A new Aberystwyth councillor who died suddenly is described as a "gentle girl who always had a smile on her face".

Helen Burchell
BBC News

Archaeologists have found what they think may have been an Iron Age animal sacrifice site in Cambridge.

A pit crammed with the remains of entire animals was uncovered in Eastfield in Chesterton by a team prior to builders taking over the area for a new housing development.

Image source, Oxford Archaeology

Scientists from Oxford Archaeology, external said the pit is part of an Iron Age settlement dating back to 600BC, which they said was "the first of its kind in this part of Cambridge".

A large quantity of animal bones and antlers were found in the area, many with marks from sawing and working, suggesting part of the settlement was possibly an industrial area used to process animal remains and produce tools made of deer antlers.

Image source, Oxford Archaeology

However, the animals found together in the pit - including sheep, dogs and pigs - did not appear to have been butchered or skinned, archaeologists said.

They believe it is possible the animals were placed there as part of a ritual or religious ceremony.

A large quantity of pottery has also been uncovered, leading the team to believe there was "domestic activity" as well as industry at the site.

Image source, Oxford Archaeology

The pit has since been covered up as developers commence work on the 62-house site. Archaeologists will continue to examine the finds in a laboratory.

The Central London County Court heard details of how Michael Dawes "burnt through" £1.6m given to him by his lottery-winning father:

• Monthly spending of £20,000-£30,000 after his father won the lottery in 2011
• £1,000 weekly grocery bill
• £500,000 house bought in Portsmouth
• £250,000 given to his partner's friends and family

Once she found out about his spending, the court heard his step-mother Angie Dawes told her stepson to "stop going to the Ritz for lunch and go to McDonalds instead".

She said she and Michael's father Dave Dawes had given £1m each to 11 family members and friends within a month of the win.

Michael's partner James Beedle said after the case was dismissed: "There are no hard feelings.

"We just thought we had a genuine claim."

Judge Nigel Gerald said the pair had been living "some sort of Walter Mitty, external existence".

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

To see what the restored Renaissance masterpiece looked like before and after, you can watch the video below.

Alex Pope
BBC Local Live

Champagne corks have been popping in Cambridge after the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Hamilton Kerr Institute won a top award in London last night.

The organisations won the Restoration and Conservation catergory at the prestigious Museums + Heritage Awards for Excellence for their work restoring the painting Adoration of the Shepherds by the 16th Century Italian artist Sebastiano del Piombo.

Image source, BBC/Fitzwilliam Museum

It dates from 1511-12, was almost completely destroyed while owned by the French royal family and took 10 years to repair.

The court hearing where Michael Dawes, an ex-Royal Navy officer, sued his father Dave Dawes for an ongoing share of the latter's £101m Euro lottery winnings had its origins in a row at a party...

The Central London County Court heard Mr Dawes Snr immediately gave his son £1m after he won the money in 2011.

Michael Dawes bought a £500,000 house in Portsmouth, gave £250,000 to his partner James Beedle's friends and family, while he claimed he quit his IT job because his dad had given him "assurances".

The court heard his dad kept "topping up" his son's income even after he turned up at his Wisbech home having run out of money in 2012.

The judge, Nigel Gerald, said: "Michael took this as a demonstration that his father would cough up whenever asked, and this therefore buttressed his strange conclusion that his dad would financially support him for the rest of his life.

"I cannot accept this."

In 2013, the son was told his rate of spending was too much and there would be no more money.

Things came to a head at his stepmother Angie Dawes' 49th birthday party, with the son being pushed out of the house.

The court heard father and son were the worse for drink, and the judge said: "The evidence is that Michael behaved extremely badly, demanding £5m from his father, and also verbally abusing and bad-mouthing Angie.

"Since then Dave has not spoken to his son and no more money has been given to him.

"Michael was provided with the funds to have a comfortable life, but for his own reasons he chose not to take that opportunity.

"I therefore dismiss the claim."

Mansfield sign Peterborough duo Lee Angol and Hayden White, the sixth and seventh signings since the end of their season.

A son has lost a court battle against his lottery-winning father for cutting him out of a further share of his fortune.

Even though he's already received £1.6m from him, Michael Dawes, 32, was suing his father Dave Dawes at the Central London County Court.

He was seeking a ruling that, for as long as his father Dave Dawes and step-mother Angela Dawes (pictured) were alive (they're both 53), they were obliged to keep financially supporting him and his partner, James Beedle.

Dave Dawes, from Wisbech, won £101m on the Euromillions in 2011 and his son claimed he was told he would "always be looked after".

Dawes Snr cut of the flow of cash after a row at a party, the court heard.

In court Dave Dawes' QC, Richard Wilson said Michael and his partner "have not repaid this generosity with gratitude".

"Instead, they appear to have developed a sense of entitlement such that they are now bringing this claim to court," he added.

Mr Wilson then said Michael Dawes was "burning through" much of the cash his dad gave him, but the son stated that he was given repeated assurances that he would never be short of cash.

Several times between 2011 and 2012 he had "run out of money", but his dad had always "topped up" his account, the court heard.

Dismissing the case, Judge Nigel Gerald said: "There was no basis on which any rational or normal human being could conclude that they could go back for more money whenever they wanted."

This is a view from a village near Ely which you don't get to see every day:

Helen Burchell
BBC News

A drink-driver, who had to be rescued after crashing her car through a barrier and plunging into a river, has been banned from driving for 12 months.

Alison Rossiter, 58, of Sutton St Edmund, Spalding in Lincolnshire, ended up in the 12ft (3.6m)-deep North Level Drain in Parson Drove, near Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, after crashing into the water at 21:15 BST on 30 April.

Image source, @FenCops

She was pulled from the car by Stephen Jones, who heard her screams from his parents' house nearby.

Mr Jones, from Woking, Surrey, jumped into the pitch-black, icy water and "felt around" until he located Mrs Rossiter in her vehicle, and pulled her free.

Image source, Rebecca Jones

The 34-year-old said his heroics were "what anyone would do".

Mrs Rossiter was unhurt and later admitted drink-driving.

She was found to have 40 micrograms of alcohol in 100 milli-litres of breath - the legal limit is 35 micrograms, external.

Image source, Stephen Jones

As well as the year's driving ban, Rossiter was fined £140 plus costs when she appeared before magistrates in Peterborough.

BBC Technology

Cambridge-based IT giant ARM has teamed up with US researchers on a project to develop chips that can be implanted in the human brain.

The chips are designed to help people with brain and spinal injuries, and will sit inside the skull.

The aim is to develop a system that not only allows people to carry out tasks, but to receive sensory feedback.

But it will be some time before we start to see the benefits of the 10-year project.

ARM is providing the processors for the implants being developed at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), at the University of Washington.

Image source, ARM

The researchers have already developed an early version of the technology.

"They have some early prototype devices," ARM's director of healthcare technologies, Peter Ferguson, told the BBC.

"The challenge is power consumption and the heat that generates. They needed something ultra-small, ultra-low power."

Kestutis Bauzys is accused of killing the 48-year-old, who died from suspected abdominal injuries.

Sue Dougan
BBC Local Live

A new exercise programme's being piloted in Cambridgeshire to help people suffering from dementia.

The technique centres around performing different movements with the right and left sides of the body at the same time.

Originally developed in Japan, the British Gymnastics Foundation has chosen to start its UK roll-out in Huntingdon.

2012 Olympic bronze medallist Kristian Thomas, external, was even on hand to help.

Lara Rostron
BBC Look East

Marjorie Webster's solicitor, Nick Ash, isn't the only person calling for people to be more careful when picking their power of attorney - the person(s) who we grant legal powers to to look after out money, usually in old age.

Stephen McCarthy from Action On Elder Abuse, external says additional criminal charges should be brought in for an "aggravated crime of elder abuse".

He says that shouldn't just be for financial cases, such as the £150,000 which was stolen from Mrs Webster, but also in cases of physical and psychological abuse.

Image source, Majorie Webster

He believes "there is a real lack of deterrent at the moment" and "banks should be able to keep an eye on things".

He also backs up warnings from Mrs Webster's solicitor Nick Ash, that "if you are going to set up power of attorney, look at more than one person".

Lara Rostron
BBC Look East

Marcia Kaye was Majorie Webster's friend for 40 years.

She says Kim Riley, one of the Northborough neighbours who defrauded her of £150,000, "saw her vulnerability".

She told me "as Majorie's health declined she [Riley] became closer to her [Mrs Webster], but was always borrowing money from her".

"Majorie was so kind to them, she paid for holidays for them," said Ms Kaye.

"We just knew they were no good, but without proof, there is nothing you can do.

"We discovered afterwards, when my husband had all the banks statements, they drew money out of Majorie's account on the way to hospital when they knew she was dying."

Det Con Louise Mann from Cambridgeshire Police said it was Mrs Webster's lawyers who reported their suspicions to them and they discovered that "funds were being used for family holidays, pubs, restaurants, concert tickets, supermarket transactions, everything".

Even "holidays to Eygypt" she added.

She added this had gone on for about three years.

Lara Rostron
BBC Look East

The amount of money taken out of Marjorie Webster's account was only discovered after her death in August.

It finally happened when the executors of her will found Mrs Webster's care bill had not been paid and large sums of cash had been transferred to her neighbours' accounts instead.

At Cambridge Crown Court, her neighbours Kim Riley, 53, and Neil Riley, 52, both of Crowson Crescent, Northborough, pleaded guilty to fraud.

Image source, Cambridgeshire Police

Kim Riley (pictured) admitted to fraud by abuse of position and was jailed for 18 months, while her husband, admitted fraud by false representation and was jailed for 28 months.

They had been their elderly victim's neighbours for 12 years and police said they "betrayed her trust" for their "own financial gain".

Luke Deal
BBC Radio Suffolk

Details of a football match to raise funds for a Mildenhall man who needs round-the-clock care after being assaulted in Southend two years ago, are expected to be announced soon.

Simon Dobbin's wife Nicole says he knows the event is going to take place, and has already been to see his team Cambridge United play at the Cambs Glass Stadium.

She added: "We were invited there as a family, Simon got to go on the pitch.

"This is something I'd like to keep going, get him going to regular football matches, because this is something he did before the attack and this is something we'd like to carry on as normal as possible."

Luke Deal
BBC Radio Suffolk

Nicole Dobbin has spoken about the support she gets to look after her husband Simon in their Mildenhall home, after he was attacked following a football match in Southend two years ago.

She said: "I've got fantastic support from the carers, they support me as well as Simon, I couldn't manage without them."

Describing her husband's condition, Nicole said he's still pretty much the same as when he came home from hospital.

"He can't sit up independently, he can't move himself off the bed or anything so we have to do pretty much everything," she said.

"He's unable to walk, he can't use his hands, he's fed through a tube and all his medication goes through the tube.

"He will say words, but only when prompted."

Lara Rostron
BBC Look East

A warning has been given by a solicitor about the problems that people can face when granting power of attorney.

It comes after Marjorie Webster, a vulnerable dementia sufferer in her 80s from Peterborough, was swindled out of thousands by her neighbours.

"I've been doing this for 12 years and I have to say this is the worst case I've come across and it's one of the worst cases reported in this country over the last three to four years," said solicitor Nick Ash of Will and Probate Services in the city.

Image source, Majorie Webster

He was the executor of Mrs Webster's will and while he was sorting it out he discovered £150,000 of her life savings had been taken out over a three and a half year period by her neighbours who'd "helped themselves to a thousand pounds a week".

He said the "extremely rare" and "awful" case only happened because Mrs Webster had given her neighbour sole power of attorney over her finances when she was still alive.

He said he had also provided legal advice to her over the power of attorney documents at a time before she was diagnosed with dementia and was "of sound mind".

He said he advised her to give power of attorney to two unrelated people, but Mrs Webster said she didn't need to.

If you were in Marshland St James on Saturday and witnessed a road rage incident, Norfolk police would like to hear from you.

The incident happened at around 14:00 on Smeeth Road.

The female driver of a silver Mini was involved in an altercation with the female driver of a small blue car, who then assaulted the Mini driver causing minor injuries.