Transport and Logistics Network
The team has highlighted some of the work that has been done throughout 2023 and has reassured the public it will continue into 2024.
In 2023 officers in the team, in addition to their normal patrol activity, spent 1584 hours specifically targeting an…
Since the coach crashed into Carlisle railway station on November 30, a man in his 70s, who was hospitalised in the incident, has died.
The crash happened in the early evening and a major emergency service presence remained well into the night.
This in…
THERE are reports of slow traffic after a crash in the Caldewgate area, Carlisle[1].
The incident has been reported to be on Bridge Street, at Shaddongate.
Traffic is being impacted both ways, with “congestion to all routes through Carlisle”.
Severe d…
The bizarre incident unfolded after stockily built Keiran George, 33, had dramatically crashed his car on a roundabout next to an M6 junction in south Cumbria in the early hours of November 19 last year, Carlisle[1] Crown Court heard.
Then, having mir…
Firefighters routinely attend a range of emergencies other than fires, such as flooding, traffic collisions or assisting other emergency services with medical issues.
Home Office figures show the Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service reported 51 deaths in no…
Police sting caught 62-year-old who planned sexual encounter with 14-year-old
A 62-year-old Carlisle man arranged a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy unaware that he was blundering into an online police sting operation.
When Keith Fisher was conf…
Former Broughton Moor man Ben Robinson-Brown viewed videos of children aged four, five and eight as they were raped and boasted to a contact of watching footage of a ten-year-old girl being gang-raped, Carlisle Crown Court heard.
As Judge Nicholas Bark…
A joint investigation between police and Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service was carried out following the fatal caravan fire at Low Harker.
Police were contacted shortly after 11am on December 26.
An occupant of the caravan, a man aged in his 40s, was pro…
Barry Simmons, 40, who was given a 33-month sentence after police caught him with 10kg of amphetamine and 2kg of cannabis resin, was more twice the legal limit for the latter drug when he was stopped near to Tebay.
Prosecutor Glenn Anderton said the de…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – New details – including aspects of future testimony expected in court by two surviving crash victims – challenge key parts of an account from the suspect charged in a deadly crash[1].
Cheyeene Clifford[2], 25, is charged with 11…