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 –...
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...
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...
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”....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Within months a £500,000 centre for historic finds from one of the country’s most exciting archaeological digs has been scrapped, to be replaced by a £10,000...
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...
It began with photos of two cars being booked in St Neots for illegal parking – and ended with an avalanche of ‘where to strike next’...
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...
Network Rail is to get £300,000 from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) to look at re-opening the Wisbech to March rail line with the emphasis...
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...
Opening times for all four Fenland District Council leisure centres will be reduced from December 1 until March 31 next year in a bid to save...
It remains touch and go if Fenland District Council will obtain an interim injunction to stop the Rose & Crown Hotel, Wisbech, from being used to...
Two months ago, Fenland Council rejected a legal challenge to stop asylum seekers being housed here – but today all that changed. The council, despite previously...
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...