Louise Hubball
BBC Look East

A Cambridge mother, whose son has Down's syndrome, has produced a book focusing on the positives of the condition to help other new mums in the same situation.

Tania Khan said she was "terrified of her ignorance" when her son Qeis was born with the condition.

"I wasn't sure what Down's syndrome meant other than the stereotypical facial features," she said.

Ms Khan said she was upset that after his birth the emphasis was only the difficulties he would face.

So she used her and other parents' experiences to produce a book, called Hope, to highlight to parents just what's possible and to explain to siblings what Down's syndrome is.

"The 'book of hope' starts off with a story that's particularly written from children, to explain Down's syndrome to them in a light-hearted way," said Ms Khan.

"It ends with six individuals who have achieved their lifetime goals and their dreams and are living long, successful, functional lives."

The book is being made available at maternity units around the country, with the aim of translating it to other languages including Urdu.  

BBC Weather Watchers

It appears our BBC Weather Watchers have been making the most of the lesser-spotted sun, having already been out and about taking a load of pictures of the county looking resplendent.

Here are some of our favourite from the morning... 

Helen Burchell
BBC News

At least 45 firefighters were sent to tackle a blaze at a cottage in West Street, Great Gransden, yesterday evening.

The fire happened in a thatched roof about 22:25.

Crews from Bedfordshire also attended. 

Image source, Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue

There were no reports of injuries.  

Two fire engines remain on the scene today checking for hot-spots and crews are "expected to be there for some time", a fire spokesman said.

Part of West Street remains closed in both directions.

Chris Baraniuk
Technology reporter

An artificial intelligence system that helps officers decide whether or not a suspect should be kept in custody is about to be used by police in Durham.

Prof Lawrence Sherman, director of the University of Cambridge's Centre for Evidence-based Policing, was involved in the tool's development.  

The Harm Assessment Risk Tool (Hart) classifies suspects at a low, medium or high risk of offending and has been trialled by the North East force.

It has been trained on five years' of offending histories data.

Image source, Getty Images

During testing in 2013, forecasts that a suspect was low risk turned out to be accurate 98% of the time, while forecasts that they were high risk were accurate 88% of the time.  

One expert said the tool could be useful, but the risk that it could skew decisions should be carefully assessed.

Mr Sherman suggested that Hart could be used in various cases - such as when deciding whether to keep a suspect in custody for a few more hours; whether to release them on bail before a charge; or, after a charge has been made, whether to remand them in custody.

"It's time to go live and to do it in a randomised experiment is the best way," he told the BBC.

Read more on this story here.

BBC Weather

The return finally of the sunshine today despite a cold start. 

And that sunshine will be prolonged, staying with us all day although it will feel much cooler on the coasts in the wind. 

Temperatures reaching 16 celcius inland, that's 61 farenheit. 

BBC Weather has more local forecasts. 

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Welcome back to live updates for Cambridgeshire on Wednesday, 10 May.

We'll be here until 18:00 to keep you up-to-date with the latest news, sport, weather and travel from around the county.

First up, a full weather forecast on what is already a particularly sunny day. Lets hope it remains that way!

You can get in touch with the team by email, Twitter , externaland Facebook, external.

Lord Derby wins a key High Court stage of his fight to build 400 homes on his land.

Sandy Hamilton and Kevin James McKinley died after the accident off the Galloway coast on Sunday.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

It's about time we said goodbye for the day. 

Scroll back through today's feed for anything you may have missed, including...

• Man left with broken eye socket after attack
• Spaces to be reduced while car park improvements carried out
• Passers-by attempt to rescue cow from river
• Plus more...

Stay tuned to this page overnight for any breaking news from around the county, but we'll be back with regular updates again from 08:00 tomorrow.

Have a great evening.

After Lord Derby's High Court victory in quashing the government's decision which would have prevented him from building 400 homes on his farm in Newmarket, the Department for Communities and Local Government has issued a brief statement.

A spokesman said: "We have received this judgment and will now consider our response."

Julie Reinger
BBC Look East weather

Cloud will thin and break to eventually leave largely clear skies across the BBC East region.

Temperatures could fall to freezing in places, and there's a chance of patchy frost.

Some areas of shallow mist and fog are also possible.

After a chilly start, Wednesday will be fine and dry with long sunny spells and patchy cloud.

It'll feel warm in a light south to south easterly wind.

Inland temperatures could reach 17C (63F).

BBC Weather has a more detailed forecast for where you are.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

As today begins to draw to a close, let's see what some of the local papers have been reporting today...

• The Cambridge News says banging noises coming from a Spanish lorry on the A14 turned out to be Iranian migrants, external.
• The Peterborough Telegraph reports that the former police station in the city has gone on the market, external.
• The Hunts Post writes about drugs discovered by a drugs dog during a police operation in St Ives town centre, external.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Improvement works on three car parks in Cambridge will see a reduction in spaces by 20% while the work takes place.

The Grand Arcade, Queen Anne Terrace and Grafton East car parks will all be upgraded in a £1.2m refurbishment.

By our calculations, that's just short of 500 spaces that will be affected.

Image source, Geograph/Ben Harris

Repairs and improvements, including to the rooftops of the Grand Arcade and Grafton East and the stairwell of the Queen Anne Terrace, will be made between 15 May and 24 September.

Sean Cleary, from Cambridge City Council, said "there will be some inconvenience", but "there is no ideal time to carry out the work".

"We must have the work completed before the redevelopment of Park Street car park begins next year," he said.

"We want to avoid the run-up to Christmas which is particularly busy and the replacement of deck coating and roof repairs needs to be done in the summer."

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

UKIP has decided not to field a candidate in North Norfolk where Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb is defending a majority of 4,043.

The party is asking the 8,300 people who voted for them last time to "lend" their votes to the Conservatives in order to unseat Mr Lamb.

UKIP has announced "non-aggression pacts" against certain Brexit-supporting Conservatives like Stewart Jackson in Peterborough and Philip Hollobone in Kettering, but this is thought to be the first time it has decided not to stand in order to unseat an anti-Brexit candidate.

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

I've got in touch with the man we mentioned earlier who was the victim of a vicious attack in Peterborough.

Mark Baily was attacked and robbed for just £60 and he told me he "feels sorry for his attackers".

The 52-year-old was walking home from a night out with friends on Friday, 29 April, when he was struck across the face on Albany Walk in Peterborough where he lives.

Image source, Google

Mr Baily, who is recovering at home after suffering a fractured eye socket, said he "can't remember a thing" about the incident.

"The first thing I remember was being on my hands and knees which I thought was strange.

"When I got home and looked in the mirror, I was covered head to toe in blood.

"Apparently I was hit with a heavy blunt object across the right side of my head and face. I was unconscious for about two minutes."

The project manager, who has had to take 28 days off work due to the attack, says he doesn't "feel hatred" towards the perpetrators.

"I just want them to come forward because I don't want this to happen to anyone else. It's been awful."

Jon Wright
BBC Radio Suffolk

The controversial Hatchfield Farm housing development in Newmarket can now go ahead, after the High Court quashed a government decision to refuse planning permission. 

The plans for 400 new homes by Lord Derby have been the subject of appeals and legal battles and have been scaled down since the original plan to build 1,200 homes on the site off Fordham Road.

A public inquiry and a report by a government planning inspector both recommended the housing go ahead.

But last year, the newly appointed Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid, refused consent. 

That decision was jointly challenged at the High Court by the Earl of Derby and Moulton Parish Council. 

This afternoon, Mr Justice Gilbart said the Secretary of State "performed a complete and unexplained volte face in his assessment of the highways impacts" and failed to apply his own National Planning Policy Framework, concluding the decision should be quashed.

Lord Derby, whose ancestor founded Britain's richest racing event, has scored a High Court victory over the racing industry and boosted his plans to build 400 new homes on his farmland near Newmarket.

More to follow...

The search work at the Milton landfill site will continue for at least a further week in the hunt for missing RAF Honington serviceman Corrie McKeague, say police.

Throughout the search, officers have found material that has indicated they are in the right area, finding waste that was clearly identifiable as being from Bury St Edmunds, and within the right time frame. 

Mr Mckeague was last seen in the town on 24 September.

The work being completed is continually being reviewed, with daily updates being passed to senior officers overseeing the investigation. 

In view of the dates on items still being found and advice from officers on the ground and the site team, the search will continue into week 11.

We've had one of the driest Aprils on record.... with under half the expected amount of rainfall for the month.

It follows one of the driest winters for 20 years... BBC East weather forecaster Dan Holley's tweet shows how it compares to average years.

Sean Coughlan
BBC News, education correspondent

Pages printed more than 500 years ago by William Caxton, who brought printing to England, have been discovered by the University of Reading.

The pages are understood to have been "rescued by a librarian at the University of Cambridge in 1820, who had no idea that it was an original Caxton leaf," says librarian Erika Delbeque, who first recognised the pages' significance.

Image source, University of Reading

There are no other known surviving examples of these two pages anywhere in the world, from a book believed to have been printed in London in the 1470s.

The pages had been "under their noses" unrecognised in the library's archives.

Ms Delbecque, special collections librarian at the University of Reading, described the find as "incredibly rare".

Image source, University of Reading

The two pages, with religious texts in medieval Latin, were produced by Caxton at his pioneering printing works in Westminster - and are now going on public display for the first time since they were sold from his print shop in the 15th Century.

They are believed to be from the earliest years of Caxton's printing press, either 1476 or 1477.

They are of great significance to scholars and book experts and are expected to have a financial value in excess of £100,000.