By-elections were held in four Cumbria County Council electoral divisions on 6 May.

People are being invited to give their views and thoughts on how cycling and walking provision can be improved in Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle and Kendal.

Cumbria County Council has brought together local partners to create a Penrith Town Team, which includes representatives from Cumbria CVS, Cumbria County Council, Eden District Council, Penrith Town Council, Penrith Business Improvement District, Penrith Chamber of Trade, and Penrith Industrial Business Improvement District, who are working together to develop a ‘place vision’ for Penrith.

Cumbria County Council’s Copeland Area Support Team has worked with a range of local partners to create an Egremont Town Team, which includes representatives from the local community in Egremont, to develop a ‘place vision’ for Egremont.

Just 42 new COVID-19 infections were recorded in Cumbria in weekending 30 April, down from 59 the previous week.

Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) is committed to supporting the safety and wellbeing of residents in all the communities they serve. To do this, they are calling on communities to help stop preventable deaths in house fires.

Thousands of residents and businesses in Cumbria now have the opportunity to access faster broadband connections than ever before, and many already have a plan for what they will do when they can access even better speeds.

Engineering works designed to increase the flood resilience of a small community in South Lakeland have been completed.