Live updates from Lancashire have finished for the day, but we'll be back from 08:00 on Monday with the latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the region.

Before we go, a bit of BBC Children in Need news - Graham Liver and the team have reached their final destination in challenge to pull a bed from Pudsey in West Yorkshire to Bare in Morecambe.

The team have raised more than £27,000 over the past seven days.

Well done to everyone involved. For more BBC Children in Need fun, tune in to BBC One tonight at 19:30.

Showers will continue through the evening and overnight, but will become less widespread by dawn.

Another cold night, with widespread frost, and ice where surfaces are wet. Lows of 3C.

More from BBC Weather

There is a buzz around Blackpool, as the BBC programme Strictly Come Dancing gets ready to broadcast from the resort this weekend. 

Rehearsals are taking place today and the show will be broadcast live from the Tower Ballroom tomorrow night.

And it looks like the show's dancers are having a good time too.

Lancashire Police have issued a warning about roads in the east of the county that could become hazardous in wintry conditions.

Here's some of the photographs the BBC Weather Watchers have been taking today.

• A legal challenge is launched by the Preston New Road Action Group against the government's decision to allow fracking in Lancashire
• Lancashire Police warn drivers to take care on roads in the east of the county because of hazardous conditions
• The West Pennine Moors are given legal protection and declared a Site of Specific Interest by natural England

Lancaster Guardian
Lancaster Guardian

A Lord of the Rings star who played Gollum has praised a Lancaster theatre, external as it celebrates its 45-year anniversary.

Jewellery containing the ashes of a woman's son has been stolen in a break-in in Burnley.

Image source, Lancashire Police

Image source, Lancashire Police

Thieves took the jewellery, along with a handmade ruby pendant, a number of wedding rings, cash and various electrical items, in a raid on a property on Lowerhouse Lane on Monday afternoon.

Lancashire Police said the theft had left the woman "devastated".

• Campaigners are launching a legal challenge to the government's decision to allow the process of fracking in Lancashire
• The West Pennine Moors are given legal protection and declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest
• A feasibility study suggest the dilapidated Burnley Empire Theatre could be saved and restored

The West Pennine Moors has been given special legal protection.

Image source, John Tustin/Geograph

The area has been been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest by Natural England.

The move reflects the biological and geological significance of the area and its upland habitats, grasslands, woodlands and bird populations. 

In total, the site covers 30 sq miles (76 sq km) between Chorley, Blackburn and Haslingden. 

A man has been arrested after an 81-year-old woman was robbed in the Ansdell area of Lytham last Saturday, police have said.

Image source, Google

Lancashire Police said the woman was walking with her husband behind The Friends of St Paul’s shop towards Oxford Court when a man approached them and grabbed her handbag.

The man, described as white and wearing a dark jacket, blue jeans and trainers, then ran off towards steps at the end of the alleyway, leading back to Woodlands Road.

The woman suffered minor head injuries and has been recovering in Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

A police spokesman said officers were "keen to speak to anyone who witnessed the offence".

An Accrington man has spoken about how BBC Children in Need helped him when he was caring for his dad.

Twenty-one-year-old Eddy O'Brien - who cared for his father, who had multiple sclerosis - has been speaking to Sara Cox on BBC Radio 2 about the impact the Carers Link service had on his life.

It is one of more than 300 services that receive funding from the charity.

The stars of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing have arrived in Blackpool, ahead of this weekend's live shows from the Tower Ballroom, and it's safe to say they have been met by bracing weather and a fair few fans.

Image source, PA

Image source, PA

Image source, PA

Campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the government's decision to grant permission to frack for shale gas in Lancashire.

In October, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid approved plans for fracking at Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton.

A legal challenge to that decision has been issued by the Preston New Road Action Group, who are being represented by law firm Leigh Day.

The group say the government’s decision to overrule Lancashire County Council’s refusal of planning permission is unlawful because it failed to properly apply relevant planning laws and policy.

• The Preston New Road Action Group launch formal legal proceedings against the government's decision to grant permission to frack in Lancashire
• Jewellery containing the ashes of a woman's son are stolen in a burglary in Burnley
• A man is arrested over the theft of a woman's handbag in Lytham

Blackpool Gazette
Blackpool Gazette

A woman was treated by ambulance workers after being dragged away from the sea, external in Blackpool.

BBC Weather Watchers

Contributors to the BBC Weather Watchers website have been recording the wintry conditions near them.

From the images that have been uploaded this morning, it looks like the east of the county had the heaviest covering.

An interactive map , externalshowing flood repair work in Lancashire has been launched by the Environment Agency.

Image source, Google

Each pin on the online map represents a place where the organisation has been working to repair damage from storms Desmond and Eva.

The idea is to show the progress of the repairs to defences and the preparations for this winter.

• A report shows that more than 18,000 extra days behind bars, external were given as punishment to inmates at Lancashire prisons over the last two years
• Two more children's centres have closed in Lancashire, as part of the county council's plans to make £200m of cuts by 2020
• Burnley Empire Theatre has the "potential to be saved", a study commissioned by the trust in charge of it shows

More than 18,000 extra days behind bars were given to inmates at Lancashire's prisons in the last two year as a punishment, a report has shown.

Image source, Ann Cook/Geograph

The Howard League for Penal Reform's report, external found in 2014 and 2015:

• HMP Garth - 795 inmates received 1,151 extra days
• HMP Kirkham - 606 inmates received 1,753 extra days
• HMP Lancaster Farms - 535 inmates received 9,262 extra days
• HMP Preston - 707 inmates received 3,839 extra days
• HMP Wymott - 1,130 inmates received 2,139 extra days

The organisation's chief executive Frances Crook said prisons are "failing" and that "punishing your way out of a prison problem is not going to work".

The leader of a toddler group in Nelson says closing children's centres in Lancashire is going to leave families lacking support.

Maxine Denee is anxious for the future: "Parents need that support. I was panicking when I was a new mum and I had other services to go to. We do need them."

Two more centres will close today as part of the county council cuts, which are part of £200m of cuts it needs to make by 2020. 

Leader of Lancashire County Council, Jennifer Mein, says services will continue in the centres that remain.