The convictions on weapons charges of six former British soldiers are quashed.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

It's been a second day dominated by the inquest into the death of the Barrow toddler Poppi Worthington, and there will be more tomorrow, as her father, Paul Worthington is due to give evidence.

In other news:

• Parents who campaigned for improvements in the maternity services at the Furness General Hospital were praised by name in the House of Commons, as the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, proposed making stillbirths a matter coroners could investigate;
• John Armstrong from Wigton waved to journalists outside the British Consulate in Chennai, India, after he and five other anti-piracy guards were freed after their acquittal by the courts there;
• And police listed some of the 200 weapons, including 48 firearms, that have been handed in over the past fortnight of "surrender".

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

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Have a very good evening.

A Cumbrian healthcare campaigner says lives could have been saved during the Furness maternity scandal - if the deaths of babies and mothers were being independently investigated.

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James Titcombe's son Joshua died at the Furness General Hospital as a result of poor care.

The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, wants to give coroners the power to look into stillbirths; and to have independent investigations.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

Plans for a car and coach park have divided the community of Coniston, according to officials at the national park authority,

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The directors of the Coppermines, which owns cottages and a large area of land in a valley above the village, have suggested laying out parking for 100 cars and seven coaches in a field next to the Ruskin Museum.

But letters to the Lake District planning committee are almost evenly balanced, with nearly 60 saying the village needs more parking, and slightly more saying that it would affect views out of the village and that no more parking is needed.

Planning officials say, external that on balance, the national park members should refuse permission when they meet on 8 December.

A Carlisle man who scared his ex-partner and intimidated her mother has been given an 11-month prison sentence.

Carlisle Crown Court heard Ronald Carter, 58, from Tait Street, had been found with a craft knife in the city centre, stolen alcohol from a shop and shouted at his former partner, forcing her to seek shelter in a nearby post office.

Carter also made an intimidating late-night telephone call to his ex-partner's mother, Judge Barbara Forrester was told.

Carter admitted theft, possessing a blade, intimidation and a public order offence.

He was sentenced to 44 weeks in prison and ordered not to contact either woman for 10 years.

Barrow's MP, John Woodcock, says there should be a permanent memorial to the families who campaigned for improvements to maternity services at the Furness General hospital, after a series of deaths of babies there.

After the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced a series of measures to help health services learn from stillbirths and other problems, Mr Woodcock told the House of Commons a new maternity unit was about to open at the Barrow hospital.

He said it would be safer thanks to the parents, whom he listed by name, who'd lost babies and "campaigned tirelessly for national changes".

Cumbrian towns are among places where it's most difficult for people born into poor families to progress into more prosperous circumstances, according to figures published today, external.

In a list of 324 council areas, Carlisle was 320th, and Allerdale 319th. South Lakeland did best in the county, at 104th, Copeland was 170th, Eden 192nd and Barrow, 280th.

A think tank set up by the government, the Social Mobility Commission, found the top 13 were all London boroughs.

The study judged social mobility by factors such as children's educational outcomes compared with their parents, their occupations in adult life, and the extent to which they can afford to buy property.

Poppi Worthington died in hospital after being found with serious injuries in December 2012.

Copeland council could be run with more than a third fewer councillors, according to the Local Government Boundary Commission.

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The council currently has 51 elected members, representing wards from Millom in the South to Distington in the north.

The commission says the council could operate with 33, which would mean combining some communities and people are being asked where the new boundaries should run, external.

The consultation runs until next February.

Duncan Leatherdale
BBC News Online

The inquest into the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington in Barrow has been hearing from police officers who were called in.

Insp Helen Ellis said she had treated the death as suspicious after Dr Osama Braima had reported signs of bleeding.

The officer told the inquest, the second to be held into the so-far unexplained death of the toddler, that officers had sealed off the bedroom, but not the whole home at that point.

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The A6 south of Milnthorpe has been reopened after the accident at 07:40 this morning.

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It will stay windy and cold, with a brisk breeze along the coast and on the hills.

Under clear skies a widespread frost is expected by morning with temperatures falling to 0C (32F).

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has paid tribute to bereaved families who've "campaigned tirelessly" for safer maternity services in south Cumbria.

Two years ago, their campaign resulted in the Kirkup Inquiry, which found a series of failings at Furness General Hospital had led to the deaths of 11 babies and one mother between 2003 and 2013.

The government today announced a series of measures to try to prevent similar deaths during childbirth in England.

Mr Hunt told the Commons how moved he had been when he met families involved in the Furness campaign, and what a difference he thought they had made.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Carlisle midfielder Nicky Adams says he'll come back "fitter and stronger" after undergoing surgery on his cruciate knee ligament injury yesterday.

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Adams faces months of rehabilitation and won't play again this season, but said he was still in good spirits:

The Chennai Six were at the British embassy today, and consular officials discussed the next steps in their release with Indian authorities.

Meanwhile John Armstrong form Wigton took the chance of a bit of fresh air, within sight of news photographers outside.

The cycling charity Sustrans has started work on a £450,000 project to repair bridges and tunnels on old railways in west Cumbria and the north east.

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The Cumbrian parts of the C2C cycling route, external was built to link iron mines with the furnaces, and is known as the Tracks of the Ironmasters.

The work will include restoration of a unique metal bridge at Montreal Cottages, Seaton, shown here.

Work to repair footpaths and bridges in the Lake District National Park following the 2015 floods is ahead of schedule.

Today there was a celebration to mark the repairs at the Mill Inn Bridge at Mungrisdale near Blencathra, the 50th to be fixed in the Routes to Resilience project.

The aim is to repair more than 60 bridges, 102 paths and 56 gates and stiles by September.

Eden District councillor Sheila Orchard, who represented Hartside for the Conservatives, has died after a long illness, the council said today.

Mrs Orchard, who was leader of the Conservative group from 2011 to 2015, was described as "a force of nature" by the council's leader, Kevin Beaty.

Detectives are investigating another ram-raid in Cumbria after at least half a dozen similar attacks in the county in recent months.

They involve a vehicle being driven into a building, usually in an attempt to steal a cash machine.

The latest incident happened at the Booths supermarket in Milnthorpe over the weekend.

It follows similar attacks this year in Sedbergh (pictured), Keswick, Penrith, Aspatria, Cockermouth and Whitehaven.

Fire crews from Ambleside and Windermere freed a 33-year-old woman after a two-car collision on Easedale Road in Grasmere last night.

It's not thought she was seriously hurt.