Trespassing on UK railways hits record high
Concerns raised about plans to build waste and recycling plant
Virgin train strike to go ahead
Latin graffiti almost removed from Cambridge luxury homes
Early queues form for Sheeran's old clobber
Updates on Thursday, 13 April 2017
Sam Edwards
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
The RMT union, external has announced that its members who work on the at Virgin Trains East Coast, which run rail services through Peterborough, are to stage a 48-hour strike.
The walkout will be on 28-29 April, that's the next bank holiday weekend after Easter.
It's in a row over the role of guards and jobs.
Image source, Virgin
Sara Thornton
BBC Weather
There'll be some sunshine, but make the most of it, as cloud will increase as we go through the afternoon.
The cool north westerly wind may bring a little drizzle much later on, but mostly we've got a dry day ahead of us.
Top temperature: 12C (54F).
Watch my full regional forecast here:
Alex Pope
BBC Local Live
Welcome back to the Local Live news feed for Cambridgeshire.
On this sunny Thursday morning we'll be bringing you all your news, sport, travel and in a moment a full weather report with Sara Thornton.
So that means the sun has now risen on my working day.
A prisoner was left with life-threatening injuries after the attack at HMP Whitemoor.
Read MoreThat's all from the team providing regular updates of news, travel, sport and weather in Cambridgeshire.
We'll be back fully from 08:00 tomorrow, but any breaking stories will appear here overnight.
Have a good evening.
This evening will be rather cloudy with the chance of a few spots of light rain. Skies will clear later, leaving low overnight temperatures of 3C - that's 37F.
Tomorrow will start chilly but it will be mainly dry with sunny spells and the odd isolated shower. Highs of 12C, that's 54F.
BBC Weather has more local forecasts.
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
It might sound unbelievable, but three people were taken to hospital after falling from motorcycles in three separate incidents on the same rural road today.
The unrelated crashes all happened on Benwick Road in Doddington.
Image source, GoogleThe first call came in just after 13:30 after a man in his 20s suffered a suspected broken arm.
At 14:09, a teenage boy suffered a suspected broken wrist.
The last emergency call was made at 15:10 after a man suffered a dislocated shoulder.
Helen Burchell
BBC News
A prisoner has appeared in court charged with trying to kill a fellow inmate, who himself was serving time for attempting to murder Soham child killer Ian Huntley.
Kevin McCarthy, 49, is charged with attempting to murder Damien Fowkes, 41, leaving him with life-threatening neck injuries on 2 October.
Both were prisoners at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire at the time.
McCarthy appeared before magistrates in Peterborough earlier. No pleas were taken and he was remanded in custody.
He will next attend a hearing at the city's crown court on 10 May.
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
A lost novel by John Clare uncovered at Peterborough Central Library will be the feature of a special talk in the city tonight.
Clare was born in Helpston, just north of the city, in 1793.
Clare is one of Peterborough's most famous sons and is considered one of the leading poets from 19th Century England.
However, he once turned his hand to writing a novel.
After 10 years of writing, he abandoned the project.
But his little-known work was recently uncovered at Peterborough Central Library, and after restoration work is set to be published.
The talk takes place at the library, from 18:00.
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is to display two nude paintings by British artist Sir Stanley Spencer in public for the first time.
Nude, the first of the two paintings created between 1935 and 1942, depicts Spencer's second wife Patricia Preece.
It is part of a private collection and has been loaned to the museum, where it will be reunited with the second painting - Self-portrait with Patricia Preece from 1937 - which the museum already owns.
Image source, PATim Knox, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, said: "These stark and shocking works have never been seen together in public before.
"Spencer had intended the pair to be displayed together, with a third painting, now in Tate Britain, in an aborted 'Chapel of Love' dedicated to Patricia Preece, his second wife.
"They portray what he himself described as 'a sort of religious fervour' for Preece, with his ill-fated infatuation and ultimate sexual humiliation.
"At the time they were painted, the sensitive subject of these paintings made them especially difficult to sell or even to exhibit."
Another Spencer work, a full-frontal nude self-portrait in charcoal, has also been loaned to the museum from the same private collection.
His brother Gilbert had supposedly said that Spencer used to hide the nude self-portraits from his housekeeper.
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
A study conducted by the University of Cambridge has found further proof of elephants' intelligence and self-awareness, in an experiment using a stick tied to a mat.
The study involved Asian elephants walking on to a mat, picking up a stick and passing it on to the researcher in exchange for food.
One experiment was conducted under control conditions where the sticks were loose, and a second experiment where the sticks were tied to the mat, requiring the elephants to step off the mat to pass the stick.
The study found that elephants successfully stepped off the mat on average 42 out of 48 times during the experiment, compared with just three out of 48 during the control.
Researchers said this showed elephants were able to recognise their bodies as obstacles to success in problem-solving.
Image source, PA
Image source, PAThe test was devised by Dr Josh Plotnik, a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge and founder of conservation charity Think Elephants International, and his colleague Rachel Dale.
"Elephants are well regarded as one of the most intelligent animals on the planet, but we still need more empirical, scientific evidence to support this belief," said Ms Dale.
"We know, for example, that they are capable of thoughtful co-operation and empathy, and are able to recognise themselves in a mirror.
"These abilities are highly unusual in animals and very rare indeed in non-primates.
"We wanted to see if they also show 'body-awareness'."
BBC Sport
League One and League Two clubs will vote on whether to scrap the EFL Trophy when they meet in May.
In a one-season trial, 16 Premier League and Championship under-21 sides were added to this term's competition, which was traditionally for teams from the bottom two divisions.
The decision was met with fan boycotts of matches.
Image source, Getty ImagesOne of the rules of the competition was that teams had to field five players who started the previous game or went on to start the following match, or five who had made the most appearances in the season.
Peterborough United were among clubs fined £3,000 for failing to meet the conditions during the competition.
Clubs now have the option to keep the academy teams, revert to the previous format or end the competition entirely.
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
Cambridge City Football Club has announced it will continue to pursue a new stadium in the south Cambridgeshire village of Sawston.
The original planning permission was quashed in court in February, following an appeal by a resident.
Image source, Cambridge City FCBut the chairman, Kevin Satchell, says the club hopes to submit a new application in the "coming months".
The Lilywhites currently ground-share with fellow Southern League Premier Division team St Ives, having previously shared with Histon.
City moved out of their Milton Road home in 2013 after more than 90 years, selling the site to developers.
Cambridgeshire County Council failed to protect a 15-year-old girl from being sexually abused by her teacher, the Victoria Derbyshire show has learned.
"Abigail" - not her real name - was raped and sexually abused at Sir Harry Smith Community College in Whittlesey in the 1990s.
A social worker had previously written to warn the council about the teacher - who cannot be named - but he was allowed to continue teaching.
The council offered its sympathy to the victim, adding "the school itself and the whole vetting and checking process is very different from the systems in place 25 years ago".
It agreed an out-of-court settlement of up to £550,000 with Abigail.
The man has since been banned from teaching for life.
Helen Burchell
BBC News
Work to clear a damaged fire station in Manea and recover a fire engine begins today, six days after an archway collapsed.
Image source, Cambridgeshire Fire and RescueThe building partially collapsed on to an engine last Thursday during a weekly training evening at the station.
Area commander Maurice Moore said: "Our priority remains getting the building and fire engine repaired as quickly as we can so normal service can resume in Manea.
"A structural engineer has carried out a detailed assessment of the building and a specialist contractor started this morning to secure the building so we could recover the fire engine and send it away for repair.
"The next step will be to clear the damaged area of the fire station so it can then be rebuilt."
A detailed investigation is under way to identify the cause of the damage, says the fire service.
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
The Co-op on Longstanton High Street remains closed this morning after a cash machine was ripped from inside the shop in the early hours of yesterday.
Thieves used a JCB digger to steal the machine. It was then loaded on to the back of a lorry.
A box van and an Audi RS were also used as getaway vehicles, say police.
A spokesperson for Co-op said: "The store remains closed to allow for both the damage to the building to be assessed and for the police to investigate.
"We appeal for anyone with information to come forward and would like to apologise to the community for any inconvenience caused while their Co-op store remains temporarily closed."
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
A new species of shrimp has been named after Cambridge band Pink Floyd thanks to a pact between prog rock-loving scientists.
The synalpheus pinkfloydi uses its large pink claw to crank it up to 11 and create a noise so loud it can kill small fish.
Image source, Arthur AnkerThe team behind the discovery vowed years ago if it ever found a new pink shrimp it would "honour" the rockers.
Sammy De Grave, head of research at Oxford University Museum of National History, said he had been a fan of the band since he was a teenager.
He has previous for naming crustaceans after rock legends, having already named a species of shrimp after Rolling Stones front man, Mick Jagger - Elephantis jaggerai.
He said: "I have been listening to Floyd since The Wall was released in 1979, when I was 14 years old.
Image source, Getty Images"The description of this new species of pistol shrimp was the perfect opportunity to finally give a nod to my favourite band.
"We are all Pink Floyd fans, and we always said if we would find a pink one, a new species of pink shrimp, we would name it after Pink Floyd."
The pistol, or snapping shrimp, has an ability to generate sonic energy by closing their enlarged claw at rapid speed.
It can reach 210 decibels - louder than your average rock concert - and results in one of the loudest sounds in the ocean.
The description of the species, found off the Pacific coast of Panama, has been published in the Zootaxa journal and was co-authored with the Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil, and Seattle University in the US.
The family of missing Corrie Mckeague say they have been pushed close to their limits as they wait to hear news from the landfill search.
Image source, Nicola UrquhartSuffolk Police, external is searching the waste disposal site at Milton, near Cambridge, for the 23-year-old who went missing on 24 September.
He had been on a night out with friends in Bury St Edmunds when he disappeared.
A bin lorry is known to have left the area where he was last seen.
Police are into their sixth week of searching the site. The search is expected to take up to 10 weeks.
Mr Mckeague's mother Nicola Urquhart posted on the Find Corrie Facebook page: "We've been pushed close to our limits, waiting for the phone to ring over the last nine days.
"We will get through this tho, the kindness and support in every private or public message is still overwhelming, but honestly it's never been appreciated more."
Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live
How was your commute into Cambridge this morning? Slow? How about Ely?
Well, you probably won't be surprised to know that both cities have been named among the top 10 slowest for drivers across the UK.
Image source, John Sutton/GeographTracking company SATRAK took data from half a million vehicles last year.
Its results found Cambridge was the slowest UK city, with vehicles averaging just 13.73mph driving through it.
Ely features only slightly further down the list in fourth, with an average speed on its roads of 14.59mph.
Only Hereford and London sat between the two local cities.
Peterborough ranks 36th overall, with an average speed of 26.41mph.
It also found the the M25 was the slowest motorway, with average speeds of 25mph.
Enjoy your commute home!
Georgina Burnett
BBC Weather
A bright start this morning, but cloud will thicken through the day to leave things fairly dull this afternoon with a few spits and spots of light rain by the early evening.
Highs of 14C, that's 57F.
Later on tonight, the outbreaks of showery rain will move away leading it to turn clearer and colder, with patches of frost in rural areas.
Check out the BBC Weather website for the latest forecast for where you live.
