Summary

  • Updates for Friday, 21 October, 2016

  • City Deal bosses backtrack on road closure proposal, saying plans have 'serious problems'

  • Bus driver 'had green light' in Longstanton crash

  • First Northstowe properties to go on sale next month

  • Lisa Duffy concentrating on 'lights, not leadership'

  • Council approves Fenland bin charge

  1. Killer driver who fled UK hands himself inpublished at 14:03 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2020

    The family of Rachel Radwell say they are "extremely relieved" Vytautas Kiminius is in custody.

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  2. Drug driver 'got bags and left passenger dying'published at 17:48 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2020

    Kathryn Watkins had "shown contempt for the rules of the road", a judge says.

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  3. Walsall 0-2 Cambridge Unitedpublished at 22:22 Greenwich Mean Time 27 October 2020

    League Two's final remaining unbeaten record falls as Walsall sunk by two Cambridge penalties.

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  4. Peterborough United 2-2 Burton Albionpublished at 21:13 Greenwich Mean Time 27 October 2020

    Bottom club Burton halt Peterborough's five-match winning run thanks to Kane Hemmings' double in a draw at London Road.

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  5. Tributes paid to 'straight-speaking' former MPpublished at 12:35 Greenwich Mean Time 26 October 2020

    Colleagues say John Powley, who has died aged 84, was "tremendously hard-working".

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  6. Hull City 1-2 Peterborough Unitedpublished at 18:21 British Summer Time 24 October 2020

    Peterborough move into the League One automatic promotion places after they come from behind to win 2-1 at Hull.

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  7. Club honours fan who died after hooligan attackpublished at 16:13 British Summer Time 24 October 2020

    Cambridge United holds a minute's silence in memory of Simon Dobbin.

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  8. Cambridge United 1-1 Bolton Wandererspublished at 12:12 British Summer Time 24 October 2020

    Bolton earn a point for the third time in four League Two matches after striking back to draw at high-flying Cambridge.

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  9. Capt Sir Tom Moore's birthday cards go on displaypublished at 00:14 British Summer Time 24 October 2020

    The cards for the fundraiser's 100th birthday are on display at Imperial War Museum Duxford.

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  10. Police detainee donates winnings for better coffeepublished at 15:33 British Summer Time 23 October 2020

    A suspect-turned-critic who spent the night in a police cell won the money on two scratchcards.

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  11. Council had ‘corporate blindness’ and ignored warningspublished at 11:22 British Summer Time 23 October 2020

    Inside Croydon

    Council staff were summoned into a meeting at barely 10 minutes notice this morning, as the interim chief executive Katherine Kerswell laid out what she described as a report from the council’s auditors “raising serious concerns about how decisions have been taken about our finances and how they have been managed over recent years”.

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  12. Botanic garden's plant collection listed onlinepublished at 16:58 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    Lockdown gave the time to "really get going" on creating the free searchable database of plants.

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  13. Tributes to 'industrious and loving' cyclist, 77published at 16:58 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    A woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

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  14. Covid leads to cuts to East Midlands rail servicespublished at 12:34 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    Greig Watson
    Reporter, BBC News Online

    Nearly 40 East Midlands Railway (EMR) services are being withdrawn or reduced, with the company blaming "a steep rise in Covid-related absences".

    The new timetable will start on Monday, external with EMR saying the changes affect 37 services - about 10% of the total.

    EMR train

    Bosses said the reduction was "designed to safely reduce the number of staff required to deliver its services".

    Regional routes, such as Liverpool to Nottingham, Matlock to Newark Castle and Peterborough to Lincoln are most heavily hit, and some Nottingham to Leicester trains have also been cut.

    Will Rogers, managing director of East Midlands Railway, said: "We have taken the proactive step to make changes to our timetable to protect our most popular services, including those that are relied upon by key workers or those who use our services to travel to work, school or college."

    He said the changes will remain under review.

  15. Jury discharged in industrial estate body murderpublished at 11:55 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    Mindaugas Arlauskas's body was found on an industrial estate in May.

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  16. Football fan dies five years after hooligan attackpublished at 21:51 British Summer Time 21 October 2020

    Simon Dobbin was left brain-damaged in the assault after a match in Southend in 2015.

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  17. Prostitute organiser ordered to pay back £400,000published at 17:01 British Summer Time 21 October 2020

    Sun Sun Wong was jailed in 2018 after police posed as clients and visited an address in Cambridge.

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  18. Two fined for separate gatherings in same streetpublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 21 October 2020

    Police issue £10,000 fines after tip-offs about two gatherings of more than 30 people.

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  19. Wigan Athletic 0-1 Peterborough Unitedpublished at 21:38 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    A superb finish from Jonson Clarke-Harris gives Peterborough a 1-0 League One victory over Wigan at the DW Stadium.

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  20. Cambridge United 3-1 Port Valepublished at 21:15 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    Paul Mullin continues his sensational early-season form with a hat-trick as league leaders Cambridge United beat Port Vale.

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