Summary

  • Updates on Friday, 18 August 2017

  • Man dies after accident on A605

  • Repair work to fix damaged rail line after train derailment underway

  • Knife amnesty creating "safer Cambridgeshire"

  • Anti-caravan trench dug at playing field

  • Recycling centre to be built in Peterborough

  1. Cambridge United 1-1 Bolton Wandererspublished at 12:12 British Summer Time 24 October 2020

    Bolton earn a point for the third time in four League Two matches after striking back to draw at high-flying Cambridge.

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  2. Capt Sir Tom Moore's birthday cards go on displaypublished at 00:14 British Summer Time 24 October 2020

    The cards for the fundraiser's 100th birthday are on display at Imperial War Museum Duxford.

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  3. Police detainee donates winnings for better coffeepublished at 15:33 British Summer Time 23 October 2020

    A suspect-turned-critic who spent the night in a police cell won the money on two scratchcards.

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  4. Council had ‘corporate blindness’ and ignored warningspublished at 11:22 British Summer Time 23 October 2020

    Inside Croydon

    Council staff were summoned into a meeting at barely 10 minutes notice this morning, as the interim chief executive Katherine Kerswell laid out what she described as a report from the council’s auditors “raising serious concerns about how decisions have been taken about our finances and how they have been managed over recent years”.

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  5. Botanic garden's plant collection listed onlinepublished at 16:58 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    Lockdown gave the time to "really get going" on creating the free searchable database of plants.

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  6. Tributes to 'industrious and loving' cyclist, 77published at 16:58 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    A woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.

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  7. Covid leads to cuts to East Midlands rail servicespublished at 12:34 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    Greig Watson
    Reporter, BBC News Online

    Nearly 40 East Midlands Railway (EMR) services are being withdrawn or reduced, with the company blaming "a steep rise in Covid-related absences".

    The new timetable will start on Monday, external with EMR saying the changes affect 37 services - about 10% of the total.

    EMR train

    Bosses said the reduction was "designed to safely reduce the number of staff required to deliver its services".

    Regional routes, such as Liverpool to Nottingham, Matlock to Newark Castle and Peterborough to Lincoln are most heavily hit, and some Nottingham to Leicester trains have also been cut.

    Will Rogers, managing director of East Midlands Railway, said: "We have taken the proactive step to make changes to our timetable to protect our most popular services, including those that are relied upon by key workers or those who use our services to travel to work, school or college."

    He said the changes will remain under review.

  8. Jury discharged in industrial estate body murderpublished at 11:55 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    Mindaugas Arlauskas's body was found on an industrial estate in May.

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  9. Ed Sheeran donates items to charity auctionpublished at 01:39 British Summer Time 22 October 2020

    Fans can bid for handwritten lyrics to his song Perfect and a £3 ticket for his first gig.

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  10. Football fan dies five years after hooligan attackpublished at 21:51 British Summer Time 21 October 2020

    Simon Dobbin was left brain-damaged in the assault after a match in Southend in 2015.

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  11. Prostitute organiser ordered to pay back £400,000published at 17:01 British Summer Time 21 October 2020

    Sun Sun Wong was jailed in 2018 after police posed as clients and visited an address in Cambridge.

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  12. Two fined for separate gatherings in same streetpublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 21 October 2020

    Police issue £10,000 fines after tip-offs about two gatherings of more than 30 people.

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  13. Wigan Athletic 0-1 Peterborough Unitedpublished at 21:38 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    A superb finish from Jonson Clarke-Harris gives Peterborough a 1-0 League One victory over Wigan at the DW Stadium.

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  14. Cambridge United 3-1 Port Valepublished at 21:15 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    Paul Mullin continues his sensational early-season form with a hat-trick as league leaders Cambridge United beat Port Vale.

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  15. Cyclist dies in town centre crash with carpublished at 18:22 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    The cyclist and a white Volkswagen Passat crashed just before 14:30 BST.

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  16. Healthcare gap 'puts anorexia patients at risk'published at 15:52 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    Dr Katie Bramall-Stainer tells an inquest commissioning gaps are "potentially harmful and negligent".

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  17. Oxford-Cambridge expressway 'could be resurrected'published at 15:34 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    The Department for Transport paused work on the controversial plan in March.

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  18. Judge O'Connor summoned by BBBofCpublished at 10:29 British Summer Time 20 October 2020

    Judge Terry O'Connor is called to appear before British Boxing Board of Control stewards after Lewis Ritson's win over Miguel Vazquez.

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  19. Anorexia ignorance 'major concern' says NHS bosspublished at 20:58 British Summer Time 19 October 2020

    Prof Tim Kendall says a lot of GPs and consultants still "don't really understand mental health".

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  20. Lorry hits car as it careers across roadpublished at 18:32 British Summer Time 19 October 2020

    Dashcam footage shows an HGV veer into oncoming traffic and narrowly miss a petrol station.

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