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It's getting a thing of habit now.

Our BBC Weather Watchers have once again delivered with some stunning pictures from around the county.

Here are some of the best from this morning...

BBC Weather

A cloudy and misty start but with some brighter intervals through the morning and more widespread sunny spells developing in the afternoon. Mild for the time of year.

Highs of 11C (52F).

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Meat and cheese worth £12,000 has been stolen from a farm in Gamlingay, just days before Christmas.

Offenders broke into a storage room at the site on Potton Road, Mill Hill, on Sunday and stole turkey, beef, lamb and chicken, which was stored in refrigerators.

In a separate incident on 3 December offenders broke into a property in Alms Hill, Bourn, and stole meat and cheese worth more than £5,000 from fridges and freezers.

Police are keeping an "open mind" as to whether the two burglaries are linked.

PCSO Leanne Fisher said: "We are keen to hear from anyone who has been offered meat or cheese to purchase from an unfamiliar source."

Hannah Olsson
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter

It's a big day for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Devolution Deal.

The Shadow Combined Authority - the team tasked with pushing the deal forward - meets for the first time today.

The group is made up of representatives from each of our local councils and the local enterprise partnership.

On today's agenda... selecting a chair and finalising the timeline for the election of a mayor in May next year.

The authority, under the lead of a mayor, will make decisions on issues like transport and housing.

Steve Count, leader of the county council, has recently been confirmed as the chair of the new authority.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

As you heard this morning, the jury in the trial of Vladimir Bukovsky has been dismissed after the Russian dissident fell ill and was taken to hospital overnight.

Judge Gareth Hawkesworth, sitting at Cambridge Crown Court, said he noticed Mr Bukovsky had been coughing badly and frequently fell asleep during his trial. 

Defence counsel Francis FitzGibbon QC said: "Years spent in a Soviet labour camp cannot have helped."

Mr Bukovsky, 73, who lives in Cambridge, denies 11 counts of making and possessing indecent images of children.

If and when Mr Bukovsky is fit to stand trial, the judge said it will take place with a different jury. 

He listed the case for mention on 19 January 2017.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

As we've just mentioned, the jury in the trial of Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has been discharged after Cambridge Crown Court was told he was taken to hospital last night suffering from pneumonia and low blood oxygen.

Mr Bukovsky denies 11 counts relating to indecent images of children found on his computer.

Image source, Getty Images

This morning the court was shown a letter from Dr Sonia Sharma confirming that Mr Bukovsky is an inpatient at the respiratory unit at Addenbooke's Hospital in Cambridge and will be unfit to attend court until 30 January 2017.

Defence counsel Francis FitzGibbon QC told the court that after yesterday's hearing Mr Bukovsky went to see his GP, who diagnosed bronchial pneumonia and advised him to go straight to hospital.

He said Mr Bukovsky suffers from a catalogue of health complaints including congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.

The jury in the trial of Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has been discharged after Cambridge Crown Court was told the defendant was admitted to hospital with pneumonia and low blood oxygen overnight.

More to follow.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

It was a 'non' for Steve Jobs, as the good people of Paris decided to honour the Bletchley Park World War Two code-breaker and Cambridge graduate Alan Turing by naming a street after him. 

They decided against choosing the Apple founder, after critics accused the company of tax avoidance.

Image source, Getty Images

His name will now adorn new roads in the French capital's soon-to-be-launched tech start-up campus in the south-eastern 13th district.       

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

As well as a reversal on a decision to cut gritting routes, there was another U-turn made at the county council meeting - to turn back on street lights that had been switched off or dimmed in hope it would save money.

It was originally hoped these cuts would save £260,000 when it was made at the county council's budget meeting back in February.

It meant that from April this year many lights were put on "reduced operational times", effectively meaning they would be switched off between 02:00 and 06:00.

Image source, Getty Images

At the meeting, UKIP's Paul Bullen put forward a motion to reverse the decision. He said "people had been left feeling unsafe and possible victims of crime".

Forty five councillors voted for a reversal of February's street lights decision, with three against and six abstaining.

Ann Sinnot, a Cambridge City councillor who campaigned against the lights being turned off, said she was "delighted", but "very surprised" at the decision.

"I can understand the council's predicament, but people's safety is paramount," she said.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

A decision to cut gritting routes was overturned yesterday after a unanimous vote by all councillors at a county council meeting.

Part of the reason for the motion to rescind the decision was the actual amount of savings made were less than the projected amount of savings.

Steve Count, Conservative leader of Cambridgeshire County Council, said the research presented to them "wasn't accurate".

"If we'd have known the small saving and the damage this has done, we would never have made that decision and that's why we reversed it," he said.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

So what really are the details behind the gritting U-turn?

Back in February, cuts to gritting routes were announced as part of the council's budget, aiming to save about £650,000 a year.

This was a reduction from 45% of the county's roads to 30% being gritted - something that has already been implemented in the recent cold spell.

Image source, Getty Images

However, it was met by a backlash from members of the public and councillors alike.

As well as being unpopular, it was also realised by the Conservatives, the biggest party on the county council, that it wouldn't actually save all the money promised. The actual figure was more like half of the original sum - about £300,000.

So after a motion was put forward by the Lib Dems to reverse the cutbacks and an amendment made by the Conservatives, the decision to overturn the recent cuts was unanimously voted for by all councillors.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Following on from yesterday's news that a proposal to cut gritting routes around the county had been rescinded by Cambridgeshire County Council, another big U-turn was also made on the decision to dim or turn off street lighting in towns and villages to save money.

The original decisions were part of the council's budget back in February. It was initially hoped the cuts would save hundreds of thousands of pounds.

But both moves were reversed after they proved unpopular with members of the public.

Forty five councillors voted for a reversal of February's streetlights decision, with three against and six abstaining.  

The money to re-instate both services will come from council reserves.

BBC Weather

It's a cloudy and misty start but with some brighter intervals through the morning, and more widespread sunny spells developing in the afternoon. 

It's still mild for the time of year, with a balmy 10C (50F) to enjoy.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Welcome back to Local Live for Cambridgeshire on Wednesday, 14 December.

We're here until 18:00 keeping you abreast of the latest news, sport, weather and travel from around our county.

First up, let's talk about the moon.

It looked absolutely giant out there overnight and in to this morning. According to our colleague Carol Kirkwood off of the weather, last night's was 99.9% full!

We'd love to see your pictures. You can send them to us by email, or by becoming a BBC Weather Watcher.

This morning, we'll be delving a bit deeper in to some contentious Cambridgeshire County Council decisions that were reversed at a meeting yesterday, including gritting routes and street lights. More on that shortly.

We'll start the day with a full weather forecast, on it's way soon.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Thanks for your company today. 

It's been a busy day with rail disruption and an evacuation in Peterborough city centre. Scroll down the feed to catch up on anything you may have missed.

Stay tuned to this page overnight for any breaking news from around the county.

Have a great evening and we'll be back with the latest Cambridgeshire news, sport, weather and travel from 08:00 tomorrow.

Watch goals and highlights as Peterborough United beat Notts County in the FA Cup.

BBC Weather Watchers

We couldn't let today pass us by without showing you some of the stunning pictures sent in by our Weather Watchers...

Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

It'll stay cloudy tonight with further outbreaks of light rain and drizzle. Gradually clearing later, but staying cloudy and misty with some poor visibility, particularly on the coast.

Lows tonight of 8C (46F).

Tomorrow will start cloudy with some patchy mist and fog, but overall staying dry. Drier air moving in from the continent will push the cloud away.

Becoming brighter with decent amounts of sunshine by the afternoon. Highs of 11C (52F).

Get the full forecast where you live, at BBC Weather.  

Tom Horn
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

The English Football League (EFL) has clarified the contents of a letter sent to all clubs in the 1980s in regards to an academy set up by ex-Peterborough United coach, Bob Higgins.

Higgins joined Peterborough United in the mid-90s and is accused of historical sexual abuse against young players during his time with Southampton.

The EFL says a letter dated before his time at Peterborough, on 27 April 1989, from The Football League Limited advising football league clubs not to work with the Bob Higgins Soccer Academy, was not linked to abuse allegations.

A statement says: "The letter referred to above was issued to all 92 clubs as a result of The Bob Higgins Soccer Academy writing to them on or around the 14th April 1989 offering their services, which operated outside the licensed criteria that applied at that time, in respect of avoiding the maximum time boys were able to travel to clubs' licensed Centres of Excellence as well as the number of hours they could train." 

The EFL says the letter was sent with the support of both the FA and the English Schools FA, which had been involved in discussions about the status of The Bob Higgins Soccer Academy outside the licensed criteria in the preceding months.

Mr Higgins has denied all allegations of wrongdoing and was acquitted of sexual abuse charges in 1992.

A statement released last week by Peterborough United, a club which Mr Higgins joined some time after the letter was sent, said: "Mr Higgins was employed by the football club by previous owners and a past management team. The club are holding an internal investigation into this matter and will take any allegations seriously. We will co-operate with all of the governing bodies and the police during this time."

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

It appears gritting wasn't the only subject being debated at the final meeting of Cambridgeshire County Council for the year.

Before the meeting even started there was a sharp intake of breath...