Kingstown: Fire out but cordon still in place
Part of Carlisle’s Kingstown Broadway will remain cordoned off until it is declared safe following a fire involving a gas cylinder.
- Gang's terrifying racist abuse of Carlisle takeaway staff (6 comments)
- Cumbrian man who punched wife after night out sentenced by Carlisle court
- Cumbrian patients 'will still be treated in Newcastle'
- Cumbrian woman cleared of stab attack on ex-boyfriend
- Carlisle women and disabled man wrestle house burglar to ground
- Cumbrian man on sex register after admitting voyeurism
Rescued again
Cumbria's naked pedalo pair are back on dry land after being airlifted off their boat during a big storm (9 comments)
Big city restaurant
A former Carlisle supermarket is to be converted into a 300-seater Indian restaurant, creating up to 70 jobs
Facebook riots charge
A University of Cumbria student has told a jury he was joking when he appeared to encourage crime during last August’s riots
Unemployment 'emergency'
Neighbourhoods across west Cumbria where youth unemployment has reached an “emergency” are revealed today
Workers' appeal plan
Staff at a Woolies store who face missing out on compensation money might have to go to appeal to claim their share
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'A landscape threat'
MPs want the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the “inefficient” onshore wind turbine industry to be cut
Elvis leaves the building
Carlisle's Elvis tribute artist Stevie Las Vegas is packing up his jumpsuit, saying there is 'no market in Cumbria' for his act
Police puppy named
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Training praised
Schools minister Nick Gibb has visited Cumbria uni to find out more about its pioneering ways of training
What's wrong with totty?
Beer fans have defended the firm behind Top Totty ale which was kicked out of Parliament for being sexist (20 comments)
Short back and sides
When Harry Brown first visited barber Bill Finlayson it was an emergency - and 50 years later he's still going back
Still in pain
A pilot has won more than £100k compensation after a flying accident in which he dodged death for a third time
'Get it sorted'
Carlisle's MP wants Cumbria council to find a resolution to the dispute over teaching assistants’ pay (12 comments)
Carlisle United boss Greg Abbott is challenging comeback star Andy Welsh to prove he can be more than an impact sub. 
Workington Town boss Gary Charlton says his side will go all out to erase the memory of their Grand Final defeat, when they take on Sheffield Eagles in the season opener on Sunday. 
View our gallery of some of the worst criminals operating or caught in north and west Cumbria before they were banged up by the courts 
