Workington, England News

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.

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.

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.

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

Gary Davies, 56, took more than 2,500 from the North West Sea Angling League and Workington and District Sea Angling Club after agreeing to act as treasurer.

TS2 will have all you need to help plan your weekend: the best in entertainment, a comprehensive what's on guide and a new-look Cumbria Outdoors page.

Michael McDonald, 35, was found by friends lying in the middle of the road in the early hours of Sunday.

A Workington man whose car was torched as his granddaughter slept feet away fears he was targeted after being mistaken for a man accused of child porn offences.

Thieves smashed their way into the Royal British Legion club in Workington and stole cash raised for a cancer charity.

A wind turbine inquiry will be held this week after it was revealed that Allerdale has half the county's total number of windfarms.

A WOMAN set fire to her Christmas tree in a "cry for help" telling a friend she "felt like ending it all". Louise Ray, 33, texted a friend suggesting she was about to harm herself at her home in Walker Road, Salterbeck, Workington, in the early hours of New Year's Day.

A Seaton engineer's passion for the pre-historic has led him to take a break from work and open a museum dedicated to dinosaurs.

Paul Scott, who owns the Vine Bar and the Grapes on the town's pub circuit, has planning permission to change the empty Trinity Methodist Church into the Trinity Theatre and Arts and Craft Centre.

Passengers had a lucky escape after yobs hurled a stone at the window of a train they were travelling on.

Konrad Hansen was officially unveiled as the new mayor of Workington at the town council's annual meeting on Wednesday.

Ousted Harrington division Labour county councillor Barbara Cannon claimed she was neither down nor out after failing to retain her seat in last week's elections.

Union members at Eastman Chemicals in Workington voted to ballot for industrial action at the Siddick site after rejecting the firm's original offer of a 2.8 per cent pay rise.

A Grade-II listed building bequeathed to the people of Workington as a museum is undergoing a major facelift by offenders carrying out community payback as part of their sentence.

An inquiry was launched when police were called by paramedics to a house in Senhouse Street, Siddick, near Workington, at about 9.15am yesterday.

They have been recruited to prevent trouble breaking out in the town centre on a night when hundreds are expected to enjoy the bank holiday weekend.