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A 77-year-old driver who hit another car as he drove to hospital has been banned from the roads and ordered to take his test again.

Riders will set out from Carlisle on the 115 mile route at 11am on Monday, September 16 and will pass through Cockermouth, Maryport, Workington and Keswick before finishing at Kendal at about 3pm.

Alan Cleaver on how four artists in Egremont, west Cumbria, are breathing new life into a disused iron ore mine by using the haematite to produce high-quality paint In 2008, after nearly 200 years of toil, Florence Mine in Egremont, Cumbria, the last deep iron ore mine in western Europe, closed.

A STORM chaser from Kendal has spoken of his sadness at seeing the devastation caused by a string of deadly tornadoes in the US.

THE Holy Grail of British football is coming to South Lakeland as a group of friends pull a bus from Shap to Kendal.

RAIN on Sedbergh's parade was met with smiles and laughter as hundreds flocked to the town's annual gala.

A PROUD father held his son tightly in his arms as his Lancashire's soldiers were given a heroes' welcome in Burnley.

A silver Peugeot 107 and a grey Hyundai i10 collided at the junction of the A596 and Branthwaite Road, near Workington Golf Club, at about 2.20pm. Traffic was being stopped at the Travellers Rest pub on High Street, Workington and the junctions from Lillyhall and High Harrington were also closed.

A 21-year-old man has admitted driving dangerously through several streets in Carlisle - just two weeks after he was before magistrates for another offence.

The claim came at an inquiry into the "disproportionate" number of wind turbine applications being received by the borough in comparison with other regions of the county.

Design must fit in with the surroundings In the 'Within Living Memory' , Pat Hovey and Trevor Hughes recall the Kent riverbank north of Stramongate Bridge.

The town's Ghyllside primary is on course to reduce its carbon footprint by 50 tonnes a year and save thousands of pounds after finding a more environmentally-friendly way of heating the building.

South Ribble has the lowest proportion of people who walk to work in the North West, according to a new report.

A Workington mum has been given a suspended jail sentence after she admitted dishonestly claiming benefits worth more than A 16,000. Nichola Katherine Edgar spent just over a year and a half claiming income support, council tax benefit, and housing benefit that she wasn't entitled to.

But Robert Betton, a city and county councillor for the area, has started a petition calling for it to be run as a community venture along similar lines to the Old Crown at Hesket Newmarket.

Firefighters in Cumbria have been inundated with reports of flooding from members of the public following torrential rain this morning.

It comes after new figures showed hundreds of people were approaching the service for help as they battle to cope with rising living costs.

CHAMPAGNE erupted after three women completed a gruelling 190-mile trek from coast to coast by combination of foot and hoof.

Work started last summer on the scheme which will protect the town against a one-in-a-100-year flood event and increase flood protection for around 360 homes and 55 businesses.