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A Kendal restaurant has been forced to close because it cannot find workers to staff it.

Thousands fewer workers in Cumbria were on furlough in April, as coronavirus restrictions started easing across the UK.

A West Cumbrian man has led a management buyout of his firm's Europe and UK operation. John McGibbon, managing director of PAR Systems (UK) Limited, has completed the buyout from its American parent company’s UK operations. Based at Lillyhall, near...

A leading legal firm says it has doubled its number of house sale transactions over the past year. As research released today predicted that this year’s housing market is on course to be the busiest since 2007, Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors...

Cumbria's leading business organisation is calling on the Government to act quickly to help the hospitality industry which cannot recruit staff.

Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has written to the Home Secretary Priti Patel, urging her to introduce a new visa to fix the crisis in staff shortages across the Lake District hospitality and tourism industry. New Research from Cumbria Tourism revealed...

A major staffing shortage is threatening Cumbria’s hospitality businesses, the county's tourism leaders have warned. Cumbria Tourism said although the county's recruitment challenge was not a new issue the problem is now acute due to a number of factors including: Staff moving on...

An independent brewery has set up a new home in Kendal. Gan Yam Brew Co was set up by schoolfriends Christopher Gibbons, Christopher Talbot, Jonathan Le Mare, Jonathan Rigg, Nicolas Graves, William Burgess and William Wilkinson in 2017. They started...

The £8.2m transformation of a landmark West Cumbrian building is nearing completion as it is revealed that Barclays will be based at the site. Whitehaven Bus Station will be the home of the finance giant's first Eagle Lab in Cumbria....

A popular Ambleside hotel has been sold to an expanding North East company for an undisclosed sum. The Waterhead Hotel, which has direct access to Windermere, has been bought by The Inn Collection Group.  The 38-bedroom venue will reopen as...