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While play areas in Carlisle district are disappearing thanks to council cuts, Fir Ends Primary School, in Smithfield, has unveiled plans to create a multi use games area .

Disruptive gas works that have caused traffic chaos in Wigton town centre will go on until the end of April - two months longer than originally announced.

Laying the foundation slab marked a milestone in the progress of the new visitors' centre at Haig Pit in Whitehaven.

A YOUNG man has been disqualified from driving for 16 months after he drove his car after consuming 'up to ten' pints of lager.

TWO South Lakeland towns are in the top three places to live in the North West, according to a report set to be released this weekend.

A thug has been jailed for a brutal drink and drug-fuelled attack at a beauty spot in which he threw an unsuspecting couple into a river.

Friend of university: Euan Cartwright will take up his new role on August 1 after being backed by members of a nominations committee charged with finding a new chairman.

And she was in Maryport and Workington this week in her powerful new role playing the mother of 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster, a young woman who was beaten to death in 2007 because she looked different.

Copeland MP Jamie Reed has raised the issue in parliament after concerns over elderly patients waiting more than an hour for ambulances in Millom.

Fewer than four per of Workington residents took to the polls in a referendum on plans for a new leisure centre.

A car ploughed through a fence, plunged down a bank and flipped onto its roof as it crashed in a back garden, narrowly missing a house.

They plan to deliver a 100,000-strong petition to Downing Street, and want the government to act as a guarantor.

Britain will fund a 300 million pound redevelopment of BAE Systems's submarine shipyard, a step that would enable the costly renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent which has divided the coalition government.

KENDAL Mayor Coun Sylvia Emmott became the 1,000th person to sign up to support the South Lakes Credit Union.

It was built to replace Calgarth Estate, the war-time workers' housing scheme, which once stood on the site of Lakes School at Troutbeck Bridge.

A YOUNG inventor from South Lakeland has joined an exclusive list of some of Britain's best engineers and innovators.

The authority has agreed to award discretionary rate relief to Bay Search and Rescue on their rescue vehicle garage premises.

14/00194/PAD, Television House, Parliament Street, Lancaster, prior approval for demolition of former offices/warehouse, for Mr D Sowerby.

THE boss of Ambleside's Hayes Garden World has resigned after being jailed for lying to police and the courts.

Nine Explorer Scouts and adult volunteers from three units across Kentdale and Eden, including First Kirkby Stephen Scouts, joined together for the adventure.