Cumbria

Nineteen injured in bus collision

BBC News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

A bus and a car collide on a main road in Cumbria leaving 19 people injured, three of them seriously.

Wild Swimming

The Dark Blonde (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'm very fortunate because I've lived in West Cumbria nearly all my life and before that I lived on the Welsh coast, so I have been able to swim in rivers, lakes and the sea for as long as I can remember. I recently discovered that what I call going for a swim is now called Wild Swimming and is the in thing to do, with new books recently being published on the subject. There are hazards of course,...

Harass gran missing from hospital

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A 74-year-old accused of breaching a restraining order goes missing from a mental health unit in Cumbria.

NHS financial crises happening here and now - Lamb

Liberal Democrats (Free subscription) | yesterday

Commenting on reports that hospital staff in Cumbria are being offered cash to quit their jobs following budget cuts due to centrally-imposed efficiency targets, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb said: "We’ve been led to believe that cutting NHS staff because of financial crises was a thing of the past, but it is happening here and now. "The danger is that the quality of patient...

A Lake District country house for £3m

Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

A country house that is romantic even by William Wordworth's standards has come on the market in the Lake District for £3million. A favourite destination for Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, Eusemere - five miles from Penrith, Cumbria - was built in the late 18th century for the slave abolitionist Thomas Clarkson. The 16-acre estate adjacent to Ullswater includes a six-bedroom house, a boathouse,...

Assurances sought over ward cuts

BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Councillors seek assurances from health bosses over a planned shake-up of hospital service in south Cumbria.

Bridge to improve road congestion

BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

A new bridge is lowered into place in Cumbria as part of a £35m package of road improvements.

Young woman killed in collision

BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

A 19-year-old woman driver from Scotland is killed in a collision between two cars in north Cumbria.

National nuclear lab to be set up

Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

A national nuclear laboratory will be established as part of a £2bn regeneration scheme to transform west Cumbria into Britain's "energy coast", John Hutton, the...

Coast £2bn masterplan is unveiled

BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008

Thousands of jobs could be created with the announcement that £2bn is being spend regenerating West Cumbria.

Heart baby is off transplant list

Ph articles (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

A baby who was given weeks to live unless a heart donor was found has made what his parents have described as "a miraculous convalescence." Theo Davis, from Keswick, Cumbria, has hyperplastic left heart syndrome, which means he was born with half a heart. He had five operations at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital while waiting for a giver instrument. further now he has been taken off the remove tarrying...

Recipe Espionage Exposed!

The Epi-Log (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

A top British hotel is requiring guests and staff to sign a secrecy clause to protect its legendary sticky toffee pudding, which has become a classic dessert throughout the country, reports the Daily Telegraph. The Sharrow Bay Hotel in Cumbria claims to have invented the pudding in the 1970s, and few people know how to create the dish. "In gourmet terms, getting hold of [the recipe] is something of...

Tuesday Tuesday . . .

A Year From Oak Cottage (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

I suppose you all have come here looking for Cherry Rhubarb Cobbler, after all it is Tuesdays With Dorie Day and that is the recipe that Amanda from Like Sprinkles on a Cupcake chose for this week's Dorie challenge. I really would have loved to make it this week, but alas . . . I am up in Cumbria on holiday chasing red squirrels around, dodging rain drops and sitting on the stones of Uther Pendragons...

• Tuesdays with Dorie: Cherry Rhubarb Cobbler - a whisk and a spoon
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BNP No Platformed In Lancaster

The "Right" Are Wrong (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

HAHA!!! Clive Jefferson. What a joke! Clive tells us over on Cumbrian Idiots dot blogspot that the BNP had a "Pleasant Surprise" at how well their day in Lancaster went. The BNP don't have an official group in Lancaster so they have to bus them in from Cumbria and if you want to know what happened inside Clive's head then check out his blog, if you want to know what really happened, then I'll tell...

The Howbeck Lodge, Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria welcomes vegans

Flesh is Grass (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Further to this debacle I delegated all calls to Matt, having lost confidence in my powers of persuasion in potentially hostile terrain and fearful that everywhere would tell me to take my custom elsewhere and we’d have to sleep in hedgerows or churches with nothing to eat but berries, green corn and communion wafers. When [...]