Yvonne Clarkson, who represented Beckermet on Copeland Borough, lost to independent Sam Meteer.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

We've now stopped posting news, travel reports and other interesting or useful items about Cumbria for today, and this week.

It's been a busy day with some interesting results that political analysts are no doubt now picking apart with an eye on the Euro-elections.

Among other developments today:

• The Royal Navy announced that the fourth of the new Dreadnought class submarines to be built at Barrow will be called King George VI, after the Queen's father who was also, incidentally, the first monarch for more than a century to have fought in a battle as a naval officer, and mentioned in despatches for his work at Jutland
• The county's volunteer mountain rescue teams supported a special website to advise newcomers to the high fells on how to avoid adding to a lengthening list of "avoidable rescues"
• And a lecturer from Furness College has been invited to be a guest speaker in Italy at the World Congress for Coloured Sheep. Before you giggle, go and read, it's a quite serious conference on genetics for the wool trade.

We'll be back on Tuesday from 08:00. Keep warm, and have a very good weekend.

The committee of council, emergency service and traveller representatives that looks after Appleby Fair says much stricter limits are to be placed on parking along the A685 in the weeks running up to the event.

Some of the problems last year arose because of the numbers of caravans and horse-drawn bowtops parked on verges along the A685, with people and badly-tethered horses causing problems for traffic.

Image source, PA

There are some temporary stoppling places set up along the road but Matthew Neal of Eden council said these were limited, and he urged people not to arrive too early.

Further south around Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale, posts are planted along verges to stop all but the small bowtops setting up camp.

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Cloud will gradually pull away south tonight with showers petering out.

This will leave behind some long clear spells but it will become cold with moderate or fresh northerly winds and lowest temperatures from -4C to -1C (25F to 30F).

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Police were called to a house in High street Wigton just after 08:00 this morning after the sudden death of a man in his 30s.

Officers say they found no reason to be suspicious, and a file is being prepared for the coroner.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

You may remember yesterday we reported on BT offering redundant old-style phone boxes to good causes, and our colleagues on BBC Radio Cumbria wondered what the most unusual use was.

Image source, Jo Sweeney

The winner by some distance was in Torver outside the Wilson Arms, which as you can see here has been converted into a fish tank.

Eddie Davidson helped create the conversion, and looks after it, says the idea came from a film about New York, and the box, which actually as a fish tank fitted inside it, attracts people from all over the country.

Four members of the Greens have taken seats on three Cumbrian councils, the first time the party has been elected to that level of local government in the county.

Carlis;le, south lakeland and Eden all saw members of the party elected.

Doug Lawson, who has been elected to Eden council says issues other than the environment may have played a part

Jenny Holden-Wilde, a lecturer at Furness College, is to be a guest speaker at an international college on the genetics behind the colour of the wool on Shetland sheep.

Image source, Furness College

She will be presenting her research to the World Congress for Coloured Sheep, a gathering which happens every five years and is taking place in Biella in Italy later in May.

Ms Holden-Wilde said: she said. “My work looks at the way the genetics of sheep affects their appearance meaning we can understand how to conserve diversity and breed for a particular colour of wool.”

She has owned her own flock for the past 13 years.

The Currock and Upperby ward of Carlisle City Council saw the Labour leader Colin Glover returned comfortably with 798 at the top of the poll, and Patrick Lucy, also Labour on 667.

The final place went to John Denholm, of UKIP, with 556 votes, pipping Labour's Robert Rynn, who had 555, after a recount.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

The Cumbria Youth alliance charity has asked county councillors for £20,000.

Targeted youth work carried out through the Friday Night schemes aims to improve young people’s “emotional resilience” through a series workshops held across the borough.

A report which will go before the committee, external says the sessions will focus on giving young people the skills and confidence to be able to “cope better” with problems and issues in their lives.

The results for Carlisle are in - Labour are no longer the largest party on the city council, having 15 seats to the Conservatives' 17.

The balance is held by four Independents, one Green Party member, a Liberal Democrat, and a UKIP member who slipped into a seat in Currock and Upperby by a single vote.

With only three seats left to be declared, Labour have won an overall majority on C, externalopeland Borough Council.

Labour now have 17 of the 33 seats, the Conservatives 10, and Independents three.

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If you want the detailed figures for where you live, all the district councils have web pages showing the results overnight, or updated as results come in for those that are counting today.

Allerdale, where Independents have made gains, are here, external.

Barrow Borough Council, which saw seats change hands but Labour stay firmly in control, will have a results page, external here.

Carlisle City Council, external is counting the votes today, as is Eden District, external.

In Copeland, external, the Mayoral votes were counted overnight, and the borough council votes are being counted today.

South Lakeland council, external saw Liberal Democrats strengthen their control and a first Green member elected.

The Conservative deputy leader on Copeland council, Alistair Norwood, has failed to win a seat on the authority.

But his Tory colleagues have picked up a number of seats, including both at Black Combe and Scafell, two at Hillcrest, one at St Bees, One at Moresby and three at Millom.

Labour took a clean sweep of three in Cleator Moor, two in Moor Row and Bigrigg, one in Moresby, one in St Bees. and one in Hillcrest.

The Independent Charles Maudling has taken one of the Whitehaven Central seats, with Labour taking the other two.

The first results have been declared for the Carlisle City Council elections.

Labour have three seats in Newtown and Morton North, and three in Denton Holme and Morton South.

Conservatives have three seats in Longtown and the Border.

One of the councillors elected to Denton Holme and Morton South is Ruth Alcroft, Labour's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Carlisle.

There have been boundary changes, external in Carlisle, making it difficult to compare results until most seats are counted.

The Conservatives have lost control of Eden council.

With all seats now counted, the Tories have 14 seats, Independents and Liberal Democrats have 10 seats each, the Green Party has two and the Labour Party has two.

Labour and Conservative politicians on Allerdale borough council both agree that national political issues saw them both lose seats to Independents.

With Labour holding 14 seats and the Tories 15, talks will be taking place to find out whether a stable coalition can be put together with some or all of the 19 members with no party affiliation.

With 28 seats declared in Copeland, Labour have 14, the Conservatives 10, and Independents, three. Two wards are still to be decided.

The council's seats have been affected by boundary changes so a direct comparison cannot be made, but the authority was Labour-controlled before the election.

The Royal Navy is gradually picking names for the submarines that will be built in Barrow over the next decade or so to carry Britain's nuclear deterrent when the current Vanguard class vessels are retired.

Today the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Philip Jones, has announced the latest decision, with quite a lot of history packed into the thread.

• A service is being held at Westminster Abbey this afternoon, attended by Prince William, to mark 50 years of the UK having a submarine carrying nuclear missiles at sea at all times, or the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, external, as the Royal Navy calls it.