American competitive eater smashes local pizza record
A competitive eater and YouTuber has completed a tour of England, completing 18 challenges in 10 days.
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Reporter based in north Cumbria for the News and Star, The Cumberland News, Times and Star, and The Whitehaven News - covering stories in Carlisle, Workington, Keswick, Whitehaven and Penrith.
A competitive eater and YouTuber has completed a tour of England, completing 18 challenges in 10 days.
A new construction education academy was unveiled this week, growing a college’s capacity for students learning a trade.
A callout for volunteers to coordinate this year’s summer reading challenge, which encourages children aged four to 11 to read six library books over the summer holidays, has been made.
An autism support charity is hoping more people will come forward for its adult post-diagnosis service.
Mountain rescuers helped three people in trouble in the Lakes during the evening.
Coastguards were called out to rescue three kayakers ‘in distress’ late last night (May 16).
A man was arrested for being in possession of a knife in the city centre.
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