Cumbriabackinbusiness.com

A new Web site has been launched to help businesses and tourism in Cumbria during the foot and mouth outbreak, and also to raise money for the Fighting Fund set up by Cumbria Tourist Board.

Cumbriabackinbusiness.com, the brainchild of Geoff Todd who owns Highfield House Hotel at Hawkshead, has been sup up to inform people that Cumbria has never been ‘out of business’, although it was portrayed as being so by much of the media.

The site, backed by Paul Johnson of The Dedicated Partnership, a Web site company in Kendal which specialises in tourism promotion, was launched by Tim Collins MP and looks set to be a huge success, having raised more than £500 for the CTB’s Fighting Fund even prior to launch, and by helping to put Cumbria back on the tourist map.

(Keswick Reminder, phone: 017867 72140)