A first-half header by defender Aaron Hayden gives Carlisle a win against Forest Green in their FA Cup second-round replay.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

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

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

• The trust that runs hospitals in north and west Cumbria urged anyone suffering the effects of a stomach virus to stay away, because it only takes one case of norovirus to close a ward, and there could be a severe effect on services
• High winds and heavy rain swept the county in one of the strongest storms of the winter so far
• And by coincidence the story about a bus service being cancelled because of the severe weather went just after one with a picture showing coastal erosion along its route, illustrating a report on long term plans for coastal protection

We're back from 08:00 tomorrow.

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.

A couple from Carlisle have been jailed for robbing an elderly man in broad daylight.

Image source, Cumbria Police

Mark Proudfoot, 33, and 45-year-old Tammy Boats approached their victim on Millbourne Street in the city asking for money.

The 69-year-old pensioner, who told the two he had recently had a heart attack, offered £3, but they said they wanted £10 and grabbed his phone after he threatened to call the police.

At Carlisle Crown Court, Proudfoot, of Bowscale Close, and Potts, of Garden Street, Stanwix, admitted robbery at Carlisle Crown Court.

Potts was jailed for 32 months and Proudfoot for 40

Police are investigating a sexual assault on a woman in her 50s in the High Street and Croft Court area of Wigton.

They say it happened at about 20:43 last night, and the man involved was white, of average height and medium build, aged between 25 and 30.

BBC Weather

Showers will last throughout the night and will often be heavy and widespread, and may turn wintry in higher ground, but lowland snow is not expected.

Winds will gradually ease and lowest temperatures will be from 0C to 3C (32F to 37F).

A Met Office weather warning for heavy rain, external remains until 20:00.

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

BBC News Travel

The Windermere Ferry has suspended services until the wind drops.

Police have urged people living in the Watermillock area, near Ullswater, to search outbuildings for a missing 52-year-old woman.

Officers say they are concerned about Michelle edgar, who is 5ft 2in, with sandy, shoulder-length blonde hair.

Image source, Cumbria Police

There are now eight flood alerts and one warning, external posted by the Environment Agency in Cumbria, with heavy rain continuing to fall over the Lake District.

The warning is for the Keswick Campsite, and the alerts are for most of the rivers in the Lake District, the Kent and the Belah.

The trust that runs hospitals in North Cumbria has said any more wards affected by norovirus could "severely affect the services we can offer".

One ward is already temporarily closed at the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, and trust officials say the illness is almost always brought into hospitals by visitors.

Dr John Howarth, the trust's deputy chief executive, said the extremely infectious virus, which causes severe stomach upsets, is dangerous to vulnerable people but otherwise easily treated at home without medical help.

“We know norovirus is currently circulating in the community and it has led to one ward temporarily closing at West Cumberland Hospital."

A Carlisle woman has been told she could go to prison for throwing a bottle in a Carlisle bar, which injured another customer.

Jade Haughan, 25, had denied a charge which alleged she unlawfully and maliciously wounded Bethany Johnstone in an incident inside the now-closed Outrageous bar, but a plea of guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm was accepted by the prosecution.

The case was adjourned until 20 January for reports to be prepared on Haughan, of Brookside, Carlisle, who was described as a woman of previous good character and the sole carer of two young children.

A victim impact statement is also being prepared from the woman who was hit in the face by the bottle, which injured her lip but did not smash.

BBC Weather

It will be a stormy afternoon with very strong winds and spells of heavy and sometimes persistent rain.

There will be gale force southerly winds, with highest temperatures from 10C to 13C (50F to 55F).

Weather warnings covering Cumbria, external are posted for both wind and rain.

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

BBC News Travel

The A66 has been closed in both directions at Stainmore to high-sided lorries and other vulnerable vehicles because of strong winds.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
John Connell

Leading councillors in Copeland have agreed a "position statement" setting out their commitment to tackle climate change and endorsed the production of a climate charter which will formally establish the authority’s own action plan.

A meeting of the executive heard that this approach would allow the council to thrash out a long-term plan rather than being “rushed into” making environmental promises they were unable to keep.

In the statement, the council recognises that the climate crisis represents a “human-made threat” and is already having “far-reaching, irreversible effects on populations, places, economies, society and the natural environment, locally, nationally and globally”.

The authority’s chief executive Pat Graham said the council would take a “pragmatic approach” to climate change, “not promising things we can’t deliver but starting with the things we absolutely can”.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Carlisle United and Forest Green meet at Brunton Park in their FA Cup second round replay tonight.

A trip to Championship side Cardiff City awaits tonight’s winners.

The new head coach Chris Beech says he's looking forward to his first game in charge at Brunton Park, and sooner than he expected because the next home game otherwise would have been the league match with Grimsby on Saturday.

Image source, CUFC

The Met Office has added a yellow warning for heavy rain, external, to the existing alert for strong winds.

Forecasters say many areas will see 20mm to 30mm (1in) of rain, while parts of the Lake District and Pennines could see 50mm to 100mm (2in to 4in) by this evening.

Environment Agency warnings, for Keswick Campsite, and alerts for rivers in the central Lake District, remain in force.

BBC News Travel

A bus service on the West Cumbria coast has been cancelled for the day because gale force winds have made the road unsafe.

The Coast Rider 60 between Maryport and Skinburness has been suspended, and the operator, Ellenvale, says services 68 and 69, between Maryport and Cockermouth may be suspended if conditions worsen.

Public consultation is nearly over into a single overall plan to combat coastal flooding and erosion around Cumbria, over the next century.

Image source, Cumbria County Council

High tides and storm surges cause flooding at a number of regular locations around the county, such as at Sandside on Morecambe Bay.

Officials say the Cumbria Coastal Strategy, external should be finalised in the spring and aims to balance protecting homes, employers, roads and railways with the sometimes conflicting needs of the environment and wildlife.

Volunteers from the Langdale Ambleside rescue team carried a 60-year-old walker down from Blea Rigg, above Chapel Stile in Great Langdale, after he slipped on wet grass and suffered a lower leg injury.

Image source, LAMRA

The walker was taken to hospital by his wife, once he had been taken to the valley.

Late on yesterday we brought you news that six of Cumbria's local newspapers would share a single group editor rather than each have their own local editors, and that these job losses followed a number of feature-writing redundancies.

Newsquest, the company that owns the News and Star, Barrow Mail, Westmorland Gazetter, Whitehaven News and the Workington Times and Star, has now responded to accusations from the journalists' union, the NUJ, that it is putting local reporting at risk.

In a statement the firm said very substantial losses of advertising meant it had to restructure the business.

• Temperatures at 3,000ft: 7C (45F)
• Winds: South or southwest 50mph gusting 60mph, increasing to 70mph gusting to 75mph to 80mph, veering late afternoon to westerly 45 mph gusting 55mph
• Cloud base: 2,000ft to 2,300ft (600m to 700m)
• Freezing level: Above peaks
• Visibility: Poor occasionally moderate.

The assessors who compile the Lake District Weatherline reports on conditions on the high fells, external say anyone heading out will need a sense of humour today, as paths area like to be icy after snowfall yesterday, and that combined with the gales will make conditions challenging.

Image source, LDNPA