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BBC Weather

It should be mostly cloudy today with some patchy light rain or drizzle possible for a time.

Highest temperatures will be from 6C to 9C (43F to 48F), and it will feel milder.

You can find the latest BBC weather forecast for where you are, here.

BBC News Travel

Drivers travelling south towards Lancaster down the Lune valley on the A683 face a diversion after a burst water main at Claughton, south of Kirkby Lonsdale, overnight.

The burst has been repaired, but not the road surface, so while there is access to local businesses along the road, through traffic should go west to the A6 and then south through Carnforth, or use the M6.

A reminder: The A592 from Bowness to Newby Bridge is closed between Ferry Nab and Birks Road until April, with a lengthy diversion for larger vehicles, although local commuters will know ways past using narrow hill roads.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

We'll be posting news from around the county, a regular weather forecast, and other useful and interesting information through the day.

If you've got any stories or photos to share, let us know by sending us an email, getting in touch on Facebook, external, or on Twitter, external.

John Bowness
BBC Radio Cumbria reporter

We've now handed over to the software to post breaking major news and travel reports through the night.

Here's a reminder of some of today's developments:

• Cumbria Police officers have made arrests in Barrow, London and Coventry, at the culmination of an 8-month operation targeting 'county lines' drug dealing
• There's continued concern for 69-year-old Cumbrian farmer Albert Birkett who went missing a week ago from Glasson
• Police officers in the county say they're the first in the world to use a new system to allow witnesses to easily share photos and videos that could help their inquiries
• A Cumbrian firm that makes "infant formula" powdered milk has been talking about their new royal customer.

We'll be back from 08:00 to do it again.

If you've got any stories or photos to share, let us know by sending us an email, getting in touch on Facebook, external, or on Twitter, external.

Have a very good evening.

Finally - our thanks to BBC Weather Watcher Cumbrian Stargazer for this shot from Haile, bringing to life the heavy frost experienced by many in our county when they first went out today:

Image source, Cumbrian Stargazer

Lee Macaulay
Journalist, BBC Cumbria

Remember we brought you the story yesterday about members of a Cumbrian charity who'd marked its 20th anniversary by taking a chilly dip in Windermere?

You can see the video of their winter swim on our Facebook page, external.

Raids in Barrow-in-Furness, Coventry and London follow big rise in drugs deaths in Barrow in early 2018.

BBC Cumbria

A driver who led police on two high speed pursuits in Penrith whilst under the influence of drink and drugs has been jailed.

Jack Mitchell, 26, reached speeds of 60 and 70mph in residential areas as he tried to avoid police, but was eventually caught after he crashed into parked cars on Huntley Avenue, causing £8,000 worth of damage.

After admitting dangerous driving at Carlisle Crown Court, and driving with alcohol and drug levels above the specified limits, Mitchell, from King Street, was jailed for 12 months and banned from driving for 18 months.

BBC Cumbria

Ten people have been charged with offences after a nationwide crackdown on a County Lines drugs supply operation.

Cumbria Police said they carried out raids in Barrow, Coventry and London this week with 22 people arrested.

Temporary Ch Supt Rob O’Connor said: “This operation has been around 10 months in the planning and was put in place following the 14 drugs deaths seen in Barrow from December 2017 onwards.

“The arrests over the last couple of days have seen Class A drugs seized with a street value of several thousands of pounds, as well as several thousands of pounds of cash also recovered.

“I make no apologies for the fact that my officers over the last two days have forced entry to the homes of suspects and given them a rude awakening by dragging them out of their beds at six in the morning. People who deal drugs bring misery to others lives, and sadly we have seen too many people in South Cumbria die due to drug misuse - too many people become victims of crime committed by addicts who break into people’s houses and cars to feed their addictions."

John Bowness
BBC Radio Cumbria reporter

In a light-hearted exchange on Twitter, a Cumbrian MP has been responding to suggestions that the North would be transformed if parliament abandoned Westminster for Manchester.

The member for Penrith and the Border is suggesting going further, by bringing it back to its former home here in the county.

The MP for Carlisle, John Stevenson tweeted to say he "Could not agree more!"

The marker would remember 20 men hanged in Carlisle following the Battle of Culloden.

BBC Cumbria

A man who provided a fake name when quizzed about a speeding offence he had committed has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Paul Eric Taylorson, 52, was behind the wheel of a Citroen Berlingo caught travelling too fast at Gilsland, near Brampton, in July 2017. A clear picture of the vehicle and driver was captured by a speed camera.

But Carlisle Crown Court heard that when Taylorson (pictured below) was asked to provide details about who was driving, he gave the invented name of "Stephan Bogashinski" in a bid to "throw the police off his scent". He also claimed that "Mr Bogashinski" had bought the Citroen from him.

Image source, Craig McGlasson

During a five-month period, police had to make additional inquiries before Taylorson finally came clean and admitted wrongdoing. He admitted a charge of doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice.

After hearing mitigation, Judge Peter Davies suspended a 12-month jail term for two years. Taylorson, of Rosehill, Gilsland, must also complete a four-month night-time curfew and pay £800 costs.

Judge Davies told him: "This was a deliberate and sustained effort to deceive the police and the authorities."

League Two Carlisle United sign teenage Preston striker Connor Simpson on loan until the end of the season.

John Bowness
BBC Radio Cumbria reporter

Two bridges have re-opened in the Newlands Valley near Keswick, after they were twice damaged by flood water.

The bridges at Gillbrow and Ghyll Bank were originally repaired with government funding after the 2009 floods, but were destroyed by Storm Desmond in 2015.

Image source, Lake District National Park

They've been restored by the Lake District National Park, external, thanks partly to a £12,000 donation from the walking holiday company, HF Holidays via guests' donations to its Pathways fund.

Image source, Ordnance Survey

People are being urged to spend time listening out for the "twit-twoo" of tawny owls to help monitor how the birds are faring.

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is concerned the species, external may be vanishing but the birds are difficult to monitor as they are nocturnal, so the trust is running a tawny owl calling survey to monitor their presence through the sound of their calls.

Members of the public are being encouraged to spend 20 minutes on one evening a week listening out in parks, gardens and woods for the distinctive "hoot" calls of the males and the "kee-wick" of the females.

Claire Boothby, tawny owl calling survey organiser at the BTO, said, "Don't worry if you don't hear one in your 20 minutes - that record is just as valuable and you'll become one of our 'zero heroes'."

Nearly 6,000 volunteers have already reported what they have heard as part of the survey but the BTO would like at least 10,000 people across the UK to take part in the "citizen science" research.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Recycling boxes in south Cumbria have been reduced in size to stop bin collectors getting back pain and becoming too tired.

South Lakeland District Council is now phasing out 55-litre boxes - used for paper, card and glass - and replacing them with 44-litre containers.

Image source, South Lakeland District Council

The authority wants to cut the risk of musculoskeletal disorders and reduce "staff fatigue".

Boxes with wheels and a handle are also available for elderly residents.

BBC Cumbria

A charity set up by the Prince of Wales has given Cumbria more than £600,000 in the last five years.

The Princes Countryside Fund, external supports rural projects - and so far, about £620,000 has been given to schemes in the county.

This year there will be two rounds of funding with grants of up to £50,000 available.

Image source, Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Adam Powell
Journalist, BBC Radio Cumbria

Food and drink companies in Cumbria are being encouraged to export more of their products, as the government prepares for a world after Brexit.

The UK is the world's sixth largest exporter, but in a post Brexit world the government wants more products made here in Cumbria sold around the world. Its Export Strategy aims to increase overseas sale to 35% of Gross Domestic Product.

Today the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee will hear from figures within the food industry as part of an inquiry into Brand Britain: Promoting and Marketing British Food and Drink, external.

Cumbria already has plenty of exporting success stories. It's hoped the work of firms like Kendal Nutricare, external and Hawkshead Relish, external will be used by other businesses to sell British products around the globe.

A man who was killed in a crash involving a car and a lorry on the M6 near Kendal has been identified.

Cumbria police say Ben Oakley, 34, from Shropshire, had been driving a Renault Megane.

The crash, near Junction 37, closed a stretch of the motorway for several hours on Monday.

Officers say the driver of an articulated lorry that was also involved in the crash, a man in his 40s from outside Cumbria, wasn't injured.

Here is the forecast for those exploring the Lake District mountains (with ground conditions report online), external:

Lake District Weather: A dry and clear night with a widespread frost. A dry and clear morning with the frost slow to lift out the ground, perhaps persisting in shady areas all day. Remaining dry and sunny through the afternoon though high cloud thickening up but cloud feeding in from the west during the evening with perhaps the odd light spot of rain or sleet later.

Visibility: Excellent, with good views of distant hills. Later in the evening deteriorating conditions will bring extensive hill fog and mist, perhaps even to low levels. Visibility later generally poor or very poor.

Cloud Free Hill Top: All hills will be cloud free through daylight hours. During the evening, cloud will spread in from the west, initially above the summits but later lowering to 500m with the high summits becoming shrouded in cloud.

Here's today's graphic summarising the conditions at low level:

Image source, Lake District Weatherline