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Leading Cumberland Councillors have agreed new and ambitious plans to improve diets and the local food system, which has the potential to significantly improve the health and wellbeing of communities.

A new campaign promoting metal packaging recycling has been introduced by Cumberland Council and Westmorland and Furness Council. In a bid to improve kerbside recycling rates, households across the region are being encouraged to recycle their metal packaging including food and drinks cans, aluminium wrapping foil and foil trays, as well as empty aerosols and metal screw tops.

A Fireshow Village in Castle car park will provide food and family entertainment before and after the main event in Carlisle on Saturday 4 November. It will be open between 5pm and 8.30pm.

Cumberland Council is advising residents in Hall Brow and Ramsay Brow in Workington regarding forthcoming highway drainage survey and cleaning activities, scheduled to commence next week.

Structural engineers working on behalf of Cumberland Council are making assessments of the interior of the Old Courthouse building in Cockermouth after the council was granted a warrant to gain entry.

Cumberland Council has been undertaking a comprehensive street cleaning programme for Millom. The project started on Sunday 29 October, and with only a small section of Wellington Street to finalise, which will happen this week.

Self-proclaimed ‘Farmer’s Wife’ Helen Rebanks will star at this year’s Taste Cumbria Christmas festival in Cockermouth. Plans are well underway for this highlight of the festive season - and it promises to be an absolute cracker. Taste Cumbria Christmas takes place on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 December 2023.

Carlisle is set to host a spectacular sound and light show this coming February, bringing the splendour of the Crown Jewels - 300 miles from their home at the Tower of London - to some of the most iconic buildings in the city.

Cumberland Council is informing residents and businesses that there will be resurfacing works, on the B6263 in Wetheral.

Cumberland Council is pleased to share some great news with our local community: the culvert work at Whelpside along the A591 is officially finished.