A GLORIOUS spell of sunshine should lift spirits and maybe help the disappointment who have found a holiday in the overseas sun and impossibility this year.

With anxieties over the every-changing rules, around Covid, many people are choosing staycations.

But summer is West Cumbria can be fun as these photos from our archives show.If you are one of those you might remember some of the summers we have had in the past and keep your fingers crossed that this spell of weather lasts for a while longer than the first week of the school holidays.

If it does turn to rain there are plenty of indoor attractions - and remember the drought of 2018. Better not have a repeat of that.