Wendy Jacobs, headteacher of Roose Primary School in
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier in the
week.

Barrow Primary School Headteacher dies after testing positive for Coronavirus

The new stretch is now open to everyone via a single, circular route for the first time.


21 mile coastal route opens on Walney Island near Barrow-in-Furness

A record shop in Barrow-in-Furness has been named the UK's 'Record Shop of the Year 2019' just 12 months after opening.

Mr Woodcock earlier announced that he would not be standing in the General Election because he and his partner are expecting a baby.

A man from Barrow has been jailed for 14 years after an assault on a baby which left the child with life-changing injuries. 

Police in Cumbria say a 22-year-old man's been arrested this afternoon after a teenager was stabbed in Barrow.

Mr Worthington's lawyers applied for a judicial review of the coroner's record of inquest.

A suspended Labour MP has told the party he will no longer co-operate with an internal investigation into his behaviour.

A mentally ill man who plotted a machete attack on a pub's gay pride night has been given an indefinite hospital order.

A white supremacist who planned to carry out an attack at a pub's gay pride night is to be sentenced for preparing an act of terrorism.

An MP suspended from the Labour Party over sexual harassment claims has questioned the "integrity of the process".

An MP has been suspended from the Labour Party after an allegation of sexual harassment was made against him.


The future of around 380 jobs in Barrow-in-Furness has been thrown into doubt after Kimberly-Clark unveiled a swingeing cost-cutting drive.

A white supremacist with "a deep-seated hatred of black, Jewish, Muslim and especially gay people" planned "murderous attack", court hears.

Ken Wilkinson, who was among those famously dubbed "The Few" by Winston Churchill, was 99, the Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said.
