ANTI-NUCLEAR weapon campaigners are due to protest outside Barrow's shipyard. Members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are due to mark the bombing of Hiroshima and will raise placards in ...

Local police reported that on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, a fire broke out at the shipyard building nuclear submarines in Barrow-in-Furness, located in the northwest of the United Kingdom.

HMS Anson is set to be the fifth in line and, the final two, HMS Agamemnon and HMS Agincourt, are at different stages of construction at the Barrow shipyard. The Astute-class submarines will ...

The granddaughter of a Victoria Cross war hero who 'kept his spirit alive' has died at the age of 95. Florence May Purcell died peacefully at her home on Saturday, April 12. She was the 'treasured' ...

Tommy belonged to William Brockbank who lived in Dalton and worked at the shipyard in Barrow. Speaking to BBC Radio Cumbria, Mr Brockbank's grandson Richard Higgin said: "I'm absolutely over the moon.