Carlisle funfair worker's sex abuse of girl, 6
A funfair worker from Carlisle has been put on the sex offenders’ register after being found guilty of repeatedly abusing a little girl when he was a teenager.
Too costly
The bypass will transform Carlisle when it opens on Tuesday but it was too expensive, says county council leader
I feared for life
A Carlisle shopkeeper feared he could be killed as he fought off an armed robber who was jailed for eight years this week
On top Down Under
A Cumbrian maths teacher climbed the highest mountain in Antarctica on Christmas Day
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Carlisle cancer patient: ‘Hospital consultant lost my personal info on train’
A Carlisle cancer patient has revealed she is among a group who have been told that their personal details have been lost by a hospital consultant on a train. 
A Carlisle accountancy boss returned to work this week – just eight days after smashing his leg in a skiing accident 
A Cumbrian vicar has pleaded with Cumbria county councillors to keep open a town's residential care home 
A courtyard inspired by the Romans is taking shape on an historic plot in a picturesque pocket of Carlisle city centre. 
Volunteers have vowed to fight on after a funding cut threatened to kill off a Cumbrian arts group 
An 85-year-old barmaid has called time on her working life after 40 years behind the bar in Wigton. 
Carlisle United boss Greg Abbott has lost Lee Miller for the Blues’ televised showdown with promotion rivals Brentford – but Matty Robson is closing in on a return. 
