Channelside Alternative Provision is due to open this month according to a report prepared by Westmorland and Furness Council ...

Virginia Furness covers sustainable finance in London. She writes about how the financial sector is shifting to meet climate and development goals and the impact these changes are having on the ...

University of Cumbria has announced that it has secured planning permission to extend its new campus in Barrow-in-Furness. Revised plans for the University of Cumbria Barrow campus on Buccleuch Dock ...

The Mayor of Barrow, Councillor Judith McEwan, and the Mayor of Ulverston, Councillor Graham Scrogham, officially opened their towns' fresh branches of Furness Building Society. Representatives from ...

A Barrow shop is set to celebrate the beginning of Spring with an event this weekend. Raggz, the men's clothes shop on Scotch Street in Barrow, will host the event from 10am on Saturday March 1st ...

Village welcomes new gate to railway station platform. Kirkby-in-Furness now has a brand new gate, opening from the road to the train tracks. This morning, workers from Network Rail were on site to ...

The Holiday Inn Express, Barrow-in-Furness & South Lakes was recently named the hotel with the Best Hotel Guest Experience at the RBH Hospitality Management awards. It also claimed the Giving ...

Mark Hughes has had a glittering football career. Football's in his DNA and it's why he is celebrating a win at Barrow like some of his triumphs with Manchester United in his playing days.

Barrow County will soon see an expansion of Johns Manville, a fiberglass insulation manufacturer. The expansion will include a new production line and create over 30 jobs. Construction of the new ...

The wife of TV auctioneer Charles Hanson was unstable, unhappy and “had an agenda” against her husband as their marriage “imploded” into divorce proceedings, his barrister has told a jury.

Barrow-in-Furness has a number of spectacular hotels that date back centuries and are steeped in history - with some accommodating famous early 20th century figures. The town's historical hotels ...

The UK government's 'free' breakfast club scheme is set to launch in two Barrow and Furness schools as part of a national pilot programme. Lindal and Marton Primary School and Waberthwaite School will ...