Kris Holland
BBC News

Welcome back to live updates for Cambridgeshire on Thursday, 21 September.

We'll be here until 18:00 keeping you up-to-date with the latest news, sport, weather and travel as it happens.

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Kris Holland
BBC News

That's it for Wednesday's live updates for Cambridgeshire. Scroll down the feed to look back at any stories you may have missed.

We'll resume our live updates at 08:00 tomorrow, but any breaking news stories will appear here in the meantime.

Have a good evening.

Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

This evening will stay mainly dry with clear intervals. It will turn cloudier later in the night with some light rain or drizzle.

Light winds and lows of 11C (52F).

It will be a fine and dry start to Thursday, with outbreaks of rain later.

Light to moderate winds and highs of 21C (70F).

BBC Weather has more.

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...is how we imagine the actor Brian Blessed, known for his booming voice, will address diners at a festive feast, external planned at Peterborough Cathedral this December.

He will be the after-dinner speaker at a banquet held in the cathedral nave on Thursday, 7 December, which will include carols and some obligatory prosecco.

The actor, known for his roles in Blackadder and Flash Gordon among others, will speak at the end of the evening, sharing larger-than-life stories from his hugely eventful career.

Two more men have been arrested over the discovery of a cannabis factory in Wisbech.

About 480 young plants with a future yield of up to £250,000 were found by officers last Friday on Oakroyd Crescent.

This afternoon two Wisbech men, aged 35 and 39, were arrested in connection with the find. They remain in custody in King's Lynn.

A 49-year-old man from Wisbech previously arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis has been released from custody, but remains under investigation.

Here's a look at what else is making the news in Cambridgeshire today:

• Peterborough Today, external reports that three men from Peterborough have been arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs with intent to supply after police stopped a car for not having insurance.
• The Wishbech Standard, external writes that friends of a "truly amazing, inspiring" young mother with cancer have raised £2,697 to help support her and her daughter.

• And Cambridge News, external says you can take your pet to get blessed at Ely Cathedral this Sunday.

Jess Foster
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

More than 1,200 personalised number plates have gone up for auction in Cambridgeshire today.

The DVLA is hosting a three-day autumn auction in Cambourne, with money raised going to the Treasury.

Last year Personalised Registrations raised more than £113m nationally and this year the DVLA hopes to raise £115m.

Since the sales of personalised number plates started in 1989, £2.3bn has been raised to the Treasury.

The auction started at 08:30 this morning at The Cambridge Belfry hotel.

Two Olympic champions have been appointed as sport staff at a Cambridge school.

Glenn Kirkham, who represented Team GB in men's hockey in Beijing and London, has returned to The Perse School as director of sport after three years away.

Helen Richardson-Walsh, who won gold with the women's hockey squad in Rio, is joining as a games coach.

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Kris Holland
BBC News

Welcome back to live updates for Cambridgeshire on Wednesday, 20 September.

We'll be here until 18:00 keeping you up-to-date with the latest news, sport, weather and travel as it happens.

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Alex Dolan
BBC Look East weather

Staying dry this evening with any cloud dispersing.

There'll be clear spells overnight and it'll become chilly, with mist and fog patches forming.

Lows of 6C (43F).

After early mist clears on Wednesday, it'll become brighter with sunny spells and it'll feel warmer with a top temperature of 18C (64F).

Get the full forecast where you live from BBC Weather.

Inspired by the Fitzwilliam Museum's weapons collection, he asked how he might pursue his dream job.

Train operator Greater Anglia has responded to the earlier announcement of the two days on which members of the RMT union working for the company are planning to go on strike.

Train service delivery director Richard Dean said: "We are obviously disappointed with the announcement today.

"We’re keen to talk to the RMT to try and resolve the issues involved and to avert industrial action.

"In the event of industrial action going ahead on Tuesday 3 October and Thursday 5 October, we’d like to reassure customers that we have contingency plans in place and intend to run a full service.

"We value our conductors highly and we have guaranteed their jobs until the end of the franchise in October 2025.

"In fact, we will be recruiting additional conductors, as we are replacing all of our trains with brand new trains from 2019, which will enable us to run more services."

Get Inspired

Those are the words of sprint gold medallist Darren Campbell, who has been helping BBC Get Inspired in the search for the Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero for 2017.

Here's more from Darren...

The award recognises the amazing work that volunteers do in grassroots sport and fitness around the UK.

Last year, Marcellus Baz from Nottingham scooped the award for his work as a community boxing coach. Could it be someone from your region this year?

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

A school governor from Cambridgeshire says half of their teachers resigned in the last academic year.

Charlotte Cane has been speaking at the Liberal Democrat Conference, in support of calls for an urgent review into staffing nationwide.

The motion also says school inspections should be reformed and that teachers deserve a pay rise in line with inflation.

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Ms Cane says that the vacancies at Swaffham Prior have now been filled, but that recruitment's been a huge problem.

"We lost experienced subject specialists and respected members of our school community when half of our teachers resigned in the last school year," she said.

"But that was just the start of our problem - several of our recruitment adverts attracted no applicants at all."

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union at Greater Anglia will stage two 24-hour strikes in disputes over the role of guards and driver-only trains, on 3 and 5 October.

Mike Cash, RMT general secretary, said: "Greater Anglia have been given every opportunity to give a guarantee on the future role of the guard on their services.

"They have failed to do so and that left us with no alternative but to move to a ballot in the interests of rail safety.

"Our members voted by massive majorities for action but the company have ignored that and have failed to seize the opportunity to give us the very simple assurances on the future of the guards, and the guarantee of a second safety-critical member of staff on current services."

The senior officer allegedly tried to give pointers to a candidate ahead of a police promotion interview.

Andrew Sinclair
BBC Look East political correspondent

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The Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable will "reach out" to voters in heavy Brexit supporting regions like ours when he delivers his party conference speech this afternoon.

I'm told the tone will be more respectful and less strident in an attempt to try to win leave supporting voters round to the Lib Dems' argument for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.

He will also talk about issues like education and the NHS to show the Lib Dems are more than a single issue party.

The change in tone follows concerns from party campaigners in our region that the Lib Dems' anger over last year's referendum was driving away leave supporters.

In a magazine article this month Norfolk MP Norman Lamb warned the party that "we have come across to many natural supporters as arrogantly dismissing their views".

Lib Dem sources tell me that Sir Vince has talked to Mr Lamb while preparing his speech.

But there will be no change in the party's anti-Brexit policy so it will be interesting to see if today's speech will really win over any voters in our part of the world.

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

The rain overnight has left a legacy in some spots of a little bit of mist and one or two fog patches as well, but we should see plenty of sunny spells and it'll be mostly dry.

We've still got one or two showers, particularly out towards parts of Norfolk, but they should clear pretty quickly.

Elsewhere we have decent sunny spells.

There'll be a bit of fair weather cloud bubbling up this afternoon and temperatures will reach about 16C (61F).

Get a full forecast where you live from BBC Weather.

Sarah Jenkins
BBC Local Live

Good morning and welcome back to Local Live across Cambridgeshire.

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

The full weather forecast will be with you shortly, but it's a rather cold and grey start to the day.

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The mother of a 29-year-old mental health patient tells an inquest she should not have been unsupervised.