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...
Cambridge and Peterborough were the focus of two major demonstrations to show support for striking teachers. As education officials worked to assess which schools remained either...
A man and a woman have been charged in connection with the murder of teenager Jesse Nwokejiobi. Three teenagers arrested in connection with the murder have...
A retired Roman Catholic priest Dennis Finbow formerly from Cambridgeshire has been found guilty of three historic sex offences against a child. Fr Dennis Finbow, a...
Cambridgeshire County Council has released details of school closures and partial closures ahead of a teachers’ strike on Wednesday February 1. It will be the first...
A man punched his ex-partner in the jaw, smashed her head repeatedly on the floor and put his hands around her neck, a court heard. He...
Bricks were removed from a building site and used to destroy a Wisbech shelter, says a local councillor. “The shelter was vandalised last night from a...
Entrepreneur Peter Dawe has won permission to turn a small office block in into a five-bedroom hotel in Broad Street, Ely. The one-time independent candidate to...
A burglar was arrested as he tried to make off from a Peterborough restaurant with bottles of alcohol in in the early hours. Stephen Whittington, 41,...
East Cambridgeshire District Council says it will take £2.5m out of its “surplus savings reserve” to ensure it can, for the 10th year running, freeze its...
A new mayoralty precept of £12 a year is to be introduced by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA). The money raised will help to subsidise...
Cambridgeshire County Council is looking at whether it can ditch a French company that supplies its electricity in favour, at least partially, of ‘home-produced’ power. The...
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 45-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of the murder of a woman in Wisbech has been found dead in his prison cell. Police were...
Not just any constable but the chief constable himself Nick Dean helped to put paid to a homeowners who had put neighbours through “months of hell”....
A retired Roman Catholic priest Dennis Finbow formerly from Cambridgeshire has gone on trial accused of five counts of indecently assaulting a girl and one of...
The Government has issued a ‘red flag’ warning to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) with inherited concerns over former Mayor James Palmer high on...
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy has spoken of his childhood at a Peterborough school and how the city has been let down, like others, by “a...
Police and crime commissioner Darryl Preston visited Wisbech to see how his donation had helped clear a ‘crime scene’. Fenland District Council used the £1,450 from...
A cannabis farmer who tried to escape through the back door of a house as police forced their way in through the front has been jailed....
A man who stalked his ex-girlfriend despite the pair splitting up several years ago has been jailed. Shuhan Shahid, of Darwin Drive, Cambridge, came to the...
Only 17 of the 21 original asylum seekers remain at the Rose and Crown Hotel, Wisbech, according to Wisbech Conservatives. In a newsletter to residents the...
A 31-year-old man from Whittlesey was arrested yesterday on suspicion of engaging in sexual communications with a child. The man was confronted on a housing estate...
The forecast for Cambridgeshire today is ‘chilly with gentle winds’ but in the Fens a mini freeze has brought the ice skaters back out. Whittlesey has...
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...
A lorry fire closed the M11 south of Cambridge today. “Thankfully there were no casualties,” Cambs fire said. Firefighters began tackling the fire on the M11...
A ‘can’t find’ image that pops up during aborted searches of Cambridgeshire police website is of a beagle – and that’s infuriated Camp Beagle supporters at...
Such is the shortage, taxi drivers can “name their own price” to secure home to school contracts for Cambridgeshire County Council, says a new report. Fran...
A Cambridgeshire detective downloaded “sexualised images of victims linked to voyeurism investigations for his own sexual gratification,” says Cambridgeshire Constabulary. “Ten of the indecent images are...