Network Rail have announced they've scrapped plans to infill the underpass which links Rusland Park to Castle Grove after a community campaign.
Local Lib Dem county councillor Chris Hogg had written to Network Rail to raise concerns that the plans would see local children having to walk to school via the less safe Parkside Road railway bridge.
Local MP Tim Farron's long-running campaign for a radiotherapy unit in Kendal has been given a boost this week as health bosses announced they have launched a formal study into the idea.
NHS England have started a feasibility study to look at the possibility of bringing a unit to the Westmorland General Hospital.
Local MP Tim Farron says that a new announcement from the Government about improvements to broadband in the most remote parts of Cumbria still leaves questions unanswered.
In a letter to all six of Cumbria's MPs, the Government announced new plans to deliver full fibre broadband using the principle of "outside-in" where the hardest to reach places in the UK are connected at the same time as the easiest to reach.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron led a cross-party delegation of MPs to meet with the health minister Steve Brine to make the case for extra investment into radiotherapy treatment.
Tim, who is the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Radiotherapy, told the minister that low investment was leading to the UK having some of the worst cancer survival rates in Europe.
Local MP Tim Farron says the Health Secretary has added insult to injury by refusing to rule out making further cuts to Cumbria's already underfunded public health budget.
Due to significant cuts made previously by the Government, Cumbria currently only spends £75,000 a year on tier 1 mental health preventative care, working out at just 75p per child.
