A WEST Cumbrian museum is aiming to tell the story of Whitehaven's role in the slave trade, thanks to a £250,000 grant. The Rum Story Reimagined is now being launched at the Whitehaven centre.

MELBOURNE: BHP Group Ltd, the world’s biggest miner, says it has agreed to sell two more Australian coking coal operations to Whitehaven Coal Ltd as it extends its withdrawal from fossil fuels.

A SELLAFIELD firearms officer drove to McDonald’s while more than twice the drink-drive limit after waking up hungry, a court heard. Mark Bennett, 33, was witnessed driving a Volkswagen Golf on ...

Peddler’s Village in Lahaska is the “Village of Chocolate” in February, with chocolate-infused restaurant specials, culinary events, Valentine’s Day prix fixe menus, Chocolate-Covered Workshops on Feb ...

CHINESE New Year was celebrated at a Whitehaven museum, with a chance to get up close with the year’s reptilian zodiac animals. The Beacon museum held an event for children and adults with Pet ...

Green Market and Duke Street in Whitehaven, Cumbria, will see new benches, planting and historical interpretation boards installed. The works, paid for by Sellafield, Cumberland Council and the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is dead after a shooting in Whitehaven on Tuesday morning, according to the Memphis Police Department. The MPD responded to the shooting in the 2200 block of Oxford Square ...

It happened just before 9:00 a.m. Tuesday morning at the Lakeview Apartments in Whitehaven. Crime scene tape and police cars was the scene residents like Isaiah woke up to. "When you are in the ...

There were 46 stop and searches in Whitehaven that month. 29 of which were for controlled drugs, nine for an article used in theft, four for fireworks, and four for other objects of search. 47 of the ...

MIDLANDS put on a classy performance, for the first hour at least, to ease past Whitehaven and go through to the second round of the 1895 Cup. They led from the second minute of the match.

Several generations of the same families worked at the Whitehaven factory An exhibition telling the story of a luxury fabric manufacturer is opening in the theatre its founder created. Nicholas ...

Nicholas Sekers began the West Cumberland Silk Mills - later Sekers Fabrics - in Whitehaven, Cumbria, in 1938, supplying fabrics for films, fashion houses and royalty. He was also behind the ...