A MAN who punched a police officer as she went to arrest his friend, had shown ‘total disregard for authority and the police’, a court heard.

A bill that aims to tackle the harms caused to children and young people by excessive smartphone and social media had its ...

COUNCILLORS are due to get an update on active travel in the Cumberland Council area at a meeting in Workington next week.

Thomas Parker, from Workington, was arrested in Bali and is set to be charged with importation, trafficking and possession of ...

When a filmmaker had a dream he could not make sense of, he never imagined it would trigger a 15-year journey to solve the ...

A section of the A597 near Workington, also known as Mossbay Road, will be closed for up to ten days to allow for essential ...

A WORKINGTON mum used social media after the Southport stabbings to urge people to copy rioters who attacked a hotel because it housed migrants.

Megan Morrison, 27, from Workington, Cumbria, shared an image on Facebook of violent disorder at a Holiday Inn in Rotherham housing asylum seekers and suggested the same should be done outside the ...

Residents in Workington are being urged to secure their bikes as police crack down on a rise in thefts across the area. Cumbria Constabulary has reported an increase in acquisitive crime ...

Organisers of the fourth big bare-knuckle boxing event in west Cumbria say it will be the biggest of its kind – with some ...

The MP for Whitehaven and Workington told the Commons he began his career as a teacher in 2009 when “there was the odd phone in the classroom, the odd instance of a child being bullied through ...