Former cabinet secretary Simon Case has been appointed to lead the board overseeing a £200m regeneration project to make ...

The Dickin Medal, often known as the Victoria Cross for animals, was given to him in 1946 and has been bought by the Dock Museum in Barrow-in-Furness. The grandson of Tommy's owner, who was at the ...

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Furness Abbey, on the outskirts of Barrow, Cumbria, was founded about 900 years ago and was the first of England's "greater monasteries" to be dissolved during Henry VIII's religious reforms.

With the special celebrations set to return to Furness in June, organiser Jason Woodcock shared an update on what people can expect.