Martin Lewes
Reporter

We've now finished posting the news, travel reports, a regular weather forecast and other nuggets that we notice about the county.

Here's a reminder:

• Some of the county's businesses, including a supermarket chain, are still suffering the after-effects of Storm Desmond
• The chief executive of the North Cumbria hospitals trust said he ruled out any idea of having police cars escorting ambulances carrying mums in labour from West Cumbria to Carlisle
• And final preparations were made for the 750th Egremont Crab Fair - including, presumably, some energetic stretching of the facial muscles in training for the gurning.

We'll be back from 08:00 on Monday to do it all again.

In the meantime, if you've a photo you'd like to share with the county, or news you think we should know, 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 weekend.

Local gardeners and Virgin Trains have set up planters on the platform to create a habitat for bees.

Image source, Virgin Trains

The idea came from two station assistants, Liam Edmondson and John Kelly, who involved 25 volunteers and groups including Eden Mencap and the North Lakes School.

BBC Weather

The showers will continue in some areas, although there will be some clear weather too.

It will be rather chilly, with temperatures of 6C (43F).

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

The sculptress Christine Hurford has installed a work in Carlisle Cathedral that tries to show the last footsteps of mankind on earth.

The white fronds look like grass but are abstract representations of people, with the footsteps embedded in the surface between them.

The installation is part of C-Art, a county-wide festival involving studios, galleries and installations.

Fire crews from across the Furness peninsula have spent the afternoon fighting a major barn fire.

People living near the farm between Barrow and Dalton were asked to stay in doors and close their windows and Park Road was closed because of smoke.

Image source, @CumbriaFire

The fire broke out in the barn at Sinkfall Farm on Rakesmoor Lane at 13:30 and five fire engines are still in attendance, external.

The barn contains hay and machinery. Gas cylinders have been removed by firefighters.

BBC News Travel

Three cars have collided on the eastbound carriageway of Lindale Hill at the sliproad for the B5271, partially blocking the road.

And the going is still slow on the A596 because the lorry that overturned between Carlisle and Wigton this morning has yet to be recovered.

BBC News Travel

Roads around Kendal will start closing at about 18:00 for the Torchlight Carnival procession, and many will remain closed until 22:00.

Cumbria's police commissioner Peter McCall has been trying out a driving simulator which looks like it might be based more on the track than the A6.

It's part of the display of a website that advises people how to avoid being scammed, external on the internet.

Cumbria's Police and Crime Commissioner, Peter McCall, is giving £2,000 to each of three local church groups to help them set up projects that take some of the strain off his officers.

The money is handed out under a scheme called the Cinnamon project, and the idea behind it is that police spend much of their time dealing with problems such as people with mental illness, where volunteers would be as effective.

In Cumbria, late-night social problems in Carlisle and Barrow have already led to the establishment of street pastor groups.

Cumbria police are warning of scam calls in west Cumbria, with the caller purporting to be from HMRC and saying that prosecution will follow unless a payment is made.

A project which has recruited dozens of volunteers to crochet poppies for an arts installation for the Royal British Legion's remembrance appeal was backed by the Prince of Wales in his visit yesterday.

Image source, Cliff Dixon

About 40 groups such as WIs have already been recruited to make the poppies to a simple pattern designed by Marion Minshall, who presented the Prince with one of them yesterday.

The poppies will be pinned to a camouflaged tent outside the Kendal Leisure Centre in the fortnight running up to Remembrance Day, when it will be moved to Kendal Parish Church.

The project is part of the Kendal Woolgathering, external festival at the leisure centre on 28 and 29 October.

Volunteers from the Langdale Ambleside rescue team and the Great North Air Ambulance went to the aid of a walker who fell near Easedale Tarn and suffered a back injury.

Image source, GNAA

The woman, who's in her 60s, was flown to the Cumberland Infirmary at Carlisle.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Manager Keith Curle says Carlisle United will put in the work to turn their poor form around.

The Brunton Park side entertain Barnet in League Two tomorrow after three defeats and a draw in their last four games.

Lee Macaulay
Journalist, BBC Cumbria

The man in charge of north Cumbria's hospitals has ruled out the idea of police officers escorting emergency maternity transfers from Whitehaven to Carlisle.

The escorts were suggested in a report by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, external earlier this year to ensure mothers could get to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle more quickly if a consultant-led maternity unit was closed in Whitehaven.

The North Cumbria Hospital Trust chief executive Stephen Eames has told BBC Radio Cumbria:

The chief executive of Cumbria's Chamber of Commerce says he's worried about the conintuing uncertainty over migration and exports after the UK leaves the EU.

In a message to members, Ron Johnston says: "Worryingly, we are no clearer about what the post-Brexit relationship with the EU will look like now than we were the day after the referendum in June last year.”

Image source, Cumbria Chamber of Commerce

Mr Johnston said two of Cumbria's biggest industries, tourism and food production, were heavily reliant on unskilled migrant labour, and a recent leaked paper suggesting a strict border policy had not allayed his concerns.

Cumbrian pharmacists are struggling to fuflil prescriptions after an IT failure at a major drugs wholesaler.

An air conditioning fault at Alliance Healthcare last week disrupted deliveries of vital medicines across the UK.

The firm says its systems are now operational but some chemists' shops say they still have a problem.

Image source, Thinkstock

A gambler who put £600 he won on a betting shop machine into a quantity of heroin wraps to sell on has been jailed for 40 months.

Image source, Cumbria Police

James Disley, 26, of Edenhurst Avenue in Liverpool, was caught at a garage in Carlisle with more than 100 wraps.

At Carlisle Crown Court today, Disley admitted possessing heroin with intent to supply.

BBC News Travel

Virgin West Coast services to London Euston are still disrupted after a fire at Headstone Lane, near Harrow.

Although all lines have now reopened, there are delays of up to 120 minutes, with replacement buses running to connect with extra trains into St Pancras and Luton Airport Parkway.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Barrow entertain Torquay tomorrow having won just one of their seven matches so far.

Four of the games have been midweek, but the interim manager Mickey Moore says his players can't blame their poor form on a packed schedule.

Neil Smith
South Cumbria journalist, BBC Cumbria

Plastic litter collected from Cumbria's beaches is going to be recycled for the first time.

Image source, CWT

Volunteers will be litter-picking at six beaches this weekend in the county as part of the Great British Beach Clean, external.

In past years what they've collected has gone to landfill, but this year plastics collected at South Walney will be turned into shampoo bottles