Nic Rigby
BBC News

Top acts from around the country and the world are playing the Cambridge Folk Festival, external, which starts today.

The event is headlined by Jake Bugg, external (pictured above), Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, and Loudon Wainwright III (pictured below) from the USA.

Other bands and performers playing the festival include Orkney band Fara (pictured below playing the festival in 2015 on Stage 2 and having a jam), Cara Dillon, Jon Boden and The Oysterband.

Jeana, from Fara, said the band was "looking forward to playing and also getting around and listening to many other great acts".

Adam Jinkerson
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome back to live updates for Cambridgeshire on Thursday, 27 July.

We'll be here until 18:00 with the latest news, sport, weather and travel from around the county.

First up, as ever, a full forecast for the day.

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Theresa May said there would be "justifiable scepticism" about her own position, given her voting record.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

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Take a quick peek down through the feed to see if you've missed anything.

We'll be back to do it all again from 08:00 tomorrow.

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Nic Rigby
BBC News

We've been previewing the Cambridge Folk Festival, external which features a host of artistes including established stars such as Jake Bugg and Loudon Wainwright III, but also up-and-coming bands such as Orkney folk group Fara, external (pictured below).

Image source, Fara

The band have made great strides since first playing the festival in 2015 (pictured below) and have since played the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Folk Awards.

Jeana from the band told the BBC: "We are very excited to be coming back to Cambridge Folk Festival this year.

"We first played there as a band in 2015 - it was our first every gig/festival south of the border! We found the whole atmosphere and experience of the festival to be warm and welcoming, and the weather was great too.

"We are back now with our debut album 'Cross The Line' which we released in October 2016 and are looking forward to playing and also getting around and listening to many other great acts that are on the line-up at the festival this year."

BBC Local Radio for the East's Sue Marchant will be broadcasting from the festival on Sunday from 19:00.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

The organisers of the Cambridge Folk Festival, external hope that its "introducing stage" called The Den - which includes singers from Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk - can continue to talent-spot up and coming artistes.

Image source, Wooden Arms

Steve Bagnall, managing director of Cambridge Live, which runs the festival, said: "Cambridge Folk Festival aims to lead the way with artist development, an ambition perfectly illustrated by Jake Bugg and Ward Thomas moving from The Den to the Main Stage.

Image source, Danni Nichols

"One of the most exciting parts of the festival really is seeing who playing The Den this year will be a headliner of the future."

Acts playing The Den this year include Norwich-band the Wooden Arms, external, Suffolk duo Honey & The Bear, external, Cambridgeshire singer Kerry Devine, external and Bedford singer-songwriter Danni Nicholls, external.

Image source, Honey and the Bear

Alex Carson, of the Wooden Arms, told the BBC: "We're really looking forward to playing - we'll be playing a heap of new material from our upcoming record Trick of the Light out on 6 October."

Jon Hart, of Honey & The Bear, said: "The national reputation of Cambridge as a cornerstone of great music speaks for itself, we're just thrilled to be part of such an iconic festival."

Lucy Sampson, of Honey & The Bear, said: "Everyone we meet has a Cambridge story, its steeped in folklore itself now."

BBC Local Radio for the East's Sue Marchant will be broadcasting from the festival on Sunday from 19:00.

Nic Rigby
BBC News

The Cambridge Folk Festival, external starts tomorrow and runs over the weekend. It will play host to some of the top folk singers and musicians from around the world.

The event is being headlined by Jake Bugg, Frank Tuner and the Sleeping Souls (pictured below), and Loudon Wainwright III from the USA.

Image source, Frank Turner

It will also feature performances from Cambridge-based folk singer Emily Mae Winters, external (pictured below) and Norfolk band Morganway, external, both playing the Cambridge Folk Club, external tent on Friday night.

The festival, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014, is one of the longest running and most famous folk festivals in the world.

Image source, Emily Mae Winters

Emily Mae Winters told the BBC: "I'm just so thrilled to be playing.

"Its such an honour as it really is one of the most prestigious folk festivals in the world. What's brilliant and unique to Cambridge, is the breadth of folk that the festival celebrates and explores."

Callum Morgan, of Morganway (pictured below), said the festival "has to be one of the most recognised and respected of its kind, and we're absolutely thrilled to be playing it for our first time this year.

Image source, Olli Ali

"The Cambridge Folk Club has been so supportive of this band and for them to invite us to play feels really special."

The festival has been held every year since 1965 in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall and attracts about 14,000 people a year.

Helen Burchell
BBC News

An animal rescue charity is appealing for extra food to feed dozens of hungry cats and kittens after it experienced as "influx" of unwanted felines.

There are currently 36 cats and 48 kittens at Cambridge's Blue Cross shelter, external in Garlic Row.

That's a "huge rise in the usual number of young felines at the centre, due to the impact of kitten season", a spokeswoman told us.

Image source, Blue Cross

Buttons and her new litter (above) are just some of the hungry mouths the charity is having to look after and feed, until all are old enough and healthy enough to be rehomed.

But until then, staff are appealing in particular for wet food suitable for all the kittens.

“We would really appreciate any donations – big or small – for our cats and kittens in need, Sarah Bates, Animal Welfare Supervisor at the centre said.

Image source, Blue Cross

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

A big slice of government cash is coming to Cambridgeshire - to combat the local impact of migration.

The money is from the government's 'Controlling Migration Fund' and will be spent on three projects in Peterborough and Fenland.

The claim is that this funding will help to reduce the pressure and cost placed on services including doctors' surgeries, hospitals and police for the benefit of residents.

Here are some of the projects getting money:

• Peterborough: £224,912 "Getting to know you" project delivered by volunteers to improve language skills across diverse communities.
• Peterborough: £94,200 Developing social media information to improve migrant. communities' understanding of local services and rights.
• Peterborough and Wisbech: £283,347 Reducing crime and improving health outcomes and social cohesion.
• Fenland: £86,400 Outreach worker to deal with rough sleeping and landlord and employer exploitation
• Fenland: £89,657 Grow it, Cook It, Share it Compare: Wisbech Alllotment project.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said migration can put pressure on public services.

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Here's a look at what's making the front pages of the county's newspapers today:

• A new £650,000 boathouse will be opened on Friday, on the last available site along the Cam, according to the Cambridge News, external. The project is a first for Camrowers, external - a non-competitive club for older people and those with disabilities.
• The Peterborough Telegraph, external reports that the Great Haddon development - for 5,350 homes and 9,000 jobs - could be back on track thanks to the city council "bashing heads together". A deal in principle was reached regarding funding of the infrastructure.
• And a military charity has stepped in to rescue a family after a botched bathroom conversion that "looked like a five year old had done it". Read the full story in the Wisbech Standard, external.

A woman escaped with minor injuries from this crash on the A14 near Cambridge early this morning.

The emergency services were called to the stretch between junctions 32 for Histon and 33 for Milton just before 04:00.

The collision involved a grey Renault and a lorry parked up in a layby.

The East of England Ambulance Service confirmed a woman - in her 30s - was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Police in Peterborough are looking for this man in connection with an allegation of racially aggravated assault in the city.

He is Thomas Baldwin, 29. People are asked not to approach him.

The incident happened at around 22:50 last Thursday, 13 July, in Scalford Drive in the city.

Image source, Cambridgeshire Police

The man was chased by police who caught him with eleven bags and tubs of clothes-washing products.

League Two side Barnet sign striker Shaquile Coulthirst following his release by Peterborough United.

Repairs to defects in the concrete sections of the track are projected to cost more than £36m.

BBC Weather Watchers

Someone's been praying for rain during the recent hot spell. Now it seems daily.

Our Weather Watchers have been out and about, capturing the dark clouds closing in today.

'Maggie May' caught the last of the sun's rays over Thriplow earlier:

Image source, BBC Weather Watchers

The impending rain won't dispel the burst of colour snapped in this photo taken in Ramsey Saint Mary's between Huntingdon and Peterborough by Weather Watcher 'alpaca lady':

Image source, BBC Weather Watchers

And thanks to 'Impington Geoff' for this moody shot over Histon this morning:

Image source, BBC Weather Watchers

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

The family of a man who died in a road collision in Suffolk at the weekend have paid tribute to him.

Charles McCulloch, 88, of Seymour Street in Cambridge, died in a two-vehicle crash on the northbound A11 at the Worlington junction near Barton Mills on Saturday.

His family said: "Big Charles was an avid follower of football and well known in the Cambridge area, refereeing in several leagues, to the age of 73.

"He was an uncle, great uncle, great great uncle, who will be sadly missed and always be in our hearts."

Image source, Google

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Image source, Peterborough City Council

Chef and restaurateur Aldo Zilli will be top billing at this year's Italian Festival in Peterborough over the 9-10 September.

Annette Joyce, the city council’s service director for city services and communications, said: "Each year the festival grows in stature and I am sure people will be looking forward to all the highlights including the performances from Laboratorio Orafolk and Shakespeare in Italy.”

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

Few projects have been as troubled as the Cambridgeshire guided busway.

Cambridgeshire County Council says they are now going to take contractors BAM Nuttall to court over a potential £36.5 million repair bill.

BAM Nuttall has declined to comment.

City council leader Lewis Herbert told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire that the busway is a success - but the county desperately needs transport investment.

"The only people who really invested in transport in Cambridgeshire were the Romans," he said.

"However the busway makes three million passenger journeys a year - that's thousands of people making the smart choice not to drive in."

He described the busway's current woes as a "contractual mess".

"If BAM Nuttall cannot build a proper busway then the county council and residents are entitled to their money back. A lot of this is down to poor engineering and poor construction."

Former county councillor Geoff Heathcock was more scathing of the whole transport process.

"We keep on spending public money like it's going out of fashion," he said.

"The county has now been left with an almighty financial muddle which future generations will have to pick up the tab for.

"Cut the waffle and get on with it."

Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

You know the score.

You need the doctor but it's a Saturday and you don't want to clog up A&E.

Well, if you live in Peterborough you're in luck.

A new GP Hub service, external - based at Boroughbury medical centre in Craig Street - is up and running.

Local GPs and nurses offer a range of services for all patients registered with a GP practice in Greater Peterborough.

Appointments are available to book between 18:30 and 20:30 Monday to Friday - and from 09:00 to 17:00 at weekends and on Bank Holidays.

It's hoped the service will ease pressure across the local NHS and help keep patients out of hospital.

The GP Hub is run by a group of GP surgeries in Greater Peterborough called the Greater Peterborough Network (GPN).

It was awarded national funding to provide an additional 130 hours of evening and weekend appointments per week with a GP or nurse, across Greater Peterborough, for the coming year.

GP Dr Sanath Yogasundram said: "GP practices across Peterborough are now working together to help deliver much-needed extended access to GP services.

"Over the next 12 months the GP Hub will provide an extra 20,000 GP and nurse appointments to local residents."