Police are investigating a theft from a lorry, in which goods were stolen while at Burton motorway services. It happened between 10pm yesterday (March 3) and 7am today (March 4). Anyone with information can report online at www.cumbria.police.uk/reportit – quoting incident 35 of March 4. You can also phone on 101. Alternatively you can… Continue reading Local Appeal – Theft from a lorry at Burton motorway services
Opening hours at the COVID-19 mass vaccination sites across Lancashire and South Cumbria are being reduced from next week. This is to free up some NHS staff to work in hyper-local pop-up vaccine services in neighbourhoods and towns across the area. From Monday March 7 the opening hours will be from 9am to 6pm… Continue reading Mass vaccination sites reducing hours so staff can work in pop-up clinics
Police are appealing for information/witnesses following a serious assault which occurred at 11.45pm on Saturday, 26 February, 2022 on Aynam Road, Kendal. Two men were hospitalised having suffered injuries, including injuries believed to have been inflicted with a knife or other bladed article. They were both discharged the following day after receiving treatment.… Continue reading Local Appeals – Serious assault on Aynam Road, Kendal
Police have formally identified one of the people who died in a collision on the M6 on Monday (February 28). Florentin Lepadat, 51, of Rochdale, died at the scene of the collision, which happened on the northbound carriageway between junctions 39 and 40 at 11.18am. Mr Lepadat was travelling in a Volkswagen Passat, which… Continue reading UPDATE: M6 collision February 28
Work has begun on transforming a former park keeper’s house in Barrow into a nationally recognised centre for sound art and new music organisation, Full of Noises (FON). Piel View House in Barrow Park has been FON’s base since 2011 but the Edwardian building has seen better days so it is being redeveloped,… Continue reading Sound Plans For Historic House In Barrow
As the start of the lambing season gets underway, Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Peter McCall is urging all dog owners to keep their dogs on leads when in fields with livestock. Sheep worrying is when, on agricultural land, a dog either attacks sheep, chases them in such a way as to likely… Continue reading PCC urges dog owners to ‘take the lead’ this spring
Police are investigating a report of an assault on Oak Street in Windermere which occurred at approximately 5.30pm on Wednesday, 23 February 2022. A woman described as white, around 5ft 5ins tall and of slight build assaulted a man by striking him. The man did not suffer any injury. The suspect was arrested on suspicion… Continue reading Local Appeal: Report of an assault on Oak Street in Windermere
Bringing you the best in fiction, poetry, history, nature writing, ideas and storytelling, Lancaster’s 43rd Annual Literature Festival returns from the 8th – 20th March 2022 to discover new works and explore topical issues. For the very first time, Litfest will be running as a hybrid event – meaning that we’ll be able to… Continue reading LitFest explores a world of change
Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Peter McCall, is reminding the public that there is still time for them to have their say in Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service’s governance. The public consultation will help develop a section of the business plan that the PCC will submit to the Home Office. Governance is the… Continue reading PCC reminds public to have their say on Cumbria’s Fire Service Governance
Polygraph and Electronic Monitoring Cumbria Constabulary are highlighting their unseen police work to protect vulnerable people in the community. The focus of the ongoing Operation MOVIE 2 campaign has moved to the invaluable work of the Constabulary’s MOSOVO department. MOSOVO – standing for Management of Sexual Offenders and Violent offenders – is a specialist department… Continue reading Operation Movie 2 The work of the Management of Sex Offenders and Violent Offenders department
