Spend a few days in the Lake District and you’re bound to experience two things: crowds, and rain. As I zigzag up the steep trail leading out of the U-shaped glacial valley of Mickledon, there’s no ...

Emergency services rushed to Shap in Cumbria after a train travelling from Glasgow to London derailed early this morning. The 04:28 service from Glasgow came off the tracks at around 06:10 GMT.

Two councils have approved plans for a new mayor-led authority for Cumbria. Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness Councils gave their final consent to the government's devolution proposals, which ...

Cumbria continues to experience a tourism decline since the pandemic as visitor numbers and profitability fell last year, new statistics reveal. New data from the Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity ...

The statistics released by Cumbria Tourism are produced by the Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity Monitor, commonly known as ‘STEAM’. Credit: PA Images New figures have highlighted the decline of ...

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Opening a new coal mine in one of the world’s most developed countries was always going to be highly controversial, in the context of net zero targets and the carbon-cutting consensus. In the context ...

A man has died in a fire in Cumbria, with emergency services still at the scene, and people warned to stay away from the town. Cumbria Police said the victim, in his forties, was found in the property ...

Canyoning is perhaps one of the lesser-known extreme sport pursuits, but no less as thrilling. It's all about navigating some of the world's most spectacular canyons by walking, scrambling, climbing, ...

People have a lot of questions about Cumbria that cover the where, why, how, and more of everything to do with the county. So, we used the AskThePublic website to find out what has been on people's ...

My husband and I were sitting side-by-side on a narrow rock ledge just above a waterfall in a deep canyon near Abraham Lake while our canyoning guide, Guillaume Coupier, set up ropes for us to rappel ...

LGC sat down with the two new unitaries’ chief executives and leaders to discuss their experience of the process. On 1 April Cumbria’s county council and six districts will cease to exist. In their ...