A BRIGHT idea to reintroduce the traditional blue police station light has been launched throughout Cumbria to make police stations more recognisable.

Many older stations in the region already have a blue light, but police chiefs plan to reintroduce the lamps to stations in Milnthorpe, Windermere and Ambleside.

The plan aims to help local people and newcomers to the towns to easily identify the police station if they need it.

Mike Head, spokesman for Cumbria Police said: " We are putting blue lights outside stations to make the police presence more noticeable. It is sort of a 'Back to the Future' idea, we want to return to the values of the old days when everybody knew where the police station was."

He added: "The idea of lamps never really went away but as time goes by more and more stations appeared without blue lights or did not replace them."

Over the next months the project is also to be extended to new police drop in centres that are planned for the region to make them more noticeable to members of the public.