Cumbria County, England News

POLICE are investigating the theft of a chainsaw and hunting equipment which was stolen from a shed near Kirkby Lonsdale during an early-morning raid.

LIGHTS are to be turned off at landmark buildings across South Lakeland to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.

Lowther Show is set to showcase the finest features of country life, with world-class sporting championships, top-class demonstrations and hundreds of quality trade stands.

The supermarket chain has had a difficult year, seeing profits squeezed as it lost customers to budget retailers such as Aldi and Lidl, and to upmarket Waitrose.

Bravery of pregnant woman who saved her mother's life by standing up to thug boyfriend who fractured her skull with elephant statue A pregnant woman saved her mother's life by standing up to her abusive boyfriend when he was in the middle of battering her with a statue of an elephant.

Siobhan Gearing, of Mirehouse, who heads the group, said they needed a list of what services are at risk and that the group wanted assurances that it wouldn't be downgraded to a cottage hospital.

The company is pushing ahead with two sites at Greymoorhill and Houghton and is consulting nearby residents before tabling planning applications.

Cinderella area: Jenny Cray from the Friends of Petteril Valley and Dale End Park walks her dogs past the play area that is being renovated on Dale End Park, Harraby, Carlisle; below, daughter Alex pushing one-year-old baby Amara The upgrade is being carried out after 30 children living nearby told council chiefs what improvements they'd like to ... (more)

Major retailers are interested in cashing in on Carlisle's shopping scene - if they can find the right place to do it.

A Workington model is swapping corsets for trainers as she prepares to take part in the Total Warrior challenge tomorrow.

Don't let the crowds in England's biggest national park put you off - the jaw-dropping beauty and heritage in this corner of Cumbria are unmissable, says Lucy Gillmore Wandering lonely as a cloud isn't quite as easy as it was in Wordsworth's day - at least not during the summer.

Ashley Herbert, 24, was working on a farm at Cliburn, near Penrith, when he became entangled in a forage harvester.

'SENSELESS' daredevils are putting their lives at risk by repeatedly leaping from a 70 feet high South Lakeland bridge into a notoriously dangerous rock-strewn river.

Underley Hall School, in Kirkby Lonsdale, was a residential boarding school for 'troubled' young boys before being shut two years ago.

A brave mother's years of battling cancer have so inspired her friends that they are taking to the Lakeland hills in her honour this weekend.

An inquest is underway into the death of a 75-year-old woman at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven.

August 4 is the centenary of the start of the conflict which saw thousands from the county killed or wounded.

"We are humans in the wrong time." This sentiment portraying the loss and heartbreak incurred by the First World War is a central theme in Queen's Theatre's spectacular Paper Planes , which tells the life story of Sutton's Farm aerodrome pilot William Leefe Robinson.

ABUSIVE behaviour, blocked roads and fields being used as toilets were among the 'serious concerns' raised at a public meeting about the Appleby Horse Fair.

MOTORISTS who abuse disabled badges could have been getting away with fraudulent activity for years, an Evening Mail investigation has revealed.