Updates on Monday, 18 July 2016
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That's all for our coverage today which has focused on the the proposed takeover of one of the UK's biggest tech companies, Cambridge based ARM Holdings.
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Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
ARM Holdings sold 15 billion microchips in 2015, according to co-founder Hermann Hauser.
ARM's chip designs are at the heart of the vast majority of phones and tablets as well as an array of new smart devices.
Mr Hauser said the result of the £24bn takeover deal by Softbank meant the "determination of what comes next for technology will not be decided in Britain any more but in Japan".
Helen Burchell
BBC News
And finally... police were kept busy by this family swanning about on the B1040 at Whittlesey earlier today.
Officers moved the two adults and five cygnets safely off the road before there was an accident, although it seems the male got a bit of a "cob on".
"Daddy swan wasn't happy that we moved him and his family on," @FenCops, external tweeted.
Image source, FenCops
Caroline Kingdon
BBC Local Live
Rail passengers face disruption to their journeys this autumn and winter while upgrade work is carried out.
It includes the installation of station canopies and signalling works for the new Cambridge North station, due to open in May 2017.
Plans for this work, which will affect services between Norwich and Cambridge on 9, 15, 16 and 23 October, are still being finalised.
James Burles, managing director of Abellio Greater Anglia, advised customers to check their itinerary before travelling.
Mousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
The founding director of the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, external has given his response to the proposed sale of ARM Holdings to Japan's Softbank for £24bn.
David Cleevely told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire he feels a "mixture of pride in Cambridge and sadness at the sale of another home grown company".
"The UK and Cambridge can and has built global companies. We need the infrastructure investment to build more if we are to make a success of the UK in the new post-Brexit world," he said.
Dan Holley
BBC Look East weather
It will be staying dry tonight with largely clear skies and light winds, with temperatures only slowly falling away to 13C (55F).
Tuesday will be another dry day with almost unbroken strong sunshine. Feeling hot and humid, with temperatures potentially as high 33C (91F).
More details on the BBC Weather website.
BBC Business News
Shares in Cambridge-based microchip designer ARM Holdings are still flying since it announced a £24bn takeover by Japanese tech firm Softbank this morning.
FTSE 100-listed ARM is 42% higher and that's feeding through into gains for London's blue-chip index. The FTSE 100 is up 0.5% at 6,702 points.
Meanwhile, the pound is up against the dollar at $1.3262, and higher against the euro at €1.1980.
Rikki Neave was last seen leaving for school on the morning of 28 November 1994.
His body was found the next day in a wooded area about five minutes' walk from his home on the Welland Estate in Peterborough.
Post-mortem tests found he had died as a result of compression to the neck.
His mother, Ruth Neave, was cleared of his murder at a trial in 1996. She later admitted child neglect and cruelty and was jailed for seven years.
Despite extensive investigations at the time, no-one was ever convicted of Rikki's murder.
Mrs Neave repeatedly called for the murder case to be reopened since her acquittal. It was finally reopened in June last year, leading to the arrest of a man in his 30s on 19 April on suspicion of murder.
A man suspected of murdering six-year-old Rikki Neave (pictured) more than 20 years ago has left the country while on bail.
Rikki Neave's naked body was found in woodland near his Welland Estate home in Peterborough in November 1994. He had been strangled.
Image source, Cambridgeshire PoliceThe investigation was reopened in June last year and a fresh appeal launched.
A 35-year-old man from Peterborough was arrested on 19 April and was due to answer bail in September. Police said they were trying to get him back to the UK.
"We have reason to believe that the man who was arrested in connection with the historic murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave left the country while on police bail," a police spokesman said.
"We have been in communication with him and are working with him and partner agencies in order for him to return to the UK promptly.
"He remains on police bail to return to a Cambridgeshire police station on September 20."
A man suspected of murdering Peterborough schoolboy Rikki Neave more than 20 years ago has left the country while on bail, police say.
More to follow.
Cambridge is as hot as Miami, Rome and Istanbul this afternoon as temperatures in the county reach 28C (82F).
Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
We'll return to our big story of the day - the £24bn takeover bid for Cambridge's ARM Holdings - a bit later.
But before we take a look at what else is making the news, here's what's in the local papers today:
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Meanwhile, ARM co-founder Hermann Hauser believes the proposed £24bn deal to sell the Cambridge-based tech company is a "sad day for technology in Britain".
The computing entrepreneur, who helped found Cambridge's world leading tech-scene, told the BBC: "ARM was the last British company with a global reach."
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
Softbank chief executive Masayoshi Son says it will be investing in ARM Holdings for "long term success", following its £24bn takeover bid for the Cambridge tech firm.
Mousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
ARM Holding's chief executive has described the proposed £24bn deal with Japan's Softbank as "an exiting proposition for the future".
Simon Segars has also offered assurances about the tech firm's continued presence in Cambridge.
"We're going to increase our headcount globally and specifically in the UK, where our headquarters will remain, we're going to double our headcount over the next five years," he said.
Image source, Arm HoldingsMr Segars, who has been with ARM since it was founded in Cambridge in the 1990s, says he has been "blown away" by what the company has achieved and that it has "an exciting future" ahead of it.
Watch Simon Segars talk about the proposed takeover deal with Softbank, external.
Simon Jack
BBC Business Editor
ARM Holdings is arguably the most the most precious jewel in the crown of British technology, its microchip designs are used in billions of devices. Sources close to the deal say the Japanese company considers ARM well-placed to exploit the so-called "internet of things", which may see microchips embedded in whole new categories of household and business devices.
The board of ARM are recommending shareholders accept the £24bn offer, which values the company at a premium to its market value of £16.8bn on Friday.
Prime Minister Theresa May recently questioned whether foreign takeovers of UK firms are always in the national interest. However, Softbank has committed to doubling the size of ARM's UK-based workforce over the next five years and new chancellor, Philip Hammond, welcomed the deal.
That allure has been boosted by the fall in the value of the pound since Brexit - making UK targets cheaper, and many industry watchers are predicting a new wave of foreign takeovers.
ARM has until recently argued its future was better served as an independent company. However, Stuart Chambers, ARM chairman since March 2014, is no stranger to making it big in Japan. He was responsible for selling Pilkington, another blue chip UK company, to Nippon Sheet Glass in 2006.
Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is at the Peterhouse Technology Park, off Fulbourn Road, where tech firm ARM Holdings has its headquarters.
Cambridge is getting a lot of media attention today following the proposed £24m sale of the company that designs microchips used in most smartphones.
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BBC Travel
The A14 is blocked westbound near Six Mile Bottom following a crash involving a lorry and two other vehicles.
BBC Business News
Downing Street says that Prime Minister Theresa May spoke by phone with Softbank boss Masayoshi Son yesterday.
The PM's official spokeswoman told a regular Westminster briefing: "We welcome the announcement of investment this morning from Softbank... This is clearly a vote of confidence in Britain. It will be the biggest ever Asian investment in the UK.
"The Prime Minister spoke to the chief executive of SoftBank yesterday and welcomed the investment and their commitment to keeping the company in Cambridge and doubling the number of jobs over five years.
"This is good news for British workers, good news for the British economy. It shows - as the Prime Minister has been saying - that we can make a success of leaving the European Union."
Mousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Matt Hancock, the Minister of State for Digital and Culture in the new government, has welcomed the proposed £24bn ARM Holdings deal this morning...
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