Cumbria County, England News

More than 10,000 homes and businesses across the county are now able to connect to faster fibre broadband as a result of Connecting Cumbria.

A lorry has hit a bridge in Cumbria - affecting train services at Barrow Millom Sellafield Carlisle and Preston this morning.

Nine public toilets in the Fylde area have won gold star rating at the Loo of the Year awards.

AFFORDABLE homes have been given the go-ahead after South Lakeland District Council approved grants for three new housing schemes.

The club was formed when a group of like-minded enthusiasts got together to pursue their hobby in 1993 - and its membership continues to grow.

It follows the arrest of a 16-year-old boy yesterday afternoon on suspicion of a public order offence and for resisting arrest.

InsideOut boss Neil Doherty explained how staff had been going into schools and teaching dance to Year Two children in Barrow, Dalton and Ireleth.

Up to seven police vehicles, including the Cumbria Police Dog Unit, descended on the Dowbeck Road area, sparking questions from residents about whether the response was proportional.

The Market Square was filled with festive cheer as locals and visitors enjoyed a weekend packed with tombolas, raffles and Christmas treats.

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.