Cumbria County, England News

PENSIONERS in Bootle have the shortest life expectancy in the UK according to a new survey, with Birkenhead OAPs not far behind.

Emergency services were called at 5.45pm on Thursday to the Morrisons superstore on Brunswick Road in Penrith, Cumbria after a fire broke out.

A JUDGE has called for extra safety measures on a Lake District road where a soldier killed his fiancA©e after losing control of his car in a puddle.

An Ulverston man has been given a three-year community rehabilitation order for sex offences he carried out over 30 years ago.

Twenty years after the discovery of a baby's body at a Cumbrian rubbish tip, police have assigned a new team of detectives to try to solve the case.

DAYS after being deluged by floods, Britain is now braced for bone- chilling Arctic blasts which are forecast to bring heavy snow to parts of the country today.

Police are appealing to potential witnesses who may have seen a fatal crash occur while they were standing in a bus shelter in Cumbria.

An 92-year-old pedestrian struck by a car in south Cumbria has been described as a lively and popular woman.

A Cumbrian town split in two by devastating floods has been reconnected by a temporary railway station.

Cumbria floods: The Calva bridge in Workington is in imminent danger of collapsing.

THE Prince of Wales has praised the 'spirit' of Cumbrian people during a tour of flood-affected areas.

An elderly pedestrian died when she was struck by a car in south Cumbria. Police said the woman was hit by a Ford Escort on Central Drive in Walney on Monday morning.

A temporary railway station has opened in Workington to help reconnect the two sides of the flood-hit Cumbrian town.

Two people have died after falling into rivers in the past 24 hours. Their deaths come as the Met Office issued a severe weather warning for South-West England today.

Britain is set to experience its first frost of the winter on Monday night as the country continues to be hit by heavy rain.

Nearly 2,500 mourners have gathered for the funeral of a police constable who "lit up lives" before he was swept to his death in the Cumbria floods.

People in flood-hit Cumbria are facing more weather woes with snow and plunging temperatures set to hit the area.

Nobody expects the return to normality in flood-stricken Cockermouth to be easy or swift.

Two people have died after falling into rivers in the past 24 hours. Their deaths come as the Met Office issued a severe weather warning for South-West England today.

Geoffrey Glaister was severely injured when he was kicked in the head by a horse at the Appleby Horse Fair in Cumbria in June 2004.