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An amber warning from the Met Office is now in force across the North East and Cumbria. The warning started at 06:00 and is ...

The joint winner of hit TV show The Traitors has revealed how he was "ashamed" of having cerebral palsy when he was a child, ...

Thousands of homes are still without power across north-east England and Cumbria following Storm Éowyn. Wind gusts reached up ...

The shocking moment was recorded on a doorbell camera. Mr Anderson told BBC Radio Cumbria a group of five people were sitting in the front room on Friday, catching up over a coffee. After the ...

Two dogs who got stuck in mud at the bottom of a harbour have been saved. Rescuers were called to Maryport Harbour in Cumbria ...

Pupils unable to return to their school two years after it was deemed unsafe are facing a "tricky" time, their headteacher ...

A Labour MP has said it is "not ideal" that planned new hospitals have been delayed by up to 10 years, but claimed money for ...

Jake, who revealed he had the condition at the end of the series, told BBC Radio Cumbria he realised he was doing those with a disability a "disservice" by trying to hide it. The 28-year-old said ...

Rachel Parr from Electricity North West told BBC Radio Cumbria there had been "complexity" and more "extenuating circumstances" than the supplier first anticipated at the beginning of the storm.