Updates for Wednesday, 30 December 2015
More news, sport, travel and weather updates from 08:00 on Thursday
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
That's all from the Cambridgeshire Live team today. We'll be back tomorrow, for the last time in 2015, with the latest news, sport, travel and weather for the county from 08:00.
You can send us your stories and pictures at any time via email, Facebook, external or Twitter, external.
Have a good evening.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Data released for the first time shows Cambridge is one of the most popular UK locations outside London that people share with their social media followers.
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It will be wet and windy to begin with this evening as Storm Frank begins to clear overnight. Minimum temperature: 5C (41F).
New Year's Eve will be mainly fine and dry. However, there will be a brief spell of strong winds and heavy rain moving through in the late afternoon or early evening.
You can find a more detailed forecast for where you live at BBC Weather.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Chris Cooper, who works for the East of England Ambulance service, has been inundated with donations for flood victims in the north of England.
Image source, Chris CooperMr Cooper, external, who lives in Saffron Walden, has been collecting donations of food and other goods in the Cambridge area, including £200 worth of supplies from Tesco in Milton, he said.
Thousands of homes are without power and severe flood warnings, external remain in place.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Here are the headlines in Cambridgeshire this evening:
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
The founder of a Cambridgeshire firework company that had £100,000-worth of pyrotechnics stolen just before bonfire night says they are no nearer to finding out who took them.
Staff at Kimbolton Fireworks worked overtime to fulfil orders following the theft in the early hours of 25 October.
Ron Lancaster says the company has now recovered form the theft, but "has heard nothing" about what happened to the haul.
A missing woman from Luton could be in Peterborough or Wisbech, according to Police.
Image source, Bedfordshire PoliceBedfordshire Police are appealing for help in tracing, external Charlotte Hoey, 22, who was last seen by her family on Sunday. Officers say they are becoming increasingly concerned for her.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
A new £369m contract to service RAF Hercules planes in Cambridge is "a great deal for the RAF, taxpayers, and Marshall Aerospace," according to a government minister.
The agreement will mean the RAF's fleet of Hercules transport aircraft will continue to be serviced at Marshall Aerospace's Cambridge base.
Philip Dunne, Minister of State for Defence Procurement, external, said the contract extends a "longstanding relationship".
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Forecasters say gales could hit parts of Cambridgeshire later today as Storm Frank passes over the UK.
Fortunately, Cambridgeshire is escaping the worst of the weather, but hundreds of homes have been evacuated and thousands left without power in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
BBC Travel
Rail services between Cambridge and Norwich may be cancelled or delayed because of a broken-down freight train near Ely, Abellio Greater Anglia says., external
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BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
The National Police Air Service, external helicopter has been searching for illegal hare coursers in Cambridgeshire today.
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There has been an increase in incidents in the county over last year.
Cambridgeshire Police say that in November 10 vehicles were seized and 18 people reported for hare coursing, external.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Two teenagers accused of stealing artefacts from the Auschwitz death camp during a school trip should not be put on trial, a Holocaust survivor says.
Image source, Regional Police CommandThe Cambridge Perse school pupils, who were aged 17 at the time of the alleged theft, have withdrawn their admission of guilt, explaining they were not aware the items had special cultural significance.
Eva Clarke, who lives in the city, was born shortly after her mother was moved from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp and says the boys should be given "the benefit of the doubt".
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Here's another image of firefighters taking a bracing dip near Manea to rescue a swan with a broken wing.
Image source, Cambs Fire and RescueTwo crews from Chatteris and Dogsthorpe were called to Sixteen Foot bank on Tuesday to help Fenland Animal Rescue, external retrieve the injured bird.
Cambridgeshire is escaping the worst of the weather from Storm Frank today, but it will get wet and windy this afternoon with a maximum temperature of 13C (55F).
Image source, BBC Weather Watchers/Ebb and FlowBBC Weather Watcher 'Ebb and Flow' took this picture of grey skies near Cambridge just after sunrise today.
You can find a more detailed forecast for where you live at BBC Weather.
If you're off to the cinema to see the new movie Spectre, forget Daniel Craig – the real James Bond was a Cambridge man, external.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
If you are just joining us here are the top stories in Cambridgeshire:
Tom Horn
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire Police say the death of a man, whose body was found in water at Impington yesterday, is not being treated as suspicious.
The body of a man in his 30s was recovered from Cawcutts Lake at 15:00 yesterday. The case has been passed to the coroner.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
A new £369m contract to service RAF Hercules planes in Cambridge will help keep the fleet operational until 2030, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) says.
Image source, Geograph/Mike BelchThe support contract agreed with Marshall Aerospace will play a "crucial" role in extending the operational life of the aircraft, in line with the Government’s recent Strategic Defence and Security Review, the MoD said.
Tom Horn
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Firefighters braved cold water near Manea yesterday to rescue a swan with a broken wing.
Image source, Cambs Fire and RescueCambridgeshire Fire and Rescue have just released images, external of the crews from Dogsthorpe and Chatteris in action at Sixteen Foot bank yesterday.
After being retrieved from the river, the injured swan was handed over to Fenland Animal Rescue, external.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
A Cambridge woman whose family perished in Auschwitz says it is a "great shame," that two teenagers accused of stealing artefacts from the death camp, external, are set to face trial in Poland.
Image source, APThe boys, from the independent Perse School in Cambridge, were allegedly seen picking up buttons and fragments of a spoon, during a school trip in June.
Eva Clarke, who works for the Holocaust Educational Trust, external, told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire she was "surprised" that they were likely to end up in court.
