Archive: Speed skating championships on frozen fen

Archive video showed the British Speed Skating Championships being held on a frozen fen 75 years ago.

Hundreds of people gathered to watch the action at Bury Fen in Cambridgeshire on 3 January 1951.

The silent, black and white newsreel footage begins with a caption announcing it was a "fine day for the race".

Participants are seen skating at high-speed along tracks in the ice, with BBC archive records noting George Welham won the main event, the Duddlestone Cup race over 4 miles (6.5km).

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Four swans are flying in the sky. Three of them are flying above each other in the middle and one is on its own on the left.

Up to 6,500 whooper swans counted at reserve

The swans are being counted at RSPB Ouse Washes nature reserve this month after migrating.

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Festive tractor run a first for village

Dozens of tractors take part in the first illuminated Christmas road run in a county village.

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A horse jumps over a metal gate onto a country road. Bushes and greenery are on either side of the road.

Watch: Horse injured as it tries to escape dog

A dog chases a 20-year-old ex-racehorse across a field forcing it to jump over a gate to escape.

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Forty Foot Bank with large cracks in the road

Cracked road 'getting worse on a weekly basis'

Footage shows the poor state of a Fenland road that has buckled and led to part of it being closed.

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Car resting front-first on the side wall of a house.

Watch: Car crashes into house after police pursuit

A teenager is jailed after trying to escape officers by driving through a park and along a footpath.

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A house covered in thousands of Christmas lights.

Drone video shows home covered in Christmas lights

It takes two months to put up the decorations, which have raised more than £67,000 for charity.

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A car rolls on its side in the air at the side of a road, just before a set of traffic lights and a roundabout in the background.

Watch: Sex offender crashes car in police pursuit

The 26-year-old is caught speeding by police and then flipping his car on the day he was due in court.

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A Christmas tree standing in Wisbech town centre.

Watch: Town ridicules 'diabolical' Christmas tree

Passers-by criticise the fir's many browning needles, with one man saying it looks "a bit dead".

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Stephen Crean speaks to the BBC during sit-down interview, his hand seen bandaged

'Do you want to die?' - Train attack victim describes confrontation with alleged attacker

Stephen Crean was among those injured in a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening.

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Police track hare coursing suspects through fields

Four men lead police officers responding to reports of hare coursing on a chase.

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Men dressed in dark clothing are stumbling out of doors either side of a car parked on a rural track as they run to the bushes either side

Hare coursing chase ends as 10 men flee from car

Police footage shows the suspects get caught by a stinger, pile out of the car and run off.

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Boy with special needs hit with hammer in break-in

CCTV captures a gang shouting "police" bursting into a home before attacking a teenager.

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Air source heat pump being lifted on to Cambridge building.

Huge air source heat pumps lifted on to city roof

Timelapse footage captures the units being lifted on to the roof of a Cambridge art deco building.

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Flames and thick smoke rise from a lorry fire at the side of a major road.

Video shows explosion as lorry engulfed by flames

Thick smoke is seen rising from the vehicle, which had been carrying 50 tonnes of straw.

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Man behind the wheel, his face is heavily blurred.

Suspected drink-driver found snoring at roadside

Footage shows an officer failing to get a response from the man before breathalysing him.

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Drug dealer films himself in cannabis factory

He is seen smiling into the camera on mobile phone video that also shows cannabis plants growing.

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A police officer with his back to camera walking through a cannabis farm in a property, with lights shining

Watch: Police bodycam captures £700k cannabis raid

Two men are jailed after police uncover a large cannabis farm in an industrial unit.

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A blue car on the path of the guided busway. It has been filmed through the window of a bus by a passenger. The registration plate has been blurred.

Watch moment driver goes along busway track

The county council says 112 similar incidents have occurred on the guided busway.

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Drink driver plotted fake car theft after crash

The man is captured on dashcam plotting to report a bogus car theft after he crashed.

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Two dogs seen through the circular open top of a blue water butt. They are white and quite thin. There is a blue tube-shaped object in the butt which the dogs are standing next to.

Hare coursing dogs found hidden inside water butt

Four dogs are seized as police tackle the illegal bloodsport in rural Cambridgeshire.

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