Cumbria County, England News

THE Royal Mail Group has given A 10,000 to the Abbeyfield Society to support its Coping at Christmas campaign, which will provide places for older people who otherwise would have been alone during the festivities.

Deaths of Nittaya Hendrickson, her son Chester, Alex Brady and Joshua Titcombe all occured within three months at Furness General Hospital Joshua Titcombe, from Dalton, Cumbria with his sister Emily.

THE parish of Mallerstang, near Kirkby Stephen, has won a silver Cardiac Smart award from the North West Ambulance Service.

A SOUTH Lakeland-based printer has become the first in Cumbria - and one of just a handful in the UK - to be officially recognised as carbon neutral.

Owain Houghton, 16, from the town's Queen Elizabeth School, has won the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship which identifies him as one of the country's future leaders in engineering.

Mitchell Harrison, 23, who had lived in Cockermouth and Whitehaven, was serving a sentence after being convicted of rape in Cumbria in 2009.

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A COUPLE accused of a string of drugs offences in the Appleby area have had their case adjourned because one of them is ill.

The petition was started by a group in Whitehaven calling for a directly-elected mayor in Copeland, to exercise more control over the borough's budget.

The Windermere Lake Wardens responded to the emergency call after the man had fallen from his boat, sustaining a minor head injury.

The work was first performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral and is largely based on English folk material collected by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp.

A DRIVER who killed one of his friends by crashing at high speed into a concrete gatepost on a Kendal street has been warned by a judge that he faces a "significant" prison sentence.

A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build a towering wind turbine to power a Cumbria candle factory has been given the go-ahead after the government over-turned its refusal on appeal.

Housing association Riverside has taken away the structure in the west of Carlisle as part of efforts to stop trouble flaring again.

During 2013 the Community Development Team at Eden Housing Association held a varied training and development programme, with an itinerary specially designed to include wide ranging interests for tenants and residents in Eden.

Musicians and business people from Ulverston have come together to help make a TV legend's lifelong dream come true.

The 47-year-old, of Kent Square, Ulverston, had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

Residents in Walney are terrified that their homes could be washed away after some of the worst gales in decades hit Cumbria this week.

AN AMBLESIDE pensioner has thanked the 'first class' care he received at a specialist hospital after suffering a heart attack on a Lake District fell.

The owners of Whitehaven Harbour say they have no money to repair devastating storm damage caused by massive waves which battered everything in their path.