ESTATE Agent Sarah Washington had a lucky escape yesterday when a car driven by an elderly woman crashed through her office window.

BRITAIN’S Energy Coast™ will need a highly skilled workforce if it is to remain at the forefront of energy technology.

LADY in the Lake killer Gordon Park was found dead in his prison cell on his 66th birthday.

MORE than 200 family and friends packed into a church to say their last goodbyes to convicted wife killer Gordon Park.

POLICE divers have been searching Ulverston canal for a missing man.

A POLICE search of railway lines in the Ulverston area was due to continue today after officers were unable to trace a missing man.

THE weekend cold snap didn’t deter more than 170 runners taking to the slopes of Birkrigg Common, near Ulverston, for the annual fell race yesterday.

INFANT school children dressed as characters from their favourite books to celebrate book week.

POLITICIANS, police officers and teachers are all embracing new media in a bid to reach out to young people. (1 comment)

Evening Mail's Pothole Watch. Send your pictures and videos to pictures@nwemail.co.uk

DECADES of work came to fruition yesterday when the first of 10 years of consignments of highly-radioactive nuclear waste was loaded on to a ship bound for Japan. (1 comment)

AN ANIMAL-LOVER has thanked firefighters who came to the rescue of a puppy after the pooch’s head got trapped in a tin of cat food.

Two time competitor, Joe Riley, give his tips for the Great North Swim.

DRINKS promotions that encourage binge-drinking will be banned from April, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has announced. (4 comments)

We catch up with Whitewater Hotel and Restaurant operations manager James Beech

Pupils celebrate being awarded the National Sing Up silver award

New Year's Dips at Earnse Bay, Walney, and Canal Foot, Ulverston.

Over 100 Schools were forced to close after snow fell over much of Cumbria (3 comments)

WEATHER forecasters are predicting more ice and snow in the run up to Christmas.

A LITTLE girl fighting cancer received an extra special Christmas present when Santa Claus turned up on her doorstep.

Drivers in Cumbria are being urged to take extreme care on the roads tonight after the Met Office issued another severe weather warning in anticipation of further heavy snow tonight. (66 comments)

A FAMILY is bringing festive cheer to all with their charity winter wonderland.

EVENING Mail reader Robert Beach’s moving poem is a timely reminder during the festive season that while pets can make a wonderful gift for a loved one – they are not just for Christmas but for life.

MALE voice quartet, Voce, rounded off a terrific Christmas carol service.

A HOMELESSNESS charity will hold its 20th Christmas shelter next week.

THERE’S a buzz about the town, and it’s not just pre-Christmas excitement. Barrow AFC is looking forward to one of the biggest games in the club’s history when they take on Premier League Sunderland at the magnificent Stadium of Light.

BARROW’S new secondary school has teamed up with a Super League rugby club.

A HINT of snow blew over Ulverston’s Market Cross as musicians young and old performed festive classics in aid of flood victims.

A HEROIC rescue team which helped South Cumbria’s flood-hit residents has been praised by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

THE mainstream Labour Party comfortably repelled a challenge from the British National Party in a by-election. (10 comments)

POLICE officers and other agencies carried out a swoop on licensed premises in Barrow and Dalton as part of Operation Siskin. (2 comments)

HUNDREDS of angry residents and students flocked to a public meeting last night to air their views over plans to mothball the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus.

GOVERNMENT minister Lord William McKenzie said action is needed to solve flooding in Ulverston after witnessing first hand the damage caused to residents’ homes.

AN eye-witness has described how he saw his neighbours being airlifted from their home.

A £40M project to transform a college campus is about to be launched. (2 comments)

BARROW witnessed a Christmas miracle on Saturday when persistent driving rain suddenly stopped in time for the lights switch-on ceremony starring the Hairy Bikers.

SCORES of families watched the Astute submarine leave Barrow shipyard ahead of her planned departure for sea trials

BARROW-built Astute left the town to begin sea trials. Crowds of people went to Roa Island and Walney to witness the departure of the Royal Navy’s most advanced attack submarine. (13 comments)

THE Hairy Bikers have thrown their weight behind a campaign to help find homes for children and young people waiting for adoption in Cumbria.

WHEN injury deprived Sue Thomas the chance of a place at the 2004 Games in Athens she thought her Olympic dream was over.

HUNDREDS turned out to enjoy a spectacular fireworks display in Barrow last night.

HUNDREDS of people turned out in Barrow Park to commemorate Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph.

SPECIALLY trained police officers are to be issued with Tasers as part of a 24-hour response team throughout South Cumbria from early next month.

WOULD-BE Tory MP John Gough has demanded the government opens its books – and show the people of Barrow how much taxpayers’ money is spent in the town. (1 comment)

CHILDREN enjoyed a fright fest in the build up to Halloween.

HEAVY rainfall caused disruption across South Cumbria yesterday as emergency crews battled to clear flooded roads.

A WOMAN has been found dead at a house in Barrow.

A MAN targeted young children by selling fake cigarettes out of his ice cream van, a court heard.

A SUPERMARKET opens with new owners on Monday.

THE Prime Minister’s advisor John Woodcock has been overwhelmingly chosen to contest the Barrow and Furness seat at the next general election – and pledges to fight for jobs at the shipyard.

TOP Tory William Hague is confident his party will recapture the Barrow and Furness seat at the next general election.

BARROW MP John Hutton gave his half-term verdict of Furness Academy. (4 comments)

If you’ve always wanted to know how to carve a pumpkin, here’s our easy guide.

AN RAF jet zoomed overhead as a wreath was dropped into Windermere to mark the launch of the 2009 Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal in Cumbria.

BARROW could get its first direct trains to London for 20 years if a plan by a rail entrepreneur gets the green light. (2 comments)

GRIZEDALE Forest is ready for the half-term rush after unveiling new £6m facilities.

THE stars were out in Barrow for a charity talent show. (6 comments)

A BID to break the world record for the number of people to do the conga while wearing wellies fell agonisingly short.

MOTORISTS can expect up to three months of traffic disruption after work began on an £830,000 project to alter a major roundabout. (2 comments)

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown last night told the Evening Mail he will “guarantee a generation of high skilled jobs” in Barrow by pressing ahead with the successor submarine programme. (7 comments)

THE group responsible for improving road safety has vowed to listen to concerns about the A595.

TRAIN bosses think they must be doing something right – after no-one turned up to a ‘meet the manager’ session.

ORGANISATIONS in Furness are joining forces with 20 schools to make thousands of poppies.

THE rain stopped just in time for Ulverston’s annual Lantern Festival on Saturday.

Competitors are gearing up for the Great North Swim which takes place on Windermere this weekend. Reporter Katie Robinson talked to some of the elite swimmers before the big event.

OLYMPIC medal winners battled it out in South Lakeland along with thousands of fund-raisers in this year’s Great North Swim.

SOUTH Lakes MP Tim Farron toured Grange in a wheelchair to see the problems faced by disabled people in the town.

ZOO staff threw a very special birthday party for one of its star attractions.

Katie Robinson checked out the 21st Furness Beer festival at Coronation Hall.

RAIN and mud could not stop a gem in the traditional country events calendar from going ahead.

CARTMEL races got off to a flying start with thousands of people turning out to enjoy the fun.

DESPITE returning to the school she attended as a child, Donna Flint is a bag of nerves.

CUMBRIA’S 16-year-olds have been congratulated for their excellent GCSE performance.

STUDENTS celebrated A-Level success following a nail-biting summer waiting for their results.

A SOUTH Lakeland lifesaving team was called into action twice in one day.

INSIDE the 36-metre Big Top we meet the usually exuberant show producer Ross Presto in contemplative mood.

THOUSANDS of people and hundreds of dogs flocked to the 106th Rydal Sheepdog Trials and Hound Show.

CARTMEL racing without Lord Cavendish is like the village’s sticky toffee pudding without the custard – inseparable.

THE heavy rain which washed out North Lonsdale Show earlier this week held off for Ambleside Sports yesterday - much to the relief of the organisers.

EARNSE Bay attracted extreme watersport fans as the Walney leg of the British Kite Surfing Championships got under way.

Pat Denny from Hawcliffe Bird Sanctuary rescued ducklings and a baby hedgehog.

Andrew Flintoff talks about England's recent test match victory

Five lessons from a golf pro

SET aside from the hustle and bustle of Barrow town centre is a 45-acre green space which is officially one of the best in the country.

HOT shot clay pigeon blaster Mark Shaw is on his way to big things in the shooting game.

PUNTERS were giving the recession a bit of a pasting at Cartmel yesterday.

ASHES fever hit Coniston this weekend when an Australian was crowned the winner of the All England Stone Skimming Championships.

AN historic monument famed for looking like a giant pepperpot is almost unrecognisable as it overlooks Ulverston surrounded by scaffolding. (4 comments)

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THOUSANDS of people lined the kerbs for the annual Barrow Carnival.

CHILDREN and adults of all ages did not let the overwhelming heat stop them from enjoying this year’s Walney Carnival.

A COUPLE are spearheading a campaign to improve disabled access at Furness beauty spots.

THE longest race on the longest lake on the longest day showed canoes are taking back Windermere from powerboats.

MARK Wilding might not be able to turn water into wine but he can make a rabbit grow before your eyes.

FOUR-MIDABLE Ian Holmes made it a quadruple of successive victories at the Gummer’s How Fell Race on Saturday night.

HUNDREDS of documents were seized by detectives during a raid on an internet firm.

MORE than 200 protestors from near and far stepped up the campaign against the planned Furness Academy in a noisy but well-behaved demonstration Friday afternoon.

THE rain failed to dampen the spirits of the hundreds of Askam residents who lined the streets for this year’s carnival.

Take part in the Evening Mail Drugs Survey and have your say on drugs problems in South Cumbria.

WOMEN of all ages joined forces at Barrow’s Race For Life in support of friends and relatives who have been touched by cancer.

A SIXTEEN-year-old girl thought that going on a kiddies’ swing would be child’s play. (1 comment)

GARDENING guru Monty Don was back in the South Lakes at the weekend.

BARROW went head to head against Britain’s Got Talent at the weekend – and wasn’t remotely found wanting.

OLYMPIC Gold medallist Adrian Moorhouse flew into Flookburgh to cut the ribbon on a new £2.3m swimming pool.

AMBITIOUS plans to expand Dalton zoo to three times its original size would see it become an even bigger tourist draw. (14 comments)

STUDENTS behind the academy protest say they are overwhelmed with the amount of support they have received, and believe it can help them stop the scheduled September opening.

VISITORS and patients at Furness General Hospital could easily have been forgiven for thinking that a major disaster had taken place.

HOW often can any of us ever claim to take time out from our busy schedules? Quality time out, as opposed to zoning out in front of the TV? Tai Chi instructor Chris Shaw is giving us the opportunity to do just that.

IF all the world’s a stage James Macpherson’s is condensed to a seven-foot diameter which he shares with two palm trees and a lobster. Anything that doesn’t fit in the back of his van is superfluous. (1 comment)

Click on the headline above to watch a video from Cartmel Races first meeting of the year.

A BARROW couple were winners in more ways than one when they celebrated their wedding at Cartmel Racecourse.

A BARROW beauty was today celebrating being crowned Miss Cumbria. (1 comment)

A 30,000-TONNE cruise ship with more than 600 passengers became the first liner to visit Barrow port for three years. Watch the video here. (27 comments)

POLICE have released CCTV stills of three masked raiders who carried out a smash and grab at an Ulverston jewellers and escaped with £20,000-worth of watches.

THOUSANDS flocked to Dalton for the town’s annual medieval market.

ANNIE the milking cow is just like one of the class. Pupils at Newton Primary School first met the four-year-old Holstein at their summer fair when she was just a one-week-old calf.

THOUSANDS of people descended on Ulverston to witness the unveiling of the Laurel and Hardy statue.

CHILDREN came face-to-face with cute creatures during an Easter workshop at a Barrow store.

FURNESS Morris dancers wowed the crowds in glorious weather with a traditional play that dates back to 1963.

HUNDREDS of visitors flocked to Forum 28 in Barrow on Saturday to the first day of Furness Model Railway Club’s 47th annual exhibition yesterday.

TWO hundred talented pupils took to the stage to celebrate the works of William Shakespeare.

The Enterprise Masterclass ‘Reaching Out to a Global Audience’ – held at the Waterside House Enterprise Hub in Barrow on 2 April 2009 enabled over 40 retail and commercial business owners to see the potential benefits of combining traditional retail marketing with the Internet to increase opportunity to reach a global customer base.

GOVERNMENT minister Beverley Hughes ended a top-level tour of the area by listening to some ‘donk’ dance music.

THE Evening Mail was on the front line with police in the war against drugs. We joined 55 police officers on Operation Arrowhead.

Robert Johnson spends a day training with the army.

The Designer Wedding Show, which took place at Barrow’s Forum 28 yesterday, is the first of two annual wedding shows in the town that makes organising your special day as easy as saying “I do”.

THIS was certainly a maths lesson with a difference.

MANY of the 800 workers who lined Devonshire Dock Hall’s vast platforms for yesterday’s keel laying ceremony witnessed a scene also played out before their parents and grandparents.

WHAT came first, the chicken or the egg?

IT was bound to happen – as soon as my 88-year-old nanna unwrapped her shiny new Wii at Christmas, I knew I was in for a pasting.
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BEEFED up body work, tuned engines, blinged up wheels and paint jobs, and superb sound systems.

MORE than a dozen bags of venison and an air gun have been seized from a Millom home following a police crackdown on poaching.

PLAYFUL primates are recycling a Christmas tree in a novel way.

Marching into history... The book was finally closed on the illustrious history of Cumbria’s former King’s Own Royal Border Regiment (KORBR) when its colours were laid up in an emotional service at Carlisle Cathedral.

MOTORISTS were stopped during a crackdown on faulty vehicles. A total of 25 vehicles were stopped in Barrow on Saturday evening for a number of transgressions, such as having overly large exhaust pipes and tinted windows.

MOUNTAIN rescuers have commended two climbers who continued to trek down a fellside after one suffered a broken leg.

IT’S bewildering to think that this hunk of steelwork, rivets and sculpted metal was the boat in which Donald Campbell made history.