A 60-year-old man died after his motorbike skidded on an icy road near Broughton in Furness on Tuesday evening. Peter Elliot, who was riding a red Kawasaki motorbike, was from Heysham in Lancashire. No other vehicles were involved in the accident, which happened on Birker Fell Road in Ulpha at about 5.45pm.
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