PLANS for a proposed new stables block in the Workington area, where there are concerns over flooding, will be decided next week.

Read how funding from the Woodland Creation Planning Grant and England Woodland Creation Offer helped to create woodland in Cumbria. Key facts site ...

New archaeological findings at Broomlands, west of Cockermouth, have shed light on Roman civilisation and vicus life near the former Roman fort ...

Silenius, the wise drunken companion of Bacchus, the God of wine (Image: Supplied) The speaker at the meeting was Eddie Dougherty, a field archaeologist at Cura ... series of alluvial layers deposited ...

People across the north-east of England and Cumbria have been joining in the national celebrations for VE Day. The occasion commemorates Victory in Europe - the end of nearly six years of war on 8 ...

Between the Pennines and the Lake District fells, the Eden Valley is also home to charming towns and sandstone villages, some with roots that go back to Viking times. The Smardale Nature Reserve and ...

While projections for the region's potato crops were encouraging for some at the start of the year, heavy rains and flooded fields in recent months have had a drastic impact on the quality and ...

The balance between nutrition and food safety remains a subject to approach with caution. Rice is grown in flooded fields, a condition that promotes arsenic absorption from the soil. Unlike other ...

A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical conditions. However, a new strain of the world’s favourite cereal ...

“This could take another 10 days to drain off … if it doesn’t rain,” Christian said, pointing to one of the flooded fields. In a text on Tuesday, Rice Extension Agronomist Jarrod ...

“We’ve got some fields that are still a few weeks off from planting,” he says. “It seems like even the fields that aren’t flooded, we get a few good rains and then, we’re out of them a week.” He says ...

Footy boots? Forget 'em. Newcastle athletes of all shapes and sizes will need gumboots if they want to get on the field this weekend.