Martin Lewes
Reporter

We've now finished posting the news, travel reports, a regular weather forecast and other things that might catch our eye from around the county, for today.

Here's a reminder:

• Cumbria police said they were receiving an average of 10 calls a day involving someone with mental health issues, but they were managing to reduce the number for whom a place of safety was a police cell;
• The Cumbrian adventurer Leo Houlding revealed details of his latest expedition, involving an unclimbed rockface in the middle of Antarctica and a 2,000 km journey across the frozen continent;
• And a Lake District school did so well in a test of a technical reading skill, that a government minister sent it a letter of congratulations to read.

We'll be back to do it again from 08:00 tomorrow.

If you've something to contribute, with news we should know, or a photo to share with the county, you can email them to us, send them using Twitter where we're @BBC_Cumbria, external or head to our Facebook page, external.

Have a very good evening.

Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has asked a justice minister how people in South Cumbria can have access to justice after Kendal Magistrates' Court closed earlier this year.

Dominic Raab said the government was spending about £1bn on court reforms to introduce modern technology and increase what he called "more sensitive" access to justice.

Afterwards Mr Farron said he was "extremely disappointed" at the minister's reply.

Adam Powell
Journalist, BBC Radio Cumbria

Malcolm Wilson, the founder of the M-Sport rally firm that became the first private company to win the WRC manufacturers championships at the weekend, says the result was "making history".

Image source, Justin Setterfield/Getty Images

Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia came in third to take the drivers' championships at the rally in Wales, while Elfyn Evans and Daniel Barritt won the rally itself.

Giving his first interview since the weekend, Malcolm Wilson said: "It was just 20 minutes of history being made, you can't better it. It's just an incredible feeling for everyone in the team."

Wilson's now turning his attention to next year.

BBC Weather

Outbreaks of rain are expected to ease during the first half of the night, but it will stay mostly cloudy until the early hours of Wednesday.

Temperatures will fall to about 11C (52F).

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

Roy Batterbee from St Helens has been proving experience is not essential at the Coniston Water Speed Records Week.

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Carlisle United manager Keith Curle says the outcome of Saturday's FA Cup tie against Oldham will have a impact on his January transfer budget.

Oldham are coming to Brunton Park in the first round tie on good form, but Curle says a win for Carlisle would bring in more money.

Grasmere School has a nice surprise in the post this morning; a letter from the education minister Nick Gibb saying the children did so well in a recent test of a technical reading skill that the school is in the top 3% in England.

Carlisle Crown Court has been hearing from drivers who saw what happened on the day a Mercedes driver lost control and ploughed into two Highways Agency officers who were helping after an earlier crash on the M6 near Tebay.

One, Adam Gibb, died, and the other, Paul Holroyd, was left paralysed after the crash in what a witness described as "terrible" weather.

Image source, Craig McGlasson

Peter Morrison, 37, from Worsley in Manchester, admits causing death and serious injury by careless driving, but denies dangerous driving.

Another driver, Ian Shaw, told the jury how he saw Morrison's car approach him at a "silly" speed from behind, just before the accident.

The trial continues.

A pensioner from Brampton has died in a crash involving her car and a lorry on the A689 between Brampton and Linstock earlier today.

The 74-year-old woman was freed from the wreckage by firefighters but pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the heavy good vehicle, who is 65, was not seriously injured.

The road is still closed in both directions.

Cumbria police are offering a link on their website, external where people who don't want trick or treaters can download a poster to say so.

They're also offering another for those who are waiting keenly behind the front door with a bag off treats, or alternatively a trick, for the Halloween visitors.

The choice is yours.

Red squirrels are following a cycle route along an old railway line to travel between feeding grounds, according to the cycling charity, Sustrans.

Image source, Sustrans

The group had placed feeding hoppers along the cycle route, which is managed by Sustrans, and realised they were being used by the same four squirrels, including one with a distinctive white tail, along a section of the 16-mile trail.

Carlisle's including on a list of 44 British towns and cities that have levels of sooty particles above World Health Organisation safety guidelines.

Exposure to the particles, known as PM2.5s, external, should not exceed 10 micrograms per cubic metre of air, according to the health organisation.

But Carlisle registers 12 micrograms on a list topped by Glasgow at 16, with London and Eastbourne at 15.

The list is part of a major report being published later, external by the Lancet on public health, pollution and climate change.

Image source, Getty Images

BBC Weather

It will stay cloudy and some rain is likely, especially across the fells.

It will also feel warmer than on Monday. The temperature could reach 13C (55F).

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

An NHS employee has been charged with stealing computer equipment valued at £47,000 from the health service.

Matthew Lawrence Binns, 29, of The Promenade, Maryport, is said to have taken the equipment between January 2016 and May 2017.

No plea was entered, and he was told to attend Carlisle Crown Court on 1 December.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Workington Reds forward Jack Ryan is facing a lengthy spell out of action after it was revealed he's suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate and torn medial ligament in his knee.

It means he won't play again for the rest of 2017.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

Cumbrian climber Leo Houlding's revealed details of his latest expedition, external, which include both a previously unclimbed route on a remote mountain, and snow-kiting on skis on a 2,000km crossing of the frozen continent.

Image source, Edmund Stump

Leo, with colleagues Jean Burgun and Mark Sedon will attempt a new route on the Spectre, in the centre of the Gothic Mountains (pictured), and explore other peaks.

They'll then use a combination of hauling sledges and using giant kites and 80kmh winds like sails, to travel from the Ross Ice Shelf on one coast of Antarctica, to the Ronne ice shelf on the other.

The three, who leave this week, will carry or pull all their supplies and equipment for the journey, which is expected to take around 70 days, in temperatures as low as -50C.

An appeal that helps some of Cumbria's most vulnerable people to stay warm during the winter has returned for its eighth year.

The Cumbria Community Foundation, which runs the Winter Warmth Appeal, external, awards grants of up to £250 to help people in financial difficulties to pay their bills.

A driver from Salford who ploughed into two highways workers on the M6 was driving at "grossly excessive" speed in "horrible" weather conditions, a court has been told.

Image source, Craig McGlasson

Adam Gibb died and Paul Holroyd was seriously injured in the crash near Tebay, Cumbria, in February 2016.

Peter Morrison is on trial at Carlisle Crown Court accused of causing death by dangerous driving, which he denies.

The 37-year-old, of The Warke, Worsley, Salford, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.

The court was told the two highways officers were clearing up after an earlier collision on the southbound carriageway when the Mercedes 4x4 driven by Mr Morrison veered from lane three across to the hard shoulder, hitting them.

The family of Conor Brannon, who died when his Ford Fiesta hit a tree on 22 October, say they'll always remember him with smiles and warm feelings for the joy he brought them.

Image source, Family picture

In a statement issued through police, they said Conor, 23, from Maryport, had recently given up a job as an electrician to travel in Thailand and Vietnam before working in Sydney, Australia.

They described him as "happy, outgoing and caring".

Three other people were seriously injured in the crash on Scaw Road in High Harrington.

A number of new national and world best times were set on Coniston Water on the first day of the annual speed records week.

Image source, Tim Tapping Coniston Speed Records Week

Peter Hart from Windermere increased his 2014 class national record to just over 92mph in his first run of the week, and the final score for the day was two world records, one world and national and eight national records either set or broken.