cumbria

Police have issued a statement. A 17-year-old girl has died at the Kendal Calling festival in Cumbria, police have confirmed. The teenager suffered a medical episode at around 02:15 BST on Sunday and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Cumbria Police, who said her family have been informed and are being supported by […]

1 month ago

BREAKING Paramedics have been called to the scene of a train derailment in Cumbria. North West Ambulance Service says “resources” were dispatched to the scene and that it is “currently assessing the situation”. “Our priority is to ensure people receive the medical help they need as quickly as possible,” they added. Other emergency services are […]

10 months ago

A man was arrested following the incident Police have issued an update following the death of an 8-year-old child who was shot in the head at a farm in Cumbria. On Saturday (September 28), police were called to a farm north of Warcop area at around 2:50pm following a report that a child had been […]

2 years ago

‘I watched as my freckles died and literally fell off my face as my skin melted away’ An enraged man attacked his sister-in-law with boiling water so hot it made her freckles “melt off” – in a row over a pet rat. Charlotte Foster was left with first and second-degree burns at the hands of […]

3 years ago

The two had gone into town for some drinks A father accidentally hanged himself after trying to scare his fiancée, who had just watched Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story. Phillip Burns, 36, died on February 28 after trying to scare his girlfriend, Michelle Delahunty-Evans, who had turned around from the TV to see he’d hanged […]

4 years ago

Bean there, done that.

9 years ago