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,...
An Albanian drug dealer will be deported – but only after serving a prison sentence for drug dealing in a Cambridgeshire village. Ision Kurtzmalaj was stopped...
A three-month closure order has been served on a flat in Wisbech following concerns around cuckooing. Cuckooing is a term used to define a type of...
A 34-year-old man from Huntingdon has been arrested on suspicion of exposure; he remains in custody. Police have withdrawn an e-fit image of a man they...
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...
TV celebrity Warwick Davis says closing a Cambridgeshire village school would be “a travesty”. The film and tv star is backing the campaign to save Great...
A man who threatened an Ely woman and squirted ammonia at a neighbour who tried to stop him, has been jailed. But a second man involved...
A man who claimed witchcraft had linked him to the rape of a girl in Peterborough has been jailed. Demba Embalo, 21, attacked the teenager at...
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...
Please can we have our Shire Hall back? Still no deal with controversial property firm regarding the Castle Hill site on which once stood the county...
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 Midsummer Night’s Dream by Cambridge University’s Marlowe Society at Cambridge Arts Theatre. This production reminded me of an old witticism. Noel Coward, having seen an...
A drug dealer from Ely has been jailed – more than three and a half years after a raid on his Ely home. His accomplice has...
A burglar has been jailed after he was identified on doorbell footage. Kevin Eastwood, 45, of no fixed abode, walked into a home in Beaufort Drive,...
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...
As it stands, the district council does not have the power to issue parking tickets for illegal on-street car parking – this responsibility still rests with...
Civil parking enforcement across Fenland could be delayed until the end of 2025, the district council has admitted. Although the council was awarded £400,000 two years...
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...
A cat whose back legs were paralysed because of a blood clot is back on his feet and living a normal life. Eight-year-old Drake was left...
Twenty new trees have popped across Huntingdon. The trees have been planted at Claytons Way, near Huntingdon Gymnastics Club, at Castle Hills open space, at KGV...
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...