The blast at a terraced house on Hugh Street in Bransty, Whitehaven on New Year’s Eve left three people seriously injured in hospital and forced neighbours out of their homes. Four cats were reported ...

LABOUR-run Cumberland Council is to debate the controversial family farm tax at its meeting next week. It is hoped that Cumberland Council will join the ever-growing list of other councils in the UK ...

Over 150 workers at North Cumbria Integrated Care Trust (NCIC) were off sick during the Christmas week. NHS England figures show that an average of 162 staff members at NCIC were off ill each day ...

The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed previous projections that 2024 was the warmest on record globally and the first calendar year that the average temperature exceeded 1.5C ...

Jimmy Carter has been for his humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at ...

Mozambique’s main opposition leader has returned from self-imposed exile saying he still rejects the results of a disputed ...

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than ...

The US president was scheduled to leave for Italy after giving the eulogy for former president Jimmy Carter at his funeral in ...

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

In social media news, the Daily Mirror writes Elon Musk’s posts are being probed by Britain’s counterterrorism unit. Friday's front page: Musk hate probe #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/KqpjpSsLnu ...

Temperatures will continue to fall over the coming days, with the mercury potentially reaching minus 20C in northern parts of the UK on Friday night, the Met Office has forecast. Weather warnings for ...

The group exploited vulnerable women in Dundee until they were arrested as part of Police Scotland’s Operation Recloir.