The Latest Breaking News from Cumbria

Climate campaigners ‘not friends of the working class’, says Lee Anderson

Nowhere is more divided than Whitehaven in Cumbria, where the mine will produce 2.8 million tonnes of coking coal a year – largely for export to other countries

PM’s commitment to green targets questioned as top climate adviser calls decision ‘absolutely indefensible’

Cumbria colliery would be first new pit to open since 1991

Some argue it’s a low-carbon alternative to importing coal, but others say Woodhouse Colliery would damage UK’s climate reputation

Michael Gove greenlights £165m project that will produce estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year

Expected approval for coalmine opening could provoke backlash from party’s many opposing voices

Activists and experts say green light for coal would show UK’s ‘posturing, double standards and broken promises’

Medical records of a woman who claimed she was the victim of a grooming gang do not match allegations she was beaten, stabbed and given a “backstreet abortion”, a court has heard.Preston Crown Court heard Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, made the claims to her boyfriend in a message, in…