PLANS for homes for local people in the Lake District have been approved. Members of the development control committee for the Lake District National Park Authority approved plans from John Lambert ...

The annual event will take place on November 23 and 24, providing the usual entertainment that has made it a key date on the local calendar.

Christian Chelton, of Napier Street, Barrow, pleaded guilty to a single charge of assault by beating at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on November 7. Court records show the 34-year-old committed the ...

A MAN is to be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to child grooming and other child sex offences. Dean Fawcett, of NFA, admitted he had engaged in sexual communications with a child for the ...

Visitors to the Lake District are racing to visit one of its ‘best kept secrets’ this Christmas. The Millerbeck Light Railway, found in Staveley-in-Cartmel near Newby Bridge, will be hosting two ...

Appearing in the Christmas advert are St. Bees, Devoke Water on Biker Fell, and Ulpha, with Cumberland Council's Property and Highways team helping the advert's location manager and film production ...

Lisa Greig, who works in St Mary's HR Department, has been organising the pumpkin patch for two years now and raised £2,565 in 2024.

THE DEPUTY leader of the council has stated the tone of the budget announced by the new government is ‘encouraging’ but added ‘much more’ was needed to address budget gaps across local government.

The King will open two hubs designed to save and circulate tonnes of surplus food as he marks his 76th birthday. The opening of the distribution centres will also mark the first anniversary of the ...

British stars Charli XCX, Raye and Dua Lipa will be among the artists battling it out at the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) ceremony in Manchester, where Pet Shop Boys will also receive an honour.

A group of nurses has urged MPs to embrace a “historic opportunity” to change the law on assisted dying, but opposition campaigners have claimed a new Bill is “being rushed with indecent haste”. The ...

Politics and royal issues jostle for centre stage on the front pages of Sunday’s newspapers. The fallout from the Budget continues to feature heavily with The Sunday Telegraph focusing on the threat ...