Promising Carlisle United youth team player Dan Hopper has gone out on loan.

The 17-year-old has joined Penrith in a month-long work experience deal, it has been confirmed.

Hopper will aim to get first-team experience with Darren Edmondson's Northern League Division One side between now and late January.

The move for the attacking midfielder comes midway through a season which has seen Hopper make his first-team debut.

That came when the teenager came off the bench against Wigan Athletic in the Bristol Street Motors Trophy on October 8.

Hopper has been a regular in Mark Birch's under-18 side and has also featured in Central League Cup games this season.

He was a key player in the Blues' run to the third round of the FA Youth Cup, Hopper scoring in the extra-time defeat to Plymouth Argyle earlier this month.

He could make his debut when Penrith take on Guisborough Town at Frenchfield Park on Saturday.

The son of former United and Workington Reds favourite Tony Hopper, Dan will play for a Penrith side managed by his father's former Carlisle team-mate Edmondson, whose assistant, Richard Prokas, also played alongside Hopper senior in the Blues midfield.

Penrith sit 14th in Northern League Division One after 24 games. Edmondson's side are also in the Fred Conway Cumberland Cup quarter-finals but Hopper will not be able to play for the Bonny Blues in that competition, having already turned out for United in previous rounds.

The youngster is the sixth teenage Blues player to head out on loan so far this season.

Workington Reds have three United players on temporary deals in Jake Allan, Sam Hetherington and Aran Fitzpatrick.

Anton Dudik is with South Shields while Josh O'Brien's spell at Carlisle City has been hit by injury.