Cumbrian Fire safety experts drive forward training

Britain’s top independent fire safety firm has linked up with a leading university to help create the next generation of experts in its specialist field.

Cumbrian-based Safety Management (UK) is one of the industrial partners of the University of Central...

Witness appeal following fatal collision in Penrith
Police are appealing for witnesses as they investigate a fatal road traffic collision that occurred in Penrith. The collision occurred at approximatel...
Police identify man who died in road traffic collision in Penrith
Police can confirm that the man who died in a road traffic collision in Penrith last night has been formally identified as local man, Robin Hewitt. Th...
Woman rescued near Buttermere
Cockermouth Mountain Rescue team was called to a 58 year old woman who had injured her ankle near Scale Beck, Buttermere. She was treated, and transp...
Go-ahead for permanent traffic signals on Lazonby's Eden Bridge
Traffic signals will be permanently installed at Lazonby’s Eden Bridge following a green light from councillors and the local community. Cumbria Count...
Police name driver who died in Distington
Police have named the driver who died in a fatal traffic collision on the B5306 on Monday 25 February as 74-year-old William Edward Parker of Loop Roa...
Driver killed in Whitehaven B5306 crash
Police were called to a fatal road traffic collision in Whitehaven this afternoon, February 25. Officers were called at 2.29pm to reports of a one veh...
Family pay tribute to man who died in Penrith car park
Police confirmed that the pedestrian who died following a road traffic collision in Penrith on Wednesday morning has been named as Thomas Christopher Thompson, aged 77 from Lazonby. At 11:24 am on 16...
Man arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving following the A66 collision
At about 7:20 am this morning (Friday the 11th January 2013) Police, Fire, Ambulance and Highways all attended a collision occurred on the A66 near to the Sandford junction at the West end of the...
Vulnerable Cumbrian businesses are failing the fire safety test
Around 50 per cent of business premises inspected by Cumbria's fire chiefs over 12 months failed a safety audit, a new report has revealed. The study, by Britain’s top independent fire expert Safety...
Climber killed in Lake's plunge
Sat, 5th January 2013, 13:04 Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team were called out at 1.04pm yesterday, January 5. A man was reported as having fallen on The Band. The group the man was with...