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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. 

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. 

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.

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!

All schoolchildren aged up to 16 years old from the Cumberland area will be able to go for a swim in a choice of five indoor pools for only 10p over the May half term (Saturday 25 to Sunday 2 June)

Holtec Britain has announced a shortlist of four sites that have made it through to the final stage of its competition to find a new factory and production site to build a fleet of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), which will be used in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. The inclusion of Kingmoor Park in Carlisle was warmly welcomed by Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership (Cumbria LEP) and Cumberland Council, which jointly developed the Expression of Interest.