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Cumberland Council has carried out Operation Impact in Whitehaven, bringing together officers from Environmental Crime, Trading Standards, Licensing and Planning to engage with local businesses and promote high standards across the town centre.

Cumberland Council is urging dog owners to responsibly clean up after their pets or risk fines of up to £100.

Workington, Silloth and Maryport shops praised following cigarette and vape test purchasing operation.

A former taxi driver has been found guilty of undertaking private hire taxi work without an appropriate taxi driver's licence and without a taxi vehicle licence in place. 

Cumberland Council has successfully prosecuted a Carlisle businessman for selling illegal e-cigarettes (vapes).

Retailers in Workington, Flimby, Maryport and Carlisle, have all refused to sell e-cigarettes (vapes) to an underage test purchaser this week.

Retailers have been tested in an operation to clamp down on underage vape sales over the summer holidays.

A test purchasing operation in Workington resulted in three out of eight retailers selling e-cigarettes to underage teens.

Members of the public are being warned NOT to pick up or touch dead birds after the number of confirmed cases of Avian Influenza (otherwise known as Bird Flu) in wild birds rises in Cumbria.