Storm Ali has left damage across the county, and Shaun Thomson was kind enough to send us this picture of a striking example at Garlands Church in Carlisle.

Image source, Shaun Thomson

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Matthew Harrison is given a suspended prison sentence for assaulting the woman at a bistro.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle which failed to stop.

It happened on Tuesday evening just before 17:00 on Orton Road in Carlisle.

A man was hit by a black and white Mini Cooper and officers believe the car was probably damaged in the collision.

The victim is shaken and has cuts and bruises, but is not seriously injured.

Electricity North West says there are still about 300 properties in Cumbria without electricity, following the damage caused by Storm Ali yesterday.

The company says it has sent food vans to Appleby, Kirkby Stephen, Ireby and Calthwaite, to provide free hot food and drinks to people affected by the loss of power.

Meanwhile, Cumbria County Council says it has been dealing with 150 storm-related incidents, including fallen trees.

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The situation on the Lakes Line has been "chaotic on and off for a couple of years", according to a taxi driver operating out of Windermere Station.

Speaking on the day a report was published by regulators into last summer's chaos on the tracks after a new timetable came in, John Marchant said five weeks without trains had affected him "big time".

"If you're coming from London or those areas its a lot easier or quicker by train - so they've either been coming in their own cars or not at all", he said.

One solution he suggested was to keep the Lakes Line as a "branch line for one train only".

"Just have one train travelling backwards and forwards, instead of going down to Preston and Manchester.

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It will be cloudy this afternoon with rain moving in from the south. The rain will become persistent and it will be heavy in places. It will become windier too.

This evening Storm Bronagh, the second named storm of the season, will bring heavy rain and strong winds, external.

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Letters written by survivors of the Spanish flu pandemic paint a picture of a nation gripped by fear and sorrow.

The archive, at the Imperial War museum, also offers insights into personal tragedy behind some of the 250,000 deaths in Britain.

Jane Hymers from Alston wrote: "My oldest sister died of that dreadful flu. She left two little girls, 5 & 6 years old. She died on the 9th of November and was buried on the 11th - the day peace was declared."

Click on this link to read more about the "precious window into the human experience of the pandemic".

Northern Rail's timetable upgrade over the summer, which led to the temporary closure of the Lakes Line between Windermere and Oxenholme, caused problems for visitors to the Lake District.

Liz Chegwin, from Mountain Goat Tours which also runs the Tourist Information Centre in Windermere said: "We've had people coming in wanting to know information, and we're not sure what to tell them, where the trains are etc.

"Customers, especially internationals, coming up from London to the Lake District are worried about the time frame - they might have a limited time here so they want to make the most of it.

"We've had lots of people on the tours phoning us up the day before wondering if they're going to get here or get back.

"We could certainly have lost business, people not coming into the Lake District because they were concerned about it."

The rail firm - along with Govia Thameslink, Network Rail, and the Department for Transport - has been criticised by a regulator for lack of a "responsibility and accountability".

BBC News spoke to people affected by rail disruption in recent months.

Drivers and residents living near a stretch of the A66 in Cumbria have been praised for their patience during road improvement works.

This weekend sees the third of seven consecutive closures of the road between Penrith and Brough.

Highways England said the progress on the £5m scheme could not have been achieved without the support of local people, drivers and hauliers.

Project manager Steve Mason said: “It has enabled us to crack on and carry out as much work as possible alongside the major scheme at Kirkby Thore.

“We would also like to thank Cumbria Police for their support in making sure the diversion routes have been operating smoothly and safely in the interest of the local community and drivers."

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Campaigners trying to reopen the open air swimming pool in Grange-over-Sands will be given access to the site after the owners agreed to look at a new business plan "in detail".

South Lakeland Council, which closed the pool 25 years ago, says it will consider the case of the Save Grange Lido group - which believes a "comfortable" six figure profit could be made, without the need for subsidies.

The council has maintained for the last two years that it is "not viable" to reopen the lido for swimming, but has promised it will try to find a "sustainable" community use for the site.

Image source, South Lakeland District Council

A shortage of nurses in Cumbria is being addressed with a new course for health care assistants.

Seventeen assistants will become apprentices, and receive the training needed to become registered nurses.

They will work across acute, community and mental health services to develop their skills and gain a wide range of experience.

The Nursing Degree Apprenticeship is being run by the NHS in Cumbria, along with the Open University.

People in a Cumbrian village are being encouraged to have their say on plans for a new £5m roundabout.

Highways England says the proposed work - at the junctions with Pennington Lane and Main Road on a stretch of the A590 which is used by around 20,000 drivers every day - would make it easier to leave and join the main route and improve safety.

Drivers and local people can find out more about the proposals at a drop-in event at The Memorial Hall in Swarthmoor on this afternoon.

If approved, the new roundabout could be open to traffic by the end of 2020.

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An extraordinary archive of letters written by survivors of the Spanish flu pandemic, which paints a vivid picture of a nation gripped by fear and chaos, is helping to provide insights into life in the shadow of a killer disease.

Hannah Mawdsley, who is researching the documents at the Imperial War Museum, describes the letters as a "precious window into the human experience of the pandemic", which killed more than 250,000 people in Britain and as many as 100 million globally.

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Bequeathed to the museum by historian and journalist Richard Collier, the collection was amassed in the 1970s and is comprised of about 1,700 accounts of those who witnessed the pandemic first hand.

You can see the numbers of people who died in Carlisle here:

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There are still some limited power cuts across the county following Storm Ali

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Image source, Electricity North West

"No-one took charge" during the timetable chaos that caused severe disruption on Britain's railways in May, a regulator has said.

Passengers in Cumbria were particularly hard-hit by delays and cancellations after the rail industry attempted to introduce the biggest timetable change in a generation,

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) blamed a lack of "responsibility and accountability" for the problems and said passengers were "badly treated".

It said track manager Network Rail, two train operators and the Department for Transport "had all made mistakes".

The upgrade - which involved changes to 46% of train times - mainly affected Northern Trains in the north west of England and Govia Thameslink (GTR) routes into London.

Image source, Stephen Pimlott

This morning will be mostly dry with variable cloud, sunny spells and just the odd shower.

Heavy and persistent rain moving in from the south during the afternoon.

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Martin Lewes
Reporter

Good morning.

Stay with us through the day for the latest updates, a regular weather forecast, sport, travel and a close eye on the Storm Ali clean up.

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Lee Macaulay
Journalist, BBC Cumbria

Our updates have come to end for today but any major breaking news or travel reports will be here through the night.

Here's a reminder of today's main developments:

• Storm Ali caused widespread travel disruption across Cumbria;
• Train services were cancelled or suspended on many Cumbrian railway lines;
• The M6 was closed Northbound for a time between J43 and J44 because of an overturned HGV near Carlisle;
• A Cumbrian highways officer who was paralysed after being struck by a distracted driver joined calls for people to stop using their mobile phone behind the wheel;

We'll be back from 08:00 tomorrow.

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Have a good evening.