A 12-month extension of its four-day week trial is to be considered by South Cambridgeshire District Council. Chief executive Liz Watts says “the council undertook a...
Ely began a summer of celebrations today with its traditional Eel Day procession through the city. Dubbed ‘Coronation Eel Day’ the spectacular eel focal point snaked...
Investment firm Topland Group – owned by billionaire brothers Eddie and Sol Zakay – is confident of winning consent to open a 7 day a week,...
A man told an undercover police officer he wanted to sexually abuse a girl, a court heard. His intended victim? The officer’s 11-year-old daughter. Michael Robb,...
Two firefighters plan to run a 50 mile ‘ultra marathon’ from Cambridge to Peterborough on Bank Holiday Monday. Matt Woody Woodcock and Jordan Cadogan from Cambridgeshire...
A man who robbed a man of £30 has been jailed for two years Alexander McAllister, 29, and accomplice Jason O’Keefe, 44, approached the man from...
Specialists in solar photovoltaic panels and battery storage, building fabrics, heat pumps, electric vehicles and charging as well as infrared heating and heat recovery are being...
A man was jailed today after being convicted of sex offences including five counts of rape of a child. All the offences took place in Cambridgeshire...
Health Secretary and NE Cambs MP Steve Barclay is facing some of the toughest moments of his political career as he faces down allegations of bullying...
Just hours after saying “I do”, Sharon Livermore stood there in her wedding dress, crying. “That evening we went to a cottage, and he chucked a...
A former professional footballer who subjected his partner to a brutal, six-hour attack has been jailed for more than six years. Daniel Holyoak, 39, of Wisbech,...
Steve Turvill has won his long-standing battle to build his dream home in a Cambridgeshire village. “We hope that our being persistent and ultimately successful, will...
Archaeologists have begun work at the site of the new police station for Cambridge at Milton that will replace the outdated Parkside police station. Ahead of...
The audience was on its feet and yelled for more as the curtain fell on the first night of Fishermen’s Friends at Cambridge Arts Theatre. This...
Fenland Council popped a pre-election surprise tonight by revealing it is using a chunk of its £8m ‘Future High Street Fund’ for March to buy the...
Two years ago, he was “disappointed that the Conservatives don’t have an overall control” but all that has changed for a Conservative county councillor who has...
Cambridgeshire County Council has approved the closure of Great Gidding primary school. The final decision was taken today by the children and young people’s committee who...
They seek him here; they seek him there but the great elusive seal – christened Neil by his fans – has finally made it to Littleport....
Manea has become the epicentre of a political storm ahead of May 4 local elections with the independent candidate Charlie Marks switching to the Conservatives after...
The suspect in a March stabbing incident is appearing in court. Kyle Wojtowych, 27, of Hundred Road, March, has been charged with possessing a knife in...
Police who released a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with an assault in Cambridge said today he had...
Lord Simon Woolley, principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, is spearheading a new campaign aimed at increasing the number of Black blood donors. Lord Woolley, also the...
I read your article about the planning crisis at Fenland District Council with interest, writes a CambsNews reader. A good friend of mine works for Fenland...
A Government planning inspector put paid to the dreams of Claire Collins by banning her from using a small wooden shed in her garden as a...
Barry Humphries, who died today (Saturday, April 22) appeared at Cambridge Arts Theatre last June and said he was planning another tour for this year. He...
The driver of a jack-knifed lorry that caused massive delays on the A605 outside of Peterborough, has been arrested. Earlier this week police began the hunt...
MP Jonathan Djanogly has lost his fight for re-selection, and this will be his last term in office. As reported by CambsNews earlier this month the...
Four vacancies are being advertised as Fenland District Council struggles to come to terms with the decision by Peterborough City Council to remove shared planning services....
Countryside campaigners welcomed the decision by Cambridgeshire County Council to refuse permission to build a medical waste incinerator at Woodhurst near St Ives. More than 2,000...
A man carrying a large hunting knife was caught after he made the fateful error of walking past a local police station. Officers recognised him –...