Longtown chef wins contract to supply Asda and Harrods
A Longtown pudding-maker has secured a deal to supply Asda with 5,000 of his creations every week – on top of a prestigious contract with Harrods.
Police and crime
Xmas hours for station
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
