In 2021, the political isolation of Cllr Josh Schumann began – it was not, in retrospect, one of East Cambridgeshire District Council’s finest hours. Though very...
She told parents “I believe in never giving up” but after a just a year, Lauren Phillips has quit as principal of the troubled Littleport and...
A former chairman of the ailing Ivy Leaf Club in Whittlesey fears it could be sold and turned into a Masonic Hall. Tim Brown, who was...
Eight days after a social club appealed for new members, its chairman has blocked recruitment. Mark Smith, chairman of the Ivy Leaf Club at Whittlesey, announced...
EXCLUSIVE – A new report has revealed that only 12 of the 47 pupils attending a Cambridgeshire primary school threatened with closure actually live in the...
For the first time we can shed light on the size of an unexpected cash windfall that dropped into the lap of Fenland District Council –...
The president of the Conservative association in Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s Cambridgeshire constituency has quit. Former Fenland District Council leader Alan Melton has resigned as both...
The economic crisis has hampered plans by Cambridgeshire County Council to complete assigning the lease of a major part of Shire Hall, Cambridge, its former headquarters....
A major police operation in Peterborough has resulted in five people being charged – three of them for kidnap. A police force statement today confirmed that...
Whittlesey mayor David Mason, town council leader and Fenland District councillor, is to step down. He told Fenland Council leader Chris Boden that “for personal reasons”...
A county and district councillor quit the Conservative Party blaming Liz Truss “for car crashing the economy: it was the last straw”. The shock defection of...
A parish council is trying to block a 25 place SEN (Special Educational Needs) school in their village by claiming it is of “no economic benefit”....
A Government planning inspector has confirmed a 17-acre technology park in Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, that could create 2,700 jobs. The company behind the proposed Cambridge International...
A Cambridgeshire secondary college was put into lockdown today after a group of teenagers from a different school forced their way in and caused a disturbance....
A housing association says it pulled out of building 65 homes on a six-acre site in a Fenland town after planners went back on promises made...
Network Rail has thrown down the gauntlet and told German backers of a proposed £300m energy from waste incinerator at Wisbech- ‘you’re not getting our land...
November 29, 1994 is not a date most would be familiar with – but for Ruth Neave it remains a day she can never forget. It...
Wisbech has fallen. Not my words but those from one of many hundreds of comments on Facebook groups in and around this Fenland market town. It’s...
Most would choose to spend their 102nd birthday tucked up at home – but not Ron Green. He is patron of the animal rights Camp Beagle...
For one brief moment today pub boss Jonathan Capper feared his beer would have to rise to £220 a pint to cover an unwelcome £1.1m bill...
A 26-bedroomed hotel in Wisbech closed without warning today. “We regret to inform you that as of 4th November 2022, the hotel is permanently closed to...
A Tory councillor has quit just over a year after being elected to Fenland District Council. Cllr Jason Mockett was elected for the Lattersey ward of...
A young woman was terrified by a man pestering her for money at a McDonald’s drive-thru and damaged her car as she reversed into a bollard...
Residents took matters into their own hands and in a six-hour stint cleared bushes and branches from a Peterborough bridge where an NHS worker walking home...
An Ely councillor described his horror at the condition of a house let by a housing association and for which the tenant is already paying rent....
Fenland Council says £1m for a Whittlesey heritage centre ‘will not give good value for money’ Rocketing costs – now expected to be £1m – could...