Rail passengers hoping to travel in north Cumbria and across to Newcastle are still being advised to check with Northern before travelling this morning, after heavy rain caused flooding and at least one landslide.
Image source, Network RailEngineers are now assessing the landslide near Wetheral that has closed the rail line.
Most of Cumbria's rivers are covered by Environment Agency flood alerts, external this morning, with a number of flood warnings, the next level up, three of which are in the Wigton area.
The agency says becks and rivers are expected to continue rising in the morning but should drop this afternoon.
It will be cloudy this morning with outbreaks of rain, with some heavy.
It will feeling chilly with brisk northeasterly winds and highest temperatures from 9C to 12C (48F to 54F).
You can always find the latest, detailed, BBC weather forecast for where you are, here.
Blennerhassett school is closed today because of flooding in the area.
Jade Taylorson
BBC Cumbria reporter
Heavy rain has caused flooding on a number of roads in the Carlisle area, like here at Dalston Road.
Rail services are also affected, with Network Rail saying a landslide at Haltwhistle has blocked the line from Carlisle to Newcastle, and flooding in several places means trains between Carlisle and Newcastle have been replaced by buses.
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A landslide on the rail line between Carlisle and Newcastle is disrupting train services.
Flooding on the Cumbria Coast line between Carlisle and Maryport is causing cancellations on Northern services from Carlisle to Barrow and onwards.
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A number of roads are flooded around Cumbria after last night's heavy rain.
The situation is worst in the north of the county, on the A595, the A66 south of Penrith, the A689 around Milton and Hallbankgate, and a number of roads around Carlisle, all listed by police as being difficult, although the situation will change fairly rapidly.
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Martin Lewes
Reporter
Good morning. We'll be posting the news, a regular weather forecast and other useful items from around the county through the day.
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We've now stepped aside to let the technology post breaking major news or travel reports through the night.
Here's a reminder of some of today's developments:
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Engineers from the contractors Connect, who maintain the A7, have been examining the damage to the bridge at Longtown, where a retaining wall collapsed in bad weather at the weekend.
Image source, Cumbria County CouncilThe road was closed completely for a while and it is understood temporary traffic lights will be in place for single-lane working for some time while repairs take place.
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Copeland Council is likely to ask for £150,000 under a government scheme to spend on sea defences to protect five homes in St Bees.
A report to a meeting next week, external says the next 50 years could see the land being lost because of coastal erosion.
It wants to build the defences at Seamill as an extension of Network Rail’s works to protect the railway line.
Officials say that the existing defences are failing, and if the opportunity is not taken to do the work by extending defences being built by Network Rail, it is unlikely it could be done in future.
Scott Topping is on trial at Carlisle Crown Court accused of attempted murder.
Read MoreTonight will be cloudy with spells of rain and drizzle, which could be rather heavy at times, with lowest temperatures from 4C to 7C (39F to 45F).
You can always find the latest, hour-by-hour, BBC weather forecast for where you are, here.
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Ellis Butcher
South Lakeland District Council has avoided having its planning powers placed in special measures, external because of the number of decisions overturned by independent inspectors at appeal during the past two years.
Mark Lynch, the interim development control team leader, told the 14-member planning committee: “We have managed to persuade the Government department that instead of being over the 10% trigger point, we are now down to 8.5%, so we have managed to get out of trouble there."
Image source, GoogleThe system works with professional planning officers advising the councillors on whether plans for new buildings fit in the the council's planning guidelines, with the elected members able to agree, or to make an exception to their rules, but any decision to refuse permission is open to appeal.
Planning committee chairman Pete McSweeney said "We don’t want to be a committee that just rubberstamps an officer’s recommendation, otherwise, there is no point to us, but we do have to be careful.”
The trust that runs hospitals serving south Cumbria has welcomed news that it is among the 21 sharing £100m to develop plans for more than 30 new buildings, external, to be carried out between 2025 and 2030.
Image source, PA MediaThe chief executive of the Morecambe Bay hospitals trust said: "“We need hospital buildings that work for us and not the other way around – our local populations deserve the very best and this will certainly help us take a giant step towards this on a more consistent basis."
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John Connell
The leader of Allerdale Council has confirmed that the authority spent more than £20,000 printing and distributing leaflets when it suspended some recycling services after the council’s contractor, FCC Environment, missed thousands of bin collections.
Councillor Marion Fitzgerald confirmed that the council had footed the bill, and FCC had not been asked to contribute anything to the cost.
Image source, Allerdale BCKeswick councillor Markus Campbell-Savours said: “That’s an awful lot of money to spend on a letter, especially one felt that some people felt was lacking in useful information for them.
“It could have mentioned that there was a waste site at Flusco (near Penrith) instead of just ones at Wigton, Maryport and Workington. None of the local residents were aware of this."
Councillor Fitgerald said: “During the whole of this episode with the bins we have really worked hard, particularly Charles Holmes (head of Community Services) and his department, and the customer services team, to make sure that the public had as much information as we could possibly give.”
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A former Carlisle MP has claimed, external that the decision to award the West Coast Mainline to FirstGroup takes away customer choice on the line.
Image source, Eric MartlewCumbria Chamber of Commerce has brought in a team of specialist advisers and established a hotline to help companies in the county prepare for a no-deal Brexit.
Image source, Highways AgencyChamber staff have also set up a major database linking to government advice, external on subjects such as driving lorries into Europe.
Rob Johnston, the chamber's chief executive, said trade with overseas countries, either in the EU or which had agreements with the EU, would be affected, with a substantial increase in documentation.
Quote MessageA no-deal Brexit means no transition period and will present major challenges around trade, employment and supply chains."
Rob Johnston
A dispute over the price for land on the shore of Windermere has established the legal principle that an automatic email signature makes a contract enforceable for the first time.
A court judgement just published, external says that when, in an email conversation about access, one of the parties offered to sell land with a jetty for £175,000, the signature generated on the solicitor's email complied with the law.
The court case followed when the owner of the land tried to insist on their original price of £200,000.
Previously the law has only accepted handwritten or typed names, and His Honour Judge Pearce, sitting at Manchester County Court, said that although email signatures had been discussed before, they never been part of a legal determination.
However, Judge Pearce said that although case law dating back to the 1950s required a traditional signature, "in the current age" the word signature could include an email "footer" - and the lower price would stand.
