Police have renewed an appeal for help finding a man who attacked a girl and a woman on successive days in Kendal, and have now released a CCTV picture of a man seen in Sandes Avenue near the time of the second attack.

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Police say they want to interview the man about an attack on a 15-year-old girl in the area at about 09:35 on Friday 29 November, and a 30-year-old woman was approached the following morning not far away on a riverside path at Dockray.

Officers would also like to hear from anyone in the area at the time, or who drove through and has a dashcam.

BBC Weather

It will be a stormy day with strong winds and bands of heavy rain moving through during the morning and into the afternoon, with highest temperatures from 9C to 12C (48F to 54F).

A yellow Met Office weather warning, external says the winds will develop through the morning, with gusts to 60mph inland and 70mph around some coasts and higher ground.

There will be a band of particularly heavy rain later, and the Environment Agency says that this rain falling on to waterlogged ground could cause flooding on the rivers Brathay, Rothay and Winster, external, and around the Keswick campsite on Derwentwater, external.

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

Martin Lewes
Reporter

Good morning: We'll be keeping you up to date with the news and other interesting information from around the county through the day.

If there's news you think we should know or you want to share a photo you've taken in the county, let us know by sending an email, on Facebook, external, or on Twitter, external.

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

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

• It was the first full weekday for the new train operating company on the West Coast Main Line through Cumbria, with Avanti boasting newly-painted trains and station staff wearing blue uniforms rather than the red Virgin ones
• Cumbria Wildlife Trust found cause for early celebration on their relatively new Eyecott Hill reserve, when a number of salmon turned up, which they say is a compliment to the water quality
• And it was rather muddier and faster-flowing water which attracted the Penrith Mountain Rescue volunteers, who looked at the mighty Eden rising towards some of the highest levels so far this winter, and sent one of their members in so the rest could practise swift water rescue techniques.

We'll be back tomorrow from 08:00. If there's news you think we should know or you want to share a photo you've taken in the county, let us know by sending an email, on Facebook, external, or on Twitter, external.

Have a very good evening.

Two people were injured in a crash on the Coast Raod between Barrow and Ulverston earlier today.

Police say a Nissan Leaf and a Vauxhall Astra collided just before 12:00, and the 62-year-old Astra driver, and a passenger, were both taken to the Furness General hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.

The driver of the Nissan was not hurt. The road was closed for two-and-a-half hours, and police are now appealing for witnesses.

BBC Weather

Cloud will gradually build in through the late evening and overnight, and the lowest temperatures, from -3C to 0C (27F to 32F) will be around or before midnight.

In the early hours, especially towards dawn, bands of rain will begin to move in from the west and it will become breezy.

The Met Office has posted a yellow weather warning for strong winds, external, gusting to 70mph over coasts and hills, with the strongest being followed by a band of intense rain.

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

Most of Cumbria's local newspapers are to come under a single group editor, after the editors of the six titles were made redundant..

The News and Star in Carlisle, The Cumberland News, Barrow's Evening Mail, the Westmorland Gazette, the Workington Times and Star and the Whitehaven News are now under the charge of Vanessa Sims, currently group editor, who was editor of the Barrow Mail until last May.

The newspapers are all owned by Newsquest, the British part of the giant US corporation, Gannett Inc which is currently being merged with another very large publisher, the New Media Investment Group.

News and Star
Newspaper

A runner suffered appalling injuries after stumbling into metal spikes, external which vandals had wrenched out of metal railings beside a busy Carlisle road.

Image source, News and Star

BBC Cumbria Sport

The Bluebirds Trust chairman Steven Herbert has appealed to the club's fans to continue to support the trust in keeping a 10% stake in Barrow AFC.

The trust raised £50,000 in the summer to purchase the initial stake, and Herbert believes that if the club is to be successful in their push for Promotion from the National League the Trust needs to continue helping the other board members to support the club.

The Danish firm Orsted, which runs the giant Walney wind farm, has handed over more than £50,000 to two educational schemes to help people qualify for jobs in renewable energy.

Image source, Orsted

Nearly £40,000 is going to two schemes, in Cumbria and Lancaster, which each bring together eight schools to improve training in science, techology, engineering and maths.

Another £14,000 has been given to a similar scheme involving the 11 schools in the Furness Education Consortium.

Imran Nawaz of Orsted said the growth of the offshore wind industry was career opportunities locally.

A Carlisle shoplifter with 208 offences on his record has lost his appeal against a jail term.

Pete Vickers, 42, of Chatsworth Square, was handed a prison sentence in April, along with a court order that banned him from entering city Shopwatch premises and a garden centre for two years.

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But in November he was seen in a store in central Carlisle, where he stole household goods he intended to sell to buy food, and he was jailed again.

An appeal at Carlisle Crown Court was told Vickers had been threatened over a drugs debt, and had not been out to collect his benefit, or see his GP or social services.

Judge Julie Clemitson said that Vickers had got back on to medication in prison, but she was unable to allow the appeal.

The number of children being arrested in Cumbria has fallen by 78% over the past seven years, according to a national charity.

The Howard League for Penal Reform, external says the drop is in line with national trends, with 405 people under 17 being read the caution in 2018, compared with 554 the year before and 1,864 in 2011.

The league says research has shown that every contact a child has with with the criminal justice system drags them more deeply into it and leads to more crime.

Frances Crook, the chief executive, said: "Cumbria Police and other forces up and down the country have diverted resources to tackling serious crime instead of arresting naughty children."

Image source, Cumbria Police

BBC News Travel

The main road into Kendal from the West, Stricklandgate, has been blocked by a multi-vehicle crash at the junction with Busher Walk.

Police say traffic coming in and out of town from and to the Windermere direction will be affected.

BBC Weather

Forecasters expect a dry and mostly sunny afternoon, apart from on the coast where there's the chance of a shower.

It will be windy along the coasts and highest temperatures will be from 5C to 8C (41F to 46F).

There is a Met Office yellow weather warning, external for gales gusting to 70mph on coasts and hills throughout tomorrow.

The Met Office says the wind could gust to 70mph between 05:00 and 17:00 tomorrow.

The yellow weather warning, external says the strongest winds will be over coasts and hills, and they will probably come just ahead of a band of intense rain.

It was a thoroughly wet weekend, and volunteers with the Penrith Mountain Rescue team took advantage of high river levels to brush up their fast-water rescue skills.

The team used the River Eden to practise techniques that mean they can help people in the water without any of the volunteers put themselves in danger by going in..

Image source, Penrith MRT

Cumbria's mountain rescue teams have played a big role helping people in all the major floods of the past dozen years, and they have gathered the necessary equipment and skills to work in rivers deep as well as mountains high.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Barrow retained their three point lead at the top of the National League on Saturday.

Dior Angus' seventh goal in 10 games sealed a 1-0 win over Aldershot as one of the Bluebirds' nearest rivals, Solihuill, went down to a surprise defeat at Wrexham.

Carlisle only managed a draw in their fight to stay in League Two, but the head coach Chris Beech says scouts from Arsenal and Everton watched Saturday's match at Morecambe to see teenage defender Jarrad Branthwaite, and he has a big future.

Image source, Getty Images

Relive Tuesday's Championship & FA Cup action as Leeds beat Hull to go top of the Championship.

Virgin Trains will be a "hard act to follow" for the new company Avanti, that is now running services on the West Coast Mainline, according to one Cumbrian passenger group.

Virgin ran the services linking Cumbria with Scotland and London for more than 20 years, but it was excluded from bidding for the new franchise, because its business partner, Stagecoach, didn't meet the government's pension rules.

Avanti West Coast, a partnership between the Italian state-owned firm Trenitalia and the UK operator First, has taken over, although many of the staff are the same, the management will be trying to show it brings higher standards.

Robert Talbot of the Lakes Line User Group says Virgin has set the bar high.

Conservationists surveying the wildlife on the Eyecott Hill nature reserve, external, just east of Blencathra, say they have found salmon in the main beck there for the first time.

Image source, Linda Pitkin2020Vision

It's known the fish, which return to the smaller becks in the uplands to breed, have been present in the Glenderamackin, downstream, for many years, but it is not known how long they have not been making it up to the Eyecott area.

The Cumbria Wildlife Trust started surveying the waters on the 216-hectare (533-acre) reserve in 2015.

Staff looking after it say that while fish populations vary a lot from year to year, the arrival of salmon and an increase in species such as brown trout are mainly happening in the area where they done work to improve the habitat such as tree planting.