Updates for Wednesday, 18 October 2015
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Thursday
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
That's all from the Cambridgeshire Live team for Wednesday. We'll be back tomorrow from 08:00 with the latest news, sport, travel and weather in the county.
Don't forget you can send us your stories, pictures and comments at any time via email, Facebook, external or Twitter, external.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Virgin Trains says engineers are working to repair storm damage to overhead wires which is causing "major disruption" to East Coast, external services tonight.
Image source, Virgin Trains
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Here are the top stories in Cambridgeshire this evening:
Sam Edwards
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Gusts of 66mph (106km/h) were registered near Peterborough during Storm Barney - this broken streetlight was photographed in Hampton by Conor King.
Image source, Conor KingYou can send us your pictures via email, Facebook, external or Twitter, external.
BBC Look East
High winds caused major disruptions to train services between London and Cambridge today.
Image source, Network RailThere were about 20 cancellations on the Liverpool Street line after a tree fell on to overhead power lines near Bishop's Stortford.
You can see a full round-up of the disruption caused by Storm Barney in our region on BBC Look East at 18:30.
Detectives are investigating a sex attack on a woman, external in a Cambridge park near a major shopping street.
BBC Travel
There are "major delays" on Virgin East Coast trains this evening due to damage to overhead wires.
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Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Police had to improvise with police tape to secure ponies that escaped from a field near Wisbech this morning.
Image source, Cambridgeshire PoliceOfficers were called when the ponies wandered onto the road at Redmoor Lane during the morning rush hour.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
A silent candle lit walk is set to take place in Cambridge tonight to remember the victims of recent terror attacks.
Around 500 people are expected to join the walk which starts on Magdalene Street at 19:45 and finishes with a vigil outside Great St Mary's Church (above).
Organisers say say they will remembering victims of terrorism in Paris, Beirut, Sinai and Baghdad.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Police say they are growing "increasingly concerned" for the welfare of a Lithuanian man from Wisbech who has not been seen since the end of September.
Image source, Cambridgeshire PoliceRicardas Puisys, 35, was last seen at his place, external of work at Nightlayer Leek Company, in Chatteris, on 28 September. Anyone with with information is asked to call 101.
Alex Harris
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
A buyer has been found for two Cambridgeshire residential special school under threat of closure, the disability charity Scope has announced.
Two weeks ago families of children using Meldreth Manor and Orchard Manor, external presented a petition to 10 Downing Street, to try and stop the charity closing them, for financial reasons.
Regional director, John MacLachlan, says they have now struck a deal to sell the schools to alternative education and care provider, the Aurora Group.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
If you're just joining us, here are the top stories in Cambridgeshire this afternoon:
Tom Horn
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
A man in his 20s is in a critical condition inAddenbrooke's Hospita, externall after his car was struck by a tree branch, causing it to leave the road and hit a lamp post.
Emergency services were called to the scene on Madingley Road, Cambridge at 19:50.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
High winds during Storm Barney brought down this tree at Barton, near Cambridge, partially blocking the road.
Barney - the second UK storm to be given a name - saw winds peak at 85mph (137km/h) on Tuesday, before conditions calmed down overnight.
You can send us your pictures via email, Facebook, external or Twitter, external.
Later today a narrow band of rain will move across Cambridgeshire.
Maximum temperature: 14C (57F). You can find a more detailed forecast for where you live at BBC Weather.
Johnny Dee
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Buses have resumed running on the stretch of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, external where a woman in her 80s was killed yesterday evening.
Police were called to the scene of the crash, approximately one mile north of Station Road in Swavesey, at 17:30.
Tom Horn
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Police , externalare investigating reports of a sexual assault on Christ’s Pieces in Cambridge.
The incident is believed to have happened between 01:00 and 02:30 this morning.
A police cordon has been put up at the scene while investigations continue.
Mousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Police say Jennifer Taylor, 81, is believed to be the first person killed on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway since it opened in 2011.
She was hit by a bus travelling south between Swavesey and Fen Drayton at 17:30 yesterday.
Phil Shepka
BBC Sport
Peterborough United striker Joe Gormley has admitted he had doubts in his own ability when he first moved to the League One club.
Image source, Press EyeThe Northern Irishman, who is out for the season with a knee injury after six scoreless appearances this season, joined Posh, external from Cliftonville in the summer .
"It was so, so difficult. Sometimes I was thinking to myself 'Is this for me? Am I good enough?'," the 25-year-old told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
Thousands of homes have been left without power and rail passengers are facing lengthy delays after Storm Barney battered the UK with winds of more than 80mph.
And England’s highest winds were recorded near Peterborough, external.
