AN UPDATE on the increased demand on Cumberland Council’s Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) services will be outlined next week.

New predictions suggest a 7% drop in the July 2025 energy Price Cap, falling to approximately £1,715 – a £134 decrease from the current April cap. But, despite the decrease, affordability remains a ...

A MAN will stand trial later this year accused of defrauding a couple by taking money from them for building work which was never carried out.

Cumberland Council has been awarded over £3 million as part of a national initiative to promote the use of electric vehicles across the region.

Crash map data revealed that in Whitehaven, there were almost 150 vehicle crashes from 2019 to 2023, 70 were in the town centre area.

A PLUTONIUM treatment plant at Sellafield has moved a step closer to completion. The Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant (SRP) is one of the site's largest and most complex ...

Grasmere Lakeland Sports Show wants to bring back Tug Of War (Image: Jane Hunt, Catapult PR) The modern version was hugely popular in the late 19th and early 20th century, at the time when Grasmere ...

Several local organisations are working closely together to provide support at Hope Haven: Cumbria Health, Everyturn Mental Health, Home Group, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, iCan Wellbeing ...

A FORMER Cumbrian school pupil has shared his delight at the appointment of his long time colleague and friend to the position of Pope - with ...

WHITEHAVEN’s business community has been added to recently with the arrival of Seaclan sailing adventures run by sailing skipper James Lovett.

A group of cyclists is preparing for a 260-mile fundraising ride around Cumbria in support of BEEP Doctors (BASICS Cumbria), a volunteer ...