Severe weather

• Gritting and salting roads

• Gritting and salting of roads and maintaining grit heaps and salt bins is carried out by Cumbria Highways. Highways England grit and salt the M6 and A66.

• Traffic and road information

• Daily list of roads and bridges closed due to bad weather for all districts in Cumbria.

• Cumbria roads Police twitter

• Cumbria Police twitter account for up to date information on Cumbria's road

• Met Office weather warnings

• Use your postcode to search for Met Office weather warnings for the next 5 days in your area.

• Emergency accommodation for rough sleepers

• Emergency accommodation is provided for people sleeping outside to get them off the streets during periods of below zero night-time temperatures.

• Emergency telephone numbers list

• Emergency telephone numbers for the police, Crimestoppers, Environment Agency, hospitals, gas, water, electricity, local radio, traffic news and local radio.

• National Rail enquires

• Find out about train delays and train cancellations due to wintry weather conditions or engineering work disrupting train journeys from National Rail enquiries.

• Flood warnings for Cumbria

• GOV.UK information on flood warnings and alerts for Cumbria, including option to sign up for flood alerts.

• Flood preparation and response advice

• Flood preparation and response advice, including information about sandbags.