Cumbria
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Police are warning businesses to be vigilant following reports of forged £20 and £50 notes being passed across the county. Businesses have been targeted indiscriminately from newsagents to hotels across the county including reports in Coniston, Grasmere, Ulverston, Silloth, Allonby, Abbeytown and Carlisle. Reports are of forged Scottish £20 and Irish £50 notes, however English […]
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to make the case for HS2 trains to stop in the county. Currently the high-speed trains from London are set to pass through the county without stopping, meaning passengers on the West Coast Main Line will have to change at Preston to get […]
Local MP Tim Farron has called for the Department for Health to apologise for causing “severe distress and anxiety” after 475 women in Westmorland and Lonsdale were wrongly told they had missed breast cancer check-ups. The Independent Breast Screening Review found that the blunder, which affected 67,000 women across the UK, was down to health […]
An appeal for witnesses has been launched by officers investigating a serious assault that occurred in Windermere. At approximately 5.20pm yesterday (December 16) two men were involved in an altercation on Glebe Road. A 69-year-old male from Sunderland is currently in a critical, but stable, condition at the Royal Preston Hospital after being punched. Officers […]
Police reported a high volume of calls for service as storm Deirdre hit Cumbria yesterday afternoon into the evening. Disruption was caused across Cumbria’s roads, paths and fells, but no major incidents or “pile-ups” were reported. Police were called to a number of road traffic collisions where the weather was a contributing factor. Thirteen collisions […]
Since Thursday (13th December) Cumbria Police have had a large number of reports of fake notes passed in shops in Dalton, Coniston, Grange and Grasmere. A spokeswoman said: “Please can you check all your notes that you take, even if they look genuine you may be surprised. Please call 101 and report any incident to […]
Cumbria Police report road closures, speed restrictions and urge for driving with caution as Storm Deirdre continues to create hazardous conditions on roads, paths and fells across the county A66 The A66 from Penrith Kemplay Roundabout to Bowes has had to be closed again in both direction due to the continued adverse cold weather creating […]
The A66 from Brough to Bowes has been closed in both direction due to the adverse cold weather creating dangerous road conditions. The A66 will remain closed at this section for the foreseeable future. There will be congestion around these areas and drivers are asked to allow for delays and to plan their journey accordingly. […]
MP holds meeting with the Environment Agency and challenges them to look again at plans to fell over 700 trees in Kendal Local MP Tim Farron met with the Environment Agency’s Flood Risk Manager for Cumbria, Stewart Mounsey, yesterday to encourage him to review plans to chop down over 700 trees as part of its […]
Morecambe Bay CCG is to follow new guidance from NHS England, which aims to free up almost £100 million nationally for front line care each year, by significantly reducing prescriptions for ‘over the counter’ medicines such as those for indigestion and hayfever. The new guidance was issued by NHS England following the results of a […]
