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...
In coming days, we will feature some of the more idiosyncratic campaigning by candidates as they prepare for May 4 and the political fate for themselves...
On January 9, 2020, Fenland District Council agreed to provide a £25m “funding facility” to set up a standalone property company. Fenland Future Ltd duly came...
A trading company responsible for recycling and waste services has been forced to go cap in hand to its owners – East Cambridgeshire District Council –...
Magpas Air Ambulance welcomed HRH The Princess Royal to see progress on their £7m new headquarters and training centre at Alconbury Weald. The HQ will bring...
Police and crime commissioner Darryl Preston has spoken of the “critical role” by support workers who helped the victim of a high profile modern slavery case...
Replacement toilets and a new lobby for a day centre have created an outcry in a Cambridgeshire town, with critics describing them as a “carbuncle”, “a...
A housekeeper at the £7m London home of MP Jonathan Djanogly was given duties by his wife that included “detailed instructions about the rotation of avocados...
More money needs to be found to tackle the impact of climate change on our roads, says county council highways chief Cllr Alex Beckett. Cllr Alex...
A £12 year charge for Band D Council Taxpayers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is to be introduced by Mayor Dr Nik Johnson to save threatened bus...
An historic Roman Catholic church in Cambridge – has relisted at Grade 1 by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) on the advice...
As she prepares to present Cambridgeshire County Council’s budget for the coming year, council leader Lucy Nethsingha says there is growing impetus to fund and repair...
A High Court battle to finally settle a legal dispute over the guided busway is expected this summer. Cambridgeshire County Council has already shelled out £10m...
A Government minister accused supporters of the protest group Camp Beagle of “intimidation, direct action against staff doing their job and the criminal theft of animals”....
Seven hundred pothole ‘defects’ across Cambridgeshire were fixed in just three days last week, says an emergency statement issued by the county council in the face...
A third of the £40m allocated by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) to create a ‘revolving fund’ for developers to provide affordable housing remains...
Today is ‘national pothole day’ and in one Cambridgeshire village it is being celebrated with a commemorative collection. Walter Gunston toured his home village and –...
On September 27, 2022, Cambridgeshire county councillor Ryan Fuller did an unusual thing – which went unnoticed at the time by colleagues. But it did involve...
A 21-year-old man, described as an “entrepreneurial farmer and contractor”, has become the youngest entrant of 2022 to farming. Joe Rabicano has taken on the tenancy...
Publican/restaurateur John McGinn has closed his award-winning Cambridgeshire riverside pub, the Dog in a Doublet. “Best go out on a high,” said Mr McGinn who with...
It was set up in 2004 and closed seven years later when funding was stopped – but for 12 years has sat on a pile of...
Planners refused a couple’s application to demolish their home after telling them their proposed replacement was an “unduly prominent, bulky and intrusive form of development”. The...
Residents voicing concerns over the transformation of Broad Street, March, are focusing on a planning application yet to be approved to move the Grade II Listed...
A former BBC MasterChef contestant who extended his country pub/restaurant with outside seating, a swimming pool, and turned a horsebox and log cabin into accommodation, did...
Asylum seekers being put up at a Wisbech hotel have been told “people care and want to befriend you”. The assurance has been given by a...
Rarely will we invite CambsNews readers to consider reading a verbatim report of a council debate. But there’s always a first and we felt the debate...