Levens Park ring cairn in Cumbria, UK. To the right of the solitary large boulder is a circular penannular ring with three 4,000-year-old female inhumation burials, one of which carried Yersinia pestis DNA sequenced in the present study. Credit: Ian Hodkinson, Liverpool John Moores University.

Francis Crick Institute scientists identified three cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague, in human remains.

Researchers find 4,000-year-old plague DNA in Cumbria

TSP Engineering expects to start production of the 'NuCell' this year  - with the first reactors set to be manufactured by 2027.

New nuclear reactors set to be built in West Cumbria

Northern Lights filmed over Kielder Observatory. 

The aurora borealis lit up the night sky over Kielder Forest Park last night

Northern Lights filmed over Kielder Observatory

Dr Flora Murray was born in Dumfries in 1869 then qualified as a doctor in 1905 and was awarded a CBE for her work and World War One medical efforts.

Suffragette and medical pioneer to appear on Scotland's new £100 note

Flora Gentleman has Neuroblastoma and her parents are trying to raise £300,000 to be able to take her to New York for a different treatment.

Race to raise £300,000 for three-year-old's cancer treatment in US

Free Covid tests would no longer be available to the general public under the government's new plans.
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Hawick Community Hospital is closed to admissions with all but essential visiting suspended due to a Covid-19 outbreak.

Covid outbreak suspends visiting at Hawick Community Hospital 

The e-book I Will Always Be Me is written from the perspective of someone living with MND.

Man with motor neurone disease helps launch book which preserves voices

Picture of brown crabs taken from an ITV Channel package which TX'd on 18/8/2021. 

The team warns changes in the species' behaviour could hit fishing markets as crabs are an important catch for for fishers across the UK.

Borders research shows effect of underwater cables for renewables on brown crabs

The centre hopes to encourage more local young people to get involved in science subjects.

Dark space visitor centre and planetarium opens in Dumfries and Galloway

Huge scientific advances have been made during the pandemic and many of those pushing these new boundaries are women.

Debra Padgett: The scientists role in the fight against Covid-19

The lab is an expansion of the Government's Test and Trace programme. The testing and research facility with serve Cumbria, the North East and Yorkshire.

Plans for coronavirus research hub in the North

In Cumbria, there's been around 150 excess deaths.
As many hospitals remain quiet, planned treatment could soon return.

Non-urgent treatment could return as coronavirus admissions drop

Sellafield chemist Rebecca Ballantyne is working as part of the Women in Nuclear Cumbria team to attract females to the sector.


Forensics and fairytales: Carlisle kids get lesson from award-winning scientist

Public Health England say thousands of four and five-year-olds are set to begin primary school without their up-to-date MMR vaccinations.

Thousands of children in North West at 'unnecessary risk of serious diseases'

Some of us were treated to a spectacular view last night. You were out with your cameras and we were out with ours.

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