Plans to replace Pooley Bridge near Ullswater will be looked at by the Lake District National Park Authority today.

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The original structure, which collapsed during Storm Desmond in 2015, is being replaced with a new 128ft-long bridge, starting this summer.

The plans are being recommended for approval, external but there’s concern about the impact on businesses in the area once the work gets under way.

• Temperature at 3,000ft (900m): Around 5C to 6C (41F to 43F)
• Winds: South-westerly initially, becoming westerly through the day 5mph to 10mph, with gusts to 20mph for much of the day, but increasing to 15mph to 20mph with gusts of 30mph later
• Cloud: Generally around 1300ft to 1650ft (400m to 500m), but locally as low as 300ft to 600ft (100m to 200m)
• Visibility: Mainly good at lower levels, but poor in any low cloud. Poor to moderate at the summits

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Martin Lewes
Reporter

We've now stepped back to let the software post breaking major news and travel reports overnight.

Here's a reminder of some of today's main developments.

• Shane Fletcher, said to be a loner motivated by hatred for people he thought looked down on him, was given a lengthy jail sentence for planning a murderous attack at Workington's annual medieval Uppies and Downies football match
• We heard of the growing number of communities where people are trying to make life easier for their neighbours with dementia
• And wardens at the South Walney Nature Reserve reported finding their first gulls' eggs of the season, exactly a year after the first eggs were laid last year. Timing is clearly everything for them...

We'll be back tomorrow. If you want to pass on news you think we should know, or share a photo with the county, you can email us, send them using Twitter where we're @BBC_Cumbria, external, or head to our Facebook page, external.

Have a very good evening.

BBC Weather

Tonight will start dry but cloud will tend to increase from the west bringing light rain and drizzle.

it will be a mild night with light winds and temperatures from 5C to 8C (41F to 46F).

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

Lots of attention gets paid at this time of year to whether birds like the ospreys dotted around Cumbria in places like Foulshaw Moss or Bassenthwaite are laying eggs successfully.

But down on South Walney, several thousand seabirds have been feeling the joys of spring as well...

A pedestrian hit by a car on the A69 at Warwick Bridge on Saturday has died in hospital in Newcastle.

Police say he was Robert Wildon, 75, from Carlisle.

Officers have questioned a 73-year-old driver and today they renewed an appeal for witnesses, or anyone who had dashcam footage from the area at about 19:30 on 27 April.

Two men have denied the attempted murder of a man in south Cumbria.

Luke Peter Canning, 21, and 25-year-old Jordan Lee Jenkinson appeared at Carlisle Crown Court this morning where they also each pleaded not guilty to causing Richard Wilkinson, 33, grievous bodily harm with intent, and Mr Canning denied having an offensive weapon, an iron bar.

The two are alleged to have attacked Mr Wilkinson on 30 March on a path at Waterside, Kendal, leaving him critically injured, although the court was told this morning he was now convalescing at home.

A trial is due to start at the crown court on 16 September. In the meantime both Mr Canning, of Bridge Street, Burneside, and Mr Jenkinson, of Lound Road, Kendal, were remanded in custody by Judge Peter Davies.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Carlisle United and Penrith meet tonight at Brunton Park in the 2019 Cumberland Cup Final.

Carlisle beat last year's winners Cleator Moor Celtic in the quarter-finals.

BBC Radio Cumbria will be providing updates from the kick-off at 19:00.

Nathan Parker's drawings were found after his released from prison for possessing illegal images.

Police say a man has been interviewed after an incident on a picket line at Sellafield.

Members of the Unite union who work for a facilities company, Mitie, started a 10-day strike last week and it is understood the incident on Friday involved a picket being spat at.

Police gave no details of the incident and urged people not to discuss it on social networks, external while they were carrying out an investigation.

One of Britain's largest care home groups, Four Seasons Health Care, which has four homes in Cumbria, has gone into administration.

According to the company's website it has properties in Maryport, Whitehaven and two in Carlisle, including Pennine Lodge in Harraby, pictured.

Image source, Google

Four Seasons said the move would not affect care arrangements or lead to the closure of homes.

Group medical director Dr Claire Royston said the move was simply to allow the group to be sold.

"Today's news does not change the way we operate or how our homes are run or prompt any change for residents, families, employees and indeed suppliers," she said.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Workington Town have been handed an injury boost with the news that full-back Ryan Fieldhouse will return to training tonight after three months out following shoulder surgery.

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The club had initially expected Fieldhouse to be out for up to four months with the injury.

Meanwhile, caretaker coach Oliver Wilkes has admitted Leon Pryce's departure from the club last week came as "a big shock".

Wilkes is taking temporary charge of the side until Pryce's successor as head coach is appointed.

News and Star
Newspaper

The Carlisle Fringe has announced that it will not be taking place this year - so eight locals are taking on the monumental task of organising their own, external.

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The judge who sentenced Shane Fletcher today for planning a murderous attack on crowds in Workington said it was a "deeply troubling case".

At Manchester Crown Court, Judge Patrick Field QC noted Fletcher's obsessions with mass killing spree murderers, including Cumbrian taxi driver Derrick Bird and US church gunman Dylann Roof, along with his hatred of various religious and ethnic groups, women and homosexuals.

Fletcher had tried but failed to involve his only friend in his plans, and the judge said: "This encouragement was real and your malign, hate-filled purpose was real too."

Police have welcomed the jail sentence given to Shane Fletcher, the 21-year-old from Workington who planned to attack the annual Uppies and Downies medieval football match with home-made pipe bombs and Napalm.

Det Supt Will Chatterton, investigations head for counter-terrorism policing in the North West, said: "Thanks to the diligence of our partners and Cumbria Constabulary, who we could not have secured today’s sentence without, another dangerous man is behind bars."

Supt Gary Slater of Cumbria Police said: “As a result of our police officers working in the communities of west Cumbria working closely with Counter Terrorism specialists, Fletcher’s intentions were thwarted long before he could ever carry them out.

"I hope that is a fact that gives people good reason to be confident in the ability of the police to identify, prevent and prosecute such offenders."

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Shane Fletcher is sentenced over a massacre plan driven by "hatred and a desire for revenge".

Shane Fletcher from Workington, who has been jailed today for nine years for planning a terrorist attack in the town, was identified as a threat some months earlier by a probation officer.

During his trial, Lee Cartner from the probation service said that from April 2017 he noted Fletcher, 21, openly identified as a racist and was "a risk to minorities, particularly Muslim".

Mr Cartner said Fletcher was asked whether he wanted to get involved in the Prevent programme, which is supposed to divert people from adopting extreme and potentially violent politics, or meet former members of extremist groups such as former members of EDL or Combat 18.

But Mr Cartner told the court Fletcher "described any such former members as being race traitors", and was very clear he did not wish to meet them.

Mr Cartner said he became more concerned through the winter of 2018 as Fletcher spoke about massacres such as Columbine in the USA and Hungerford in Britain, and after he said he could obtain guns and knew how to make a bomb, Fletcher was arrested in March 2018.

Shane Fletcher, who has been jailed for nine years for planning a murderous attack on the thousands of people who play traditional football game, Uppies and Downies, in his home town of Workington, was motivated not by politics but by personal unhappiness, hatred and revenge, his trial was told last year.

Jonathan Sandiford, the prosecuting barrister, said: "It would appear that in part his hatred was borne of his racist belief that people who were Jewish and not white were responsible for his inability to find work and to make any kind of a meaningful life for himself.

"He had, or felt he had, been bullied throughout his teenage years by other people in Workington, who he felt had looked down on him and victimised him.

Mark McAlindon
BBC Look North

Shane Fletcher had used the internet to research how to make pipe bombs and a form of improvised napalm, his trial heard.

The 21-year-old has been jailed for nine years for planning a killing spree in Workington.

He idolised the Columbine high school killers and planned to target the annual Uppies and Downies football event in the town.

Police investigations found that the instructions Fletcher sought were viable and could have produced real explosives.

He’d hoped to use them during the medieval game in April last year, but was arrested after confessing his plans to a probation officer.

When police searched his home they found a diary under the sofa he slept on.

In it he’d written about his obsessions and "smirking as people died".

Fletcher was convicted earlier this year of two counts of collecting information useful for terrorism and one count of soliciting murder.