For a New Lancashire County-Region WHILE our Yorkshire neighbours are building up momentum for a ‘One Yorkshire’ region, Lancashire is l...

Lakeland Arts’ exhibitions for 2019: Turner, Ruskin, Scottish Colourists, The Art of Belonging and more    'In 1884 Ruskin wrot...

Cumbria and Lancashire Area Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament East Lancashire CND, Lancaster District CND, CND North Cumbria and South...

UNITE the Union achieved a huge turnout of branches with nominations in the election for the union’s general secretary – the largest number ...

Published Tuesday, 28 th Feb ‘17, The GUARDIAN Copeland voters are most worried about jobs, their main employer is the nuclear indust...

BARONESS Chakrabarti has identified the distant region of Copeland in Cumbria, saying 'It's remote from London'.   And the ...

REPORTS suggest that Jeremy Corb, the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn is coming under more pressure to pack it in, as the results of the...

MELVYN BRAGG celebrates the history of the North of England in a new Radio 4 show, The Matter of the North: The ten-part series, began y...

'It is hard to tell someone who is shortsighted how to get to a place.   Because you can't say “Look at that church tower ten miles...

IN a north west market town there was a large underused public building.   It was referred to as 'the joke shop' because it was o...

Horny Handed Son of Mum & Dad Unlike Toby, Simon Saunders had no track record of Marxism, in fact he had no track record of anything...

THE Holker Hall Garden Festival in Calk-in-Cartmel near Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, began yesterday.  The Holker Festival is much more re...

THE distressed tenants of Longtown (Cumbria), huddled into one room to both eat and sleep - they cannot afford to heat other rooms in the ...