POLICE are investigating the report of a burglary in Ravenstown, near Grange-over-Sands, yesterday.
A police spokesman said a white Ford pickup truck and tools, including chainsaws and hedge trimmers, were taken during the incident, whic…
A surfer that was declared missing in Hastings after his surf board cleaned ashore in the middle of the high winds as well as waves whipped up by Storm Ciara has actually been discovered active after he handled to swim ashore at a beach greater than…
FRUSTRATED commuter Nick Birbeck has written a song about Oxenholme railway station and the rail network in the region.
Tired of problems and delays on the rail network in Cumbria and the north west, Nick entered the humorous tune into a song-writing c…
Safety chiefs are investigating after three farming deaths happened over the festive period.
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Carlisle-based auto-salvage company Michael Douglas Autosalvage Ltd has been fined £23,000 and ordered to pay £8,000 in costs after a customer was trapped and fatally crushed loading a lift truck onto his own recovery vehicle in February 2018.
A statem…
A lorry has been safely removed after becoming trapped under a railway bridge in Carlisle.
All train services in and out of the city were delayed after the vehicle got stuck, on Wednesday morning, blocking part of Crown Street.
It affected routes on A…
A 39-year-old man has been sent to jail after stealing a tipper truck, alongside a string of motoring offences.
Nicholas Edward Hufton, of no fixed address, was handed an 80-day prison sentence by district judge Gerald Chalk last Friday.
Hufton pleaded…
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May saw plenty of political action, with new mayors elected, permission for plans being granted and new councillors taking their seats.
It was also the month the country went to the polls for the European elections and with that campaign came the contr…
West Midlands Police has shut down 100 vehicle ‘chop shops’ in the region as part of a campaign targeting car thieves.
The force launched the operation in spring last year, targeting criminals, including violent carjackers and car key burglars and the …
Five stolen cars – including a fully-stripped Toyota Yaris stolen hundreds of miles away – were found as police raided a “chop shop” on a Birmingham street.
The scene in Brighton Road, Sparkbrook, was the 100th shut down by West Midlands Police since t…
An animal lover has saved 4,000 chickens from certain death after raising £2,400 in 36 hours to stop the truck that was coming to take them to the slaughterhouse.
Sanctuary owner Mel James clucked into action when she answered the Facebook appeal of a …
A caring woman has saved the lives of 3,000 chickens, thanks to a whirlwind fundraising effort.
Mel James raised £2,400 in 36 hours to buy the birds from a farmer who was under contract to send them to slaughter.
She was given 48 hours to find the cash…
L-R: Andrew Robinson and Luke Johnston at the North Lakes Foodbank with the donation of provisions from staff at United UtilitiesStaff working on a Cumbrian water pipeline project have dug deep for a North Lakes food charity.
A Christmas collection at …
A crash on the southbound side of the M6 south of Carlisle has now been cleared.
All three lanes were blocked between J42 and Southwaite Services, after police were called shortly after 8am this morning to a crash involving a pickup truck.
Motorists we…
