A NEW private horse arena can be built in the Wigton area after the plans were approved by planners at Cumberland Council.

A TERRACED house has gone on the market in North Cumbria. The property is located at Limes Court, Dundraw, in Wigton. The house is on the market for £165,000 and has three bedrooms and one bathroom.

Cumbria Police said two men were quizzed in 2024 after they received two reports of assault motivated by hate.

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Daniel Michael Graham, 39, from Carlisle, and Adam Carruthers, 32, from Wigton in Cumbria, were each convicted of two counts of criminal damage. Prosecutors said the pair carried out the "mindless ...

Carruthers, from Wigton, was described by a former neighbour as “a bit of an idiot.” He came to know Graham through working on Graham's father's treasured Land Rover Defender. The vehicle was ...

Two former friends have been found guilty of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree in an act of “deliberate and mindless criminal damage”. Ground worker Daniel Graham, 39, and mechanic Adam ...

Yesterday, we heard from prosecutor Richard Wright KC, who in his closing speech criticised both suspects, accused of ...

Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, have both been found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court of felling the world-famous ...

Carruthers said he usually lived with his father in Wigton, but at the time of the Sycamore Gap damage, he was staying with Ms Connor in a caravan at the Old Fuel Depot in Kirkbride, Cumbria.