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This year’s national Great Big Green Week, which highlights environmental issues and initiatives, takes place from Saturday 8 June to Sunday 16 June.

Voters are being advised to be ready for the General Election due to be held on 4 July 2024. 

Cumberland Council is reminding all cat owners and licensed catteries about important changes to the microchipping laws for cats.

Voters in the Cumberland Council ward of Harraby North in Carlisle are being advised to be ready for the local election which will be held on 27 June 2024. 

A successful Teenage Market is set to return to Carlisle later this month. Since its launch in April 2023 Carlisle’s Teenage Market has become a must attend event for Cumberland’s young entrepreneurs and performers.

The final preparations are being put in place for this Saturday’s (8 June) Cumberland Cobbler Solway Coast Cycling Festival. Following the success of last year’s event, closed circuit town centre racing returns to the pretty seaside town of Silloth between 10am and 5pm.

Three Cumbrian artists have been chosen to create exciting, innovative artwork with community groups in Workington. Cumberland Council has commissioned three visual artists to produce artworks and deliver creative workshops for a Workington Art Trail which will run between 29 November until the end of February 2025

Cumberland Council is supporting the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings this Thursday (6 June).

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. 

As part of this year’s National Volunteers’ Week (Monday 3 to Sunday 9 June), Cumberland Council is reminding residents of some of the volunteering opportunities available within their area.  It is the 40th Anniversary of Volunteer Week!