Cumbria's Nuclear Future: an Inside Out Special is on BBC One North East & Cumbria and North West on Monday, 8 October at 19:30 BST. It will then be available nationwide for seven days on BBC iPlayer.

Over the next few days, Earth will be passing through what is known as a cloud of cometary dust, allowing us to view the spectacular Draconid meteor shower. The shower is taking place between ...

Home to Cumbria’s only breeding colony of grey seals, a visit between October and December may be rewarded with the sight of a seal pup. The best time to see the seals in the water is at high ...

Cumbria Museum Consortium have launched a new project called 'Treasures of Cumbria'. It will record, share and debate what people value about the county.

Arguments over nuclear waste disposal have been raging for decades, especially in Cumbria where the search continues for a site suitable for storing waste for tens of thousands of years. Nuclear ...

Cumbria's Nuclear Future: an Inside Out Special is on BBC One North East & Cumbria and North West on Monday, 8 October at 19:30 BST. It will then be available nationwide for seven days on BBC iPlayer.

The search for a suitable underground site in Cumbria to safely store nuclear waste for 100,000 years ...