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A Google street view screenshot of Netherhall School in Maryport. It is made up of several buildings, with a car park at the front and a sports pitch to the side.

School's education quality 'requires improvement'

Ofsted says there are weaknesses in how some subjects are taught Netherhall School in Maryport.

Samantha Cartwright (left) and Victoria Scott standing outside their With Love Photography studio. They both have long dark hair and are looking into the camera. Their shopfront is painted cream and has large glass windows.

Shopfront spruce-up scheme's return welcomed

More than £100,000 to renovate tired premises is being made available by Cumberland Council.

A stock image of solar panels in a solar farm

Solar farm the size of 30 football pitches planned

The company behind the scheme says the solar farm would operate for 40 years.

Jonny Smith's daughter holding the wooden sign. It reads The Dock Museum 0.5km next to a small faded yellow arrow. The girl has brown hair and is wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt with a blue heart on it. She's standing in front of the sea, with houses in the background.

Cumbria stories you may have missed this week

Teens locked in a park, a missing sign and cancelled festivals make the headlines this week.

Two photos of the house which is a cream, semi-detached, two-storey building. The downstairs windows and doors have been boarded up and two bits of paper have been attached to the fence in front of the house.

Home shut down over drug and violence concerns

Police say the property has been "an open sore and focal point of criminal behaviour".

The sign for the promenade in Maryport. It is weathered and mounted on a traditional wrought iron structure and has black writing on a white background. A clam blue sea sits behind it with dark peaks on the horizon.

Promenade cafe to open later than announced

Cumberland Council previously announced a May date but now says the cafe will be open by mid-July.

A fire engine and a police van are parked outside a play park named 'Shiver Me Timbers' in Maryport. Firefighters are waiting outside the fencing of the play park.

'Reckless' youths get trapped in play park

Police say the youths wasted the emergency services' time, "which could have cost lives".

Maryport's Elizabeth Dock. A trawler is in the foreground on the left-hand side of the photo with two smaller vessels moored nearby. Beyond them, the Ellenfoot pedestrian bridge - a white-and-blue structure - is raised, pointing high into the air.

Fix in sight for bridge 'stuck up like sore thumb'

Maryport Harbour Authority says repairs to the structure could be completed within a month.

Artist's impression of the new entrance and box office to the Carlton Cinema. The single story building, clad in yellow material with a large square window, is labelled The Carlton. To the left is the high white 18302 building, and a low rise building to the left. People are walking on the street in front of it.

'Contemporary extension' to events venue begins

The single-storey building, part of a major revamp, will house the new entrance and box office.