Live updates for Wednesday, 13 January 2016
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Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather
It may start to turn frosty this evening and we will see increasing amounts of cloud and rain as we go through into the night. This may turn to sleet or wet snow later. Minimum temperature: 1C (34F).
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Here are the headlines in Cambridgeshire this evening:
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Archaeologists excavating Bronze Age dwellings at Must Farm, near Whittlesey, say they have uncovered details of what people were eating in Cambridgeshire 3,000 years ago.
Image source, Cambridgeshire Archeaological UnitFragments of food found in cooking pots suggest they were being used to make pottage.
"Think porridge and add a few extra herby things, and if you were lucky you might have had honey to dollop in the middle," said Chris Gosden, professor of European archaeology at the University of Oxford.
It may still be a fledgling in the education stakes, but the new Cambridge University Primary School model has already attracted interest from around the world, external.
Mousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
The body of a man who died in a car fire on the M11 near Cambridge has been removed from the scene, police say.
Image source, PhilThe vehicle has also been recovered and Highways England will soon start carrying out repairs to the carriageway.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Stretcher-bearer Alfred Davis is one of the World War One soldiers whose messages in a Peterborough visitors' book have just been published online.
Image source, Peterborough LibraryResearchers discovered the Peterborough man joined the army aged 18. He was discharged after losing a leg while rescuing a wounded officer at Ypres in May 1915 and went on to work as a railway signalman before he died in 1965.
Volunteers have transcribed 570 comments in visitors' books kept in the tea room at Peterborough East railway station between 1916 and 1917.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Archaeologists announced yesterday that they have discovered "Britain's Pompeii" at Whittlesey - a number of well-preserved dwellings dating back to the Bronze Age.
So what do the finds tell us about the people living in Cambridgeshire 3,000 years ago?
Find out here.
Image source, BBMousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Police, external say the body of a man killed in a fatal car fire on the M11, near Cambridge, will be moved "soon".
Anyone who saw the incident should contact police on 101.
The Met Office has issued a issued a Level Two cold weather alert for Cambridgeshire over the next few days.
This means there is an 80% probability of severe cold weather, icy conditions and snow, external.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
If you are just joining us here are the top stories in Cambridgeshire this afternoon:
David Webster
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Eyewitness Stephen Macaulay says a car in which a person has died on the M11, external turned into a "blazing fireball".
Image source, Cambridge TVThe M11 remains closed southbound near Cambridge for investigations following the fatal car fire just after 08:00 this morning.
The body remains in the car.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Highways England says the M11 will remain closed into the evening following a fatal car fire near Cambridge.
The road is closed southbound near junction 13.
Mousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
A bomb disposal team has been sent to the scene of a a fatal car fire on the M11 near Cambridge. Police say this is because the vehicle exploded.
A spokeswoman for Cambridgeshire Police told me that at this stage they are "not ruling anything out".
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
This is the scene of the fatal car fire on the M11, near Cambridge, where police are carrying out an investigation.
Image source, Cambridge TVThe road remains closed southbound from Junction 13. One lane is also closed northbound at junction 12.
It will stay dry across Cambridgeshire this afternoon with good spells of sunshine. However, cloud will be increasing from the west. Maximum temperature: 6C (43F).
Image source, BBC Weatherwatchers/NickBBC Weather Watcher 'Nick' took this photo near Bluntisham this morning.
Emma Maclean
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
The fire service has released this image from the scene of a crash on the B1040 near Pidley that left a man in his 20s with "life-threatening" injuries.
Image source, Cambs Fire and RescueCrews from Huntingdon and Chatteris were called to the collision, external involving two vehicles on Fenton Hill, at about 08:00.
Katy Prickett
BBC News
Messages left in a Peterborough visitors' book provide a "unique insight" into the thoughts and feelings of World War One troops.
Image source, VivacityHundreds of messages left in the tea room at Peterborough East railway station between 1916 and 1917 have been published online.
Richard Hunt, archives manager for arts organisation Vivacity, which oversaw the project said: "Some are simple words of thanks; others talk of love and hope."
Sam Edwards
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Here are the top stories in Cambridgeshire so far today:
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
The East of England Ambulance Service has offered some unusual advice to avoid falling over this winter... by making sure you trim your toe nails.
The service has made a list of suggestions, external, saying it has already dealt with over 48,000 fall related calls since November.
As well as making sure your nails are cut, you are advised not to walk on slippery floors in socks or tights and to avoid loose-fitting clothes that you could trip on.
