Credit crunch sinks Ship pub
One of west Cumbria’s best-known pubs has closed as the county’s drinks trade slips further into the financial mire.
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Vote for the Face of Cumbria 2008
CAST YOUR VOTE NOW! The final round of voting has begun to find the Face of Cumbria 2008. Choose your favourite to win the £1,000 professional photo shoot and portfolio. At 6.30pm today, Chelsea Peebles was leading Bridie Lawson by 3% in the overall vote (online and text)
Alley gates to beat yobs
Eight new sets of alley gates are to go up across back lanes in Carlisle to cut fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour
Alan's targeting success
Cumbrian archer Alan Wills is aiming to arrow in on a medal at the Olympics in Beijing on Saturday
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Vandals attack shops around churchyard
Traders around a Penrith church are coming under attack from drunken vandals.
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Bridges: I'm set for Blues opener at Bristol
Michael Bridges today insisted he is ready for Carlisle United’s big League One opener at Bristol Rovers despite boss John Ward’s concerns over the loan star’s sharpness.
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View our gallery of some of the worst criminals operating in north and west Cumbria - most of them bringing misery to our streets - before they were banged up by the courts