Cake decorating skills come to life at new Judi Bakes shop in Maryport

Judi Bakes - Maryport’s newest bakery reported ‘a phenomenal first week’, selling out of their deliciously decadent cakes by lunchtime each day and taking many more enquiries and orders for novelty cakes. They had still not drawn breath as they began their first weekend...

Allerdale Police and Council tackle parking issues around schools
Allerdale Borough Policing Team recently received a number of complaints regarding parking issues in and around the schools in Workington and Maryport...
Cumbrian Schoolchildren to feature in shocking new stop smoking campaign
School children from Cumbria are featuring in a new hard hitting stop smoking campaign. The campaign will raise awareness of the fact that there are...
Dance fever hits young Cumbrians
Hundreds of school children from across Cumbria are ready strut their stuff in a countywide dance festival later this month. The U.Dance Cumbria Festi...
Farron secures £760,016 for Cumbria councils
Lakes MP Tim Farron has secured over three quarters of a million pounds for councils throughout Cumbria. In a letter from Brandon Lewis, MP Parliament...
Be in the know about elections with county council's new website
The county council has launched new web pages that tell you everything you need to know about the four-yearly county council elections to be held on T...
Police and Crime Commissioner’s Award for Bravery
Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner Richard Rhodes has awarded the annual Commissioner’s Bravery Award to three Maryport officers. Police constabl...
Marketing tips on the agenda for networking businesses
The first Allerdale Business Connections meeting for 2013 is set to focus on top marketing tips to develop business this year. Speaker for the event is Michelle Masters who set up the successful...
Coastal work protection completed at Castle Corner
Coastal protection work has now successfully been completed on an important road near Silloth to save it from erosion. The scheme, on the B5300 Maryport to Silloth road, has seen a 280 metre length...
Family pay tribute to pedestrian who died following Workington crash
The family of a pedestrian who died in a road traffic collision in Workington this week have paid tribute to a dad who was ‘their world’. James Henry Smith, 54 of Hyde Street in Workington who was...
Trainspotting pupils pack performances of The Railway Children
Nearly 600 children from 13 schools in Workington and Maryport will visit Theatre by the Lake in Keswick next month as part of an innovative and much-praised education project.