Greatest Hits Radio (Cumbria & South West Scotland)

Greatest Hits Radio Cumbria and South West Scotland serves a cross-border radio area. Its name brings together Cumbria in northern England and the neighbouring Scottish region, reflecting an audience wider than a single county or country boundary.

The service links Cumbria with south-west Scotland, while its Cumbrian news pages give particular attention to Carlisle and the surrounding area. Published reporting has followed the Market Hall bus-hub works, the future of Carlisle Lake District Airport, winter road preparations and coastal flood warnings between Gretna and Silloth. Those practical transport and weather subjects help define the regional strand. The cross-border name does not imply that the music is limited to performers from either side of the border.

Listeners also hear the wider Greatest Hits Radio presentation, including Ken Bruce and PopMaster, Zoe Ball in the afternoon and Simon Mayo's Drivetime. Requests and listeners' stories sit alongside the songs, with Mayo's Friday programme putting musical choices directly into the audience's hands. Jenny Powell's Mixtape and Rhythm Of The Night with Des Paul bring different weekend colours to the schedule. The shared repertoire centres on major popular recordings of the seventies, eighties and nineties.

The programme follows the Greatest Hits Radio classic-hits format, with songs from the seventies, eighties and nineties at its heart. Familiar popular recordings provide continuity across the service, while presented shows add conversation, humour and features concerned with music memories.