Cumbria County, England News

North Cumbria is shaking off the shackles of recession with A 100 million being ploughed into securing and strengthening a string of factory futures.

More than A 300M will be invested in the BAE Systems Barrow-in-Furness site, in a major redevelopment that will transform its submarine building capabilities.

Beaches at some of Britain's best-loved resorts could be closed for bathing from next year because of high levels of sewage contamination.

A HOST of local solicitors are set to show their support for a local hospice's Make a Will Month campaign.

THE US government paid tribute to the Cumbrian peer killed in a helicopter crash, saying he played a "profound" role in the international political scene.

A LUCKY west Cumbrian is celebrating after winning A 200,000 on the Lottery. Mystery surrounds the identity of the ticket buyer, but it is understood he is from the St Bees area and bought the winning ticket at the village post office.

The fight to install a pedestrian crossing on a road in west Cumbria where two people died has finally been won - after years of campaigning.

A VALENTINE'S appeal run by a cancer treatment centre has raised over A 4,000, it has been revealed.

The ska band, fronted by Buster Bloodvessel, were due to play the town's Carnegie Theatre on Finkle Street tonight.

OVERALL CHAMPION: Editor of The Darlington and Stockton Times Malcolm Warne, right, presents the Supreme Champion Cup for She's A Diamond, a British Blue heifer, shown by vendor John Smith-Jackson, centre, and watched by Judge Harry Emslie John Smith-Jackson, of Haltwhistle, took the overall championship trophy for a British Blue cross heifer, ... (more)

The award is in memory of the late John Dennison, highly regarded breeder of the Denmire Holsteins of Scales Farm, Ulverston, and is presented by his family to the person judged to be an exemplary role model to the industry.

Fire crews from Windermere and Ambleside were called out at 6.10am to the fire on Longmire Road, in Troutbeck, near Windermere.

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.