A soldier who was caught with a hold-all full of guns after he got off a train at Carlisle station has been warned he faces an inevitable prison sentence.
28-year-old William Dempsey was arrested wearing army combat uniform near the station on Friday August 21.
Dempsey is based in Canterbury with the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland,
At Carlisle Crown Court he pleaded guilty to seven firearms offences including unlawfully possessing a shotgun, an Uzi sub-machine gun and a pistol.
He was remanded in custody until December 18 for background reports.The judge, the Hon Mr Justice Singh, said that under the government's statutory minimum sentence provisions a jail sentence would be inevitable.
A soldier who was paralysed after being shot in the neck in Afghanistan scaled one of the highest mountains in England. Mark Harding, from Wigton, was hit by a sniper's bullet while on patrol in Helmand Province two years ago.
The Lance Corporal, who spent months recovering in hospital, walked to the summit of Skiddaw in the Lake District.
A Cumbrian soldier who was shot and paralysed in Afghanistan is tackling Skiddaw in a bid to raise money for the charity who helped him walk again.
Mark Harding, 36, is hoping to raise £5000 for the Army Benevolent Fund which supported his recovery.
Mr Harding, from Wigton, was providing cover for another unit when he came under fire in May 2010.
He was serving as a Lance Corporal the 1st Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment when a sniper's bullet shattered the vertebrae in his neck, paralysing him from the neck down.
He will be supported by a team made up of fellow soldiers, firemen and employees from Wigton-based Innovia Films Ltd.
