Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Collins, who is also shadow Transport Secretary, says work needs to be done on the A590 in south Cumbria.

On Sunday, three people were killed in a head-on collision on the road, near Low Newton.

Elizabeth and John Adams, both in the 70s, were in a blue Ford Fiesta, which collided with a Vauxhall Astra driven by Simon Marriott, which was travelling in the opposite direction.

Now new Transport Minister David Jamieson, is being will be urged to back improvements to the road and fund a bypass.

Tim Collins is heading a delegation of councillors and business leaders to press the Department of Transport to give the go-ahead to the bypass for the villages of High and Low Newton.

Mr Collins says the bypass proposals have been waiting for ministerial approval for six years.