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Carlisle United midfielder Brennan Dickenson contracted Coronavirus while getting treatment for his hamstring injury at the national football centre, at St Georges Park.

It's an added setback for the 27 year-old, who's been injured since his summer move to the club, and for the United head coach Chris Beech.

Police Federation representatives in Cumbria say officers will see a pay freeze, being proposed by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, as a "'betrayal"

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Jamie McTear, secretary of the Cumbria branch, said: “After being praised by the Government for their hard work over the past nine months, for public sector workers to hear the news of a pay freeze is a shocking way to repay that commitment.”

He said officers had seen an increase in assaults, with some attackers using the threat of Covid-19 and spitting.

One of BBC Radio Cumbria's most experienced journalists is working his final day before retiring.

Martin Lewes, seen here at the Westmorland County Show, started working for the BBC in Cumbria in 1988, and reported on events including a major strike at what was then the VSEL shipyard in Barrow, the Lockerbie atrocity, and the foot and mouth epidemic.

For most of his career he was BBC Radio Cumbria's reporter in Kendal, where he covered both local and national news within 20 miles or so of the town, a job he describes as "being paid to drive around the Lake District talking to interesting people".

He worked on two assignments training journalists from former communist dictatorships in Russia and Bosnia, and for the past five years has been the writer for this news feed.

The leading Cumbrian local politician James Airey has announced he is retiring from politics to work for the National Union of Farmers.

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Councillor Airey served on the county, district and Ulverston town councils, and fought the Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency for a seat in Parliament at the last election.

Politicians, including from political parties, were quick with best wishes.

BBC Weather

This afternoon will be mostly dull, damp and misty with rain and drizzle at times.

However, the rain will become patchy and light later on, with a brisk south-westerly breeze and highest temperatures from 9C to 12C (48F to 54F).

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

The lungwort was transplanted by hand in a bid to preserve it.

• Temperature at 3,000ft: Around 6C to 7C (43F 45F)
• Winds: South-westerly in the morning veering to westerly in the afternoon, with gusts to 55 mph on eastern fells, gusts to 45 mph on western fells
• Cloud: Extensive cover with bases around 1,000ft to 1,640ft (300m to 500m) for much of the day
• Weather: Cloudy with spells of rain, heavy at times in the morning, with a few lingering showers in the afternoon
• Visibility: Poor or very poor in low cloud and rain in the morning then increasing to moderate below 1,600ft (500m) later in the afternoon

Image source, Joe Hewer

This photo of Bassenthwaite is nothing like today's weather forecast, but it is a stunning view from Barrow Fell, from one of our most regular contributors, Joe Hewer.

Our thanks to him, and if you have a photo you think might be worth sharing, you can email it to us or send it via Twitter, external.

A very rare lichen with one of its last strongholds on an oak in the Lake District is going to be carefully transplanted after the tree was blown down.

Image source, Stewart Walker/National Trust

April Windle (pictured), one of the specialist staff lifting the lichen to replant it on dozens of trees in the valley, said: “Lichens are such amazing lifeforms and play such a fundamental role within these woods."

The lungwort used to be widespread, but because of air pollution and other changes it is now only found in a few places in Britain, external.

It was feared the lichen would be lost if the tree was allowed to rot and the operation is the largest translocation, as it's called, ever carried out for the species.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A system meaning drivers complaining about potholes to Cumbria's highways engineers sometimes have their message bounced back saying they are contacting the wrong agency is being reviewed to make it less complicated, a meeting in Barrow was told.

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Councillor Ben Shirley, told a meeting of Cumbria County Council’s Barrow local committee that one resident reporting a hole was told that it was for Highways England to repair that one and not the council.

Angela Jones, a county council director, said everyone was dissatisfied with the current system of automated responses: "We hope the new system will direct the public straight to the right department so they do not have to keep going back and forth all the time with the same complaint.”

• The budget to fix potholes in Barrow for the next year will be £742,015.

BBC Weather

Today will be cloudy and wet, but much of the rain will be light.

The rain will turn increasingly light and patchy this afternoon.

Temperatures between 9C to 11C (48F to 52F).

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

The fashion chains Peacocks and Jaeger, the surviving parts of the Carlisle-based EWM Group, have gone into administration, putting nearly 5,000 jobs and 500 shops at risk.

The other two chains owned by EWM Group, Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home, went into administration 12 days ago.

Image source, Getty Images

BBC Weather

This evening will be dry and cold with clear spells for a time, before it turns cloudier from the west overnight with spots of rain arriving before dawn.

There will be gentle winds, becoming moderate later on and lowest temperatures early in the night from -2C to 1C (28F to 34F).

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

People in Copeland will get the chance to rent electric scooters to see if they can be used for local transport.

A hire company called Ginger, external is working with Copeland Council to place 15 of the e-scooters, possibly rising to 80, around the borough for people to hire for short trips for which they might otherwise use a car.

Image source, AFP

The scooters are used in a number of cities around the world, like the one pictured in Los Angeles, but will be illegal in the UK while trials are running.

Those in Copeland will be limited to 15 miles an hour, limited to certain areas by technology called "geofencing", and insured by the hire company, and users will need the sort of driving licence allowing someone to ride a low-powered motorcycle, external

Hospital serving Cumbria are under intense pressure as the number of patients suffering from Covid-19 increase, according to the county's director of public health.

Dr Cox said the increase in the number of cases appeared to be tailing off a bit, with all parts of the county now showing infection rates of between 188 and 224 per 100,000 population, below the England average of 274 per 100,000 population.

But he said there were now 93 patients in north Cumbrian hospitals and 161 in the Morecambe Bay area.

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Passers-by who helped when a woman was robbed of her purse in Lowther Street, Carlisle, have been thanked by police.

The woman was slightly hurt in the incident at about 15:00 on Monday.

Image source, Cumbria Police

Officers say a man has been charged and will appear at Carlisle Crown Court on 18 December.

Cumbria's public health department, which traces many coronavirus contacts, has been trying to join a partnership with the government's test and trace system for three months, and is only now close to succeeding, BBC Cumbria has been told.

Earlier, one of Cumbria's MPs said many people in the county were finding themselves unable to claim a £500 payment to cover 14 days' isolation, because they had been told to go into quarantine by local tracers or the NHS App, and not the national call centre.

The Department of Health responded that part of the problem was that the Cumbria contact tracing system, which has been widely praised, was not in the required partnership with the national system.

A county council spokesperson said: "We are still trying to move this forward with the national Test and Trace system but we stand ready to implement this as soon as we’re given access to CTAS (the database of people who have tested positive) – we have the capacity in place and could start essentially immediately."

BBC Weather

This afternoon will have periods of sunshine with an easing north-westerly breeze and temperatures from 5C to 8C (41F to 46F).

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

Cumbria's firefighters have been credited with helping hundreds of potential stroke victims while on safety visits to check on vulnerable people, external, by checking for a symptom of irregular heart rhythms as well as testing the smoke alarms.

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The fire and rescue service sends its staff on what are called "safe and well" visits, where as well as checking for fire risks and advising on smoke alarms, members of the team look at various other issues such as smoking cessation and falls.

Now they also carry a device to check pulse rates which can pick up the signs that someone is at risk of strokes, and it's estimated that have detected 850 people at risk, and saved 215 lives.

Their success has been recognised by a special feature in Atrial Fibrillation Association publication, the Healthcare Pioneers Report.

New Government figures show that house prices in Cumbria are not increasing in line with the national average, with three of the county's six districts seeing prices fall year on year.

The figures, from Land Registry returns, show that in September, across England the average house price rose by almost 5%compared to 12 months before.

In the county, only South Lakeland was comparable, and has Cumbria's highest average price of just over a £250,000.

In Barrow borough homes were up 2.4% but from the lowest average price in Cumbria, Carlisle had a smaller rise, Copeland saw a marginal fall, and Allerdale was down 1%.

The biggest drop was Eden, where average prices fell by 1.3% year on year.

• Temperature at 3,000ft (900m): -2C to -1C (28F to 30F)
• Winds: Brisk north-westerly with gusts to 35mph on eastern fells and 25mph on western fells
• Cloud: Bases well above summits.
• Weather: A fine day with clear skies and sunshine throughout, but it will be cold and breezes will add a significant chill factor, especially on hills and summits
• Visibility: Very good throughout the day
• Freezing level: Around 1,600ft (500m)