The woman, in her 30s, was attacked near the Co-operative store in Carlisle on Friday.

• Temperature at 3000 ft: -2C to -1C (28 to 30F)
• Winds: A calm day with gentle or light north to north-easterly breezes.
• Cloud: Early mist, fog and low cloud early this morning will have bases around 600 to 1000ft (200 to 300m). As mist and fog clear this morning cloud bases will generally lift above the summits and skies will clear.
• Weather: As mist and hill fog clears the day will be dry and calm, and the afternoon should see plenty of crisp sunshine. It will be quite chilly however. In the late afternoon some cloud will build in from the north-east.
• Visibility: Poor at first with mist and fog, but becoming good or very good towards afternoon as cloud breaks up. Poor visibility however for any misty patches lingering for some eastern fells.

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Ash Hunter spoils Barrow fans' Holker Street homecoming as he scores the only goal to earn victory for Salford.

Rhys Bennett's second-half sees high-flying Carlisle edge a 1-0 League Two victory that sees struggling Bradford slip into the bottom two.

Police are appealing for information after the woman was attacked on Friday.

New bridges and sections of path are in place on the "vital" route following a £7.9m scheme.

New bridges and sections of path are in place on the "vital" route following a £7.9m scheme.

Daniel Holland
Local Democracy Reporter

Covid-19 vaccines will be rolled out across the North East and Cumbria and people could be seen at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary from next week, it has emerged.

According to an NHS presentation seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the hospital will be among the first in the country to be used as a vaccine hub, after the UK approved the use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday.

Middlesbrough’s James Cook Hospital is named as a site to deliver the vaccine in the first week of the roll-out, with North Tyneside General Hospital and the Freeman Hospital in the second week.

The NHS presentation also lists Whitehaven or Carlisle as a hub in week one of the process.

Image source, NHS

A report by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chief executive, Dame Jackie Daniel, said: “In October, Newcastle Hospitals was appointed as the lead provider for the development and provision of a Covid-19 Vaccine Hub for the North East and North Cumbria.

“A multi-professional and multi-agency programme team has been brought together to plan how a vaccination programme will work for the region, and is doing so working closely with partners from across the Integrated Care System.”

People in care homes, along with the staff who work in them, are expected to be among the first to receive the jabs.

Health and social care workers and adults who are extremely vulnerable due to health conditions are also a high priority.

Charles Hanson completes an 86-mile charity walk in the 86 days leading up to his 86th birthday.

The government has increased the size of the Marine Protection Area by thousands of hectares.

These photos show supporters heading back to stadiums in England for the first time since March.

Carlisle United director of football David Holdsworth is charged with misconduct by the FA after allegedly abusing a match official following his side's FA Cup fixture against Doncaster on Saturday.

Supporters return to Carlisle as a crowd of 2,000 see Chris Beech's side beat Salford City.

Business owners say contradictory government guidance means they did not know when they could reopen.

Morecambe are made to battle all the way to take the points as they beat 10-man Barrow 1-0 in League Two.

A woman from Ulverston who gave up her job to keep her mother's foster family together has been named as Cumbria's Foster Carer of the Year.

Stephanie Lane, 35, grew up with her mum working as a foster carer from the age of 11.

When her mum Janet died last year, Stephanie trained as a carer so she could keep the three children her mum has fostered since they were young together in the home they'd always known.

Image source, Cumbria County Council

The Calvert Trust offers outdoor experiences to people with physical and learning difficulties.

• Temperature at 3000 ft: Around -1C (30F), rising to 1 or 2C (34 to 36F) this afternoon.
• Winds: North, backing north-west, moderate to fresh, with gusts of 20-30 mph.
• Cloud: Cloud bases above the summits, but will tend to lower to around 2300ft (700m) towards sunset, especially across the north-western Lakes.
• Weather: Any sunshine will soon give way to cloud moving in from the west. This may bring a few spots of rain in the afternoon, as it tends to thicken and lower. There's the chance of the odd brighter spell later in the afternoon towards sunset.
• Visibility: Very good or excellent, but becoming poor on the higher peaks towards dusk, as the cloud lowers

Debenhams stores are set to close, the BBC understands, following the failure of last-ditch efforts to rescue the ailing department store chain.

It means all 12,000 employees are likely to lose their jobs when the chain's 124 shops cease trading.

In Cumbria there are branches in Barrow, Carlisle and Workington.

The jobs are set to go over the coming months unless the administrators do a deal for all or parts of the business as the process unfolds.