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  1. What's a 'sonic boom'?

    Alex Pope
    BBC Local Live

    A sonic boom is created as an aircraft breaks the sound barrier, causing a high-energy shockwave.

    When an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose builds up a pressure front because it has "nowhere to escape", Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University said.

    It can be heard over a large area because "it moves with the plane", similar to the wake on the bow of a ship spreading out behind the vessel, Dr Wild added.

  2. 'Loud bang' heard over Cambridgeshire - MoD response

    Alex Pope
    BBC Local Live

    The Ministry of Defence has just told us that they're "not aware of any manoeuvres over Cambridgeshire" after reports of a loud bang in the Ramsey area this morning just before 08:00. 

    Callers to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire thought it could be a "sonic boom". 

    Cambridgeshire police say they're not investigating and the fire service hasn't received any calls. 

  3. 'Loud bang' heard over Cambridgeshire

    Alex Pope
    BBC Local Live

    We're getting reports that a "loud bang" has been heard over Cambridgeshire. 

    Several callers to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire say they heard what they thought was a possible "sonic boom" in the Ramsey and Pondersbridge area shortly before 08:00. 

    Map showing Pondersbridge and Ramsey

    Andy Vaughan, from Ramsey, says the noise woke him up, "shook the house" and "left his dog a little bit worried". 

    Dave, from Pondersbridge, says he heard the noise just after 08:00 and he could hear jets flying above and then a "loud bang". 

    We're awaiting confirmation from the Ministry of Defence and as soon as we have it we'll let you know. 

  4. CCG accept damning report in 'full'

    Hannah Olsson
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter

    In response to the report into the failed older people' contract, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said it accepts the National Audit's findings in full. 

    In a statement, it said: "It is clear that there was a wide disparity between the CCG's contract expectations and UnitingCare's expectations of income.

    Nurse gives elderly woman a drinkRReuters

    "There is much to learn, and where the CCG has been able to, changes have already been made. 

    "We continue to support the model of care that is now being delivered... and we are working closely with all our health and care partners to ensure that patients receive good outcomes from the care they receive within the resources available to the health and care system as a whole."

  5. More money requested in older people's contract just a month in...

    Hannah Olsson
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter

    The report found that the CCG was exposed to "significant unintended risks and potential costs".

    Because the CCG and UnitingCare differed in their understanding of the contract clauses, it meant UnitingCare was able to negotiate additional funding after signing the contract. 

    older people

    One month after it started in April 2015, UnitingCare requested £34m of extra funding for the first year, which was 21% more than the contract price for that year.  

    But by early December 2015, UnitingCare Partnership was forced to terminate the contract when the CCG informed it that no further advance funding was available. 

  6. Older peoples' contract 'failed for financial reasons'

    Hannah Olsson
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter

    The older peoples' contract for Cambridgeshire was awarded to UnitingCare by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (CPCCG) and was meant to be worth £800m over five years. 

    It started in on 1 April 2015, but eight months later it had ended. 

    An elderly woman's hand on a stick

    The National Audit Office report found that although it was "innovative and ambitious", it "failed for financial reasons which could, and should, have been foreseen". 

    One of them being that neither UnitingCare or the CCG had factored in that extra VAT costs needed to be paid because the partnership wasn't an NHS body.

  7. Failed older peoples' contract in Cambridgeshire cost millions

    Hannah Olsson
    BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter

    A report has just been published by the National Audit Office into the failed UnitingCare contract in Cambridgeshire, concluding it failed due to a catalogue of financial errors. 

    The contract, which was worth £800m, was set up to provide older people and adult community care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, but collapsed after just eight months last December when it ran out of money. 

    Elderly patients and hands

    The money wasted includes an overspend of £8.9m on setting up the contract and £16m of "unfunded costs."  

    We'll have more on this shortly.

  8. Weather: Dry with sunny intervals

    Elizabeth Rizzini
    BBC Look East weather

    It will be a dry day with a little fair weather cloud and feel pleasantly warm in prolonged sunny intervals for most of us.

    A dry evening with sunny periods will then follow. 

    Maximum Temperature: 21C (70F). 

  9. Good morning

    Alex Pope
    BBC Local Live

    Good morning and welcome to the local live page for Cambridgeshire. 

    Between now and 18:00 we'll be bringing you all your news, sport, travel and coming up very soon weather. 

    The main stories we'll be reporting on:

    • How a investigation has found that millions of pounds of taxpayers money was wasted on the failed older peoples' contract awarded to UnitingCare in Cambridgeshire
    • And how the final secrets of the 'Pompeii of the Fens' are finally being revealed

    Stay with us for more...

  10. Britain's 'Pompeii' was 'new-build site'

    A Bronze Age village dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" which yielded an "extraordinary window" on the period burnt down after just months, it emerges.

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  11. Peterborough re-sign forward Taylor

    Forward Paul Taylor rejoins Peterborough United on a one-year contract after spending the last year out of football.

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  12. Our live coverage across the day

    Nic Rigby
    BBC News

    That's it from all of us here at Cambridgeshire Local Live. You can read all the news stories today by scrolling through the news feed.

    Today we have been covering the Queen's visit to Cambridge to open the East Anglian Air Ambulance's new base at Cambridge Airport. 

    We also reported the claim that Cambridge is the best place in the country to work.  

    We'll be back at 08:00 tomorrow with all your news, sport, travel and weather.

  13. Weather: Clear night for many but feeling cooler

    Dan Holley
    BBC Look East weather

    A few scattered showers continuing tonight, but many places will be dry with clear spells and patchy cloud. Becoming cool with temperatures dipping to 9C (48F) in a light west or northwesterly breeze.

    Weather

    Thursday will be mostly dry with sunny spells and patchy cloud, but the chance of a few isolated showers developing. Temperatures will reach highs of 21C (70F) in a light to moderate northwesterly wind.

    You can get a local forecast via BBC Weather.

  14. One from the vaults: Foxhound Show in Peterborough in July 1927

    Here's a photograph from 89 years ago, showing the Foxhound Show in Peterborough.The event was founded by the Peterborough Royal Foxhound Show Society in 1878.

    Foxhound Show, PeterboroughGetty Images

    Now called the Peterborough Festival of Hunting, its next meeting is on 20 July.

    The photograph taking in July 1927 showed Mrs Barbara Miller and Col Mosele Leigh, two attendees at the event.

  15. Peterborough MP organising whip round for outgoing PM

    Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson is organising a collection for outgoing PM David Cameron.

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  16. Goldie Sayers misses out on Rio place

    Newmarket-born athlete misses out on place in Team GB for the Olympics.

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  17. Robbie Grabarz confirmed for Rio

    Congratulations to Robbie Grabarz.

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  18. Peterborough MP praises outgoing prime minister

    Nic Rigby
    BBC News

    The Conservative MP for Peterborough, Stewart Jackson, believes that departing Prime Minister David Cameron has plenty to be proud of.

    Stewart Jackson MP

    Mr Cameron will tender his resignation to the Queen at Buckingham Palace later this afternoon.

    Theresa May will then take his place this evening, when she will begin to announce who is in her cabinet.

    Mr Jackson has been an outspoken critic of Mr Cameron in the past - but has offered an endorsement of his leadership.

    "He has been enormously successful," Mr Jackson said. "Remember in 1997 the Conservative Party had its worst electoral defeat in 100 years. He gave the party a dressing down and modernised it."

  19. Duke of Cambridge has a will.i.am mug

    Nic Rigby
    BBC News

    The Duke of Cambridge is a fan of dance music and now he has the mug to prove it - emblazoned with the name of music mogul will.i.am.

    Will I AmGetty Images

    Prince William's air ambulance colleagues clubbed together to buy the aptly-named cup for their royal pilot, but it was not on show when the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited their grandson's flying base earlier today. 

    The royal couple toured the new centre of the East Anglian Air Ambulance at Cambridge Airport, where the Duke has been flying helicopters on emergency call-outs for a year. 

    The prince was on duty during the royal visit and was deployed with his crew - co-pilot, doctor and critical care paramedic - to a medical incident just over 90 minutes before his grandparents arrived.

  20. A1(M) near Alconbury reopened

    The A1(M) near Alconbury has been fully reopened following a four-vehicle crash earlier today.