Shane Fletcher has been jailed for nine years after being convicted of plotting to to commit mass murder in Workington.

The 21-year-old was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court today after being found guilty in January of planning to attack the annual Uppies and Downies football event when thousands of people would be lining the streets.

The trial heard he wanted to emulate the US Columbine High School attackers who shot dead 12 students in 1999.

The jury found him guilty of soliciting to murder and collecting or making a record of information useful for terrorism purposes.

Mark McAlindon
BBC Look North

A man who was convicted of plotting a mass murder in his home town of Workington has been jailed for nine years.

Shane Fletcher planned to attack the annual Uppies and Downies football event in Workington, Cumbria, when thousands of people would be lining the streets.

More to follow.

Image source, GMP

BBC Weather

It will be dry and bright this afternoon but with more cloud starting to move in later.

There will be gentle winds and highest temperatures from 13C to 16C (55F to 61F).

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A man's due before magistrates today charged with false imprisonment and making threats to kill after a woman suffered injuries to her arms and hands in a house in Carlisle.

The 37-year-old has also been been charged with wounding with intent after the incident in the small hours of yesterday morning.

The woman needed hospital treatment, but police say they do not believe her injuries are life-threatening.

Photographer Paul Burke was out on Loughrigg above Ambleside admiring the bluebells which look as good as they can be, and was kind enough to send us the results.

Image source, Paul Burke

Our thanks to Paul, and if you have taken a photo you would like to share, you can email us as Paul did, or send them using Twitter where we're @BBC_Cumbria, external.

A shoplifter has been jailed for stealing shaving razors worth hundreds of pounds from a Workington supermarket.

Melissa Ridley, 33, of no fixed address, stole the items from the town's Asda supermarket on Moss Bay Road twice in January, and again in February and March.

Judge Peter Davies sitting at Carlisle Crown Court heard Ridley was in breach of a criminal behaviour order and had a record of 141 previous offences.

Ridley admitted four charges of theft and breaching the order and was jailed for 20 months.

Judy Hobson
Environment Correspondent

A dairy farmer who hasn't used fertilizer or pesticides on his land for more than 15 years says Britain leaving the EU may limit how he can sell products from his farm.

James Robinson, from Strickley Farm near Kendal, is worried that farms such as his will be among the hardest hit

Image source, @JRfromStrickley

As part of Brexit, Britain will have will have to establish UK standards and apply to have them recognised to sell dairy products in Europe with the price premium organic products can command.

This is a process that can only start after Brexit unless a transitional agreement is adopted, external, and James fears this will affect the prices his milk can command.

Police put speed limits on the northbound M6 between junctions 39 and 37, in the Tebay area, after reports came in about 07:30 of a car heading south.

Patrols were sent out, but the neither vehicle nor driver were traced.

More communities in Cumbria are taking steps to try to make life easier for people with dementia, external.

It's thought there are about 8,500 people in Cumbria with dementia, a figure expected to rise to more than 12,000 within 15 years.

Image source, BrightFocus Foundation

Areas that already have schemes offering training for people like shop staff or advising on design or signage include Kendal, external, Cockermouth, and Sedbergh, external.

Now work has started in the northern fells around Caldbeck to set up similar arrangements, so people with conditions like Alzheimer's can continue to play as full a part in the community as possible.

Temperature at 3,000ft (900m): About 3C to 5C (37F to 41F)

Winds: At summit level, south or southwesterly at 12 to 18mph, occasionally 25mph in the far west

Cloud: Risk of localised patchy valley fog at first, before dispersing by mid-morning, then thick layers of cloud above 2,600ft (800m) will gradually invade from the west

Visibility: Mainly good, but poor in any hill fog

UV Index: Moderate. Pollen: Moderate.

BBC Weather

This morning will see any patches of mist or fog clear to leave it dry with sunny spells, but with more cloud starting to move in.

Highest temperatures will range from 13C to 16C (55F to 61F).

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BBC News Travel

Long-term roadworks have started on the A595 near Broughton in Furness where bridge maintenance work will be taking place until 23 June.

In Carlisle, water mains work is continuing on the A69 Warwick Road, with temporary traffic lights causing delays at times.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

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

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.

Martin Lewes
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:

• Local authorities, police and Gypsy representatives began the annual process of preparing for the influx of thousands of travelling people and visitors to Appleby for the horse fair that happens every June, with a 'cultural evening' in Kirkby Stephen.
• On the day ministers announced that opioid painkillers would have warnings about addiction on the bottle, new figures showed the North East and Cumbria had the highest prescription rates in England
• And the Barrow football international Georgia Stanway woke up this morning knowing she could add PFA Young Footballer of the Year to her record of achievement

We'll be back from 08:00 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

This evening will be dry with late sunshine and clear periods overnight.

Some mist and fog patches may form again under light winds towards the end of the night, with lowest temperatures from 2 to 5C (36 to 41F).

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

The annual problem for wardens at the Foulshaw Reserve in south Cumbria is counting the eggs which are hidden beneath the incubating osprey on the nest.

Careful observation by the viewers of the webcam has finally come up with a number.

Gypsy representatives, who are holding an event to talk to people in Kirkby Stephen this evening, say they hope various measures should mean less friction between travelling people and the communities they pass through on the way to Appleby Fair.

Last year there were reports of anti-social behaviour and at least one serious assault on the road passing through Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh to Kirkby Stephen and Brough.

Billy Welch, a leading member of the Roma community, and Bill Lloyd, who also represents travellers on the support group that looks after the fair, will join police and officials in the Kings Arms to try to create more understanding of the horse fair.

Image source, PA/John Giles

Mental health services covering south Cumbria are offering community groups grants of up to £5,000, external to try to reduce the numbers of suicides.

The programme's being organised by a partnership of local authority, public sector, NHS and health organisations called Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Paul Hopley, the programme diurector, said: “Most local people who take their own lives are not known to our specialist mental health services, so we’re reaching out to our communities to innovate, test a new idea, device or method, so that all of us may learn more about how to prevent suicide.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A £9.7m flood defence scheme for Egremont has been given the green light by Copeland councillors.

Whangs Beck and Skirting Beck flow through the town but there are no formal defences in place despite a long history of flooding.

The area was inundated in 1999, 2009, 2012 (when the house, pictured, collapsed) and 2013, prompting the Environment Agency to recognise the “urgent need” for improved protection.

The scheme will protect 220 homes and businesses in the Orgill area, creating three new flood storage areas which will be able to contain enough flood water to fill 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The Environment Agency hopes it will mean flooding happens once every century on average, rather than once every five years.

A decline in the number of birds in Cumbria has been described as a "crisis in nature" by the RSPB.

The charity said that nationally over the past 50 years, more than 40 million birds have been lost across the country.

Annabel Rushton from the RSPB in Cumbria says the county had seen reductions in common birds, such as blackbirds and robins, and a more severe impact on species such as cuckoos.

Image source, Delpho/NPL