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Councillors have endorsed preliminary designs for a new cycling, walking and wheeling route along Abbey Road in Barrow.

The event will offer dementia advice and support for residents and local businesses

Heritage restoration works are under way to protect an historic pub on a remote island off the Furness Peninsula.

A FREE, clinically proven intervention to help people quit smoking is being piloted by Westmorland and Furness Council.

Members of the public are being warned NOT to pick up or touch dead birds after the number of confirmed cases of Avian Influenza (otherwise known as Bird Flu) in wild birds rises in Cumbria. 

More than 20 business leaders from Penrith and the surrounding area met together as part of a joint initiative between Westmorland and Furness Council’s Economic Development and Regeneration Team and Cumbria Chamber of Commerce. 

Westmorland & Furness Council’s Cabinet has given its unanimous backing to the Penrith Business Improvement District (BID), as local businesses take part in a ballot to secure a proposed third 5-year term for the organisation.

Growth and housing investment opportunities in the Furness peninsula and the wider Westmorland and Furness area were showcased at the House of Lords.

Just a few days left to get a COVID-19 spring booster or a first or second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine

With more warm weather expected this weekend, make sure you enjoy the sun – safely.