Cumbria

Oct- 2017 -

9 October

Shops lose £800m to shoplifters every year

Britain’s shops collectively lose £800m per year due to shoplifting, claims Checkpoints Systems. Shoplifting is one of the most common crimes committed by opportunist thieves. Utilising data derived from data.police.co.uk, OnBuy.com investigated the total number of shoplifting offences that were recorded by 43 police forces/constabularies across England and Wales in…

2 October

Designers

Shekina Tuahene

Jewellery making tourist attraction comes to Cumbria

Husband-and-wife duo Brian and Zoe Fulton have opened a new visitor attraction. The Fultons Lakes Jewellery Works is located in the historic market town of Keswick in the northern Lake District, and will offer a unique and exclusive luxury experience in which customers will be able to see jewellery being…

Sep- 2015 -

1 September

Crime

Tom Davis

Watches worth over £20,000 stolen from Lake District jewellers

Watches worth more than £20,000 have been stolen from a jewellers in Ambleside, Cumbria, over the bank holiday weekend. The incident happened on Saturday, August 29, at 3:40am when a metal traffic restriction bollard was used to smash the glass and gain access to the window display of Horsman’s Jewellers…

Jun- 2015 -

4 June

Crime

Tom Davis

Police appeal after spate of burglaries

Police in Merseyside have released CCTV images of a man they would like to speak to following a series of thefts from jewellers across the country. Jewellers in Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire have all been targeted in recent weeks by men asking to view expensive items before grabbing them and…

Oct- 2012 -

19 October

Trade Organisations