A 25-YEAR plan for a Cumbrian community forest has been adopted by senior councillors this week. Members of Cumberland Council’s executive committee meet at Allerdale House in Workington on Tuesday ...

Mr Murray said: "It's not pretty, that is it? I'm disappointed with the performance, obviously disappointed with the result.  "I think first and foremost we've got to pay some credit to a real ...

A West Cumbrian construction firm has secured a major contract for work at a nuclear site. Workington-based Stobbarts has secured a £1.6 million contract with Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) to deliver ...

Children from Cumberland will be able to swim for just 10p this summer. All schoolchildren aged up to 16 in the area can take advantage of the offer at five indoor pools during the school summer ...

A TALL ship visit which brought tens of thousands of people to Whitehaven over the weekend has given the town a ‘much-needed boost’, organisers have said. The Galeon Andalucia, which arrived in ...

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Bradley John Murdoch was convicted in 2005 of murdering Mr Falconio and assaulting his girlfriend Joanne Lees at gunpoint.

Nicholas Prosper was jailed for a minimum term of 49 years earlier this year for the murders of his mother and two siblings.

X Factor winner Lewis will be formally made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to music and charity.

Sandie Peggie was suspended after she complained about having to share a changing room with Dr Beth Upton at an NHS Fife hospital.

A student who suffered a serious spinal cord injury leaving him with chronic pain that threatened his career has graduated from university. Archie Wills-Johnson, 22, was a year into his biology degree ...