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Cumbria

July 2024

  • Small windowless room with walls and ceiling painted white.  There are some chairs, a clock and a phone on a table.

    ‘Every 14-year-old boy’s dream’: Cumbrian nuclear bunker goes to auction

  • The coastline near the proposed site of a new coalmine in Whitehaven, England.

    Cumbria project will be ‘net zero’, coalmine firm tells high court

  • Branigan crouching down and looking away from the camera, at one of two large heart-shaped tree trunk prints behind her

    ‘Its memory will live on’: prints of Sycamore Gap tree to go on display

  • A protester facing away from the camera with placards and posters with slogans in opposition to the proposed mine

    Cumbria coalmine was unlawfully approved, government says

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Itching and scratching after a day of hay-baling

  • Nine-year-old boy youngest in UK to undergo rare pancreatic surgery

  • Joss Naylor obituary

June 2024

  • Motorcyclists, many in Hawaiian shirts, fill the road

    About 20,000 bikers joined ‘remarkable’ Dave Myers tribute ride

    Late TV chef’s Hairy Biker partner, Si King, ‘very proud’ of 300-mile procession from London to Barrow

April 2024

  • HMS Anson departs a BAE Systems shipyard

    Labour aims to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP

    Starmer’s comments come before visit to Barrow, where he is to promise nuclear deterrent is ‘bedrock’ of security plan
  • Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) adult female landing on rock in moorland habitat, Glen Tanar Estate, Grampian, Scotland, UK, June<br>EG61C4 Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) adult female landing on rock in moorland habitat, Glen Tanar Estate, Grampian, Scotland, UK, June

    ‘The Bermuda triangle for birds’: Hen harriers face threat of grouse season

    The raptors have made a recovery but the RSPB is concerned at the high number of birds being killed
  • The ruins of Furness Abbey

    Medieval monks’ night staircase rebuilt at Furness Abbey

    Project gives new views of atmospheric monastic ruins in Cumbria visited by likes of JMW Turner and Wordsworth

March 2024

  • Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor,  are seen through a round window examining a small component during a visit to BAE Systems’ submarines facility in Barrow-in-Furness last week.

    Observer business agenda
    UK’s ever more expensive nuclear submarines will torpedo spending plans for years to come

    Whoever wins the next election, a reckoning is overdue on the costs of Britain’s nuclear deterrent
  • A Cumbrian landscape

    Book of the day
    The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston review – a blistering tale of land and violence

    The tragedy that decimated UK farming in 2001 spills into a nightmare in a viscerally vivid debut with knife-sharp black humour
    • ‘Nothing has really changed’: letters from 1719 reveal familiar worries of London life

    • Country diary
      Country diary: Relentless rain – but a day of farming collaboration

    • Government documents ‘blow gaping hole’ in its case for Cumbrian coalmine

February 2024

  • Close-up of a black leopard sitting on a tree and showing its teeth.

    ‘Beast of Cumbria’: claimed leopard sighting fails to convince experts

  • Mary Wane

    Other lives
    Mary Wane obituary

  • Sellafield nuclear site with the town of Seascale in the foreground.

    Nuclear Leaks
    Spending watchdog launches investigation into Sellafield

  • Kay Whittle was an indefatigable fellswoman and skier

    Other lives
    Kay Whittle obituary

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