• Temperature at 3,000ft: Around 4C to 6C (39F to 43F).
• Winds: Gentle easterly winds, with gusts increasing up to 20mph to 25mph through the afternoon.
• Cloud: Cloud will build through the morning, becoming overcast by the afternoon. Cloud bases will be generally above the summits, but lowering to 2,000ft to 3,300ft (600m to 1,000m) during showers.
• Weather: Largely dry at first with a few sunny spells, but cloud and showers will soon develop through the morning and afternoon, these heavy in places perhaps with hail and thunder.
• Visibility: Poor visibility above the cloud bases during any showers, but visibility will improve in sunny spells.
• UV levels: Low.

Opposition Conservatives accuse the council of failing to let vulnerable people know about a grant.

Six people including a mother and daughter and father and son deny murdering Lee McKnight.

The leader of South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) has announced he's stepping down after five years in the post.

Liberal Democrat councillor Giles Archibald will step down as leader at SLDC’s annual meeting on 19 May, when a new leader will be appointed.

Mr Archibald said: “It has been a huge privilege to be leader and I want to express my enormous thanks to fellow councillors and to the officers and council staff who have worked extraordinarily well and hard during the Covid-19 crisis to tackle its effects and maintain services,

“I have nothing but admiration for the way they have worked.”

He will continue as a councillor serving the Kendal Town ward.

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Vehicles are to be banned from the roads outside a number of Cumbrian schools to try and make the area safer, ease congestion and lessen pollution.

Askham Village School is one that's signed up for the School Streets trial, which will see the road past the school closed to traffic for 30 minutes, twice a day, before and after school at drop off and collection times.

The only exceptions to this ban will be emergency vehicles, school transport, and for those people who live on the affected stretch.

A consultation is now under way, and if this trial works, the idea could be rolled out elsewhere in the county.

Vice chair of the school governors Ben Shirley said: "We're doing everything we can to make more safe to reassure commuters, children and staff that this is a safe school to arrive at and as part of these steps we're raising kerbs, putting barriers in at exit points.

"I hope the public will support this school street initiative to limit traffic at peak times."

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• Temperatures at 3,000ft: Around 3C to 5C (37F to 41F) in the morning, rising to 5C to 7C (41F to 45F) in the afternoon.
• Winds: Winds will be southerly backing southeasterly and strong at first in the north, but becoming moderate or gentle for the rest of the day. Gusts as high as 30mph to 35mph in the morning.
• Cloud: Sunny spells in the morning, but cloud building in later with bases around 2,600ft to 3,600ft (800m to 1,100m).
• Weather: It will be dry and bright at first, becoming cloudy with showers during the afternoon. These will be heavy in places, and possibly thundery at times too.
• Visibility: Generally good, but poor above cloud bases and in any showers.
• UV levels: Moderate under any sunny spells.

Four men and three women are held on suspicion of blackmailing people whose pets have gone missing.

The man was made to work for nine straight days without any protective equipment, a court hears.

Peter McCall is re-elected for a second term in the post he has held since 2016.

The teenager was under water for about 20 to 30 minutes, rescuers said.

The Conservative candidate for the police and crime commissioner post in Cumbria has been re-elected.

Peter McCall was announced as the winner a short time ago at the count in Workington.

He took 56,753 of the first preference votes, while Labour's Barbara Canon took 27,687 votes and Loraine Birchell 21,506 for the Liberal Democrats.

Cumbria's public health director, Colin Cox, said a further relaxation of lockdown rules is "the right thing to be doing".

Indoor hospitality and household mixing are set to return from next Monday, as the PM is due to confirm the next stage of lockdown easing in England.

Mr Cox (pictured) said transmission levels were very low in the county, with latest figures showing a rate of five per 100,000 a week.

He said: "We saw a couple of days in the last week where parts of Cumbria, Allerdale in particular, was the lowest in the country."

In Cumbria more than 303,000 people have had their first vaccination and more than half of those have had both doses.

Mr Cox said: "What we've seen so far is that the first couple of stages of easing the lockdown so far didn't seem to make a difference to the rate of transmission in Cumbria so I'm still quite positive that given the rates being as low as they are the vaccination programme being as good as it has been, that will keep a lid on transmission."

Votes are being counted to decide who will be Cumbria's next police and crime commissioner (PCC).

The candidates standing are Loraine Birchall for Liberal Democrats, Labour's Barbara Cannon and the current PCC, Conservative candidate Peter McCall.

It's taking longer than usual to count the ballot slips from Thursday's elections because of the pandemic.

• Temperatures at 3,000ft: Around 4C to 6C (39F to 43F)
• Winds: Winds will be southerly, and strong at first, but will increase to near gale force by the end of the day, with gusts as high as 45mph to 50mph.
• Cloud: Patchy cloud throughout the day. Bases will be around 1,000 to 2,000ft (300m to 600m) at first, later rising to 2,000ft to 3,300ft (600m to 1,000m).
• Weather: Throughout the day, there will be a mixture of sunny spells, and scattered showers. Showers will be heavy at times and could be accompanied by the odd rumble of thunder.
• Visibility: Generally good, but poor above cloud bases and in any showers.
• UV levels: Moderate.

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