Updates for Tuesday, 12 January 2016
News, sport, weather and travel updates resume at 08:00 on Wednesday
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
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Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather
Showers will push eastwards through the first part of the night, clearing to leave patchy cloud and clear spells. Minimum temperature: 1C (34F).
School crossing patrols will no longer be cut as part of the efficiency savings by Cambridgeshire County Council, external, councillors have decided.
The council proposed stopping funding patrols outside schools to save £171,000.
But today members of the Highways and Community Infrastructure Committee voted to remove them from budget saving proposals after deeming them a "vital" service.
Plans to release part of Cambridge's green belt for further expansion of the Biomedical Campus puts one of the city's best-loved nature reserves at-risk, it is claimed, external.
Hannah Olsson
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter
Councillors in Cambridgeshire have voted to switch-off street lights in the county at 02:00.
The county council wanted to turn off or dim streetlights between midnight and 06:00 to save £272,000 a year.
But after a consultation revealed public opposition to the plans, members of the Highways Committee decided to push the start time back by two hours.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Here are the headlines in Cambridgeshire this evening:
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Firefighters used cutting equipment to free a horse, external trapped on a metal fence in Doddington.
Image source, Cambs Fire and RescueA crew from Chatteris had to get the horse - called Harry - sedated by a vet before cutting him free yesterday.
Last year Cambridgeshire Fire Service received an award after rescuing a donkey from a storm drain.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
The Environment Agency currently has eight flood alerts, external in place across Cambridgeshire. This was the River Granta at Linton earlier today.
The North Bank in Whittlesey and the A1101 at Welney remain closed due to flooding.
BBC Travel
Police are at the scene of a two vehicle crash on the A141 at Hobbs Lot Bridge, near Guyhirn. The road is partially blocked.
Image source, Cambridgeshire PoliceMark Williamson
BBC Local Live
An armed robbery, external on the Golden Hind pub on Milton Road in Cambridge is being treated as an "isolated incident" by police.
Two customers and a member of staff were assaulted by four or five masked men armed with weapons including a metal bar and a baseball bat, at 21:30 on Sunday.
The men took cash before making off in a black Ford Mondeo. Anyone with information is asked to call 101.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Preserved Bronze Age remains at Must Farm quarry give the "opportunity to peek through the curtains and see people in their daily moment," says archaeologist Selina Davenport.
Archaeologists have revealed exceptionally well-preserved Bronze Age dwellings during the excavation near Whittlesey, providing an "extraordinary" insight into domestic life 3,000 years ago.
"We’re all just really nosey and we just want to see what people are doing," she added.
It will turn increasingly showery into the afternoon but still with some sunny spells. Maximum temperature: 6C (43F).
This was the scene in Cambridge this morning, photographed by BBC Weather Watcher 'Cantab'.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
The Bronze Age settlement at Must Farm quarry could be evidence of an "undiscovered community" that thrived 3,000 years ago in Britain’s largest wetland, say archaeologists, external.
Image source, Cambridge Archaeological UnitThe Cambridge Archaeological Unit is currently halfway through an excavation at the site near Whittlesey.
Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, says the dig "gives us a graphic picture of life in the Bronze Age".
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Archaeologists believe it is possible the inhabitants of a Bronze Age settlement at Whittlesey were forced to leave everything behind when it caught on fire, external.
Image source, Cambridge Archaeological UnitThe 3,000-year-old settlement, at Must Farm quarry, was destroyed by a blaze that caused the dwellings to collapse into the river, preserving the contents.
Charred wooden items, including a bucket (above), show that many possessions were lost in the flames.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
The Must Farm excavation is the first large-scale dig of deeply-buried sediments in the Fens.
Other ancient finds preserved in the waterlogged Fen soil have been discovered in the past, including 11 Bronze Age canoes and a network of wooden platforms and posts at Flag Fen, external (above), thought to be a ritual causeway.
Last year archaeologists also recovered a Spitfire that had crashed at nearby Holme Fen.
The Bronze Age houses recovered from river silt in Cambridgeshire are dated to 1,000-800BC, towards the end of Britain's Bronze Age.
If we were to go back to that time, what other buildings could we have seen?
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Here are the top stories in Cambridgeshire this afternoon:
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Objects excavated from preserved Bronze Age dwellings near Whittlesey will eventually be put on display at Peterborough Museum and other venues, say archaeologists.
The £1.1m excavation at Must Farm Quarry is jointly funded by Historic England and land owner Forterra.
Jo Black
BBC News
Archaeologist Mark Knight said preservation of the Bronze Age settlement in the Fens has been so good "it feels like it was just yesterday".
"We will be looking at the contents of the pots so we will be able to tell you what they were eating the day their building burnt down. We will be looking at the garments so we will be able to tell you what they were wearing.
"It's so significant I think we're having to come up with new questions about what we might learn from the site."
David Webster
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Archaeologist Mark Knight at the Whittlesey dig said for the first time in British history they have been able to go inside a Bronze Age roundhouse.
Image source, Cambridge Archaeological Unit"We'll understand what the world they lived in looked like, what it smelt like. It's a world we've dreamed about getting into," he said.
