Summary

  • Polling stations open around the county for the EU Referendum

  • Figures show disparity over foster care

  • Church roof thieves foiled by mud

  • Updates resume at 08:00 on Friday

  1. Members of public try to find another brick in the wallpublished at 11:45 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Johnny Dee
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

    I've been in the grounds of Peterborough Cathedral, external, where archaeologists are today unearthing parts of a wall that was built in the grounds about 1,000 years ago.

    A community dig is taking place until Sunday, and schoolchildren and tourists are being invited along to see what's been discovered. 

    Wall in grounds of Peterborough Cathedral

    The wall that's being searched for used to enclose the monastery on the site.  

  2. County council: It's 'not ideal' to regularly move children in foster carepublished at 11:15 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Jozef Hall
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

    I've been talking to Cambridgeshire County Council, which has attempted to explain why 24% of children it has placed in foster care have been moved from three or more homes in just a year. 

    It told me up to 70% of its cases could be emergency placements, and that means it has to put a child somewhere first quickly, and then move them again to somewhere more permanent.  

    It says this isn't ideal but has to work with the resources it has, as the council is currently dealing with a shortage of carers.

    Adult holding a childs handImage source, Thinkstock
  3. Foster parents talk of benefits of keeping children in one placepublished at 11:07 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Jozef Hall
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

    Maggie and Paul Lugg are Cambridgeshire foster carers and have helped look after a number of children for over six years. 

    They say keeping foster children in one location can dramatically improve the quality of care. 

    Maggie told me it's not "just baby sitting for a few weeks, but you make a conscious decision to help somebody". She explained to me that if you have the children for longer it helps them form proper friendship groups and settle into school. 

    Paul says the "longer the children can stay with you, it's got to be better for them".

    Maggie and Paul Lugg
  4. Travel: A1307 partially blocked in Horseheathpublished at 10:40 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    The A1307 in Horseheath is partially blocked in both directions at the Howard's Lane junction, because of an overturned lorry and temporary traffic lights.

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  5. Teenageer fostered as a child says it's 'hard' to be moved from home to homepublished at 10:25 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Jozef Hall
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

    As part of an investigation into how many children in Cambridgeshire are moved regularly from home to home, I've been talking to 19-year-old Brian.

    He was put into foster care as a child and had to move to two different homes in just six months.

    He told me it was "hard" to leave the first home, and having to change homes always "takes some getting used to."

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  6. Children in Cambridgeshire foster care being 'moved from home to home'published at 10:05 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Jozef Hall
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

    A BBC investigation has discovered that foster children in the care of Cambridgeshire County Council are two and a half times more likely to be moved from home to home compared to those in Peterborough.

    Hand holdingImage source, Thinkstock

    Figures obtained via Freedom of Information requests reveal that out of 571 children held in foster care by the county council, 124, or 24%, were rehomed three or more times in the past year.

    In Peterborough, 41, or 9.5%, of 430 children were moved three or more times.

  7. Zika prompts abortion dilemmaspublished at 09:44 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    James Gallagher
    BBC News Website, Health Editor

    A termination remains illegal in many parts of Latin America, but women simply turn to unofficial providers.

    Women on Web, external, which advises women online and then delivers pills to end a pregnancy, is one of the largest groups involved.

    The researchers from Cambridge University analysed the thousands of requests received by Women on Web in the five years before the Pan American Health Organization issued its warning on Zika on 17 November 2015.

    Aedes aegypti mosquitos seen in a labImage source, Getty Images

    It used this to predict how many abortion requests would have been expected between 17 November 2015 and 1 March 2016.

    The analysis of countries that advised against getting pregnant suggested Brazil and Ecuador had had more than twice the expected demand for abortions.

  8. Zika worries have spread 'fear and anxiety'published at 09:18 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    James Gallagher
    BBC News Website, Health Editor

    Dr Catherine Aiken, one of the researchers from the University of Cambridge, told the BBC News website: "Everywhere governments said, 'Don't get pregnant', and there was Zika transmission, there was a tremendous surge in the number of women taking matters into their own hands.

    "There were huge increases in abortions across the region."

    Dr with a child born with a small brainImage source, Getty Images

    Dr Aiken criticised the countries' "very hollow" messages to delay pregnancy that had generated "fear, anxiety and panic with no means to act on it".

    Meanwhile, Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor from the University of Texas at Austin, said: "Accurate data on the choices pregnant women make in Latin America is hard to obtain."

  9. Abortion demand 'soars' amid Zika fear, university sayspublished at 08:59 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    James Gallagher
    BBC News Website, Health Editor

    New research from scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests that fears about the Zika virus have contributed to a "huge" increase in the number of women in Latin America seeking abortions. 

    Estimates suggest there has been at least a doubling in requests in Brazil, and an increase of a third in other countries.

    Baby born with small brainImage source, Getty Images

    Many governments have advised women not to get pregnant due to the risk of babies being born with tiny brains.

    The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

  10. EU Referendum: How to vote on polling daypublished at 08:33 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Katy Lewis
    BBC Local Live

    Today, the UK is going to the polls in the EU Referendum.

    Our colleagues at BBC Politics have produced a handy guide on how to vote, including when and where you can do it. 

    Voting paper
  11. UK goes to polls in EU Referendumpublished at 08:20 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Katy Lewis
    BBC Local Live

    The polls opened at 07:00 for people to vote in the EU Referendum - where voters will decide whether the country should remain a member of the European Union or leave.

    Polling stations signImage source, Reuters

    It's only the third nationwide referendum in UK history - the last one was five years ago when voters rejected a change to the way MPs are elected, and the first was the 1975 referendum on membership of what was then called the European Economic Community.

    Polling stations close at 22:00 and counting begins shortly afterwards.

    In common with other broadcasters, the BBC is limited in what it can report while polls are open, but you can follow the results as they come in across the BBC after polls close tonight.

  12. Weather: Thundery downpours possiblepublished at 08:17 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Elizabeth Rizzini
    BBC Look East weather

    Heavy showers and thunderstorms with some torrential downpours possible at first, but these will gradually clear north-east during the morning. 

    It will then be a muggy day with some warm sunny spells, before further heavy and perhaps thundery showers develop from the south again later. 

    Maximum temperature: 23C (73F). 

  13. Travel: Delays on A14 at junction 30published at 08:04 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    There are delays on the A14 westbound around junction 30 at Oakington Road after an earlier car fire. 

    There's also queuing traffic eastbound, as people slow down to look. 

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  14. Good morningpublished at 07:58 British Summer Time 23 June 2016

    Alex Pope
    BBC Local Live

    Good morning and welcome to Local Live for Cambridgeshire. 

    Until 18:00 we'll bring you all the latest news, travel, sport and weather, on the day that the country is deciding whether to stay in or leave the European Union.