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Our dozen best drop-in highlights of the Open Cambridge festival

08 September 2023
Our dozen best drop-in highlights of the Open Cambridge festival

Our dozen best drop-in highlights of the Open Cambridge festival

08 September 2023

The ten day festival starts today (Friday, September 9) and offers visitors the chance to see treasures and buildings that are normally locked away.


Douglas Adams exhibition and book reveal his views on life, the universe and everything

08 September 2023
Douglas Adams exhibition and book reveal his views on life, the universe and everything

Douglas Adams exhibition and book reveal his views on life, the universe and everything

08 September 2023

A new biography based on the Douglas Adams archive at St John’s college will be launched during Open Cambridge – and fans can see his original notes


Concern that Waterbeach library could close due to fire risk assessment

08 September 2023
Concern that Waterbeach library could close due to fire risk assessment

Concern that Waterbeach library could close due to fire risk assessment

08 September 2023

Volunteers running the community library believe it could be forced to move to the new town.


Cambridge Maths School opens its doors in Mill Road

08 September 2023
Cambridge Maths School opens its doors in Mill Road

Cambridge Maths School opens its doors in Mill Road

08 September 2023

We spoke to head of school Clare Hargraves


Hundreds attend Cambridge Gateway from India opening ceremony

02 September 2023
Hundreds attend Cambridge Gateway from India opening ceremony

Hundreds attend Cambridge Gateway from India opening ceremony

02 September 2023

The crowd celebrated the completion of a three year project to save former Hindu shrine carvings from demolition and turn them into public art.


How to watch Duxford Soap Box Derby 2023

01 September 2023
How to watch Duxford Soap Box Derby 2023

How to watch Duxford Soap Box Derby 2023

01 September 2023

Check out the full timetable of the races, where to watch the soap boxes whizz by and which roads are closed.


Secret history of WWII German scientists locked up in Cambridge revealed

31 August 2023
Secret history of WWII German scientists locked up in Cambridge revealed

Secret history of WWII German scientists locked up in Cambridge revealed

31 August 2023

A play inspired by the secret wire tapping of German nuclear scientists imprisoned in a Godmanchester stately home in 1945 is coming to Cambridge.


Consultation results revealed on Cambridge’s Newmarket Road upgrade

28 August 2023
Consultation results revealed on Cambridge’s Newmarket Road upgrade

Consultation results revealed on Cambridge’s Newmarket Road upgrade

28 August 2023

The results show the preferred site for a relocated Park and Ride as well as proposals for a busway from the east of the city.

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Peeing in hotel kettles and other extraordinary confessions heard by Fesshole comedian Rob Manuel as he heads to Cambridge

27 August 2023
Peeing in hotel kettles and other extraordinary confessions heard by Fesshole comedian Rob Manuel as he heads to Cambridge

Peeing in hotel kettles and other extraordinary confessions heard by Fesshole comedian Rob Manuel as he heads to Cambridge

27 August 2023

From the outrageous to the hilarious, Rob Manuel has heard people admit to all kinds of bizarre behaviour – including what Cambridge has ’fessed up to


Taxi-style bus service can’t be replicated in county due to ‘huge’ cost

23 August 2023
Taxi-style bus service can’t be replicated in county due to ‘huge’ cost

Taxi-style bus service can’t be replicated in county due to ‘huge’ cost

23 August 2023

A councillor has spoken out about the £425,000 cost of running an on demand bus service in rural areas that charges customers just £2 a trip.

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Cambridge college digitises manuscripts collected by Samuel Pepys

21 August 2023
Cambridge college digitises manuscripts collected by Samuel Pepys

Cambridge college digitises manuscripts collected by Samuel Pepys

21 August 2023

Pepys, the famous diarist, was fascinated by handwriting and collected writing samples dated from the eighth century.


Bats and bees in the belfry cause cleaning chaos at Cambridgeshire church

16 August 2023
Bats and bees in the belfry cause cleaning chaos at Cambridgeshire church

Bats and bees in the belfry cause cleaning chaos at Cambridgeshire church

16 August 2023

A church that has been host to a swarm of bees, a wasp infestation, two kinds of bats and an escaped horse is searching for a volunteer cleaner.


Director James Potter eyes up the future for New Cambridge Singers

16 August 2023
Director James Potter eyes up the future for New Cambridge Singers

Director James Potter eyes up the future for New Cambridge Singers

16 August 2023

The choir has appointed a new conductor following the departure of Graham Walker, who had led the New Cambridge Singers for 10 years


10 leading artists create handmade buttons for Kettle’s Yard fundraiser

16 August 2023
10 leading artists create handmade buttons for Kettle’s Yard fundraiser

10 leading artists create handmade buttons for Kettle’s Yard fundraiser

16 August 2023

Artists Ai Wei Wei and Antony Gormley are among the stars who have contributed to the Artists’ Buttons exhibition, which will be sold off.


Author Sophie Hannah reveals how she has said goodbye to regrets forever

15 August 2023
Author Sophie Hannah reveals how she has said goodbye to regrets forever

Author Sophie Hannah reveals how she has said goodbye to regrets forever

15 August 2023

Most people are ‘completely wrong about what constitutes good and bad decision making’, the crime writer tells Alex Spencer


Fears trees and hedgerows will be chopped for Waterbeach active travel path

06 August 2023
Fears trees and hedgerows will be chopped for Waterbeach active travel path

Fears trees and hedgerows will be chopped for Waterbeach active travel path

06 August 2023

Cyclists and horse riders have joined forces in a bid to prevent trees and a hedgerow being cut down

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Doctor to take on a dragon to raise funds for East Anglian Air Ambulance

06 August 2023
Doctor to take on a dragon to raise funds for East Anglian Air Ambulance

Doctor to take on a dragon to raise funds for East Anglian Air Ambulance

06 August 2023

Nick Marriage, 39, was five years old when he suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in 1989.


Cambridge protesters hope to stop felling of 125-year old trees at St Matthew’s Piece

04 August 2023
Cambridge protesters hope to stop felling of 125-year old trees at St Matthew’s Piece

Cambridge protesters hope to stop felling of 125-year old trees at St Matthew’s Piece

04 August 2023

The demand to remove the trees from the park had been made by insurers of a house who said the roots were damaging the building.

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Tolkien experts to give talk at Cambridge Waterstones on Friday

03 August 2023
Tolkien experts to give talk at Cambridge Waterstones on Friday

Tolkien experts to give talk at Cambridge Waterstones on Friday

03 August 2023

Author Nick Groom will be in discussion with Tolkien Society Secretary and Trustee Hannah McDonald about his new book, Twenty-First-Century Tolkien.


Cambridgeshire village ‘like being trapped in The Prisoner TV show’

02 August 2023
Cambridgeshire village ‘like being trapped in The Prisoner TV show’

Cambridgeshire village ‘like being trapped in The Prisoner TV show’

02 August 2023

Residents are struggling to leave a village after two out of three routes were blocked and they are being forced on a 20 mile detour.

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