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It will stay dry, mostly clear and calm this evening and overnight, with a chance of patches of mist, fog and low cloud developing through the course of the night, and lowest temperatures from 0C to 3C (32F to 37F).

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A 34-year-old local man has been charged with one of the three robberies in the past fortnight at a convenience store in Workington.

He appeared before West Cumbria Magistrates this morning charged with robbery at the McColls store at about 08:00 yesterday, and was remanded to appear at Carlisle Crown Court on 4 December.

Police said a second 34-year-old man was released with no further action, and a 29-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of robbery, and released under investigation.

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Councils in Barrow, South Lakeland and Lancaster have voted to put plans to create a single, all-purpose council around Morecambe Bay, external to the government.

In a joint statement, the three local authorities said that while proposals for Lancashire and Cumbria had already been put forward by other councils, the Cumbrian plan was based on existing boundaries.

But, the statement said, the government had invited other proposals and "we believe that a cross-boundary authority around Morecambe Bay is the best way forward for Barrow, Lancaster and South Lakeland."

The move has been supported by the former Barrow MP, now Lord Walney, and the Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron.

Sellafield has revealed that it has had to repair pipework, external after a leak of a liquid containing uranium in September.

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The small leak in a pipe between two tanks happened in part of its Magnox nuclear fuel reprocessing plant involved low level radioactive liquid and it was stopped within 20 minutes of being discovered.

Sellafield says there was no risk to staff or the public but it has reported the event as a leak from a degraded pipe, classified as a Level One event on the international scale, external, which runs from zero to seven.

Around 20m of pipework was replaced.

BBC Weather

It will be a dry afternoon, with plenty of widespread sunshine, although the odd patch of mist or fog may linger in places.

there will be gentle winds and it will feel cool with highest temperatures from 9C to 12C (48F to 54F).

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Barrow's FA cup tie with Wimbledon, due to take place at Holker Street tomorrow, has been postponed after several positive coronavirus tests among the First Division side.

Carlisle United have a trip to to non-league Hayes and Yeading on Sunday lunchtime.

The traditional Labour seat was held up as a bellwether constituency for the general election.

• Temperature at 3,000ft (900m): Around 8C (46F)
• Winds: Southerly with gusts of 15mph to 25mph
• Cloud: An overcast, grey morning with cloud bases around 1,200ft to 1500ft (400m to 500 m) but turning largely sunny and fine by mid-afternoon
• Weather: A dry and fine day, with hill fog at the summits in the morning, but turning sunny later
• Visibility: Poor in hill fog above 1,200ft (400m) until the mid-afternoon, then good or excellent until sunset

Cumbria Tourism has given a cautious welcome to the announcement by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, that furlough payments and help for some self-employed people will now be available through until March.

It goes some way to meeting the requirements of industry representatives, who met the minister Nigel Huddleston earlier this week to ask for support through the winter for businesses that had already lost much of the income from the summer.

The managing director of Cumbria Tourism, Gill Haigh, said more help might still be needed.

BBC Weather

Mist, fog and low cloud may linger in places through the morning, but this should then clear to give plenty of sunshine through the afternoon. On the cool side with temperatures of 12C (53F)

It will stay dry and calm this evening and overnight, with patches of mist, fog and low cloud developing through the course of the night.

You can check the latest BBC Weather forecast where you live, by searching for your location here

Volunteers from the Cockermouth mountain rescue team carried a walker to safety in darkness from the 2,648ft (807m) High Stile, above Buttermere, last night, after she fell and hurt her wrist.

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BBC Weather

It will stay dry and calm this evening and overnight, with patches of mist, fog and low cloud developing

Fog may become quite dense in places with lowest temperatures from 5C to 8C (41F to 46F).

You can find the latest BBC weather forecast for where you are, by typing in your location or postcode here.

The organisation that runs services such as planning in the Lake District national park says it's cut its spending by £1.3m by reorganising departments and having some redundancies.

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The cuts are equivalent to more than 10% of the authority's annual budget of just under £11m a year, with a number of voluntary redundancies still being agreed and fewer than 10 compulsory job losses.

Six new posts have been opened, and several apprentices hired.

Management overheads have been reduced, and the various services that look after visitors, maintain footpaths and oversee lakes and landholdings have been reorganised with some opening hours cut back.

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The leader of Cumbria County Council says, external the county "will get through" the second national lockdown by working together.

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Hospitals serving Cumbria are coming under increasing pressure from the numbers of coronavirus patients, with 159 people now being treated for the infection, according to the county's public health officials.

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The latest report from the director of public health, external, Colin Cox, says that although the number of infections fell over the past week in Barrow, Carlisle and Eden, increases in the rest of the county saw the rate rise overall and there were 11 deaths registered in the week ended 23 October.

He said it would take two weeks for the effects of the lockdown to start showing, but if everyone stuck to the rules there was the chance of reducing infections.

BBC Weather

It will be dry and calm this afternoon, but with mostly cloudy skies.

Temperatures will be around average for the time of year, from 8C to 11C (46F to 52F).

You can always find the latest, detailed, BBC weather forecast for where you are, by searching for your location here.

Two drug addicts who savagely attacked a teenager three times in just over an hour, leaving her unconscious in the street, have been jailed by a Carlisle Crown Court judge.

Richard Musgrave, 42, and 32-year-old Stacey Louise Nicholson, of Fountains Avenue, Workington, had taken drugs with the 18-year-old, but when she tried to return to recover a purse and banged on the door, they assaulted her.

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The court saw CCTV footage showing her being kicked, punched and beaten with a crutch, with injuries so severe she was in hospital for a fortnight, including three days in an induced coma.

Musgrave pleaded guilty to assaults causing actual and grievous bodily harm, while Nicholson admitted two charges of causing actual bodily harm.

Musgrave was jailed for four years, and Nicholson for six months, Judge Nicholas Barker saying their victim had been treated "like a rag doll".

Temperature at 3,000ft (900m): Around 4C (40F)

Winds: Northwest to west 15mph to 20mph with a few gusts to 30 mph in the morning

Cloud: Bases extensive 1,300ft to 2,000ft (400m to 600m) in the morning becoming broken around 2,000ft to 2,600ft (600m to 800m) in the afternoon

Weather: Cloudy with a few sunny spells

Visibility: Good or very good below 1300 ft(400m) in the morning and below 2,000ft (600m) in the afternoon

The first of three shipments of high-level radioactive waste from German spent nuclear reactor fuel has arrived at a store near Frankfurt, external.

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The waste was taken by rail and sea, completing contracts for the recycling of spent fuel into new rods, with any scrap returned to the country it came from.