AMBITIOUS plans to transform two key areas in Whitehaven town centre have been revealed. Cumberland Council is has announced the opening of an invitation to tender for contractors to deliver the ...

The society will offer interest-free loans of up to £20,000 to help its mortgage customers make their homes more energy efficient.

The US government has fined American Airlines 50 million dollars (£38.5 million) for failing to provide wheelchair assistance ...

The deal will see German planes operating from a Scottish airbase and increase co-operation on developing new equipment.

Deaths involving cocaine registered in England and Wales soared by 30% in a year, the latest official data shows. The total number of drug-related deaths registered reached a new record high last year ...

A NEW report from the National Audit Office has found that a west Cumbrian nuclear site is 'not yet achieving value for money'- a new report ...

A world-first study could help revolutionise the treatment of brain cancer, researchers say. The research will trial multiple new treatments for people in the UK living with an aggressive form of ...

Lidia Thorpe, who campaigns on First Nations issues in Australia, disrupted Charles’s welcome to the capital Canberra with an outburst on Monday.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hosted China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the Brics bloc of developing economies – part of the Kremlin’s efforts to ...

The newly-merged housebuilder has launched a consultation on the proposed closure of five of nine divisional offices it has earmarked to be shut.

A TOWN’S war memorial is being given a spruce-up ahead of Remembrance Sunday. The cenotaph at Castle Park in Whitehaven is being given a £3,673 facelift, in a joint venture by Whitehaven Town Council ...

Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve sued former television producer Richard Hall over his claims that the attack was staged.