Earlier this week one of my co-workers asked me what I was going to write about this month and I thought, “Dang, I haven’t even thought about that yet.” ...

The Flower Shop has begun trading on Roper Street in Whitehaven. Pauline Oglanby, who runs the store, worked in The Flower Basket on Lowther Street in Whitehaven for many years. The store has a range ...

BELGARUM was pleased to hear of former editor of the Hampshire Chronicle, a familiar face around the patch in the late 1990s ...

EYECATCHING sculptures have been created on a Cumbrian beach by an environmental artist using natural and manmade materials ...

Whitehaven is a town by the sea but not a seaside town. The first designed town in England since the Middle Ages, it was ...

A vacuum cleaner has been found in one of the world's oldest nuclear waste stores in Cumbria. The Electrolux vacuum cleaner ... to clean up radioactive dust in the facility during the 1950s and 1960s.

The nuclear site, in Cumbria, said it had solved the "challenging ... dust during the facility's operational life in the 1950s and 60s. Roddy Miller, chief operating officer at Sellafield, said ...

Credit: West Cumbria Mining. The Whitehaven coal mine has looked increasingly unlikely to happen for a number of months, but the company behind it withdrawing its application for planning ...

Bob McLaughlin, of Whitehaven, Cumbria, died on Thursday at the age of 89 ... He added Mr McLaughlin had joined the Coastguard in Whitehaven in the 1960s and then became associated with the RNLI a few ...

Bob McLaughlin had been involved with the RNLI in west Cumbria for more than 60 years ... McLaughlin had joined the Coastguard in Whitehaven in the 1960s and then became associated with the ...

Bob McLaughlin, of Whitehaven, Cumbria, died on Thursday at the age ... He added Mr McLaughlin had joined the Coastguard in Whitehaven in the 1960s and then became associated with the RNLI a ...