PLANS have been lodged for a small-scale hairdressing salon above a Barrow chippy. Sarah Addenbrook has submitted a planning application to Westmorland and Furness Council to convert an empty bedroom ...

COUNCILLORS will next week get an update on Connecting Cumbria and the full fibre network roll out. Members of Cumberland and Westmorland & Furness Council’s joint overview and scrutiny committee are ...

MORE than 200 special school places are required within Westmorland and Furness, according to a report. A report prepared for the council’s health and wellbeing board said demand for special school ...

Plans for a sculpture to celebrate a town's link to the Gypsy and traveller community have been turned down by a council.

The new exhibition space at Hawkshead Grammar School Museum tells the story of how Daniel Rawlinson, a local boy who made his fortune in the wine trade, established the school's library in 1669. The ...

Members of Barrow's Muslim community say they are hurt by the crusade which is aiming to close the area's first mosque before ...

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Free football sessions are set to return to Barrow once more this Easter. Westmorland and Furness Council has joined forces with the Furness Youth Work Partnership to bring back Turn Up and Play ...

Starting on Monday 7 April, the restoration programme will require full closure of the bridge, 24 hours a day 'to ensure the ...

Plans for what has been described as the UK's largest floating solar farm have been opposed by a bird club. Associated ...