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It will stay dry and calm this evening and overnight, with patches of mist, fog and low cloud developing
Fog may become quite dense in places with lowest temperatures from 5C to 8C (41F to 46F).
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The organisation that runs services such as planning in the Lake District national park says it's cut its spending by £1.3m by reorganising departments and having some redundancies.
Image source, LDNPAThe cuts are equivalent to more than 10% of the authority's annual budget of just under £11m a year, with a number of voluntary redundancies still being agreed and fewer than 10 compulsory job losses.
Six new posts have been opened, and several apprentices hired.
Management overheads have been reduced, and the various services that look after visitors, maintain footpaths and oversee lakes and landholdings have been reorganised with some opening hours cut back.
Quote MessageThe coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted the vital funding which we rely on to look after the park, so we were left with no alternative than to review every part of the organisation to help secure its future."
Richard leafe, Chief executive, Lake District National Park Authority.
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The leader of Cumbria County Council says, external the county "will get through" the second national lockdown by working together.
Image source, News and StarHospitals serving Cumbria are coming under increasing pressure from the numbers of coronavirus patients, with 159 people now being treated for the infection, according to the county's public health officials.
Image source, AFPThe latest report from the director of public health, external, Colin Cox, says that although the number of infections fell over the past week in Barrow, Carlisle and Eden, increases in the rest of the county saw the rate rise overall and there were 11 deaths registered in the week ended 23 October.
He said it would take two weeks for the effects of the lockdown to start showing, but if everyone stuck to the rules there was the chance of reducing infections.
Molly Brewer
Reporter
Flt Lt John Nicoll, who lives in Wetheral near Carlisle, a decorated RAF pilot in World War Two, celebrates his 100th birthday today.
Flt Lt Nicoll, who was known as Freddie, flew Hurricanes in North Africa and Italy, winning decorations including the Distinguished Flying Cross (with the blue and white ribbon).
Quote MessageYou had to fly within about 200 yards of the target and get out of the way of the explosion, it really was a dangerous job."
Freddie Nicolls
He was honoured with a Spitfire flypast, and says the uncertainties of Covid-19 have some similarities with wartime.
Quote MessageWe were subject to flying bombs ... and you couldn't see them coming, well, you can't see the virus coming, you don't know from one week to the other where you are going to be or what's going to happen to you."
Freddie Nicolls
It will be dry and calm this afternoon, but with mostly cloudy skies.
Temperatures will be around average for the time of year, from 8C to 11C (46F to 52F).
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Two drug addicts who savagely attacked a teenager three times in just over an hour, leaving her unconscious in the street, have been jailed by a Carlisle Crown Court judge.
Richard Musgrave, 42, and 32-year-old Stacey Louise Nicholson, of Fountains Avenue, Workington, had taken drugs with the 18-year-old, but when she tried to return to recover a purse and banged on the door, they assaulted her.
Image source, Cumbria PoliceThe court saw CCTV footage showing her being kicked, punched and beaten with a crutch, with injuries so severe she was in hospital for a fortnight, including three days in an induced coma.
Musgrave pleaded guilty to assaults causing actual and grievous bodily harm, while Nicholson admitted two charges of causing actual bodily harm.
Musgrave was jailed for four years, and Nicholson for six months, Judge Nicholas Barker saying their victim had been treated "like a rag doll".
Temperature at 3,000ft (900m): Around 4C (40F)
Winds: Northwest to west 15mph to 20mph with a few gusts to 30 mph in the morning
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) in the afternoon
Weather: Cloudy with a few sunny spells
Visibility: Good or very good below 1300 ft(400m) in the morning and below 2,000ft (600m) in the afternoon
Two new schools are to be built in Barrow and Carlisle to provide education for children who cannot attend mainstream establishments because of their social, emotional or mental health requirements.
Officials say the number of youngsters requiring this type of education has increased, particularly in the Carlisle and Barrow areas.
There will be space for 40 pupils at each school, and £5m is being spent on new buildings at Channelside in Barrow, as we reported earlier this week, and in Harraby in Carlisle, as long as planning permission is granted.
It's hoped the school in Carlisle will open in late 2021 and the Barrow school in 2022.
The boss of the Lake District's busiest tourist attraction has been appointed to a national council advising ministers on the industry's needs.
Image source, Windermere Lake CruisesNigel Wilkinson, who is managing director of Windermere Lake Cruises, is one of more than 20 business people who represent sectors such as visitor accommodation, aviation and attractions to ministers on the Tourism Industry Council.
He said after his first meeting: “While speaking for the whole industry nationwide, I’m using my position to stress the critical importance of the visitor economy to Cumbria, and raising awareness of the challenges we all face."
It will be dry and calm today, but with mostly cloudy skies.
Temperatures around average for the time of year, reaching 11C (52F)
And it'll stay dry this evening and overnight, with patches of mist, fog and low cloud developing.
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The man in charge of looking into whether an underground nuclear waste store could be built beneath West Cumbria has been explaining more about the idea.
Copeland has always backed the scheme, not least because most of Britain's high level waste is already stored at Sellafield, but earlier plans to build what was called "a repository" were scrapped in 2013 after Cumbria County Council withdrew support.
Image source, Copeland BCMark Cullinan is the chairman of the group in Copeland working to see if there are any communities in the area who live over the right sort of geology and would be happy to live near such a development, and he says he wants to hear from those in favour and those against.
Quote MessageIt will need to be a combination of an area which can be satisfied as being absolutely safe and with a community that is willing to have it, so it's those two objectives that need to be met.
Quote MessageWe also want to provide people with as much information as we can, so come and talk to us, and once the lockdown is out of the way we will be happy to go and talk to people in places and at times that suit them."
Mark Cullinan
BBC Cumbria Sport
Barrow manager David Dunn says his side "struggled to get going" in their 1-0 defeat to Grimsby last night.
The Bluebirds had been hoping to secure their third consecutive win, but Dunn says a busy fixture schedule has left his players feeling tired.
Quote MessageFatigue sometimes makes players make poor decisions on the ball, three games in a week, some of our players struggled with that a little bit."
David Dunn
BBC Cumbria Sport
Carlisle United's manager has praised the side's "energy and intelligence" after a 3-2 win over league-leaders Newport last night.
Chris Beech said Carlisle could have scored even more goals, and he wishes fans had been in the grounds to see the win.
Image source, Huw Evans Picture AgencyQuote MessageWhat a lift we would have tonight if they were cheering us off that pitch, beating league leaders, I know they'd be right behind us."
Chris Beech
Cumbria is again involved in a search to find a site for Britain's radioactive waste.
Most of the country's waste is stored at Sellafield, and it is national policy that an underground store, known as a Geological Disposal Facility, will be built.
Image source, Copeland Borough CouncilPrevious proposals for a store were abandoned seven years ago after Cumbria County Council voted against it.
Copeland council has now put proposals for a way forward online, external, with some decisions, such as excluding the Lake District National Park built in, for local people to discuss,
David Moore,the Conservative deputy mayor of Copeland and in charge of nuclear matters for the borough council, says community involvement is the key to the latest proposals.
Quote MessageLast time it was about councils making decisions, this time it's about communities, and if those communities are not interested in moving forward to give more research into this, that's where it stops."
David Moore
Two speed cameras installed in Cumbria earlier this year after local communities said they were worried about speeding have caught 1,300 drivers between them.
One on the Wigton bypass clocked vehicles passing at 90mph when the limit is 50mph, while another in the middle of Longtown registered speeders at 60mph, double the limit in force.
Image source, Cumbria policePolice say there has been a slight reduction in the number of drivers being caught in the past few months.
The Cumbria Road Safety Partnership, which includes police and local authorities and controls both fixed and mobile cameras, said: “Safety cameras, whether they be fixed or mounted in vans, provide an effective deterrent to speeding, which is a common factor in the deaths and serious injuries witnessed on our roads.”
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Read MoreTourism businesses in Cumbria are hoping they can get more help from government after a meeting with the tourism minister Nigel Huddleston yesterday.
At the meeting, organised by the Westmorland and Lonsdale Lib Dem MP Tim Farron, Gill Haigh said fewer than half the county's tourism businesses were confident of surviving the next six months, and asked for the furlough scheme to be extended through to next spring, with more financial support.
Afterwards Mr Farron said the minister had agreed to discuss with the Treasury whether more support could be given.
Cumbria's chief constable, Michelle Skeer, is one of five in the North West to sign an open letter making it clear that the police will target people who break the lockdown rules.
Image source, Cumbria PoliceThe police chiefs say they will seek support from the Government and the judiciary, to consider how those who ignore coronavirus-related fines can be brought to justice quickly.
They say they will concentrate on people who organise large gatherings and music events, repeatedly hold parties or deliberately refuse to self-isolate.
The chief constables say that so far they have only issued fines as a last resort, preferring to "engage, explain and encourage", but they say a minority of people across the North West seem incapable of complying with the regulations.
Quote MessageWe know how hard this is, but we need to maintain that shared purpose we had in the first lockdown to defeat the virus and, ultimately, save lives."
Letter from chief constables
A plan to help the economy around the Morecambe Bay area, external to recover from the effects of Covid-19 has been produced.
Representatives from three local councils, Barrow, South Lakeland and Lancaster, have written to the Chancellor asking him to back their plans with funding over the next two years.
Suggestions include making the most of the area's potential to develop wind, solar, hydrogen, nuclear and marine technologies.
There's also suggestions for the agriculture industry, better health services, good quality housing and new jobs.
Image source, Lancaster City Council