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Round-up of recently-heard cases in North and West Cumbria

Police sting caught 62-year-old who planned sexual encounter with 14-year-old
A 62-year-old Carlisle man arranged a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy unaware that he was blundering into an online police sting operation.
When Keith Fisher was conf…

The year the seams bulged – insidetime & insideinformation

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The New Year is traditionally a time for new beginnings: turning over a new leaf, writing a new page, righting past wrongs. ‘We look backwards to go forwards’ as the coach proclaimed at a rugby match I attended in Portland Pris…

Busy road cordoned off after man hit by car

Police have closed a busy high street after a man was hit by a car.
Merseyside Police[1] were called to Lord Street in Southport[2] at 6.14pm on Tuesday, January 2, following reports of a crash. Once officers arrived at the scene they found a man on a …

Asylum seeker ‘dies aboard Bibby Stockholm barge’

An asylum seeker on board the Bibby Stockholm barge docked in Dorset has died, police[1] have confirmed.
Residents were brought back on board at Portland in October, more than two months after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bact…