A motorbike driver was taken to hospital following a crash on the A595.

Police were contacted at around 8.55am today to a report of a two-vehicle road traffic collision near Thursby.

It involved a Volkswagen Golf and a Peugeot scooter.

The driver of the motorbike, a 28-year-old man from Wigton, sustained minor injuries and was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary.

He has since been discharged.