The man was found drowned on the A10 near Milton

Some investigations into people who have been killed or gone missing remain as cold cases for many years. Over the last few decades, there have been several murders that have remained unsolved, including some in Cambridgeshire.

One unsolved case that marks its 30th anniversary this month is the death of 29-year-old Russell Marsom. Russell was a hairdresser from Heacham, Norfolk.

Russell was an openly gay man, and visited Cambridge frequently for its LGBTQ+ nightlife. He left his home in Heacham on March 30, 1996 to go clubbing in Cambridge.

On that day, his mother Mrs Marsom has spoken to Russell on the phone. She asked him to pick up a bread and butter pudding she had made for him, but he never turned up.

On March 31, a dog walker found a partially-clothed body in a water-filled ditch next to the A10 in Milton. The body was Russell’s.

After a post-mortem, it revealed he drowned and a murder investigation was launched by Cambridgeshire Police. At first, police linked Russell’s death to witchcraft, as it had been a full moon on the night of his death.

Officers believed Russell had looked into occult, which are supernatural beliefs. However, his mother confirmed Russell had borrowed a book from a friend and there was no links to occult.

No one was arrested, and no leads led police to anything. In 2007, a 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, but he was later released on bail.

In 2021, on the 25th anniversary of his death, Cambridgeshire Police relaunched an appeal to try and find more information on Russell’s murder. Police reached out to the LGBTQ+ community.

They were keen to speak to anyone who may have been in the Jesus Green and surrounding areas of Cambridge city, including the Dot Cotton Club, between 10pm on March 30, and 10am the following day.

They were also keen to speak to anyone who may have travelled along the A10 at Milton that night. The murder still remains unsolved.

Who is to blame for these late points dropped – and why so many poor performances after winning last season’s Premier League title?

“Awful performance, considering the opposition. With the incentive of the other results, to put a performance in like that – but it’s been like this all season,” said Carragher.

“The big question is, is that down to the manager or the make-up of the squad? I’m not too sure.”

What is causing it? The problem is, if Liverpool knew, they would have sorted it by now.

In a bid to find a theme, Dutchman Slot pointed out all the goals were not similar.

“Again in the last minute, again after an opportunity to score ourselves and again we leave the pitch with a disappointing result,” he told Sky Sports.

“The way we concede is not always the same in the last minute. You cannot compare the deflected shot against Wolves with the shot today. All of the moments they had came from long balls and second balls and we were not able to clear the ball fast enough.

“As this season is going, it is not a complete surprise we are conceding in the last moments. “

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Slot added: “Every time it happens in the last minute it is an enormous frustration.

“How many times does it need to happen? And it happened again today. This time it didn’t come as a complete surprise – the last 15-20 minutes of the game were the most equal part of the game.”

And the booing from the Anfield faithful?

Both Slot and Szoboszlai said they understood it – but the midfielder added they should “support us in a difficult time”, with a 1-0 deficit to overcome on Wednesday in the Champions League last-16 second-leg tie at home to Galatasaray.

“I’m 100% sure that if they show up on Wednesday that they will be supportive again from the start, but if the team doesn’t perform to the standards that they are used to, I think it is completely normal that they are frustrated,” added Slot.

“Arne Slot has to have a look at himself,” said ex-Republic of Ireland striker Clinton Morrison on BBC Radio 5 Live.

“If Liverpool play like this midweek, then they will be knocked out of the Champions League.”

Jessie Buckley won Best Actress at the 2026 Oscars for her role as Agnes in Hamnet, a film about the death of William Shakespeare’s son based on the book by Maggie O’Farrell

Jessie Buckley has taken home the award for Best Actress at the Oscars. The Irish star won for her role as Agnes in Hamnet, the wife of William Shakespeare who must deal with the heartbreaking death of their son.

This was Jessie’s first win, though she was previously nominated for her role in The Lost Daughter. She used her speech to thank her husband, her family and her daughter, Isla, pointing out that her win came on Mother’s Day. She added a thank you to Chloe Zhao, Hamnet’s director, and Maggie O’Farrell, who wrote the book.

Jessie said: “This is the greatest honour, I can’t believe it.” She also dedicated the award to the “chaos” of a mother’s heart.

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Jessie swept the awards leading up to the Oscars. winning the SAG Award, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice and Golden Globe for the film. Her wins at these awards made her a firm favourite to take home the Oscar as well, with many feeling her only competition was Rose Byrne, who had also won at the Golden Globes.

Both Rose and Jessie were able to win, as Rose was nominated for Female Actor in a Comedy, whilst Jessie was nominated for Female Actor in a Drama. The awards are not split by genre at the Oscars, meaning there can be only one winner, unless there is a tie.

There was a tie earlier in the show, as The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva both won Best Live Action Short. As per Oscar rules, films and stars must win the exact same number of votes for a tie to happen.

This has happened in the Best Actress category before, as in 1969, both Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand won the award with exactly 3,030 votes each. Katharine won for her role in The Lion In Winter, while Barbra won for Funny Girl.

Elsewhere at the awards, Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress. This was her first Oscar, which she won aged 75. Meanwhile Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor, but chose not to show up to the awards. This was his third Oscar, and last year’s winner, Kieran Culkin, accepted the award on his behalf.

The first ever Oscar for Best Casting was awarded as well. Casting directors had not been recognised at the awards before, despite the Oscars being in it’s 98th edition. However, this year, the category was introduced and the first award went to Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another.

She thanked all the casting directors who came before her and “never got the chance” to be nominated for an Oscar. She also thanked those who “fought tirelessly” for the category to be added to the Oscars.

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CHICAGO (AP) — A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains.

Hawaii continued to be affected by severe flooding.

And portions of the mid-South readied for late-day thunderstorms.

Forecasters said the storms would spread eastward by Monday, with mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., at greatest risk for high winds and tornadoes.

Successive punches of snow, wind and severe weather were set to impact the eastern half of the United States, said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tyler Roys.

Beyond the threat to lives and property, “whether it’s wind gusts from a squall line, blizzard or snow, or just wind because of the storm, you’re looking at several major airports being impacted,” Roy said.

Big snows in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan

An area from central Wisconsin to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was likely to see over 2 feet (60 centimeters) of snow, with higher isolated totals on the peninsula, Roys said. Lower snow accumulations in places su ch as Chicago and Milwaukee will likely create trouble for commuters on Monday, he added.

Over 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow fell in some portions of southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin as of Sunday afternoon, according to National Weather Service reports. Transportation officials warned of worsening conditions with low visibility and snow-covered roadways.

Wisconsin snowplow driver Aaron Haas said it was one of the worst storms he had seen in years. On Sunday around the town of Marshfield, Haas was stacking piles of snow as high as his truck.

“You can’t see anything when you’re on the highways outside of the city,” he said.

Jim Allen, 45, who lives on the Upper Peninsula, said his family stocked up on necessities and he was ready to clear snow several times Sunday with a shovel and snowblower.

“We’re basically prepared to just kind of hunker down for a few days if we need to,” Allen said.

More than 600 flights were canceled at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport Sunday, according to FlightAware, which tracks flight disruptions. Dozens more through Detroit were also scrapped. O’Hare and Midway international airports in Chicago, where rain and snow was expected overnight into Monday, reported more than 850 cancellations.

Landslides, rescues, collapsed home on Maui

Rain continued falling on Sunday in Hawaii, where acres of farmland and homes have been flooded, roads have been closed and shelters opened. PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide, reported almost 40,000 electric customers in Hawaii without power by midday Sunday.

Flash flooding has been a major problem in recent days in places like Maui, Molokai and the Big Island, where rain had been falling from 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) an hour overnight, according to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.

Some areas of Maui received more than 20 inches (51 centimeters) of rain, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen said in a social media post late Saturday.

“We’re seeing flooding, landslides, sinkholes, debris and downed power lines across the county,” he said. Expressing gratitude in the Hawaiian language, the mayor added, “mahalo for continuing to look out for one another.”

Video footage with Bissen’s post showed washed out or collapsed roads, a car stuck by floodwaters and raging waterways. National Guard members and fire department workers made multiple floodwater rescues, Bissen said.

Tom and Carrie Bashaw said they could do little to prevent part of their home in Maui’s Iao Valley from collapsing beneath rising waters. On Friday, the water’s force starting overtaking nearby trees.

“When we lost the mango and monkey pod, we started throwing stuff in bags and packing up,” Tom Bashaw told HawaiiNewsNow. They returned Saturday morning and “the whole backside of the house” was gone, he said.

Maui resident and real estate broker Jesse Wald, who recorded video of a coastal road’s collapse Saturday, said other parts of road were flooded out by mud and sediment.

“In the 20 years I’ve been here I’ve never seen this much rain,” Wald said. “I’m from Wisconsin and we get thunderstorms, you know pretty often in the summer, so it felt like a Wisconsin thunderstorm but times 10.”

Maui County later on Sunday downgraded an evacuation notice and said crews were pumping water from retentions basins to keep them at safe levels.

Power outages remain, some from earlier high winds

More than 210,000 utility customers in six Great Lakes states were without electricity as of Sunday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us. Some originated on Friday when gusts in the region reached 85 mph (137 km).

In Nebraska, about 30 National Guard members were deployed to combat multiple wildfires across a broad swath of range and grassland, state officials said.

Three of the largest wildfires had damaged more than 900 square miles (2,331 square kilometers) as of Saturday, officials said. One fire-related fatality was reported Friday. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen urged residents to follow locally-issued evacuation orders, adding that winds were “supposed to be extraordinary.”

The weather service issued a high-wind warning for most of Nebraska, with gusts of up to 60 mph (97 kph) possible amid falling snow. Roys said high winds would affect a region stretching from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Great Lakes, and from Denver eastward to the Appalachian Mountains.

Forecasters warn about line of storms, tornadoes

The weather service warned that a line of severe storms with damaging winds would cross much of the Eastern U.S. by late Monday. It was to begin Sunday afternoon and cross the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys.

The storm threat was expected to enter the Appalachians early Monday, then move toward the East Coast, where “severe thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes” were expected Monday, the service said.

A stretch from parts of South Carolina to Maryland appeared most likely to experience the greatest damaging winds Monday afternoon, the weather service said. That could include Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia, and the nation’s capital. It said an increased — albeit much lower — risk stretched north to New York and south to Florida, with thunderstorms possible in New England.

Officials said schools in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina would be closed Monday and the state’s governor urged residents to enable emergency alerts on their phones ahead of expected wind gusts of 74 mph (119 kph).

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Robertson reported from Raleigh, North Carolina. Associated Press writers Julie Walker in New York and Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, also contributed to this report.

Police were called to Market Cross Jewellers on Saturday (March 14) after a man smashed the front window of the Westgate store with a hammer.

The suspect then took handfuls of jewellery and fled the scene – but not before brave members of the public gave chase and managed to detain him before police arrived. 

Cleveland Police confirmed a 29‑year‑old man had been arrested on suspicion of robbery and was taken into police custody.

Market Cross, which has been based in the town since 1980, has since issued a statement thanking those who helped. 

It said: “We are sending out a huge, heartfelt thank you to the people of Guisborough who  helped to apprehend the [suspect] who smashed the diamond window, threatened a member of staff and made away with quite a lot of stock from our Guisborough store. 

“The town of Guisborough was where we opened our first store in 1980. 

“We couldn’t afford to be on the High Street at the time and opened in a small shop situated behind the town’s Market Cross and called ourselves Market Cross Jewellers so that people would know where to find us.

“We have since moved to a better position but have remained a part of the Guisborough community for over 40 years. 

“We are often serving the children and grandchildren of our original customers.

“We are so grateful to all those who took chase and apprehended the man and recovered stolen goods. We are also grateful for all the lovely messages that we have received asking about how the staff are.

“The four ladies who were working at the time had been so happy after a lovely, busy day serving customers with Mother’s Day gifts and this incident left them extremely shaken and upset: it was quite terrifying for them, as you can imagine.  

“All your messages will be passed on to them. Again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the help and support: It really does mean the world to us.”

Temporary Detective Sergeant Brayfield of Redcar CID said: “I’d like to thank the public‑spirited people who bravely chased and held onto the suspect until we arrived at the scene.

“I’m appealing for anyone who witnessed today’s incident, or anyone with dashcam, mobile phone or CCTV footage, to get in touch.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting reference SE26048090.

Sabalenka opted to take some time away from competitive action after suffering Grand Slam heartbreak at the start of the year, and that decision appears to have paid off.

She has put in some dominant performances across the past two weeks and stood up to serious pressure against an opponent she tends to struggle against.

The 27-year-old had lost four of her previous five meetings with Rybakina in finals but dug deep to land her second trophy of the year.

It is not just against Rybakina that Sabalenka has struggled, though, with six of her previous 10 finals appearances ending in defeat.

Sabalenka’s last two appearances in finals at Indian Wells also ended in defeat – losing to Rybakina in 2023 and Mirra Andreeva last year.

After losing the opening set – the first she had dropped all tournament – Sabalenka could be excused for thinking she was destined for another defeat, but the four-time Grand Slam singles champion showed incredible character to force her way back in proceedings.

Sabalenka has been known for letting her frustration get in the way, but she channelled any frustrations in a positive manner to break twice in succession and save four break points before wrapping up the second set.

That momentum continued into the decider and an early break appeared to be enough for Sabalenka when she had the chance to serve for the match.

However, Rybakina struck back and then went on to save five break points of her own.

In a match full of twists, the conclusion lived up to the billing, with Sabalenka holding firm in a superb tie-break to come out on top.

Ludvig Aberg arrived on Sunday with a three-shot lead, but the Swede, who still led the field by three with nine to play, imploded; his hopes sunk in a couple of the course’s many lakes.

The European Ryder Cup star’s seemingly serene march to the title – he had one birdie, one bogey and eight pars in his opening 10 holes – was abruptly halted by visits to water on the 11th and 12th, costing him those three shots.

“The back nine was not good, but that’s the way it goes sometimes,” was Aberg’s philosophical take on his demise.

“It got away from me quickly. It was just poor swings. I tried to press a little bit on 12, hitting driver, but it was a really poor swing, and it stings a bit.”

Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick, who had missed makeable birdie chances from 15, 11, 11 and seven feet on four successive holes from the eighth, birdied the 12th and 13th to surge into the lead on 13 under.

But Young stuck with him, also picking up a shot on the short 13th to stay one back.

Up ahead, Schauffele set the clubhouse target at 11 under, while MacIntyre was left to rue an errant shot on the 16th.

He had started the final round six shots off the pace but after five birdies in his opening 11 holes lifted him to 11 under he thought he “was in with a shout”.

A three-putt bogey on the 14th was followed by a birde on the next, with the par-five 16th offering the chance of another birdie. However, after hitting his second shot into greenside rough, he could only hack his ball out and watch helplessly as it trundled across the green and into the water, leading to another bogey.

“It’s a sore one right now,” he said. “On 17 and 18 we played aggressive but smart. That was the caddie’s words. I was wanting to go straight at that pin on 17, just throw the dice at it.

“But I wouldn’t have wanted to walk off there with a bogey on 16, a double on 17, and then probably a bogey on 18 with my head off. Overall a decent week.”

Its ability to accelerate passenger numbers will hinge on the outcome of legal challenge by Bristol Airport over Welsh Government £205m subsidy support plans

Cardiff Airport achieved a near 10% rise in passengers last year, but still remains well below its pre-pandemic level.

The Rhoose-based airport, which is wholly-owned by the Welsh Government, welcomed 963,000 passengers in 2025, up 9% on 2024, with a 4% rise in air traffic movements. The airport said the increase was supported by significant growth from Ryanair and TUI. Cargo volumes, supported by a new base from European Cargo, experienced a 7% increase .

The airport is also continuing to invest in route development, with further new services planned for this year and 2027.

Ryanair is set to operate its busiest ever summer, marking 12 years of operations at the airport. Extra frequency has been added across its five routes, For the summer season TUI will base a fourth aircraft at Cardiff, bringing increased frequencies to Antalya, Enfidha, Gran Canaria, Palma and Tenerife and new routes to Faro and Hurghada.

Further TUI growth is planned for the 2026-27 winter season, with new services to Kittilä (Finland) and the Dominican Republic.

Canadian low cost carrier WestJet, from May 23, will launch a new four-times-weekly service from the airport to Toronto Pearson – the largest and busiest airport in Canada. It connects to all major Canadian cities, as well as the US cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Dallas. For its inaugural 2026 summer season the route has released 21,320 seats for sale. Both Cardiff Airport and WestJet said they are “pleased with the sales performance to date.”

KLM continues to operate twice-daily services to Amsterdam, providing global hub connectivity. Moreover, Vueling continues services to Malaga and Alicante.

The airport said that P&O Cruises has expanded its fly-cruise programme with additional flights to Barbados and a new destination. The airport wouldn’t be drawn on providing a projected passenger figure for 2026.

Last month a legal challenge brought by Bristol Airport against Welsh Government plans to provide further subsidy support to the airport over a ten year period of £205m was heard by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Around £100m of the subsidy has been earmarked for route development. Long-term the airport is aiming to get back to two million passengers. In 2019, prior to the pandemic, the airport attracted 1.6 million passengers. Its subsidy support is expected to be framed at attracting routes, including more longhaul alongside WestJet, currently not served by Bristol.

As well as being deployed to attract new routes, the subsidy support will also be used to diversify away from passenger-related revenues. The airport is targeting areas such as aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and freight.

Bristol Airport, which in 2025 saw its passenger numbers dwarf Cardiff’s – at 10.8 million, of which around two million are drawn from South Wales – argues that the proposed funding breaches the post-EU state aid regime under the Subsidy Control Act 2022. It says the funding represents unprecedented state support for a UK airport and will put it at a commercial disadvantage relative to its nearest rival.

The Welsh Government’s position is that the airport is not a failing enterprise and that it plays a vital role in supporting the wider Welsh economy. An economic assessment by Grant Thornton estimates it generates a £220m gross value added positive impact on the Welsh economy through the airport’s direct, indirect and induced impacts.

Its subsidy support is expected to be framed at attracting routes, including more longhaul alongside WestJet, currently not served by Bristol.

A judgment from the Competition Appeal Tribunal, which would be subject to appeal, is not expected this side of the Senedd Election in May.

With the £52m acquisition cost of acquiring the airport from Spanish firm Abertis back in 2013, it has invested nearly £200m, with a significant element of repayable loans converted into equity.

The airport, in its last financial year to the end of March 2025, show its revenues improve from £19.33m a year earlier to £19.8m, while on a pre-Ebitda basis (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation) and exceptional items it posted a positive £5.7m. However, when factoring in the receipt of an £11.8m Welsh Government grant linked to a five-year post-Covid recovery plan, the Ebitda figure slipped into the red at £5.57m.

Since being acquired by the Welsh Government the airport has accumulated losses of around £60m.

In March last year former airport chief executive Spencer Birns quit his role. The accounts show he received a £151,088 payment, approved by the airport’s remuneration committee, in lieu of notice. No reason for his departure from what was a £131,000 role was given.

The airport’s current chief executive is Jon Bridge, having taken up his role last November. He is a former chief executive of SA Brain & Co.

ELVIS is in the building…if that building is a Vue Cinema near you. Other cinemas are available.

‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’, directed by Baz Luhrmann (on the back of his brilliant Austin Butler/Tom Hanks biopic), is a fresh documentary, showing heaps of on stage and behind the scenes footage of the King at his absolute peak.

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Critics say Luhrmann stylishly put together newly discovered and restored footage from Elvis’s legendary Las Vegas residencies and early-1970s tours and the reviews say it is so seamless, you cannot see the joins.

I have always been surrounded by very close to acolytes of the King. My Elvis education began early in Thornley, County Durham, where our neighbours were Elvis fanatics, all the records, Elvis mirrors, I remember them crying when he died in 1977.

Also, I clearly remember my great school mate Donald excitedly introducing me to early Elvis (‘Didja’ ever get one of them days’, ‘I love only one girl’, ‘Devil in disguise’), insisting he was at least as good as Frank Sinatra.

Later, when I was in sixth form, I found out about Elvis the comeback king and the Vegas years courtesy of my pal Bern who reinforced the whole King thing to me.

Bern went on to be my best man, but more importantly to him, he went to Memphis, has seen The Jordanaires (Elvis’s gospel quartet) and is a very serious fan to this day.

So I wasn’t surprised when Bern left an excited phone message telling me I MUST go and see ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’.

So just as I was firmly considering a rare trip to the pictures, my Aunty Patricia and Uncle David WhatsApp me separately to say I HAD to see the Elvis documentary because they have been. Individually they were flagging up how EPIC it is!!

So last Saturday, I go along with Mrs Joey and Alfie Joey Jr to Gateshead Vue.

Wow! No one was exaggerating. It is electric! It IS epic! The film smoothly blends electrifying live performances with the rare material in a way that is hard to describe.

It is like an unbelievable jigsaw but you cannot see the joins. Thankfully, unlike so many current documentaries that are cluttered with endless talking heads (many of whom did not know the subject), Luhrmann just lets Elvis tell his own story through rare or rediscovered interviews.

The film captures the charisma, the humour and the blistering energy of Presley at his dynamic best on stage. And Mrs Joey also noted his collection of rehearsal shirts were simply the best she had ever seen.

So now it is my turn to tell you. You MUST go and see EPIC because, and I repeat, it is…epic!!! You’ll be all shook up, now …thank you very much.

I have left the building.

FACTS AND FOOTNOTES:

l Elvis never performed outside North America— largely because his manager Colonel Tom Parker, avoided travelling abroad

l Frank Sinatra welcomed Elvis home from the army on a TV show special and they duetted ‘Love Me Tender’ and ‘Witchcraft’

l Elvis was a black belt in karate. Obsessed with martial arts, he earned a 7th-degree black belt

Alfie Joey will be IN the building at The Hilton, Gateshead, hosting the BusinessiQ Awards for The Northern Echo on April 22. You can email Alfie via www.AlfieJoey.com and subscribe to his free newsletter there.

A bridge, often referred to as the ‘Nun’s Bridge’ is said to be haunted by the revengeful spirits of a nun

Cambridgeshire is incredibly historical, and whether you enjoy hearing of spooky stories, or not, the county is filled with them.

One Cambridgeshire village is home to two haunting historical tales sure to send chills down your spine. Alconbury, a village located around five miles from Huntingdon, has supposedly seen sightings of two ghosts.

The first story begins in 1780, when a young boy, named Gervais Matcham, ran away from home to become a jockey before enlisting in the infantry, deserting, and being forced to re-enlist.

According to Capturing Cambridge, he was ordered to chaperone the regimental Quartermaster’s son, Benjamin Jones, who was the regiment’s 15 year old drummer boy, on a walk to collect £7 from a man named Major Reynolds.

However, Benjamin did not make it home. According to UK Mythology, after staying the night at Alconbury, Benjamin became increasingly concerned of his companion.

It turns out, the boy was right to be worried. Matcham slit Benjamin’s throat on the way back from the collection, and fleed the scene to the north of York.

He was not caught until years later, when he confessed to his crime after seeing visions, including ones of his victim.

Matcham was sentenced to be hanged at the spot where he killed his victim according to Capturing Cambridge. This is reportedly next to the present-day A1 and his body, in its red uniform, was left to rot.

You may assume that it is Matcham’s ghost that haunts the area but rather, it is said to be the murdered drummer boy.

He reportedly haunts the area between Alconbury and Alconbury Weston, according to several sources. There have been reports of people hearing Benjamin walking and drumming behind them if they are travelling the stretch of road after sunset.

But, that is not the only ghost said to haunt Alconbury. The village is supposedly also haunted by a nun.

It is believed her ghost jumps out in front of passing cars, forcing them to swerve dangerously.

Legend has it that a nun’s body was originally found at Hinchingbrooke House. She supposedly had a secret love-affair and ran off with a monk. But once the relationship was discovered, and she reportedly became pregnant, they were both subsequently executed.

Due to this, the surrounding area is said to be haunted by the revengeful spirit. The bridge at Alconbury Brook, often referred to as the ‘Nun’s Bridge’ is said to be haunted by the spirits of the nun.