PART of a police station damaged by flooding last year is being replaced by a civil engineering firm based in the region.

Henderson Campbell, of Guisborough, has won a share of the £4.5m project to create a new cell complex for Cumbria Police on the outskirts of Carlisle.

The 24 cells will be the UK's first custody facilities built using buildings pre-engineered before they are fitted together on site.

Henderson Campbell is working on the scheme with a company specialising in pre-fabricated buildings.

Managing director Antony Henderson said: "Time and cost are the major advantages. We can complete a project in 22 weeks, which is half the time of a traditional structure, and therefore at a lower cost than for a traditionally built scheme."

The suite is being built on the site of the former Rathbones bakery in Carlisle, which burned down last year.

It will replace the Rickersgate station in the city centre, which was damaged by last year's floods.

Henderson Campbell is the project's civil engineering sub contractor - planning and preparing the site before the pre-engineered units arrive.