The Stormont Executive will not be able to set a budget without an improved funding offer from the UK Government, finance minister John O’Dowd has said. Mr O’Dowd said ministers were still not in a ...

Cumbria could face an increased risk of wet, windy and stormy weather this autumn and winter as one of the strongest El Niño events on record develops in the Pacific Ocean, according to forecasters.

The case of a British man who admitted recklessly causing the death of his son after the boy fell nearly 40ft from the fourth floor window of a hotel in Cyprus should have “never gone to court”, his ...

Cumbria Police reveal speed camera van locations for October 16, including the A66, A685, M6 J40-J45, A6 near Penrith and ...

More than £3.8m will fund urgent conservation at Kendal Parish Church and Workington’s St John’s Church, with projects starting in 2026 and 2027 in Cumbria.

Workington thief Alan Kendrick, 49, receives a suspended eight-month jail term after threatening a security guard and breaching a criminal behaviour order.

Andrew Moys, vice president of impact at McDonald’s, said: "For more than 20 years, we’ve been incredibly proud to stand alongside the grassroots football community. The sessi ...

As explained by the Royal Museums Greenwich: "A meteor is a piece of space debris that burns up as it enters the earth’s atmosphere creating a ‘shooting star’. "Certain time ...

The Prime Minister will speak in North Lanarkshire on Friday in a push for powers to be devolved out of Holyrood to local communities.

William Chapman died on Saturday after scaling two fences at the Land of the Tigers enclosure, an inquest heard.

Scottish minister Stephen Flynn has pledged to “take and run with” any of the Prime Minister’s “good ideas” on public service reform. Andy Burnham will head north on Friday to make a speech in North ...

A teenage hitman from Norway has been locked up for 20 years for plotting a murder on British soil for an Iran-backed international crime gang. Talented footballer Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, ...