Public fury has swelled over the degraded state of the country’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters and at a lack of investment in water infrastructure, rising bills, high dividends and debt and ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is to vote against an assisted dying Bill amid fears around coercion and people feeling a “duty to die”. The Cabinet minister had previously said he was ...

A retired journalist who took part in the clinical trial for the new Alzheimer’s drug has described how he feels “as normal as a 78-year-old can be”. Peter Almond finished a trial for donanemab in ...

Two migrants have died and dozens of others were rescued after a boat sank in the English Channel, the French coastguard said. A rescue operation was launched on Wednesday off the coast of Calais ...

A new Alzheimer’s drug has been rejected for widespread use in the health service in England after the health spending watchdog said it “does not currently demonstrate value for the NHS”. The news ...

A TOWN’S war memorial is being given a spruce-up ahead of Remembrance Sunday. The cenotaph at Castle Park in Whitehaven is being given a £3,673 facelift, in a joint venture by Whitehaven Town Council ...

Mike Williamson insisted Carlisle United’s defeat at Walsall was down to their failings in the final third rather than “stale possession”.

CUMBRIA Police have announced that the body of a man has been found in the River Eden. Police confirmed that the body was found in the river near Sheepmount in Carlisle on Tuesday, October 22.

The Royal Mint recently named the King Charles III coin as the rarest currently in circulation in the UK, with just 200,000 copies minted.

Donanemab is a targeted antibody drug which slows down the early stages of Alzheimer’s. The drug, and another new drug for Alzheimer’s called lecanemab, have been billed as a huge step forward in ...

Cumbria Police have confirmed the identity of the Skoda driver killed in a crash on the M6. The collision occurred at around 4:04pm on October 15 after the Skoda was reported to be travelling ...

At least five workers have died and three others were trapped after a seven-storey building under construction collapsed in southern India during heavy monsoon rains, police have said. Thirteen people ...