Police forensic officers examine a car containing a body near Seascale, Cumbria, after taxi driver Derrick Bird went on a shooting rampage yesterday. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA 8.18am: Twelve ...

A fundraiser from Cumbria is preparing to paddleboard 40 miles across the Irish Sea from the Isle of Man back to his hometown of Seascale to raise funds for Diabetes UK. Adrian Angell, who hails from ...

Seascale Parish Council said United Utilities was working at the site A sinkhole has swallowed up the ground around a seafront car park. The void appeared over the weekend along the shorefront in ...

Dr Barrie Walker was called to help the injured and certify the dead in Seascale, west Cumbria, following taxi driver Derrick Bird's shooting rampage. Here he speaks to the BBC about his experience.

Educational psychologists and counsellors will be present in schools when children affected by the Cumbrian massacre return from half-term holiday on Monday. Three schools have pupils known to have ...

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Towns and villages left stunned by Derrick Bird's killing spree fell silent today - a week on from the carnage which left 12 dead. Memorial services were held throughout west Cumbria where ...

Residents in a seaside town beside "Europe’s most dangerous building" - a huge nuclear facility - keep backpacks "ready to evacuate" their homes. Sellafield Nuclear Site is near Seascale, Cumbria, and ...

The first thing I remember about being evacuated was being at Newcastle Central Station. Hundreds of children with stunned faces! Most of the children were very young. My sister was seven and I was ...

Dr Barrie Walker was called to help the injured and certify the dead in Seascale, west Cumbria, following taxi driver Derrick Bird's shooting rampage. Here he speaks to the BBC about his experience.