https://news.marra.ai/ Local news for West Cumbria. en-gb Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:56:55 +0000 https://news.marra.ai/hunters-moon-full-moon-guide-west-cumbria-2026-2027.html https://news.marra.ai/hunters-moon-full-moon-guide-west-cumbria-2026-2027.html Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 October's full moon, the Hunter's Moon, was exactly full at 4.11am on Monday 26 October and rises over West Cumbria at about 4.20pm tonight. Cloud may get in the way this evening, but it will still look nearly full later in the week. Here are the dates for every full moon into 2027, plus tips for photographing it on your phone. https://news.marra.ai/west-cumbria-weekend-sport-round-up-24-25-october-2026.html https://news.marra.ai/west-cumbria-weekend-sport-round-up-24-25-october-2026.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Storm Boelo washed out the weekend's West Cumbria fixtures, including Workington AFC's FA Trophy tie, Workington Town Women's FA Cup game and the West Lancashire League matches. Pro rugby league is in its off-season. Here is who plays next. https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-licensed-taxis-nearly-double-knowledge-test-suspended.html https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-licensed-taxis-nearly-double-knowledge-test-suspended.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Licensed hackney carriages in Cumberland rose from 226 to 367 and private hire vehicles from 100 to 265 between 2023/24 and 2025/26. The council links the rise to its single licensing policy, and its local knowledge test is currently suspended. https://news.marra.ai/dead-northern-bottlenose-whale-flimby-beach-coastguard-do-not-touch.html https://news.marra.ai/dead-northern-bottlenose-whale-flimby-beach-coastguard-do-not-touch.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Maryport Coastguard Rescue Team was called to Flimby beach over the weekend, where a juvenile northern bottlenose whale was found dead. People are asked not to touch the carcass because it may carry toxins. https://news.marra.ai/st-pauls-church-seaton-porch-wall-collapses-storm-boelo.html https://news.marra.ai/st-pauls-church-seaton-porch-wall-collapses-storm-boelo.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A large section of the wall around the entrance porch at St Paul's Church, Seaton, collapsed in Storm Boelo. Sunday's service was cancelled on safety grounds and the vicar hopes to reopen with another way in. https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-power-cuts-restoration-6pm-tuesday-welfare-aspatria-cockermouth.html https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-power-cuts-restoration-6pm-tuesday-welfare-aspatria-cockermouth.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 SP Electricity North West has set a worst-case restoration time of 6pm on Tuesday 27 October for homes still cut off by Storm Boelo. On Sunday evening 1,528 properties in Allerdale and 901 in Copeland were without power. https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-sunday-amber-until-9pm-yellow-wind-warning-tuesday-27-october.html https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-sunday-amber-until-9pm-yellow-wind-warning-tuesday-27-october.html Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 The Met Office amber wind warning for Cumbria lasts until 9pm on Sunday 25 October after a night of fallen trees and local flooding. Rail services are still disrupted, and a new yellow wind warning covers Tuesday 27 October. https://news.marra.ai/workington-town-women-fa-cup-mancunian-unity-sunday-1-november.html https://news.marra.ai/workington-town-women-fa-cup-mancunian-unity-sunday-1-november.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Storm Boelo forced the postponement of Workington Town Women's first home tie in the Women's FA Cup first round proper. The FA now lists the game against Tier Five Mancunian Unity for Sunday 1 November at 2pm, and tickets already bought will be honoured. https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-fa-trophy-cleethorpes-town-rearranged-tuesday-27-october.html https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-fa-trophy-cleethorpes-town-rearranged-tuesday-27-october.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Workington AFC's FA Trophy first round tie with Cleethorpes Town was called off on Saturday because of standing water. It will now be played on Tuesday 27 October at 7.45pm at the Fibrus Community Stadium. https://news.marra.ai/stagecoach-free-bus-travel-forces-veterans-remembrance-armistice-2026.html https://news.marra.ai/stagecoach-free-bus-travel-forces-veterans-remembrance-armistice-2026.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Stagecoach will carry serving military personnel, reservists, cadets and veterans free on all its buses, including in Cumbria, on Remembrance Sunday, 8 November, and Armistice Day, Wednesday 11 November. https://news.marra.ai/police-extra-community-beat-officers-workington-maryport-whitehaven-egremont.html https://news.marra.ai/police-extra-community-beat-officers-workington-maryport-whitehaven-egremont.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner David Allen has set out where Cumbria's 26 new community beat officers will work. West Cumbria gets six: two in Workington and one each in Maryport, Cleator Moor, Egremont and south Whitehaven. https://news.marra.ai/clocks-go-back-wasdale-mountain-rescue-head-torch-upper-eskdale-search.html https://news.marra.ai/clocks-go-back-wasdale-mountain-rescue-head-torch-upper-eskdale-search.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 With the clocks back an hour and darkness now falling around 5pm, mountain rescue teams are urging walkers to carry a head torch. A cold, exhausted walker was found in Upper Eskdale early on Saturday after rescuers spotted his flashing torch. https://news.marra.ai/cumbrian-coast-line-closed-carlisle-whitehaven-storm-boelo-saturday.html https://news.marra.ai/cumbrian-coast-line-closed-carlisle-whitehaven-storm-boelo-saturday.html Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Northern now says the Cumbrian Coast line between Carlisle and Whitehaven will close from 6.30pm on Saturday 24 October because of high winds, earlier than the 9pm first announced. No replacement buses will run. https://news.marra.ai/workington-town-fined-gorley-ban-featherstone-herdegen-2027.html https://news.marra.ai/workington-town-fined-gorley-ban-featherstone-herdegen-2027.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The RFL has given Workington Town a £2,000 fine, suspended until the end of 2028, and activated a two-match touchline ban for Jonty Gorley over conduct towards a match doctor in August. Winger Tanna Featherstone and half-back Corey Herdegen are in the 2027 squad. https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-billy-barr-new-contract-2029.html https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-billy-barr-new-contract-2029.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Workington AFC manager Billy Barr has agreed a two-year contract extension that keeps him at the club until May 2029. Assistant Lee Andrews, goalkeeping coach Billy Redden and physio Caitlin Gribbin have also committed their futures. https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-supported-buses-2026-27-md1-maryport-dearham-contract-ends.html https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-supported-buses-2026-27-md1-maryport-dearham-contract-ends.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Cumberland Council is spending £2.89 million on supported bus contracts for 2026/27. Routes including the 22/22A, 32, 1/1A, 30, 60, 68, 300 and 600 keep their funding, but support for the MD1 ends, with a stopgap planned to the end of December. https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-amber-wind-warning-west-cumbria-after-storm-austen.html https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-amber-wind-warning-west-cumbria-after-storm-austen.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Met Office has upgraded its Storm Boelo warning for Cumbria to amber, from 9pm on Saturday to 9pm on Sunday, with gusts of 60 to 70mph and up to 80mph on exposed coasts. A wider yellow warning starts at midday on Saturday. https://news.marra.ai/west-cumbria-weekend-sport-preview-24-25-october-2026.html https://news.marra.ai/west-cumbria-weekend-sport-preview-24-25-october-2026.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Reds face Cleethorpes Town in the FA Trophy first round proper on Saturday, while Whitehaven AFC and Cleator Moor Celtic are away in the West Lancashire League. The rugby league seasons are over for the area's clubs. https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-highways-wear-it-pink-pink-gritter-2027.html https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-highways-wear-it-pink-pink-gritter-2027.html Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Cumberland Council's highways and transport staff are wearing pink on Friday 23 October for Breast Cancer Now's Wear It Pink day, and the council is buying an 18-tonne pink gritter that will join its fleet in 2027. https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-parking-tickets-2025-26-murray-road-workington-west-cumbria-hotspots.html https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-parking-tickets-2025-26-murray-road-workington-west-cumbria-hotspots.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Cumberland Council's parking report for 2025/26 lists six West Cumbria streets in its top 20 for parking tickets, led by Murray Road in Workington with 283. The council issued 25,824 tickets in all. https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-roadworks-permit-scheme-review-shorter-works.html https://news.marra.ai/cumberland-roadworks-permit-scheme-review-shorter-works.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 A review of Cumberland Council's roadworks permit scheme, heard by its highways board on 22 October, found the average length of works fell from 3.9 days to 2.8 days, and the total time works took up the roads fell by 28%. https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-sign-adam-fairclough-loan-morecambe.html https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-sign-adam-fairclough-loan-morecambe.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Workington AFC have signed 18-year-old Morecambe defender Adam Fairclough on an initial 28-day loan, subject to league and FA approval, ahead of Saturday's FA Trophy tie at home to Cleethorpes Town. https://news.marra.ai/ophelia-appleby-mapping-glances-gallery-9-whitehaven-6-november.html https://news.marra.ai/ophelia-appleby-mapping-glances-gallery-9-whitehaven-6-november.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Mapping Glances: Painting Faces Through the Autistic Lens, a show of oil portraits by Cumbrian painter Ophelia Appleby, opens with a preview at 6pm on Friday 6 November at Gallery 9 on King Street and runs through November. https://news.marra.ai/energy-coast-utc-former-students-build-training-rig-morgan-sindall.html https://news.marra.ai/energy-coast-utc-former-students-build-training-rig-morgan-sindall.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Morgan Sindall Infrastructure degree apprentices Lyla Chandler and Ellie Telford, both former students, led the building of a teaching structure inside a workshop at Energy Coast UTC in Lillyhall, finishing on time and under budget. https://news.marra.ai/every-life-matters-children-suicide-bereavement-service-cumberland.html https://news.marra.ai/every-life-matters-children-suicide-bereavement-service-cumberland.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Cumbrian charity Every Life Matters has appointed a specialist practitioner to support four to 21-year-olds in Cumberland affected by suicide, expanding a service it already runs in Westmorland and Furness. https://news.marra.ai/workington-poppy-appeal-launch-remembrance-parade-8-november.html https://news.marra.ai/workington-poppy-appeal-launch-remembrance-parade-8-november.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Workington marked the start of the Royal British Legion's poppy appeal with a two-minute silence in the town centre on Thursday, attended by the mayor, Councillor Sue Fryer. The town's Remembrance parade is on Sunday 8 November. https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-yellow-wind-warning-west-cumbria-weekend.html https://news.marra.ai/storm-boelo-yellow-wind-warning-west-cumbria-weekend.html Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Met Office has a yellow wind warning for all of Cumbria from 6pm on Saturday 24 October to 9pm on Sunday 25 October, with gusts of 55 to 65mph and possibly 70 to 80mph on exposed coasts. https://news.marra.ai/cockermouth-former-fire-hq-the-sidings-homes-refused-red-squirrels.html https://news.marra.ai/cockermouth-former-fire-hq-the-sidings-homes-refused-red-squirrels.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Cumberland Council's planning committee has refused plans for six houses and a block of 10 flats at the former Cumbria Fire and Rescue headquarters on Station Road, Cockermouth, against officers' advice, over the impact on red squirrels. https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-club-shop-innovation-centre-connor-mason.html https://news.marra.ai/workington-afc-club-shop-innovation-centre-connor-mason.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Workington AFC's new club shop at the Workington Innovation Centre on Central Way opens on Saturday morning before the Cleethorpes Town game, as the club names Connor Mason its first commercial development officer. https://news.marra.ai/howling-wolf-cafe-whitehaven-cinnamon-buns.html https://news.marra.ai/howling-wolf-cafe-whitehaven-cinnamon-buns.html Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Ben and Carmina started selling bakes at the TEG Markets in 2022 and opened the Howling Wolf café under the Beacon in 2023; its cinnamon buns are now a local favourite, but rising costs make winter a worry.