The Latest Breaking News from Cumberland

As flooding continues to impact large areas of New South Wales, flood-relief payments are being extended to eight more local government areas: Cumberland, Mid Coast, Muswellbrook, Nambucca, Newcastle, Port Stephens, Randwick and Warren.

If there’s one thing that Southerners do well, it’s keeping a secret. So well, in fact, that in September 1996 when John F. Kennedy Jr. married Carolyn Bessette in stunning secrecy at Cumberland Island’s First African Church, only a very few, including residents of nearby St. Mary’s, the gateway to…

The archetypal swing voter – a white, working-class Brexiter – left the Red Wall in ruins three years ago but is having second thoughts

The progress made under Keir Starmer was demonstrated by the gains made in places as diverse as Worthing, Southampton and Cumberland. The only leader guilty of complacency is Boris Johnson

Labour may justifiably congratulate itself on symbolic wins in these local elections: the true-blue London strongholds of Westminster and Wandsworth, and the home of so-called “Workington Man” (deemed the archetypal new working-class Tory voter) in Cumberland. Yet it must channel energy from these morale boosts into a pitch that will…

Party wins control of Cumberland and Rossendale councils but fails to make breakthrough on scale it hoped for

Conservatives down 122 seats with just over half the results for England declared, and Labour up 35

Party takes more seats and extends reach, with victories in South Tyneside, Cumberland, Oxford and Worcester

Speaking in Barnet, the Labour leader said his party had "turned a massive corner" after taking key Tory strongholds in London and chalking up victories in Cumberland and Southampton

It is the first time the unitary authority, which will provide district and county council services across Allerdale, Carlisle and Copeland, has electedcouncillors