BBC Weather

It will be a cold and windy day for Cumbria with sunny spells and frequent showers, these heavy and blustery with the risk of hail and thunder.

The showers will be wintry with snow accumulating, particularly over the Fells and north Pennines. It will feel bitterly cold with gales and temperatures no higher than 4C (39F).

There's a Met Office warning for ice and snow through until tomorrow morning.

You can find the latest BBC Weather forecast for where you are, and details of the severe weather warnings, here.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

A walker who was thought to be lost in severe winter weather on Scafell Pike has been found suffering from minor injuries.

There'd been a major search for Richard Cockerham, from Leeds, after his car was found at Wasdale Head yesterday.

This morning he was found heading towards Eskdale suffering minor injuries believed to have been sustained in a fall.

He was flown by air ambulance to the Furness General Hospital in Barrow for checks.

The repercussions continue this morning after the inquest into the death of the Barrow toddler Poppi Worthington found she had, on the balance of probabilities, been abused by her father before suffocating in his bed the same night in 2012.

Yesterday Chief Constable Jerry Graham told journalists he regretted how little help the police inquiry had been for the coroner, but he said changes had been made since the flawed investigation.

Mr Graham said he would be seeking early talks with the Crown Prosecution Service to discuss what could be done, but the CPS, for its part, said it did not plan to reopen a case it had reviewed twice before, unless it was referred by the coroner.

The Barrow and Furness Labour MP John Woodock said the public had lost confidence in police being able to investigate such crimes properly in every case.

BBC News Travel

Train services between Carlisle, Motherwell and Haymarket run by Virgin and First Transpennine are suspended because of electricity supply problems.

Staff at Bewcastle School, in the far north of the county, say it's closed until tomorrow because of adverse weather conditions.

Temperatures at 3,000ft: -2C dropping to -4C with severe wind chill.

Winds: Severe gale force westerly, gusts 60-65mph.

Cloud: Variable cloud amounts around 2,000ft, locally 1,000ft in and around showers.

Visibility: Good, quickly dropping very poor in snow showers with whiteout blizzard conditions at times.

Freezing level: 1,300ft dropping to 650ft.

The Lake District Weatherline report can be found here, external, but it is from yesterday before the worst of the weather came in. It will be updated with today's conditions mid-afternoon to show if there are better hopes for tomorrow.

Colin Briggs
Look North

A 30-year plan for transforming transport across the north of England is being unveiled later.

Transport for the North will share the plans at Darlington railway station, Newcastle Airport and Carlisle College.

They include the development of Northern Powerhouse Rail - a fast rail network between the north's six biggest cities.

The improvements would cost an estimated £6bn, but it is hoped the region's economy would benefit to the tune of £100m by 2050.

A group of anglers has asked the Environment Agency for permission to reopen a salmon hatchery on the River Derwent at Keswick.

The group hopes to restore the river's stocks; it was once one of the finest salmon fishing rivers in the country.

The authorities have resisted the idea of stocking the river artificially, but Paul Barnes, who fishes the river, says experience elsewhere suggests the scheme would have a major impact on the Derwent and the Greta (pictured).

The father of Poppi Worthington wanted a second inquest to go ahead even though when he was called to give evidence he declined to answer most of the questions he was asked, according to his sister.

Yesterday Cumbria's senior coroner, David Roberts, said three weeks of evidence had led him to believe Mr Worthington had abused his daughter on the night she died, and then went to sleep with her in an unsafe position in his bed.

Mr Worthington declined to answer more that 250 questions, but his sister Tracy says he wanted to have his daughter's death investigated in public.

A search is expected to resume around Scafell Pike this morning for a man from Leeds, who has been reported missing in severe weather.

Image source, Family photo

Richard Cockerham is understood to have travelled to the Lake District on Sunday morning to climb England's highest mountain.

His car has been found at a car park near Wasdale Head.

More than 50 mountain rescue volunteers took part in a search yesterday before it was abandoned because of the bad weather.

BBC Weather

It will be a cold and windy day with blustery showers of hail, sleet and snow, and sunny spells in between.

There will be strong and gusty westerly winds and a maximum temperature of 4C (39F).

You can find the latest BBC weather forecast for where you are, here.

BBC News Travel

Snow is being reported from the higher roads across Cumbria this morning, and it's likely to keep falling.

Image source, Cumbria County Council

This was the A6 over Shap, and roads such as the A592 Kirkstone Pass and the A684 at Garsdale Head are similarly affected.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

We'll be posting the news, and with the snow coming down on the higher parts of the county, the weather and travel reports, through until 18:00 or so.

If you want to pass on news you think we should know, or share a photo with the county, you can email them to us, send them using Twitter where we're @BBC_Cumbria, external, or head to our Facebook page, external.

Bringing you the latest news, sport, travel and weather from across Cumbria from Tuesday 16 January to Friday 19 January 2018.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

It's been a long day, and if you read through the updates you will have a fairly full account of the coroner's conclusions today about the death of the Barrow toddler Poppi Worthington, and the reactions to it.

• Cumbria's senior coroner David Roberts said that on the balance of probabilities, he believed Poppi's father Paul abused his daughter, probably with a finger, and she suffocated that night in his bed
• Paul Worthington's account of that night, Mr Roberts said, did not stand up to scrutiny
• Mr Worthington's solicitor said afterwards that he was considering his options
• Poppi's mother, whose identity is legally protected, said through her solicitor that she was "now closer to the truth, however devastating that truth might be.”

We'll be back to cover tomorrow's developments, and perhaps catch up on some of today's other news, from 08:00 tomorrow. Good evening.

BBC Weather

It will be cold, with occasional showers leaving icy patches in places. The showers will be heavy at times with snow on the hills, and also probably to lower levels by morning, with the temperature falling to 0C (32F).

There are severe weather warnings for snow covering most of the county over the next three days.

You can find a weather forecast for where you are, and details of the weather warnings here.

Paul Worthington declined to answer question after question at his daughter's inquest.

Solicitor Fiona McGhie said her client is now "closer to the truth, however devastating".

Barrow's MP John Woodcock has called for a public inquiry into what he calls "grotesque failings in the police investigation" into the death of Poppi Worthington.

Today Cumbria's senior coroner concluded Poppi, who was 13 months old when she died at her home in Barrow, was assaulted before she suffocated in her father's bed.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission report last year said Det Insp Amanda Sadler, who initially led the investigation into Poppi's death, and Det Supt Mike Forrester who took over, had cases to answer for gross misconduct.

Det Supt Forrester retired before any action could be taken, and Det Insp Sadler was demoted and then left the force.

Mr Woodcock said in a statement: “It is hard to overstate our community’s anger at seeing an officer found responsible for gross incompetence able to keep a job in the force before retiring. This is not accountability.

“I am today writing to the Home Secretary to demand she establishes a public inquiry that will examine the following:

• Safeguards to ensure gross negligence in a criminal investigation can never again be allowed to place communities at risk
• Changes to policing to strengthen accountability and prevent negligent officers from retiring to escape scrutiny
• The decision by Cumbria Police to offer an officer found guilty of gross incompetence an alternative senior role in the force rather than dismissing her
• Changes to strengthen guidance on social care protection for the children of parents who have previously had a child taken into permanent care
• The required level investment in our public services to deliver these changes

Cumbria's police and crime commissioner, Peter McCall, has been stressing the improvements made since the "ineffective" investigation into the death of Poppi Worthington.

Image source, Cumbria Police

Mr McCall said the inadequate operation procedures used in 2012 had been addressed.