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Cumberland Council has successfully prosecuted an individual for abandoning a vehicle, resulting in fines and costs totalling £1,700.

Cumberland Council will carry out scheduled repair works to the side wall of the Wasdale Hall cattle grid between Monday 23 March and Wednesday 25 March.

Residents across Millom are being invited to help name the town’s brand-new leisure facility. A public vote has opened today (Monday 16 March) to decide what the landmark centre, which is set to open later this year as part of Millom Town Deal’s flagship Activating Community Health project, will be called.

On the build up to the Easter bank holiday, Cumberland Council is reminding residents how to access its services.

Carlisle city centre is gearing up for the much anticipated return of the Carlisle International Market, an open air shopping and food experience that draws thousands of visitors each year. The open-air event will be held in Carlisle city centre between Thursday 2 and Monday 6 April.

Cumberland Council is advising residents and road users that the ongoing road improvement works on the A5086 Gote Brow, Cockermouth, have been delayed due to recent weather conditions.

Carlisle’s city centre will be filled with creativity, ambition and live entertainment when the Teenage Market returns on Saturday 28 March 2026.

Cumberland Council is advising residents that Carlisle Library will temporarily close from Monday 23 March as the final major stage of refurbishment works gets underway. The newly improved library is expected to reopen in mid-June 2026.

Cleator Moor Library will be moving to a temporary location from week commencing March 16, 2026 while work on a proposed new community hub is carried out.

Cumberland Council and Westmorland & Furness Council are reminding landowners that the statutory window to correct mistaken registrations of common land and village greens will close in just over a year’s time - on 15 March 2027.