Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Independent punters in Cambridge are worried for their future after new rules on where they can ply their trade came into force this morning. 

Stephen Meron, who touts, has worked out as many as 150 jobs could be lost if revenues fall, including people who work on the boats, walkers and touts.

Lewis Herbert, leader of Cambridge City Council, said: "I do not believe this will put out of business people who are working on the river. 

"If people are saying to me there are 75 punt touts and at some points there have been 50 [of them] on the streets at the same time, is that something that is appropriate for a city like ours?"

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

The council has defended the introduction of a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that came into effect at midnight to stop touts from bothering tourists in the city centre of Cambridge. 

Lewis Herbert, the leader of Cambridge City Council, says "they've spend two years talking to punters" and that some people in the city had gone through "five years of hell", as up to 50 touts can hassle people across a square mile. 

He says it's not right people get "hassled".

Julia Greenaway
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

A private company has been appointed to help develop a 40-acre (16.2 hectare) site at Hinchingbrooke Hospital. 

Ryhurst, external will be a 50-50 partner with the Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust in an estates partnership for the next 15 years.

It's expected a "health campus" will be built that could include things like a large GP surgery, leisure centre, an elderly care home and hundreds of homes., external 

Image source, Geograph/Andy Parrett

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

"This can't be allowed to stand, we will fight it to the death". 

Those are the words of Janne Jarvis, an independent punt operator in Cambridge who's criticised the new rules that have just come into force to stop touts from plying their punting trade on King's Parade and the city centre.

He believes the new Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) is "morally corrupt" and needs to change. 

Image source, Geograph/Paul Gillett

Dan Freeman, from Cambridge Alumni Tours, says the changes are "grossly unfair" as it protects the bigger companies.   

Lewis Herbert, the leader of Cambridge City Council, says the public will still have a "choice" of what company they go to, as it's restricting touting to the "river area".

He added that worked well when they brought a similar scheme in five years' ago around Bridge Street. 

So it's set to be another hot, hot day with temperatures set to hit 29C (84F) in Cambridgeshire. 

Estelle Wolfers sent us this photo of the temperature of her dashboard yesterday afternoon, when it got to 34.5C (94F). 

Image source, Estelle Wolfers

We're not too sure how long the hot weather will last as heavy and thundery showers are expected this afternoon and evening. 

You can send us your photos via email, Facebook, external or Twitter by using #cmblive, external. 

BBC Travel

One lane is blocked and there's queuing traffic and long delays on the A14 westbound in Cambridge, between J32 and J31 for the M11, because of an accident. 

Congestion goes back to J36 at Nine Mile Hill. 

Sam Edwards
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire Police says the woman recognised the man as she saw him in a dark people carrier on Padholme Road, Peterborough, on Tuesday evening.

The force says she was assaulted and raped in a bush by North Bank Road before the man fled. It's treating it as an "isolated incident".

He's described as Middle Eastern or East Asian in appearance, with an accent possibly from Afghanistan. He's about 5ft 4in tall with a chubby and round face and has three-inch long black hair in a pudding bowl cut. 

He was wearing blue navy drawstring tracksuit bottoms with a dark T-shirt at the time of the attack.

Any witnesses are asked to come forward.

Image source, Google

Sam Edwards
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Police are investigating after a woman was raped in Peterborough. 

The woman, in her 30s, was walking along Padholme Road from Cavendish Street at about 21:30 on 6 September when she was approached by a man in a dark people carrier. 

Police say the car stopped near the barbers' shop on Padholme Road and the driver tried to talk to the victim through the window. She ignored him and carried on walking down Padholme Road towards North Bank Road.

Then 20 minutes later she saw the car parked up. She walked down North Bank Road and was grabbed from behind and pulled into a bush.

Image source, Google

BBC Weather

It looks like it will be another largely dry and sunny day to come, with temperatures well above the mid September average. 

Some thundery showers possible. Maximum high of 28C (82F).

It'll be the last day of the hot spell, so make the most of the weather - the Met Office has issued a warning of heavy rain for tomorrow, external.   

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

From this morning it's now a criminal offence for punting companies in Cambridge to ply their trade in certain parts of the city. 

A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) is now in place which means if tourists and locals are hassled by touts in parts of the city centre, they could be fined £75. 

The new rules came into force after a public consultation, external. 

Image source, Geograph/David Dixon

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

Early mist and cloud clearing, to bring a sunny day with a risk of thunderstorms later. 

Temperatures reaching 29C (84F).

It'll be the last day of the hot spell, so make the most of the weather - the Met Office has issued a warning of heavy rain for tomorrow. 

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Welcome back to regular updates from the Local Live team for Cambridgeshire. 

Between now and 18:00 we'll bring you news, sport, travel and shortly a full weather report. 

This morning we'll bring you news on how new legislation has just come into force to stop punting touts from hassling tourists and shoppers in Cambridge.

That's it for Cambridgeshire Live for today. We'll be back from 08:00 tomorrow with the latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from around the county.

If you'd like to catch up on the news, scroll down. Here are our big stories from today: 

• A Peterborough man has admitted allowing the 'agonising death' of his three pet dogs
• Medical research in Cambridge is getting a £114m boost from the government
• And archaeologists studying "Britain's Pompeii'" near Whittlesey are studying well preserved Bronze Age goat droppings found at the site

Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather

Tonight will be a dry, warm and muggy night. 

Low cloud, mist and fog may be more extensive tonight, especially in the west of the region. Temperatures falling to around 15-17C (59-63F).

Tomorrow any mist, fog and low cloud should slowly clear to leave another largely fine and dry day, with sunny spells. However, we can’t rule out some thundery downpours. 

Temperatures could again climb to around 30C (86F).

BBC Weather Watchers

The September heatwave has inspired our local team of BBC Weather Watchers to get out snapping. This beautiful shot of the river was taken at Wyton, by Jacqui S.

Image source, Weather Watchers: Jacqui S

With another balmy night in store, we'd love to see your photos.

Nick Fairbairn
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire sport

Peterborough United's manager Graham McCann says he is "devastated" midfielder Jermaine Anderson is likely to miss the rest of the season after suffering knee ligament damage.

Anderson was injured in the first half of Posh's 2-2 League One draw with Port Vale on Saturday.

Image source, Joe Dent

The Posh boss told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, external: "Jermaine had his operation last night and it's a bit worse than the injury he had last year, so it's not good."

The 20-year-old suffered ligament damage in his other knee in December, keeping him out for eight months.

He also missed the final three months of the 2014-15 season after breaking his foot in February 2015.

Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live

The amount of information from the Gia space telescope is already too big for scientists in Cambridge to sift, and they are appealing for the public's help in making discoveries, external.

The first tranche of data recording the position and brightness of over a billion stars, external has today been released by astronomers working on the European Space Agency mission.

Image source, ESA

The mission is reliant on the work of Cambridge researchers who collect the vast quantities of data transmitted by Gaia to a data processing centre at the university, overseen by a team at the Institute of Astronomy.

Prof Gerry Gilmore said: "Gaia’s first major data release is both a wonderful achievement in its own right, and a taster of the truly dramatic advances to come in future years."

BBC Science and Environment

The most precise map of the night sky ever assembled is taking shape.

Astronomers working on the Gaia space telescope have released a first tranche of data recording the position and brightness of over a billion stars.

Gerry Gilmore, from the University of Cambridge, who was one of the mission's founders, says "Gaia is going to be a revolution. 

"It's as if we as astronomers have been bluffing up until now," he said. "We're now going to see the truth." 

This animation shows the Milky Way galaxy as seen from the Gaia spacecraft.

A web portal has been opened, external where anyone can play with Gaia data and look for novel phenomena.

The European Space Agency (Esa) launched its Gaia mission in 2013 and has since mapped the precise position, brightness and distance of 100,000 stars.

Helen Burchell
BBC News

The RSPCA said it had "a lot of sympathy" towards Jonathan Theobold, who admitted allowing his three dogs to die in a hot car in Peterborough.

RSPCA inspector Justin Stubbs said: "It is a genuine tragic accident.

"The gentleman has shown very genuine remorse from the very beginning of this, which just adds to the tragedy of the incident."

Theobald, 65, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to his three Staffie-type dogs by confining them in the car on 16 June. He will be sentenced at a later date.

The court heard when he returned to the car, two of the dogs were dead. He attempted to resuscitate the third but a vet, who he had called, pronounced it dead.

Theobald’s defence solicitor said his client had taken full responsibility throughout the "harrowing experience". Interviewed by RSPCA inspectors the day after the dogs died, he repeatedly said: "I’m the one to blame. I made a mistake."

Mark Williamson
BBC Local Live

The RSPCA has described the deaths of three dogs in a hot car in Peterborough as a "tragic accident".

Jonathan Theobald, 65, of Lincoln Road, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering after leaving his Staffie-type dogs in the vehicle on 16 June.

RSPCA inspector Justin Stubbs appealed to the public not to leave their pets unattended.

"Ten minutes could be too long in the wrong weather," he said. "You're going to put your dog through torture."