Martin Lewes
Reporter

We've now finished posting news, ytravel reports and a regular weater forecast, for today and this week. Here's a reminder:

• There was a growing welcome in west Cumbria for the news that the trust that runs Whitehaven Academy is looking for a sponsor to take over the reins;
• Four people were jailed for setting up what prosecutors described as a "branch office" of a Manchester drugs network in Kendal;
• And winter arrived in the Lake District in time to let the first of the fell top assessors who trek up Helvellyn every day for the next four months, report that an ice axe and crampons were already essential equipment.

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

If you can help with news you think we should know, or want to share a photo 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 good weekend.

BBC Weather

It will turn increasingly cloudy, with a few outbreaks of light rain or drizzle possible at times.

There is still a risk of frost in the evening but temperatures should only drop to about 1C (34F) and rise by morning.

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

A former national junior boxing champion has been detained for attacking a student in Carlisle city centre.

Image source, Cumbria Police

Kyle Peebles, 19, punched 20-year-old Ashley Cooke at a taxi rank in Court Square, just before 04:00 on 17 April.

Mr Cooke was then kicked in the head during a sustained incident which also involved a second attacker, 25-year-old Aidan Steven.

Steven, from Blundell Road in Carlisle, and Peebles, from Merith Avenue in the city, both admitted causing grievous bodily harm.

Peebles was given two year's detention, and Steven a two-year prison term suspended for 18 months, with unpaid work and an order to pay compensation.

Martin Lewes
Reporter

John Bennett, Graham Uney and Zac Poulton are this winter's fell top assessors, tasked with taking turns to go to the top of Helvellyn every day until the end of March.

Image source, LDNPA

The man in the dark blue jacket between John and Graham is Alistair Boston, who was one of the first assessors to take on the job, 30 years ago this year.

They report back on the Lake District Weatherline, external page on the depth and consistency of the snow, the weather (which can be extreme, but today was perfect) and the recommended clothing and equipment, which often includes the same sort of ice axe, crampons and clothing you would wear in the Alps.

Police say the gang of four drug dealers jailed today for setting up a drug-dealing operation in Kendal, were an example of what they call a county line network.

Image source, Cumbria Police

The four, Nelson Brown, Jade Hewitson, Adam Hussain, and Michael Nelson, set up what prosecutors said was a "branch office" of a Manchester drug supply ring, bringing crack cocaine and heroin into South Cumbria on an almost daily basis.

A police spokesman said: "People need to be aware that should they become involved in this type of organised crime, they should expect a lengthy custodial sentence."

The conspiracy was detected using a variety of high-tech equipment to track vehicle movements and the mobile phone calls made by addicts to order their supplies.

The air coming down on the north wind may be cold, but it's clear as gin, and Stu Cleasby caught the view from the heights of the Lake District.

Image source, Stu Cleasby

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Three men and a woman who set up a 'branch office' of a Manchester drug-dealing operation in Kendal have been jailed at Carlisle Crown Court.

Adam Hussain, 36, from Marshall Road in Manchester, Jade Hewitson, 26, of no fixed address, her 23-year-old partner Zak Brown, now of Osbourne Road, Manchester, and Michael Jake Nelson, 26, of Castle Circle, in Kendal, all admitted supplying heroin and crack cocaine.

Police tracked gang members making almost daily trips to Manchester for supplies, and the mobile telephone traffic of addicts ordering drugs, and seized drugs with an estimated value of more than £1,000.

Hussain was jailed for four years and the other three to terms of between 16 months and three years and four months for what Recorder Julie Clemitson called "a well-organised supply chain".

Cumbria police are looking for a teenager after a driver reported that a boy aged about 14 ran into his car in one of Carlisle's main streets.

It happened in London Road near the junction with High Road, and the boy then ran off, shouting that he was not injured.

Image source, Google

The boy, who is said to have turned into High Road, is about 5ft 8in tall, slim, and was wearing dark clothing.

Officers say they want to make sure he wasn't hurt.

Copeland Conservative MP Trudy Harrison has said she's confident a new sponsor can be found to help Whitehaven Academy out of special measures.

The BBC's Alison Freeman was at a meeting last night and sent this report.

Cumbria Police has confirmed officers are conducting preliminary inquiries into the Bright Tribe Trust's management of the Whitehaven Academy.

But a spokesman said that at the moment they have not made decision on whether to start a formal investigation.

The trust said it was not aware of any complaint and had not been contacted by police.

This week Bright Tribe faced a barrage of criticism from pupils, parents and teachers at the Whitehaven Academy, saying education was suffering and buildings were substandard.

The trust countered by saying it was making improvements, and yesterday it announced it was looking for a new sponsor to take over the running of the school.

Image source, Google

A 46-year-old driver from Brampton escaped unhurt when his Suziki car turned onto its side on a minor road between Wiggonby and Aikton.

He was cut from the vehicle by firefighters.

A new art gallery opens at the Lake District national park at Brockhole, near Windermere, this weekend.

Image source, LDNPA

The first exhibition at the Gaddum gallery, named after the family who built the large Victorian holiday home, will show the artwork of Cumbrian artist Ellie Chaney.

Brockhole was founded to be the main centre where the national park authority explained its work to visitors, but financial losses eventually forced a more commercial approach and the gardens now feature a ropes course with zipwires, while inside last month it unveiled an "indoor caving experience" called Brave the Cave.

Two men are being treated in the Royal Preston Hospital after they were attacked in a house in Sandes Avenue, Kendal.

Image source, Google

Police were called just before 23:00 last night and found the men, one in his 20s and the other in his 30s, suffering what officers describe as serious injuries.

They've appealed for information, especially about two men and a woman seen in the area at the time.

The least used railway station in Cumbria has been revealed today.

The Office of Rail and Road says just 560 people used Nethertown railway station on the Cumbrian Coast line, which makes the request stop the 36th least used in Britain

The most used stations in Cumbria was Carlisle - with 1.85m passengers.

Police say four of of more than 100 cars pulled in during an operation to look for travelling criminals, had no insurance.

One was being used for crime, and another made off. It was found abandoned, but was carrying illegal drugs.

The operation involved six county forces and Acting Inspector Gaynor Taylor said: "we gave crime prevention advice in areas that had been targeted by criminals, and gained lots of valuable intelligence from the vehicle stops."

BBC Weather

Through the rest of the day the skies will begin to turn cloudier across Cumbria, with the sunshine turning hazy. Temperatures will reach about 5C (41F).

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

A charity says that restricting who can get cosmetic surgery on the NHS in South Cumbria could put vulnerable people at risk.

The Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group says it will stop paying for a range of procedures if the effects are deemed purely cosmetic, external - such as removing benign moles, ear pinning or tummy tucks.

The charity Changing Faces says this could lead to more people suffering from depression and anxiety.

Morecambe Bay CCG says the change is needed to bring it in line with the seven other CCGs across Lancashire and Cumbria.

BBC Cumbria Sport

Captain Danny Grainger says Carlisle United's recent form against higher division sides should give them confidence going into tomorrow's FA Cup tie at Gillingham.

Image source, CUFC

United beat another League One side, Oldham, in the first round last month.

Police say 15-year-old Liam Percival was last seen in Silverdale Road on Monday and officers are concerned for his welfare.

He's 5ft 6in with light brown hair, and was wearing mainly black clothing.

Image source, Family photo

There's been quite a lot of redevelopment at the Low Wood Resort on the shores of Windermere, and the chairman of the family firm that owns it, English Lakes Hotels, is pleased that even though Christmas tree's height did not form part of the specification, it is catered for.