Broadcasting icon Val Armstrong has announced she is hanging up her headphones after 41 years with Radio Cumbria.
She announced she was leaving the BBC on her show this morning and on X, formerly Twitter.
She said: “Today I announced on air that I will be leaving the BBC. I will hang up my well used headphones in a fortnight which will be 41 years, seven months and one week since I started at BBC Radio Carlisle – now Cumbria on February 15 1982. Sad times but life goes on.”
She was awarded the freedom of Carlisle by the then city council in December, the highest honour it could bestow.
The BBC announced last year that it was cutting programming back on its local stations – and a host of long-established presenters are leaving or have left BBC Radio Cumbria.
Local shows will be broadcast 6am to 2pm, while the rest of the output, apart from evening and weekend sport, will be shared either regionally or nationally.
