Council tax in Carlisle will go up still further from next month, as councillors approved a precept rise.

Plans to increase the city rate by 2.54 per cent were backed at a full council meeting on Tuesday. However 19 out of the Carlisle's 20 Tory councillors - Dalston's Ann McKerrell was not at the meeting - abstained from the vote.

Twenty-eight councillors voted in favour of the proposals, with two councillors voting against the increase.

Increases have already been announced by both Cumbria County Council and the county's police and crime commissioner for their precepts.

A report presented to councillors said: "It should be noted that the city council has increased its share of council tax by £5 (2.54 per cent) for 2017-18.

"The county council has raised its share for 2017-18 by 1.99 per cent and 2 per cent for the social care precept. The police and crime commissioner has raised its council tax rates for 2017-18 by 1.91 per cent."

Speaking about the proposed increase in December, Les Tickner, finance, governance and resources portfolio holder and deputy leader of the council, said: "Sometimes I don't think people realise how little the rise is."

The report said: "As discussed at the previous council meeting in February, the final local government finance settlement had not been received, and therefore any changes in funding received from central government would be funded to/from appropriations from revenue reserves.

"These figures were confirmed on February 20, after the council agreed the 2017-18 budget, with no significant changes required to the figures presented with the exception of a small rounding difference which amends the use of council reserves in 2017-18 by £1,000, from £428,000 to £427,000; and parish precepts from £553,000 to £552,000."

Meanwhile residents living elsewhere in Cumbria are also set for a council tax hike.

A 'no cuts' budget put forward by Copeland Council has been agreed.

It includes a 1.95 per cent increase and a £1m scheme to regenerate town centres in 2017-18.

The council's budget will also see no increase in crematorium charges for 2017/18 and £200,000 will go towards improving IT systems.

In Allerdale, a 1.9 per cent rise in council tax was backed, despite a bid by independent councillors to freeze the borough authority's share of the bill.

Bill Finlay, councillor for Aspatria and leader of the independent group, proposed keeping council tax at the same rate as this year. He proposed plugging a shortfall in central government funding by using financial reserves.

However the increase was supported by councillors, meaning that Band D households in the borough will pay an extra £3.04 in 2017-18.