It has now emerged that Uber is available in both Barrow and Ulverston. Whether the global app becomes the new norm for customers in Cumbria, or they stick with local firms, remains to be seen. The ...

A significant proportion of a town's recycling was sent to landfill or incinerated, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request ...

As head of the civil service in the pandemic, Simon Case had one of the toughest jobs in Britain, now he's swapped London for ...

A bus driver from Barrow has described how his passion for history has driven him to re-discover long-lost Medieval stained glass fragments ...

The vice chairman of volunteer group Furness Abbey Fellowship said they disagreed the move was the "best way forward". English Heritage said Furness Abbey was currently only open on the weekends in ...

On September 18, 2023, Jamie decided he could no longer continue the battle and took his own life. His body was found off the ...

A new bank has shared the locations of 60 proposed branches, including six in Cumbria. NW Mutual, which proposes a 'bricks, clicks, and flicks' business model, plans to open the branches across the ...

BAE SYSTEMS’ plans for a new research and development facility, security works and training sites have been given the ...

New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to two of Westmorland and Furness’s establishments, the Food Standards Agency’s ...

THOUSANDS more electric vehicle (EV) charging points will be required in south Cumbria by 2035 according to a council report.

AN inquest has opened into the death of a four-month-old baby who suffered a cardiac arrest at home near Ulverston and died in hospital in Barrow.

Furness Abbey, on the outskirts of Barrow, Cumbria, was founded about 900 years ago and was the first of England's "greater monasteries" to be dissolved during Henry VIII's religious reforms.