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  • Updates on Friday, 28 July 2017

  1. Monday's weather: A damp start to the weekpublished at 08:08 British Summer Time 24 July 2017

    Georgina Burnett
    BBC Weather

    We've got a mix of dry and wet weather to come over the next few days.

    Today we're looking pretty cloudy from the start across the BBC East region, with outbreaks of rain spreading southwards and eastwards with some drier spells inbetween.

    The best chance of any brightness or sunshine will be this afternoon, particularly for Norfolk.

    Top temperature: 19C (66F).

    Watch my full regional forecast here:

  2. Good morningpublished at 08:00 British Summer Time 24 July 2017

    Adam Jinkerson
    BBC Local Live

    Welcome to a brand new week of live updates for Cambridgeshire on Monday, 24 July.

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

    Today sees the start of the school holidays for many children around the county. Lets hope you've not been in too many situations like this yet...

    Children fightingImage source, Getty Images

    We'll start this morning with a full weather forecast, on its way shortly.

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

  3. Mckeague mum considers landfill injunctionpublished at 16:52 British Summer Time 22 July 2017

    Nicola Urquhart says she wants to stop police filling a landfill where she thinks her son's body is.

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  4. Secret Garden Party closes its doorspublished at 09:46 British Summer Time 22 July 2017

    The Secret Garden Party, held in Abbots Ripton close to Huntingdon, will finish after 15 years.

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  5. How have the local newspapers reported today's announcement?published at 19:19 British Summer Time 21 July 2017

    The disappearance of Corrie Mckeague has been leading news in the local press for months and today is no exception.

    • The Bury Free Press, external covered today's press conference, writing that Suffolk Police had commissioned a review of its work to see if anything further could be done to trace Corrie.
    • The East Anglian Daily Times, external says the search team put down their tools this afternoon after searching through more than 6,500 tonnes of waste at Milton landfill site.
    • Meanwhile, the Cambridge News, external says police will now search for Corrie in incinerated waste that may have come from the area where the 23-year-old went missing.
  6. Corrie's mum 'beyond devastated'published at 19:12 British Summer Time 21 July 2017

    Nicola Urquhart has just been speaking to BBC Look East.

    She said disappointment "doesn't come close" at the decision by Suffolk Police to halt its search of the landfill site at Milton for her son - missing RAF serviceman Corrie Mckeague.

    Nicola Urquhart

    She said: "I'm so angry, I'm beyond devastated that they've [Suffolk Police] misled me, that my sons, our family, have all believed that this would come to a natural end, that either they'd find Corrie in the landfill or they can then tell us he's not there.

    "It was only on Wednesday they told me they were going to do a press release and they would be saying 'we think he's still in there but we're not searching anywhere', and that's not what they've told the press today but that is what they've told me.

    "I can live with Corrie never being found - any parent would just find a way of coping with that and dealing with that, but that's on the back of knowing that everything's been done to try and find them - people go missing and just don't get found so I would find a way of dealing with that.

    "I do not want to be anybody that criticises the police ever, but what they've done is wrong."

    Det Supt Katie Elliott earlier told press all evidence suggested Corrie was still at the landfill site, but "without anything further to tell us where he might be, on such a vast site, the search cannot continue".

  7. Social media 'phenomenon' of Corrie Mckeague disappearancepublished at 18:41 British Summer Time 21 July 2017

    The disappearance of Corrie Mckeague has been a social media phenomenon.

    Each year, an estimated 250,000 people go missing.

    But very few of them generate such long-lasting and widespread interest as the 23-year-old airman.

    Corrie MckeagueImage source, Suffolk Police

    Almost 130,000 people have followed the Find Corrie Facebook page, external, with followers posting well-wishes for Nicola Urquhart, and sons Darroch and Makeyan, and their own theories as to what may have happened.

    In December, Mrs Urquhart was photographed searching woodland for any trace of her son, at a point in the investigation when it was thought he might have tried to walk home.

    The picture formed part of a Facebook post which read: "This mum is searching forest undergrowth for her child.

    "Her baby boy. Though an adult, he's her baby still.... It could be one of us parents looking for our child instead."

    It was shared 270,000 times and attracted almost 28,000 comments. Comments were still being posted in April.

    Nicola Urqhart searching undergrowth

    It was not just on social media that the interest in Mr Mckeague's disappearance became apparent.

    Artist Ruddy Muddy sketched an image of Mr Mckeague into dirt on the back of his van, baby blue-coloured wristbands displaying "Find Corrie" were distributed, car stickers were made and posters seen throughout East Anglia and beyond.

    Both Mrs Urquhart and Forbes McKenzie, from the hired data experts, put his appeal down to the fact that he was an airman, and the British public are "good at getting behind the forces".

    Plus, they said, he was a good-looking boy - a "capable, fit young man who should be able to look after himself", according to his mother.

    Mr McKenzie also points to the "feeling of injustice that not enough was getting done" in order to try to find him.

    Image of Corrie on back of vanImage source, Barry Minns
  8. The tortuous search for Corrie Mckeaguepublished at 18:09 British Summer Time 21 July 2017

    The story of the young airman who vanished on a night out baffled the nation - what happened to Corrie Mckeague?

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  9. Why was the landfill site searched for Corrie?published at 18:03 British Summer Time 21 July 2017

    As part of the search for Corrie Mckeague, his mobile phone was traced and it was discovered it had been in Bury St Edmunds in the early hours of Saturday, 24 September, but then moved to the Barton Mills area.

    Police searched a bin lorry, after finding its route matched the movements of the phone, but released it after it was found not to contain Corrie's lost phone.

    Search at landfill siteImage source, Paper Pix

    After thousands of frames of CCTV footage were trawled through, with no evidence that Corrie had left the area, questions began to be asked about whether he had been in one of the bins taken to a landfill site.

    Initially, the weight of the lorry's load was reported to have been 15kg (33lb) - too light to have contained Mr Mckeague, and so the landfill site wasn't searched.

    But in early March, it was revealed the load weighed significantly more than that - more than 100kg (15st 10lb).

    The search of the landfill site at Milton began on 6 March, after a month of preparation of the area for the search team.