South Cumbria is one of six areas across the country where the government has chosen to fast-track plans for vast cuts. Last week a senior Conservative minister refused to rule out cuts to local health services.
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the government to demand compensation for businesses in Staveley which have seen trade hit by the closure of the bridge for a year and a half.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today written to the Justice Secretary in a final plea to keep Kendal Court open.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that the European Parliament will tomorrow (Wednesday) approve the grant to the UK to repair damage caused by the floods in 2015.
Social care is not safe in the hands of the Conservatives, according to Cumbrian Liberal Democrats. The Conservatives today were in disarray as they failed to back a Lib Dem call for more social care funding.
Local MP Tim Farron has paid tribute to the police following an incident today which saw armed police arrest six people in Grange-over-Sands.