The Cumbria Community Foundation appeal, external has passed £1m.  The government has promised to match the first £1m raised by the appeal. The target's now been increased to £3m.

Alison Freeman
BBC Look North

Eden Bridge in Carlisle will be closed until the weekend after the flooding in the city.

Divers will be going underwater to check the structure.

There is a lot of support from across the community in the city.

Two hundred South Lakes Housing Association homes were damaged by storm Desmond - and 78 flooded badly enough that the tenants will have to move out.

John Mansergh from the association says all routine maintenance has been cancelled. Fifty tradesmen and 20 other staff are working to get repairs under way.

Another problem for Kendal is the floods affected all the town's builders merchants. "We're having to get supplies in from Manchester," said Mr Mansergh.

Carlisle's Christmas Fayre, external will go ahead as planned this weekend to support retailers, Carlisle City Council said.

All the city's car parks have reopened, however Lowther Street is currently being used as part for vehicles involved in flood recovery work. 

The council said it is continuing to receive large number of donations and it is planning to organise and distribute these as soon as possible. 

There is one central drop-off point at Cumbria University's Fusehill Street campus (sports hall).

The Sands in Appleby is well-used to flooding. Most properties have floodgates fitted, and there's a well-practised operation following every flood warning.  It's probably one of the the best-prepared streets in Cumbria

But these floods over-topped all precautions. So like so many other streets in Cumbria, the Sands is lined with sodden furniture.

The Lady Wakefield, an Ullswater steamer that was beached in a hurry when crew members feared she might sink, will need a safety inspection and a specialist haulage company to get back into the lake.

Image source, PA

Rachel Bell, from the company that runs the steamers, external, said she hoped they would get back to some services as soon as possible.

She told BBC Radio Cumbria: "We've got four other vessels in service, fortunately three of of them are down at Glenridding and seem unaffected bar some cosmetic damage. The oldest vessel we have was actually on the slipway for annual maintenance, so she was unharmed."

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been visiting flood-hit areas of Cumbria.

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The Islington MP said the Government must ensure that people do not effectively lose their insurance cover because of the repeated flooding.

BBC Radio Cumbrian's political reporter Bob Cooper has spoken to Jeremy Corbyn and you can hear his interview on an extended edition of the news Hour with Peggy Walker.

Keith Roddy from the Environment Agency, said: “Our team do routinely monitor levels, when it reaches a certain point then they then mobilise a dredging exercise.

"It has been done a number of times over recent years, and obviously after something on the scale of this, it needs to be done again.”

Volunteer Carl Scrivens, said: “I’ve gone beyond it. I don’t know what day of the week it is. 

"I’m getting tired. If this was dredged out thoroughly, this event wouldn’t have happened, the material would have got away.

"Yes we would have had a blocked beck, but we could have coped with it.”

Michael Pitchford from Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service's Patterdale crew, said: “The water was up to my waist here flowing really fast.

"We’ve spent the last four days, as have a lot of the residents here, clearing up, moving debris, pumping out water from everywhere and it’s just almost back to scratch again.

"It’s all been almost a waste of time really, but you just get on with it don’t you, you just take every day as it comes.”

Megan Paterson
Reporter, BBC Look North

Perhaps understandably, anger and frustration continues to grow here as the recovery effort stretches into yet another day, but the Environment Agency insists all necessary precautions were taken ahead of the extreme weather.

Volunteers will continue shifting rubble today then shovelling out and cleaning will start again.

The post-mortem into an unbelievable five days likely to continue for weeks to come.

Megan Paterson
Reporter, BBC Look North

After more torrential rain, the village of Glenridding has flooded for the second time in five days.

So the heartache and hard work starts all over again.

Tons of rubble which had already been dredged out, washed back into the beck last night forcing water back into homes and businesses and the already weary recovery teams back into action.

Fiona Trott
BBC News

There was another flood alert this morning. The water has gone down now and it is looking quite stable at the moment.

The bridge is still closed and the clean-up continues here with shops being forced to dump stock which has become contaminated.

A little bit more on the story we brought you earlier about the three Koi Carp found at Carlisle United's flooded ground.

Groundsman Dave Mitchell was helping repair the damage caused by Storm Desmond, which began on 4 December, when he found the fish at the Waterworks End of the League Two club's ground.  

Carlisle United tweeted a picture of the fish, adding "unbelievable".  

The Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has said a plan to reopen the A591 through the Lake District by next Easter is "simply not good enough".

The road's been washed away in some places and cut by dozens of landslides.

BBC Look North
North East and Cumbria

No respite for parts of Cumbria - we have the latest from the Glenridding community flooded for the second time in a week.

We'll also be around the county to find out the latest updates from Appleby and Carlisle along with how children are being affected by the floods and how there is a shortage of properties for people to rent in Corbridge.

Join us for these and all our other stories on BBC One at 13:30.

The floods over the last week have caused widespread disruption across the North West of England.

Here are some of the statistics:

Parts of Cumbria received a third of their average rainfall for December in just two nights.

Figures from the Met Office showed that even though the latest weather was a long way from the records set by Storm Desmond over the weekend, there was little reprieve.

The Environment Agency said 341.4mm of rain fell in Honister over 24 hours from Friday 4 December to Saturday 5 December.