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A CONTROLLING boyfriend secretly used his partner’s phone to isolate her by sending false and abusive messages to her family and friends.

TWO important road improvement projects have beeen completed in areas of Penrith.

A FRUSTRATED patient unhappy that he faced a long wait when he visited the A&E Department of Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary has been…

A WOMAN had sex with a schoolboy multiple times while “going through a period of self destruct”, a court heard. Sophie Hindmarch, then aged 26, and the 14-year-old began swapping messages on Snapchat. General conversation then escalated to the exchange of sexualised images and videos, Carlisle Crown Court was told. They met at her home to smoke and first had sex after Hindmarch - now 27 - told the boy: “You’ve left your lighter upstairs.” Sexual intercourse occurred around a doz...

Penrith woman admits nine counts of sexual activity with schoolboy Carlisle Crown Court A Penrith woman has been told a prison sentence is “inevitable” after she admitted engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a schoolboy. Sophie Hindmarch, 27, heard she is now also subject to the sex offender notification requirements in respect of her guilty pleas to a raft of criminal offences which were committed against the boy during 2019. Hindmarch appeared at Carlisle Crown Court this mo...