Three years jail for thief who stole disabled Cumbrian man's savings
A man who stole the life savings of an elderly disabled man has been sent to prison for three years.
- School to face the bulldozer
- Sniffer dogs tackle drugs use in Longtown and Brampton
- Call for a level playing ground over Longtown plans
- Bid to extend pilot scheme to Longtown
- Praise our 400-year-old church
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- Crossed wires lose firm its phone number
- Police sniffer dogs blitz Brampton and Longtown pubs
Three years jail
Matthew Howes, 29, stole a Longtown man's life savings.
Longtown Memorial Hall Community Centre news
Events and activities at Longtown Memorial Hall Community Centre
Woman unearths the grave secrets of Longtown
Historian Bridget Casson has been busy uncovering the grave secrets of Longtown's murderers, bigamists and a lucky botanist!
Help us make Longtownlocal a great site for everyone in the town
Welcome to Longtownlocal - a great new website for Longtown and its people brought to you by the Cumberland News. We want your help to ensure this site becomes essential viewing for everyone in the town. Have a look around the site - we've just added a nostalgia picture gallery and lots of useful information - please let me know if you have information you would like included on the site. Email me at lwatson@cngroup.co.uk
Longtown nostalgia: A history in pictures
A selection of Longtown images taken from our photo archive. A nostalgic look at images from around Longtown. Why not send us your images of the town so that we can show everyone a bit of history and take a look a how things used to look?
"The place has a real character and some real characters too"
Nigel Williamson, Manager of Longtown Memorial and Community Centre
"Longtown is friendly and a unique town"
PC Alasdair Wright, Community officer for Longtown