A formal handover of the three platforms at Cambridge North station will take place today.

Image source, Network Rail

The £50m station is due to open its doors to passengers on 21 May. 

As first reported in the Cambridge News, external, testing of passenger trains has begun at the station ahead of its opening in a few weeks' time.  

The platforms and railway systems will be handed over to operator Greater Anglia, external.

The station will serve Cambridge Science Park and the suburb of Chesterton. 

With three games to go, 10 League Two teams are still in with a realistic shot at the play-offs.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

A woman's body was recovered from a nature reserve lake near Grantchester yesterday afternoon.    

A search and rescue team had been deployed by police because of fears for a missing woman's safety. 

The body was discovered in Byron's Pool, between Grantchester and Trumpington, a popular spot for walkers and visitors.

Police are not treating the woman's death as suspicious. 

Elizabeth Rizzini
BBC Look East weather

Today's likely to be the warmest day of the week, although it will be rather cloudy. 

We’re into warmer air now, so it should feel pleasantly warm in any sunshine that appears. 

The cloud will gradually thin and break during the morning, and that will really help to lift the temperatures, giving us highs of about 15C (59F).

Watch my full regional forecast here:

Good morning Cambridgeshire.

It's Friday and we're here all day with all your news, sport, travel and weather.

We'll be bringing you the latest news on the £50m Cambridge North station which is due to open its doors in May.

But first, let's see what the weather has got in store.

Image source, Network Rail

The actor's lead role in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman will now be taken by Nicholas Woodeson.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

The question of devolution in this region has been rumbling on for months - but now it's finally starting to come full circle.

The new combined authority of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, external was only formally created this year -and the mayor in charge will be in control of a £800m budget over five years.

Last night's debate at the Kingsgate Conference Centre was a chance for all seven candidates to have their say ahead of the election. 

But which candidate gets your vote on 4 May?

Scroll down through the coverage here to see if you felt the burning local issues were answered before making your choice on the ballot paper.

The debate - hosted by BBC Look East's Janine Machin - will be broadcast tonight, on BBC1 - at 22:45.

Hannah Olsson
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter

So the new mayor will certainly have power, but do people care? There’s no doubt that interest has been creeping up as the election gets closer, but with any new role it’s always hard to get the message out that the election is happening, and I meet people every day who still have no idea.   

The mayoral election is being held on the same day as the election for Cambridgeshire County Council, which usually gets a turnout of around a third, so we can expect around the same for the mayoral election. 

But it’ll be interesting to see what happens in Peterborough - it’s a unitary authority so doesn’t have any elections this time round. The candidates will have to work even harder there to get people to come out and vote for them.

Mousumi Bakshi
BBC East political reporter

As expected perhaps, the two main parties performed well, but it was Rod Cantrill, with his insistence that homes in Peterborough were just as unaffordable as those in Cambridge, who won a fraction more applause from the audience.

His Lib Dem campaign is being run by the same team that won the Richmond by-election last year, and it shows.

Whether that translates to more votes here remains to be seen. In a county that typically votes Tory, James Palmer will be feeling confident.

Four daschunds have been stolen from a house in Upwell in west Norfolk. They were taken from a house on Back Drove road late on Tuesday night.

Christine Holden-Storey, the dog's owner - who has been a dog breeder for 45 years, said: "They (the thieves) knew what they were taking.

"They did not take the male dogs. They only took the bitches."

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Although the debate seemed to go down well with the audience, some questioned the role the mayor would have and if it would actually make any difference. 

One audience member said: "What I am hearing here is absolute rubbish because you as mayors are not going to have the money to do anything.

"(The) government has massively cut money to local government, and Peterborough needs more money."

The general consensus from the panel seemed to be that they won't have enough money, but they will try and ask for more.   

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

One of the most repeated words in this debate has been "apprenticeship". 

It seems like all the candidates think training young people in certain skills will help unlock Cambridgeshire and Peterborough's true potential. 

Rod Cantrill, for the Liberal Democrats, says if he's elected he will "put jobs back into Fenland".

He thinks this will happen by making sure young people can build the new homes that we will need to live in over the coming years. 

He's also promised to reinstate funding to pay for the bus fares of 16-18-year-olds so they can travel to colleges to undertake their further education. 

Meet Ben Blowes, who's running his 10th London Marathon, this time with a tumble dryer on his back:

A Cambridge political blogger filmed the moment his camera was stolen and smashed.

Hannah Olsson
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire political reporter

Party campaigners have told me that, on the doorstep at least, the election of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s first mayor has been somewhat overshadowed by the snap general election. 

But it’s worth remembering that in terms of our everyday lives, our new mayor has the potential to make a big difference to people living in Cambridgeshire. 

Transport and housing are two of the biggest issues for Cambridgeshire. It’s no coincidence that they are the areas that the new mayor will have control over, and are the two biggest battlegrounds for the election.

There is £170m to spend on affordable housing, but what this will look like, where this will go and who will be able to live there, is something the candidates have been debating over the last couple of weeks.

Similarly, there are many transport projects being talked about as part of the devolution deal, from the reopening of the Wisbech rail link to upgrading the A47. 

But these are costly projects - and even with £20m available for the next 30 years, it’ll be up the mayor to decide which projects should be prioritised, and again the candidates differ in their ideas. 

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Here's a flavour of your reaction to the debate between the mayoral candidates last night.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

The front page of today's Ely Standard, external also looks at the candidates vying to become the first mayor for the new combined authority of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: 

The mother of missing serviceman Corrie Mckeague says it may take police longer than the original estimation of 10 weeks to complete the search of a landfill site near Cambridge.

Image source, Suffolk Police

Writing on the "Find Corrie, external" Facebook page, Nicola Urquhart says: "We are in the 7th week now and we are already aware the police may require an extra week."

Suffolk Police say they review what's happening at the landfill site on a regular basis and that no end date for the search has been set.

Image source, Paperpix UK

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Helping the next generation get into work lies in training. 

This is the view of Peter Dawe, the independent candidate who says training has to shift "from education establishments to employers and the employed".

You get skills "by doing the job and doing it next to someone who knows how to do it", he says. 

Stephen Goldspink, for the English Democrats, also believes apprenticeships are the answer as "there is a mix of people out there".

He doesn't think everyone is made to go to university so alternative training needs to be in place. 

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

On the subject of skills, Julie Howell, representing the Green party, said she would like to get rid of these "awful unpaid internships".

"That's something I would knock on the head," she said.

She said this is because too many people are getting to 30 and not properly working. She said she wanted to help them "get into something meaningful".

Paul Bullen, for UKIP, said more young people needed to learn technical skills.

"We need skills trade people, then businesses will come here," he said.