out. that is good news but there is still heavy rain forecast and nine flood warnings in place across cumbria. people being urged to keep a vigilant, keep an eye on the forecast, keep a vigilant. 40 properties, unfortunately, flooded yesterday and those people will be trying to diet their properties today. hopefully nobody else will be affected. a dry out. the environment agency encouraging us to follow the forecast but hopefully a major flooding event has been avoided here. quite significant traffic disruption still, and erodes and bridges affected while one closed and the county council looks at the structural integrity. on the train then, passengers on the west coast main route that runs through cumbria and up the west coast, passengers are being told not to try and travel further than press and are still having an impact but there is a little bit of a relief, a sense of calm in cockermouth and it seems
megan paterson has more. well, as you can see, the river running through cockermouth this morning is still fast flowing, pretty high, but the good news is the water levels are starting to recede. you can see this line of leaves on the grass here and this is where the water level was last night, but it has gone down very quickly this morning. we couldn t see the bottom of the bins are benches when we came down here that five en. the environment agency is telling us this is a slowly improving picture and water levels, river levels have peaked right across the county and lakes are beginning to level out. that is good news but there is still heavy rain forecast. there are still nine flood warnings in place across cumbria are people being urged to keep vigilant and keep an eye on the forecast to be mindful of floodwater if they live needed. we know that a0 properties, unfortunately, flooded yesterday. those people will be trying to dry out their properties today. hopefully nobody else will