Date: Tuesday 16th July 2019
A COMPANY working within the utilities industry has removed all cup and ball hitching mechanisms from its fleet following the tragic death of a 25-year-old Penrith woman who was killed when a trailer carrying a mechanical digger disconnected from a works van on the A6 near Shap.
Date: Tuesday 16th July 2019
FELL running fanatics Carl Bell and Jenn Mattinson made sure it was business as usual on their wedding day, eschewing a walk down the aisle for a trot to the summit of a Lakeland peak.
Date: Tuesday 16th July 2019
ONE of Eden Council’s newest councillors, Paul Connor, has died suddenly, at the age of 59.
Date: Tuesday 16th July 2019
A PIECE of bicycle art — which might be erected on the tower of Kirkby Stephen Parish Church — is to be the centrepiece of a four-day cycling showcase which is being organised by the community as part of the Tour of Britain coming to the town on Tuesday, 10th September.
Date: Friday 12th July 2019
LANGWATHBY School bus escort campaigners will be taking action on Wednesday in a bid to persuade county councillors to put the safety of children first and overturn a decision to impose redundancies.
Date: Friday 12th July 2019
HIGHWAYS England has issued a huge thank you to the thousands of people who have contributed to the opening consultation about £1 billion plans to dual the remaining single carriageway sections of the A66 between Penrith and Scotch Corner.
Date: Friday 12th July 2019
THERE was double delight for the Buckle family, Buckles Farm, Barras, at the Great Yorkshire show, where they triumphed in the sheep section.
Date: Friday 12th July 2019
EDEN District Council has declared a climate emergency with the bold aim of making the authority carbon neutral by 2030.
Date: Thursday 11th July 2019
Cumbria police have launched a campaign that will run over the summer focusing on providing safety advice.
Date: Wednesday 10th July 2019
AT a bumper Skelton show the overall champion of champions in the livestock section was the top commercial heifer and feeding animal, Sparks, shown by Neil Slack, Plumtree House, Newby. Full report and lots more photos by Fred Wilson in Saturday's Herald.
Date: Tuesday 9th July 2019
A BOY has told a jury he briefly handled a knife used in a town centre cashpoint robbery — but insisted he had no involvement in the crime or its planning.
Date: Tuesday 9th July 2019
SOME of Cumbria’s most rural homes and businesses are looking forward to a faster future thanks to the arrival of high-speed broadband.
Date: Monday 8th July 2019
A YOUNG man has told a jury he played no part in the knifepoint robbery of a woman at a cashpoint in Penrith — nor any plot to hatch the crime.
Date: Monday 8th July 2019
ELECTRONIC message signs have gone multilingual in Cumbria in a ground-breaking initiative to improve roadworks information for lorry drivers.
Date: Monday 8th July 2019
A KIRKBY Stephen couple received a third card from the Queen as they reached their 70th wedding anniversary.
Date: Monday 8th July 2019
A "CALCULATED predator" who sexually abused a young girl has been jailed for eight years.
Date: Friday 5th July 2019
A RESURGENCE of the “Penrith pong” has prompted a new campaign to fight the smell which has blighted the town for years.
Date: Friday 5th July 2019
PENRITH'S Birbeck Medical Group has become one of the latest to become a parkrun GP practice and will be marking this with an NHS parkrun next Saturday July.
Date: Friday 5th July 2019
THE brother and sister of Alison Bell, who stepped in front of a train in 1991 while she was under the care of NHS mental health services, have started a crowdfunding campaign in order to apply to the courts to hold a second inquest into her death.
Date: Friday 5th July 2019
THE controversial Penrith masterplan produced by Eden District Council was kicked into the long grass on Tuesday as the authority’s new-look executive unanimously agreed that no further work on it will be undertaken.
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