Connor Brown scores his first goal for more than a year as Barrow beat 10-man Bradford to record back-to-back wins.

The new rules came into force at midnight, just hours after they were first announced.

Tom Parkes scores against his former club as Exeter edge out 10-man Carlisle United at St James Park.

The government is accused of causing "chaos" with an announcement which took Carlisle by surprise.

A man in his 60s was cut from the wreckage by firefighters after a Citroen Berlingo and a Range Rover Evoque collided on Wandales Lane in Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale.

He was taken by ambulance to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and treated for what police say were minor injuries. The accident happened just before noon yesterday.

One of Cumbria's Labour peers says it is right to suspend the former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from the party.

Mr Corbyn had reacted to a damning report on Labour's handing of anti-Semitism allegations under his leadership by saying that it was exaggerated by the party's enemies.

Lord Clark, who was as David Clark a senior Labour MP and front bench spokesman, said Mr Corbyn should simply have said he was sorry and supported Kier Starmer, the current leader.

The furlough scheme, which has supported 78,000 jobs in Cumbria during the coronavirus pandemic, comes to an end this weekend.

It will be replaced by the less generous Job Support Scheme, although business leaders say it is significantly better than the first version announced by the government.

Dan Visser, the vice-chairman of Cumbria Tourism, says it's going to be a challenging time for the industry that employs around 65,000 people.

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A new suite of scanners is being installed at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, with the size of some of the equipment making the task quite a challenge.

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A CT scanner was carefully threaded through doors and corridors, a window will have to be removed to bring in an MRI scanner, and ventilation and cooling units were lifted over the building by a huge crane.

The £8m project will mean in-patients and outpatients no longer have to mix in the same unit, and give more capacity overall, with more radiographers being hired to operate the services.

Part of the new development will open later this year, and the rest should follow in spring next year.

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it will be dry this evening, but cloud and rain will return from the south overnight, with lowest temperatures from 3C to 6C (37F to 43F)

Some of the rain will be heavy and the winds will be very strong, and the Met Office has posted severe weather warnings, external for both.

There are continuing Met Office yellow weather warnings, external for heavy rain on Sunday though to early Monday.

The detailed BBC wather warning for where you are can be found by searching for your location here.

A debt-ridden man who was put to work as the gardener at a sophisticated cannabis factory inside a semi-detached home on a Whitehaven housing estate has been jailed for 15 months.

Police who raided the house in the Woodhouse area found large quantities of cannabis growing both in the living room and three bedrooms, ultraviolent lights and extractor fans, and windows were covered by thick blackout curtains and plastic sheeting.

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Ervin Nurka, 39, of no fixed address, was found at the house and arrested, and mobile phones and £300 cash were also recovered.

Nurka, of no fixed address, admitted producing the class B drug and although he initially claimed to have been a victim of modern slavery after entering the UK illegally at the start of 2020, he accepted acting as a gardener “with a degree of independence”.

It comes amid calls from some scientists to introduce a strict national lockdown in England.

The announcement, with less than 12 hours to go, that Carlisle is to be moved from tier one coronavirus regulations to tier two high risk, took a number of those involved by surprise, among them the leader of Cumbria County Council.

The news first emerged through the county's Chamber of Commerce, where staff noticed the city's name on a government list.

Rob Johnston, the chief executive of the chamber, said there were still uncertainties, adding: "It's about par for the course for this isn't, it, if you go on the government website and the information we've got it's from midnight tonight, but other parts of the government website don't say when it's going to happen, it really doesn't help, does it?"

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Carlisle head coach Chris Beech says he doesn't want to make predictions about where United should finish this season, despite his side being fourth in League Two going into their 10th game of the season.

United go to Exeter tomorrow on a six-game unbeaten run, but Beech says he is not yet ready to talk about promotion.

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Bradley Tomes was arrested in Nottinghamshire when the buyer of the penguins raised the alarm.

Carlisle will go under the tighter restrictions of tier two high risk coronavirus regulations from midnight tonight, the government says.

The city recorded 262 new cases in the week to Monday, giving an infection rate of 241 cases per 100,000 people, against the English average of 225.

If there are specific conditions for Carlisle, we will have them later.

Police have released a CCTV picture of a man they say they want to contact after a convenience store in Workington was robbed at knifepoint.

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Two staff in the shop were threatened, but not injured, in the attack at 23:00 on Wednesday evening at McColls on Harrington Road.

Det Con James Graham said: "We would advise the public not to approach this person if spotted and instead contact the police."

The Met Office has posted a yellow weather warning for high winds , externalfor tomorrow, covering the whole of the west of Britain including Cumbria.

It says winds could gust to 65mph, and possibly higher on exposed coasts and hills.

The yellow warning for Sunday, external, for heavy rain, has also been extended through to 06:00 on Monday morning.

BBC Weather

Cloud will clear to the south early this afternoon, allowing for some hazy sunshine to develop.

It will be mild, and winds will ease, with highest temperatures from 11C to 14C (52F to 57F).

The weather warning for today has been lifted, and those for the weekend have been updated, external.

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

A flood warning has been posted for Keswick campsite, as Derwentwater rose after yesterday's rain.

The lower level of flood alert now covers the areas of the Upper Derwent and the Rivers Rothay, Brathay and Winster in the southern Lake District.

More warnings are likely with heavy rain forecast for the weekend and you can see them all here, external.

BBC Weather

This morning will see patchy cloud and a few spots of rain, but cloud will clear to the south by this afternoon.

It will be mild, and winds will ease, with highest temperatures from 10C to 13C (50F to 55F).

The rain returns tonight with a vengeance and Met Office yellow warnings are posted, external for heavy rain with the risk of flooding over the two days.

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