This mobile sauna in a converted horse box is now warming-up swimmers at Fell Foot, Windermere. Its Cumbrian creator Debbie Noble spent the winter under a tarp building it, having embraced cold-water dipping during treatment for breast cancer BBC Cumbria

Meeting Vinnie the amazing assistance dog on BBC Cumbria. He does all sorts for Sue Holmes including pulling dislocated joints back into place! Sue's Ulverston parents have spent years making this 1700s detail-perfect dolls house to raise funds for more Canine Partners like him

Does anyone recognise this 1944 diary? Found in a loft on Margate St, Walney, Barrow metal detectorist & local historian Chris Linton is hoping to find its owner and discover what happens next. Our author was waiting for “news from Alfie”… BBC Cumbria

Leading the pack in Coronation crafts, the Ulverston Day Services & Shared Lives crew have their paper mache corgis out today for regal selfies at the big Marsh House Coronation party today 11-2. Corgi Colin in action here! ⁦BBC Cumbria⁩

Splashdown for G-ODIP, the first modern seaplane to land on Windermere since 1994. Demonstration flights tonight for this modern make and its ancestor, Waterbird, the replica of the 1911 craft developed in Windermere & Manchester BBC Cumbria

There’s Tupperware, melamine tea cups and LOTS of orange in the Summer of 69 heritage caravan National Trust Fell Foot. On display til the end of June as part of work about the history of Lakes tourism BBC Cumbria

Proposals for new artworks for the Cumbrian coast on show this week - one session today for Joep van Lieshout’s vision for Hodbarrow (4pm, Tin Chapel, Millom). Then on Saturday, Marcus Coates talks about his designs for Corney Fell, from 10, Captain Shaw’s, Bootle BBC Cumbria

When you’re singing you’re winning! The second day of a 48 hour walkout by NUJ members in Carlisle. NUJ #KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal BBC Cumbria

The BBC Radio Cumbria Barrow studio went three years ago so I don’t have an office to strike outside. Here’s my homeworker protest on the Cumbria Way marker. Stop (more) Cuts 😭 #KeepBBCLocalRadioLocal NUJ

Thanks to everyone who shared this! A 1944 diary discovered in a Cumbrian attic is reunited with the family of its author, nearly 80 years later, 300 miles away in Devon. Norma Tottey's 'Alfie' did return from war. She was cremated aged 91, with a box of his letters BBC Cumbria

What future for ticket offices? A consultation starts on closing most of them, only this one in Barrow due to remain in Cumbria. Job losses unclear but hundreds expected. Govt says only 12% tickets bought at counter BBC Cumbria

Come see us tomorrow for a splash of arty family play at Signal Film & Media with our Sea Creature Kaleida, Family Fish Tank and Reflecting Stream. signalfilmandmedia.com/tidal-2-family…

Hi Long Covid Casebook Would you be up for BBC Radio Cumbria interview about the UCL research with Professor Amitava Banerjee? We've followed many Long Covid sufferers and eager to hear the lastest, especially as its so close in Preston. Please tweet/DM me if you'd be up for it

120 silk flags were unfurled on Walney on Friday, each one inspired by a mile of Morecambe Bay's coastline. They're joining hundreds more from other parts of the UK for the @_MBay 'Bay Lines-Beach of Dreams' in Grange today and Arnside on Sunday BBC Cumbria

If you fancy a warm hug of hope in the winter gloom why not pop along to our new free exhibition Signal Film & Media: "Relax into 2050". Visit for our take on Solarpunk optimism, or just pop in for a lovely sit down. Details: buff.ly/41c0NSM

Visitors to our exhibition, Relax into 2050, said: “A wonderful hour of peace on a busy Saturday morning, everyone should have an Chris and Jennie Dennett kaleidoscope machine!” ⏰Open Wed - Sat | 11am - 4pm 🗓️Today, Fri & Sat! Then 3 - 20 Jan 2024 📍Cooke's Studios bit.ly/46Gq8Fv

The concept designs for a space elevator that won a Barrow-born architect a €10,000 innovation award. Jordan William Hughes says you’d need “more money than God” to build it now but believes one day it will be possible BBC Cumbria

'The geodesic dome itself is simply magical. Entering, it conjures up combinations of past summer games as a child, like playing under bedsheets' Michael Orr visited the latest instalment of TIDAL from Signal Film & Media. Read the review here: corridor8.co.uk/article/tidal-…

Michael Quinn and Peter Laird, and share your memories with us. Join us on Wednesday 6th March, 6.30-8.30pm at @cumbriaarchives in Barrow Library, Ramsden Square, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 1LL. All are welcome. Art Gene will provide refreshments, click link in bio to book.

Absolutely love the beautiful Nan Tait building so very much looking forward to this event tomorrow (Weds). It's free but Art Gene gathering bookings to help sort refreshments. They're also after stories from people who studied there during its days as a technical college ✏