Summary

  • Met Office warns of 'very dangerous' freezing rain

  • Lakes festival founder called in to help set up USA event

  • Yard boss calls for investment in Barrow to stop town's population dwindling

  • Brexit 'could hit nuclear industry'

Live Reporting

  1. Barrow beat Stags to record first EFL win in 17,720 days

    BBC Cumbria Sport

    In case you missed it, Barrow recorded their first football league victory in 48 years last night, beating Mansfield 4-2 at Field Mill.

    Goals from Brad Barry, Patrick Brough (pictured), Josh Kay and a first goal for on-loan midfielder Harrison Biggins helped them to the first win under David Dunn since his appointment in July.

    It cost Mansfield manager Graham Coughlan his job.

    Players celebratingGetty Images

  2. Weather on the fells: Strong winds, low cloud and showers

    • Temperature at 3,000ft (900m): around 4C to 5C (39F to 41F)
    • Winds: Strong south-westerly with gusts up to 50mph
    • Cloud: Mostly cloudy with bases around 1,000ft to 1,600ft (300m to 500m)
    • Weather: It is set to be largely cloudy with showers developing throughout the day, occasionally heavy
    • Visibility: Poor above the cloud bases, generally good in the valleys, but poor during showers
    Herdwick in autumn valleyJoe Hewer

    The autumn colours are at their best in the Lake District at the moment, and our thanks to Joe Hewer for sending in this photo of the duty Herdwick keeping watch over Borrowdale.

  3. Cumbria's weather: Cool and blustery with showers

    BBC Weather

    It will be a cool and blustery day today, with a brisk southwesterly wind and showers throughout.

    Highest temperatures will be from 8C to 11C (46F to 52F).

    Weather graphic

    The Met Office is continuing to warn of the risk of flooding tomorrow and Friday, with a yellow warning for heavy rain.

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

  4. Carlisle beat Morecambe 3-1

    BBC Sport

    Depleted Morecambe were put to the sword as they failed to recover from an opening salvo which laid the foundations for a 3-1 Carlisle win in League Two.

    They got off to a nightmare start when the unfortunate Yann Songo'o sliced an attempted clearance into his own net with just 23 seconds gone, and midfielder Jon Mellish netted the Cumbrians' second just two minutes later when he bagged his sixth goal in seven October games.

    It was worrying stuff for Morecambe, who had shipped a hefty 16 goals in the league prior to kick-off.

    But they settled and Songo'o redeemed himself with a headed goal with 11 minutes left.

    However, any thoughts of a fightback were quashed when George Tanner sprinted into the area to bury a superb strike to restore the two-goal cushion three minutes from time.

  5. Mansfield Town 2-4 Barrow

    Manager Graham Coughlan is sacked after Mansfield lose against Barrow in League Two to extend their winless run to 12 games.

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  6. Carlisle United 3-1 Morecambe

    Carlisle United continue their bright start to the League Two season with victory over a depleted Morecambe.

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  7. Cumbria's weather: Clear periods and showers

    BBC Weather

    Tonight will see lengthy clear periods but with the chance of a shower or two.

    Winds will strengthen in the early hours with a growing risk of showers, and lowest temperatures will be from 2C to 5C (36F to 41F).

    Weather graphic

    The Met Office says up to 150mm (6in) of rain could fall on Cumbrian felltops in the 36 hours from noon on Thursday to midnight on Friday, and forecasters have issued a yellow weather warning.

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

  8. A nose for the job: Water company uses dogs to find leaks

    The water company United Utilities has started using dogs to sniff out leaking pipes.

    Like Jones and Kilo

    This is Luke Jones and Kilo scouring a field in Cumbria for the smell of chlorine, an element found in domestic water supplies, but not in nature.

    In open country, the water could just be lost in the ground, but Kilo, who has joined the service only recently, found a pipe leaking 72,000 litres of water a day near Bassenthwaite, on his first time out after training.

    All dog trainers in the world will tell you, as soon as you get that first initial find with a dog that you've trained to do that job, it's the best feeling in the world."

    Luke Jones

  9. Boy, 11, robbed by three others in Carlisle street

    Police say an 11-year-old boy was robbed in Carlisle by three other boys about the same age.

    Officers have just revealed details about the attack, which they say happened in Fusehill Street on Saturday at about 13:30.

    They say the boys, two of whom were wearing hoodies, took a small amount of money but the victim was not hurt.

    Fusehill Street, carlisleGoogle

  10. Former golf course given natural makeover to benefit bees

    A former golf practice course in Carlisle is to be changed into meadows and wetland to be a haven for bees and butterflies.

    Swifts course nowCarlisle City Council

    The Swifts, which used to feature a 9-hole course and a driving range, last saw a game of golf in 2018, and Cumbria Wildlife Trust has now taken it over and won £88,000 in grants to do the work.

    Tanya St.Pierre, who is managing the project says bees and other pollinating insects are essential for plant life, but in decline, and planting the Swifts area with wildflowers and trees would give them space to recover.

    And she said it would remain open as a green space close to the city centre.

  11. Sharp rise in county's death toll from coronavirus

    Bob Cooper
    Political reporter, BBC Cumbria

    The weekly death toll from Covid-19 in Cumbria has risen to its highest since early June, with nine deaths reported in the week up to 16 October, according to the Office for National Statistics.

    It's a sharp rise from relatively low weekly numbers in recent months, including just two the previous week. It's the highest weekly total since 14 people died in the week up to 5 June.

    In total 582 people from our county have now died with the virus, according to these figures which are based on death certificates that mention Covid-19.

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  13. Beech encourages players for seventh match of October

    BBC Cumbria Sport

    Carlisle United play their seventh match of the month this evening when they take on Morecambe at Brunton Park tonight in League Two.

    Head coach Chris Beech says he may have to bring more of the squad forward, especially as there is still one more game to come this month with the long trip to Exeter.

    The players have been playing that well, it's very difficult, I've told the players who aren't playing that they've got to make me change my mind to change that team."

    Chris Beech

    Chris Beech

  14. Bluebirds meet fellow strugglers in in table-foot tie

    BBC Cumbria Sport

    Barrow will try to win for the first time in League Two this season at the ninth time of asking when David Dunn's side face fellow strugglers Mansfield tonight.

    Both sides are on 5 points - and have yet to win a game this season.

    David Dunn

    There's a couple of teams that have struggled to get away and we need to go there and put another performance in, and cut the little mistakes out."

    David Dunn

  15. Cumbria's weather: Mainly cloudy with rain dying out later

    BBC Weather

    This afternoon will be mainly cloudy with further outbreaks of rain for a time, with highest temperatures from 8C to 11C (46F to 52F).

    The rain will move away to the northeast later on, leaving clear spells and scattered showers.

    Weather graphic

    The Met Office yellow warning for heavy rain on Thursday and Friday has now been stepped up, with a forecast of 100mm to 150mm (4in to 6in) on rain on the highest fells over the 36 hours.

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

  16. Rescue volunteers are found by 'missing' teenager

    A Cumbrian mountain rescue team helped reunite two parents with their 14-year-old son, after he found the rescuers yesterday.

    Keswick Land Rover at Dale HeadKeswick MRT

    Volunteers from the Keswick team were gathering to search from the teenager, who'd failed to meet his parents as arranged at the top of Dale Head, when the boy walked up to members at the bottom of the fell.

    • Members of the Cave Rescue Organisation, who also cover an area of the Pennines above ground, were able to drive along a track near the famous Settle-Carlisle railway to meet a walker who had injured their leg on Whernside, and then been helped down by companions.

  17. Bypass plan secures £12m government boost

    Leaders say the A595 bypass will improve journeys, after years of "relentless campaigning".

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  18. New Windermere steamer 'will steer lakes back to recovery'

    Neil Smith
    South Cumbria journalist, BBC Cumbria

    Cumbria's biggest tourist operator says its multi-million pound investment in a new lake "steamer" will help the county recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

    The new MV Swift entered service for Windermere Lake Cruises without fanfare at the weekend, to avoid attracting crowds to see her maiden voyage.

    MV Swift aerial viewWindermere Lake Cruises

    It is the first new large passenger vessel on England's longest lake in 80 years, and is steered not by a wheel and a rudder, but by joysticks controlling the propellers.

    Rob Beale at helm of Swift

    Rob Beale, one of the skippers, says it is "like the Starship Enterprise" and can turn the vessel, large enough for 300 passengers, on the spot.

    It's a positive talisman, we are creating employment, and hopefully into the 2021 season, then things will be easier than they have been in the current year.

    We've got the assets in place, we've got the capability and we look forward to welcoming people to sail on the Swift."

    Nigel Wilkinson, managing director, Windermere Lake Cruises

  19. Driver cut from wreckage after A66 crash near Keswick

    A 34-year-old man from Appleby was cut from his Ford Fiesta by firefighters after he left the A66 near Keswick and hit a tree.

    He was was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle but his injuries are not said to be life-threatening.

  20. Weather on the fells: Mostly wet, improving later

    • Temperatures at 3,000ft (900m): around 4C (40F)
    • Winds: Southerly 20mph gusting to 30 mph in the morning becoming southwesterly at 20mph to 30mph with gusts to 45mph in the afternoon
    • Cloud: 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) late in the day
    • Weather: Cloudy with rain, possibly heavy at times, in the morning tapering to showers later, with strong winds developing in the afternoon as rain clears away
    • Visibility: Poor or very poor in rain and hill fog in the morning, becoming good later in the afternoon, but occasionally still poor in patchy hill fog and showers