BBC Weather

Tonight will see lengthy clear periods but with the chance of a shower or two.

Winds will strengthen in the early hours with a growing risk of showers, and lowest temperatures will be from 2C to 5C (36F to 41F).

The Met Office says up to 150mm (6in) of rain could fall on Cumbrian felltops in the 36 hours from noon on Thursday to midnight on Friday, and forecasters have issued a yellow weather warning, external.

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

The water company United Utilities has started using dogs to sniff out leaking pipes.

This is Luke Jones and Kilo scouring a field in Cumbria for the smell of chlorine, an element found in domestic water supplies, but not in nature.

In open country, the water could just be lost in the ground, but Kilo, who has joined the service only recently, found a pipe leaking 72,000 litres of water a day near Bassenthwaite, on his first time out after training.

Police say an 11-year-old boy was robbed in Carlisle by three other boys about the same age.

Officers have just revealed details about the attack, which they say happened in Fusehill Street on Saturday at about 13:30.

They say the boys, two of whom were wearing hoodies, took a small amount of money but the victim was not hurt.

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A former golf practice course in Carlisle is to be changed into meadows and wetland to be a haven for bees and butterflies.

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The Swifts, which used to feature a 9-hole course and a driving range, last saw a game of golf in 2018, and Cumbria Wildlife Trust has now taken it over and won £88,000 in grants to do the work.

Tanya St.Pierre, who is managing the project says bees and other pollinating insects are essential for plant life, but in decline, and planting the Swifts area with wildflowers and trees would give them space to recover.

And she said it would remain open as a green space close to the city centre.

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Political reporter, BBC Cumbria

The weekly death toll from Covid-19 in Cumbria has risen to its highest since early June, with nine deaths reported in the week up to 16 October, according to the Office for National Statistics, external.

It's a sharp rise from relatively low weekly numbers in recent months, including just two the previous week. It's the highest weekly total since 14 people died in the week up to 5 June.

In total 582 people from our county have now died with the virus, according to these figures which are based on death certificates that mention Covid-19.

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A keen rugby player has been told he can never play the sport again after a single punch left him with a serious brain injury, external.

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Carlisle United play their seventh match of the month this evening when they take on Morecambe at Brunton Park tonight in League Two.

Head coach Chris Beech says he may have to bring more of the squad forward, especially as there is still one more game to come this month with the long trip to Exeter.

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Barrow will try to win for the first time in League Two this season at the ninth time of asking when David Dunn's side face fellow strugglers Mansfield tonight.

Both sides are on 5 points - and have yet to win a game this season.

BBC Weather

This afternoon will be mainly cloudy with further outbreaks of rain for a time, with highest temperatures from 8C to 11C (46F to 52F).

The rain will move away to the northeast later on, leaving clear spells and scattered showers.

The Met Office yellow warning for heavy rain on Thursday and Friday, external has now been stepped up, with a forecast of 100mm to 150mm (4in to 6in) on rain on the highest fells over the 36 hours.

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

A Cumbrian mountain rescue team helped reunite two parents with their 14-year-old son, after he found the rescuers yesterday.

Image source, Keswick MRT

Volunteers from the Keswick team were gathering to search from the teenager, external, who'd failed to meet his parents as arranged at the top of Dale Head, when the boy walked up to members at the bottom of the fell.

• Members of the Cave Rescue Organisation, who also cover an area of the Pennines above ground, were able to drive along a track near the famous Settle-Carlisle railway to meet a walker who had injured their leg, external on Whernside, and then been helped down by companions.

Leaders say the A595 bypass will improve journeys, after years of "relentless campaigning".

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South Cumbria journalist, BBC Cumbria

Cumbria's biggest tourist operator says its multi-million pound investment in a new lake "steamer" will help the county recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The new MV Swift entered service for Windermere Lake Cruises without fanfare at the weekend, to avoid attracting crowds to see her maiden voyage.

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It is the first new large passenger vessel on England's longest lake in 80 years, and is steered not by a wheel and a rudder, but by joysticks controlling the propellers.

Rob Beale, one of the skippers, says it is "like the Starship Enterprise" and can turn the vessel, large enough for 300 passengers, on the spot.

A 34-year-old man from Appleby was cut from his Ford Fiesta by firefighters after he left the A66 near Keswick and hit a tree.

He was was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle but his injuries are not said to be life-threatening.

• Temperatures at 3,000ft (900m): around 4C (40F)
• Winds: Southerly 20mph gusting to 30 mph in the morning becoming southwesterly at 20mph to 30mph with gusts to 45mph in the afternoon
• Cloud: 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) late in the day
• Weather: Cloudy with rain, possibly heavy at times, in the morning tapering to showers later, with strong winds developing in the afternoon as rain clears away
• Visibility: Poor or very poor in rain and hill fog in the morning, becoming good later in the afternoon, but occasionally still poor in patchy hill fog and showers

In a second announcement for South Cumbria, the Department for Transport has promised £13m for a new stretch of the A595 to bypass a notorious bottleneck.

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The improvements would see a new stretch of road built to replace the section through Dove Farm, at Grizebeck, addressing a pinch point that's caused problems for years.

Ministers say it will make journeys faster and safer, with the upgrade also including new crossing for farm vehicles and cyclists.

Work should start in 2022.

Barrow will be one of the first towns in the country to benefit, to the tune of £25m, from the government's Towns Fund.

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The town at the end of the Furness peninsula is one of the first seven communities to have a funding offer made as part of the £3.6 billion Government scheme

The money will pay for measures aiming to make it a more attractive place for young people to live and work, with new housing and a learning quarter with a university campus.

The borough council leader Ann Thomson hopes this will also offer something to the town's young people, whether or not they want to work at the main employer, the BAE shipyard.

There are wide variations in the levels of coronavirus infection in Cumbria, according to the director of public health, Colin Cox.

Figures up to the end of last week show the rate of new infections ranging from 89 per 100,000 people in Allerdale to 262.5 in Barrow, with the England average at 200, and Cumbria's average at 170.

Most of the county is under tier one - medium alert, apart from Barrow, at tier two - high alert.

Dr Cox says the rate of infection in Barrow dropped very slightly last week, suggesting the higher restrictions may be working, but it's still increasing elsewhere and he is now worried about Carlisle.

John Myatt has braved the winds and rain the rain and marched on to complete his 91-mile walk along the length of Hadrian's Wall in a pair of swimming trunks and a Roman helmet.

He set off from Wallsend on Friday morning and arrived at Bowness-on-Solway yesterday evening, raising money for the charity Rugby for Heroes.

The 48-year-old is no stranger to cold temperatures having previously swam the Channel and taken part in the International Ice Swimming Championships in Russia.

BBC Weather

Rain will spread in from the southwest this morning under cloudy, grey skies.

This will move through into the afternoon keeping things dull and wet.

Temperatures reaching 9C (48F).

This evening it'll turn drier with perhaps a few scattered showers.

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BBC Weather

An isolated shower and patchy cloud will linger for a time this evening, and may persist in some regions.

Where skies clear, it will feel quite chilly as winds will ease overnight, with lowest temperatures down to 4C to 7C (39F to 45F).

The Met Office has posted a yellow warning of heavy rain , externalfor later this week, saying up to 80mm (3in) could fall on higher ground between noon on Thursday and the end of Friday.

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