Cumbrian Conservative MP Rory Stewart has hit out at his former colleague George Osborne, who now edits the Evening Standard newspaper.

Speaking on the BBC's Politics Live programme, the MP for Penrith and the Border and Justice Minister, criticised the paper's front page with its headline "EU Takes Back Control".

Mr Stewart said: "He's fantasising that by doing this he's going bring people back into the European Union and it's a really crazy gamble."

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Councillors will be asked to spend £20,000 to try and prevent homes in Grange-over-Sands being washed out at Christmas.

The Windermere Road area has flooded for years. Last month it happened again during Storm Callum, the third storm of 2018/19.

Image source, Bay Home Care Ltd

Some families had just returned to renovated properties having been flooded out by Storm Desmond in December 2015.

The county council has warned that long range weather forecasts have suggested a spell of very "significant" wet weather is due in the run-up to the festive period.

It wants to put in place some quick fixes for Windermere Road, that could include placing cameras down culverts, and measures to divert water.

Image source, Dave Wheatcroft

According to the regional water company United Utilities, the long term answer could require a package of measures costing £1.4m.

The council's South Lakeland Committee will meet on Monday to decide whether to approve the spending.

Neil Smith
South Cumbria journalist, BBC Cumbria

A decision is expected today about the future of the closed swimming pool in Millom, which campaigners say should be reopened until a new pool can be built.

Millom pool has been closed for more than a year for "safety reasons".

Image source, Save Millom Pool

Earlier this year the Save Millom Pool group won a stay of execution from Cumbria County Council for 12 months, but three months later the authority, which owns the pool, announced it was seeking demolition after all.

Image source, Save Millom Pool

The campaigners say they're hugely disappointed that Cumbria County Council won't allow them to speak at today's meeting.

They argue the county cannot demolish a building it has allowed to decay. The county says it invested £30,000 in the pool in its last four years of operation.

Frank Lee, 81, was knocked off his electric bike when he was clipped by Andrew Lanham's wing mirror.

The National Farmers' Union says rural Britain is being "massively held back" by poor broadband and digital connectivity.

Its president Minette Batters has been giving evidence to a parliamentary committee.

Image source, NFU/Adam Fradgley

She said 98% of farmers own a mobile phone, but only 16% get a reliable mobile signal.

A man whose careless driving killed a cyclist in Cumbria has been sent to prison.

Frank Lee was knocked off his electric bike in February last year, as Andrew Lanham (pictured) overtook a group of cyclists on a narrow single-track road between Matterdale and Greystoke.

The 81-year-old, who was wearing a helmet, died just over six months later from complications that arose from his multiple serious injuries.

Image source, Craig McGlasson

At Carlisle Crown Court, Lanham, 72, was acquitted of causing death by dangerous driving, but convicted of causing death by careless driving.

The retired tree surgeon had told jurors he thought it was safe to overtake, but accepted in evidence: "I think it was an error of judgement." He also expressed "sincere remorse".

He was given a 12 month prison sentence, and banned from driving for 18 months.

Concern is growing about the number of children in Cumbria believed to be at risk of neglect.

Government figures show that nearly 300 young people in the county are being monitored and schoolchildren are now being taught how to spot the signs of abuse.

Image source, Chris Wilkins

Representatives from the children's charity, the NSPCC, external, are visiting every school, holding sessions like this one at St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School in Carlisle, external, to encourage children to speak out about their suspicions and fears.

Bobby was injecting heroin and crack cocaine up to six times a day. He's spoken to the BBC about what made him turn his life around.

The company running the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria says nobody working on its Thorp facility, which has taken on its final batch of fuel, will lose their job.

It's the end of an era in west Cumbria, where the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing plant was set up 24 years ago as a commercial enterprise.

It dealt with used fuel rods from around the world, extracting new nuclear fuel.

The plant will operate until the 2070s as a storehouse for spent fuel as the site is cleaned up.

Temperatures at 3,000ft: About 6C

Winds: Gale force southerly gusting 60mph over the summits at first otherwise strong gusting 45mph

Cloud: Cloud base mostly between 300 and 450m (1,000-1,500ft)

Visibility: Moderate to poor in the morning, improving at lower levels later

Freezing level: Well above the summits

Children in schools across Cumbria are taking part in sessions to help them to identify signs of abuse and speak out about them.

The latest government figures show 281 children in the county are being monitored on child protection plans because of fears they are at risk of neglect.

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The lessons are being delivered by the charity the NSPCC, external. Its school coordinator says this is key to identifying those at risk.

A mild but blustery day today with a lot of cloud this morning and outbreaks of rain. The rain could be heavy at times across Cumbria this morning but will gradually die out through the day.

Some bright or sunny spells will spread from the southeast later. Fresh to strong southerly winds and a maximum temperature of 14C (57F).

Martin Lewes
Reporter

Cumbria's huge Sellafield plant has ended its role as a commercial reprocessor of spent nuclear fuel for the rest of the world, with the last batch entering the Thorp building this week.

Image source, Sellafield Ltd

The huge Thermal Oxide Reprocessing plant cost £1.8bn to build, opened in 1994, and is said to have earned £9bn by extracting new nuclear fuel from 9,000 tonnes of used fuel rods.

It was Sellafield's most controversial process, with the radioactive materials shipped around the world and the Cumbrian coast dubbed a nuclear dustbin.

Now Thorp will become a storehouse for spent fuel as the site is cleaned up around it over the next 100 years.

Frank Lee died after he was knocked from his bike by an overtaking car driven by Andrew Paul Lanham.

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We've now stepped aside to let the software post any breaking news or travel reports overnight. Here's a reminder of some of today's developments:

• In Coniston the word was that dates were being set for the return of Donald Campbell's boat, Bluebird, although the man who led the restoration of the vessel said the announcement was "irresponsible"
• A social club in Wigton lost its licence after police said it had become a place where thugs and criminals "played out their petty feuds"
• And one of Carlisle's regular city centre buskers had a lucky escape when a tree suddenly fell over.

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A motorist has been found guilty of causing the death of an elderly cyclist by careless driving.

Andrew Lanham, 71, had denied charges of causing the death of 81-year-old Frank Lee by either dangerous or careless driving, but was convicted of the latter by a jury following a trial at Carlisle Crown Court.

They heard Mr Lee was riding with a Keswick-based cycling group on a narrow road between Greystoke and Matterdale when Lanham, from Penruddock, near Penrith, drove past in his Ford Focus on 28 February.

Mr Lee was knocked off his electric bike when he was clipped by the car's wing mirror and suffered numerous injuries. He died 198 days later, on 14 September.

Lanham, who told the court he thought it had been safe to overtake, will be sentenced tomorrow.

One Cumbrian council has seen its income from parking penalties rise steeply after keeping its traffic wardens on patrol up to 20:00.

From April to September 2017, Allerdale parking fines amounted to £16,368 while for the same period this year it was £43,498. That's an increase of about £27,000.

A spokeswoman said: "The aim is to not only ensure that the parking fees are observed but also that there is a turnaround of spaces at busy times, and to be fair on everyone using our car parks especially those who have paid."