organised as part of the Ulverston International Music Festival and will take place on June 2.

A jetty on Coniston Water has been temporarily closed due to unusually low lake levels. Operators of the Coniston Launch service confirmed that Sunny Bank jetty has been shut to passengers as a result ...

The setting is Coniston Water in Cumbria. Campbell wasn't happy with the handling of the boat and he failed in his subsequent attempt on the world water speed record. Campbell was the holder of 13 ...

Bill Smith, who helped rebuild the hydroplane after its wreckage was recovered from Coniston Water in the Lake District, had applied to register the name of his Bluebird Project (BBP) group.

PLANS for six self-contained glamping pods in the Lake District have been approved by the national park’s authority.

He went on to achieve a further seven records before he died in 1967, aged 46, on Coniston Water, while trying to break his previous speed of 276mph (444km/h). The event to mark the 70th ...