A section of the A53 through Leek and Blackshaw Moor - between the junctions with Thorncliffe Road and Springbank Wood - was closed from 7.15am Friday morning. Traffic monitoring site Inrix stated ...

They were called to the scene, on Thorncliffe Road, near Valley Parade, at around half past midnight, where the two-storey building - a fast food supply business- was on fire. Firefighters used ...

Furness Academy, to be based on the Thorncliffe and Parkview school sites in Barrow, was approved in January and is due to open in September. Parkview was closed on Monday morning as pupils gathered ...

The academy replaced Barrow's Thorncliffe, Parkview and Alfred Barrow secondary schools, when it was established two years ago. It is sponsored by Furness College, the University of Cumbria and ...

Officers from Shipley fire station were called to the first blaze at 3.27am, where a Ford Ka was found alight in Thorncliffe Road, next to Valley Parade. Police were already in attendance when ...

Barrow and Furness MP Cecil Franks has joined ... The school's 800 pupils have to cross the busy Thorncliffe Road several times a day to get to lessons. Headmaster Dominic Tye wrote to Cumbria ...

Furness Academy replaced Barrow's Thorncliffe, Parkview and Alfred Barrow secondary schools. Mr Blackledge added: "Year one was a challenge, it is for all academies and it is not at all unusual ...

In the same year, there were nine permanent exclusions. Replacing Barrow's Thorncliffe, Parkview and Alfred Barrow secondary schools, the academy opened in 2009. Mr Blackledge said: "The early ...