PLENTY of Gazette readers spent the New Year break taxing their brains and trying to come up with the correct answers to our quiz of the year.

The quiz, which is based on events and news reported in the Gazette throughout the year, proved that our readers not only pay attention to what's happening in their community, but also have good memories.

The winners, who will shortly be enjoying pre-dinner drinks, then a meal for two including a bottle of wine, at The Log House Restaurant in Lake Road, Ambleside, are Mike and Sue Ashton of Casterton.

The couple repeated their success in a previous quiz of the year, when they scooped a framed copy of the front page of the first edition of the Westmorland Gazette.

Mrs Ashton, who is the Lancashire branch administrator of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and her husband Mike, who is the communications officer at the Lake District National Park Authority, buy the Gazette every week.

Their winning strategy for the quiz is to sit down with a glass of wine and go through the questions.

Mrs Ashton said: "If we are not sure we will say "I think it's that".

Some of them we did actually guess, but some of them we did remember."

Mrs Ashton was surprised and thrilled with the win, especially because it is the couple's wedding anniversary in February.

For any readers who entered the quiz the correct answers are:

1) An honorary freeman of the Lakes; 2) Whether to introduce a 10mph speed limit of Windermere; 3) Robert Plant; 4) Bill Clinton; 5) The neat thief; 6) Kendal Town; 7) Giraffes; 8) A fairer share of the price of a pint of milk; 9) His dog; 10) Frogs; 11) Barry Manilow; 12) Work with nature by allowing the grass to take root to eventually create a saltmarsh; 13) Miles Thompson; 14) It was a piece of artwork in Grizedale Forest; 15) It was put on show at the prestigious Tate Britain art gallery; 16) Motorists, believing the sheep to be real, slowed down, causing a traffic-calming effect; 17) Tim Henman's; 18) A new swimming pool; 19) Happy Birthday to the Queen Mum; 20) 1,242; 21) A neighbour was unhappy the children might see into private gardens when they were standing on their slide; 22) To set up a code of practice; 23) Law of the Lakes; 24) A piece of Wembley Turf; 25) Putting tenants on probation for a year; 26) An electric car; 27) Staged protest circuits of the town; 28) Parking spaces; 29) It was illuminated; 30) Lorries.