Police said they launched an investigation after a window and door were painted, causing criminal damage. It happened on December 20 on Wellington Row in Whitehaven between 12.30am and 1am. Subscribe ...

British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton said we need to be “very careful” and “very thoughtful” about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) which he says is a “potentially very ...

Scotland welcomed 2024 in explosive style with the traditional fireworks display over Edinburgh Castle at the Hogmanay street party. The 12 months which followed saw electoral change, footballing ...

German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has ordered the country’s parliament to be dissolved and set new elections for February 23 in the wake of the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing ...

A dog was reported as lost on one of the Lake District's highest peaks on Christmas Day (December 25). Cumbria police notified Coniston (MRT) Mountain Rescue Team to simply make the volunteers aware.

Soap supremo Sir Phil Redmond says that “courage has gone out of broadcasting” in recent years, and suggested that TV watchdog rules should be broken more often.

A SUSPECTED explosive device found on a beach turned out to be part of a speaker. The Maryport Coastguard Rescue Team and Cumbria Police were called to Maryport North Shore on Boxing Day following ...

Mike Williamson says Carlisle United have “agreements in principle” to make new signings as soon as the January transfer window opens.

A prison officer has been arrested after she was allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate. Footage of the guard and male prisoner was shared with prisoners at HMP Five Wells, Northamptonshire, the ...

The former world number one served a one-month ban after a positive test for the angina medication trimetazidine.

The victim reported being approached by two unknown men near Harry Ramsden’s, in Old Steine, around 3.30am on Saturday.

A Nasa spacecraft which made the closest-ever approach to the sun is safe and “operating normally”, the space agency said. On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the ...