BBC Local Live: Cambridgeshire

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Updates for Friday, 30 September 2016
Man jailed for causing double fatal crash
'Six babies' affected in MRSA outbreak at maternity hospital
Men plead not guilty to brain damage football fan attack

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Adam Jinkerson

Footballer amputee Shaun Whiter visits Chelsea's training groundpublished at 11:02 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
Footballer Shaun Whiter, who lost both legs in a hit and run as he tried to help his friend Joey Abbs change a tyre, is due to speak to the BBC today.
Earlier this week, the Stansted estate agent, who had just signed for Newmarket Town FC, visited Chelsea's training ground.
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Cambridge United are holding a family day on 9 October to raise money for Mr Whiter and Mr Abbs.
Greater Anglia say all lines now open between Ipswich and Cambridgepublished at 10:59 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
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Inquest into deaths at 'cluttered home' set to get under waypublished at 10:53 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
Mousumi Bakshi
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
An inquest into the deaths of a Somersham couple who died at their "cluttered" home on Easter Monday is due to get under way today.
Roger Freestone, 67, and his wife Maureen, 65, died in the blaze at Queens Road, after Mr Freestone was seen kicking a cardboard box, which had caught fire, out of the front door.
The inquest is due to get under way today at Huntingdon Coroner's Court, but we've heard has been subject to a delay. We'll bring you more on this later.
Subsidies have a 'one size fits all' approachpublished at 10:44 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
A Cambridgeshire farmer says that European Union funding for farms and landowners is seriously skewed, and needs reforming.
Robert Law's comments come after BBC research found that £400,000 pounds of taxpayers' money is going to support a Newmarket farm where a Saudi prince breeds racehorses.
He said: "It's a typical EU one size fits all across 27 countries. The more acres you have, the bigger the payments get and it's not means-tested.
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"We're in a period of low commodity prices and we're needing these payments to make farming stack up, and I would say at the moment at present commodity levels 80% of the farms are not viable without these payments."
Farm subsidies: Payment to Newmarket farm of billionaire prince sparks angerpublished at 10:15 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
Roger Harrabin
BBC environment analyst
Taxpayers are paying more than £400,000 a year to subsidise a farm where a billionaire Saudi prince breeds racehorses.
The Newmarket farm of Khalid Abdullah al Saud - owner of the legendary horse Frankel - is among the top 100 recipients of EU farm grants in the UK.
The system's critics say Brexit will let the UK redirect £3bn in subsidies towards protecting the environment.
A spokesman for the prince declined to comment.
Train delays expected all morning between Ipswich and Cambridgepublished at 09:23 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
I've just spoken to the British Transport Police who have confirmed they are dealing with an incident in the Cherry Hinton area of Cambridge.
They say a person has been hit by a train.
It means Greater Anglia train services, external are expected to be effected between Cambridge and Dullingham until about 12:00, where a replacement bus service is running.
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All train lines blocked between Dullingham and Cambridgepublished at 08:58 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
The train company, Greater Anglia, external, has confirmed that emergency services are dealing with an incident between Dullingham and Cambridge and all lines are currently blocked.
Train services running through these stations may be delayed by up to 20 minutes and disruption is expected until 12:00.
A limited rail replacement bus shuttle service between Dullingham and Cambridge will be in operation from 09.15.
The company has apologised for the disruption.
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Emergency services dealing with incident between Dulingham and Cambridgepublished at 08:51 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
We're getting reports that emergency services are dealing with an incident between Dullingham and Cambridge.
It means there are replacement buses on Abellio Greater Anglia trains, external between Dullingham and Cambridge.
As soon as we get more information we will bring it to you.
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Buses replacing trains between Dullingham and Cambridgepublished at 08:50 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
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Disruption on trains between Ipswich and Cambridge expected till 12:00published at 08:47 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
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Travel: Delays on A14 by Spittalspublished at 08:15 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
BBC Travel
On the A14 in Huntingdon, a lane is blocked on exit slip road and there is slow traffic westbound at J23, (Spittals Interchange), because of a broken down lorry.
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Travel: Train lines blocked between Dullingham and Cambridgepublished at 08:13 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
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Travel: Delays on Black Cat roundaboutpublished at 08:07 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
BBC Travel
A broken down car is causing delays on the A421 by the Blackcat roundabout.
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Thursday's weather: Rain at first, brighter laterpublished at 08:07 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
Georgina Burnett
BBC Weather
It'll be a cloudy start with outbreaks of rain, which may turn locally heavier for a time, but then clearing by early afternoon.
Drier and fresher conditions will follow with some long spells of sunshine. It will be a breezy day, especially in coastal areas, with a top temperature of 19C (68F).
Remaining dry overnight with some clear spells. Lows of 11C (52F).
BBC Weather has the full forecast where you live.
Good morningpublished at 07:59 British Summer Time 29 September 2016
Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
Good morning and welcome back to regular update from the Local Live team here in Cambridgeshire.
Between now and 18:00 we'll be bringing you all your news, sport and in a moment a full weather report from Georgina Burnett.
There are a few problems on our roads this morning so keep reading for more information.
Our live coverage through the daypublished at 18:03 British Summer Time 28 September 2016
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
That's it for our live updates for today. Thanks for joining us.
We'll be back tomorrow morning from 08:00 with up-to-date news, sport, weather and travel updates from around the county.
Stay tuned to this page overnight for any breaking news from across Cambridgeshire.
We'll leave you for today with some shots from the whale skeleton that's been reconstructed at the Museum of Zoology in Cambridge - bone by bone!
Have a great evening.
Man sustains serious leg injury after collision in Elypublished at 17:53 British Summer Time 28 September 2016
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
I've just heard back from the ambulance service after reports of the air ambulance landing in Ely earlier.
A spokesman for the service said: "We were called to a road traffic collision in Ely around 15:40.
"An ambulance, a rapid response vehicle, an ambulance officer and Magpas attended and treated a man with a serious leg injury.
"He was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital by land ambulance for further care."
Regional weather: A cloudy and breezy night aheadpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 28 September 2016
Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather
Turning a little cloudy this evening with the chance of some patchy rain later across western counties. It'll be breezy overnight, but remaining mild.
Temperatures down to 15C (59F).
Tomorrow will start cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Gradually improving and becoming brighter with sunny spells. Highs of 18C (64F).
Find your local forecast at BBC Weather.
'Not everyone who calls us needs us,' says ambulance chiefpublished at 17:28 British Summer Time 28 September 2016
Kate Scotter
BBC News
People in the East of England are being asked to help decrease demand on the region's ambulance service.
Robert Morton, the chief executive of the East of England Ambulance Service, says there is a "huge capacity gap" between the number of calls the service receives and the number of staff it has.
"Unless you have an ambulance at every crossroad, you are not going to be everywhere within eight minutes, that's a fact of life," he said.
"We need support from the community to drive down demand. Frankly, not everybody who calls us needs us."
Ambulance service managers to respond to callspublished at 17:26 British Summer Time 28 September 2016
Kate Scotter
BBC News
The chief executive of the region's ambulance service said an "explosion" in demand has led to managers being asked to respond to calls.
Bosses at the East of England Ambulance Service, external have been told they will have to do a minimum of two shifts a week responding to calls.
Speaking after today's board meeting, external, chief executive Robert Morton said it was not a "sustainable" way of working in the long term.
"Right now the priority is for us to respond to our patients, improve our response times and support our staff," he said.
"One of the ways we feel we can do that right now is to ask our managers to go out and respond.
"We recognise it's not sustainable in the long term and we recognise that there are elements of our managerial workload which simply are not going to get done, but patients and staff have to be the priority."