Rugby firm wins contract to build west Cumbria road bridge
Rugby firm Morgan Est has been awarded the contract to build a new temporary road bridge in Workington.
TV advert break
Aspiring actors massed at Carlisle’s Citadel Station over the weekend to take part in filming of a new television commercial
Stinky problem
A new sewer near Carlisle must be pumped out four times a day because United Utilities hasn’t got consent to build a pipeline
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The News & Star has launched a group for Cumbrian photographers on popular photo website Flickr
Expenses promise
Would-be Carlisle MP John Metcalfe has promised not to join the “Westminster gravy train” should he be elected
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Cumbrian café boss beats floods with second shop
A Cumbrian coffee shop boss who saw his business destroyed in the floods has bounced back to launch a new venture.
Continuing to grow
A Carlisle hair salon is proving itself a cut above the rest after announcing its third expansion in three years
Express delivery
When Mary Thornton turned up to take pregnant Chloe Streames to hospital she got much more than she bargained for...
Unable to cope
A Carlisle mum has admitted leaving her two sons hungry, dirty, cold, tired and infested with head lice
Dream comes true
Carlisle tennis coach Suzzi Garnett is jetting off to the USA to fulfil her dream of working overseas
Toyota crisis
Toyota owners around Cumbria will soon be contacted about whether their car could develop a fault in its accelerator pedal
Bridge too far
Two disabled people are unable to visit their friends because they can’t walk down to a footbridge that crosses a river
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Land handover
Construction boss Fred Story is gifting land in Carlisle to Cumbria Cerebral Palsy to build new homes for its disabled members
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Bargain hunters line up for Dunmail Park sale before Asda moves in
Shoppers queued out of the doors of Dunmail Park yesterday morning waiting for the “closing down” sale prompted by Asda’s move into the building later this year.
Carlisle United's Ian Harte and Joe Anyinsah are both back in training ahead of tomorrow’s cup clash with Leeds, whose star striker Jermaine Beckford is a major doubt.
Angry Ged Stokes handed Whitehaven the biggest dressing down of his tenure after they stumbled to a dire 17-16 Northern Rail Cup defeat at Keighley yesterday.
View our gallery of some of the worst criminals operating in north and west Cumbria before they were banged up by the courts.
