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The boy and the snail

Martin Walters asks: What is it about young children and snails?

Stunning Tower of Flowers celebrates five years of country park at Trumpington Meadows

The community artwork features 1,000 hand-made flowers.

British Kebab Awards: Four Cambridgeshire outlets make the shortlist

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi is among the judges

46 pictures from Ladies’ Day at Newmarket, including the winners of the 2021 Style Awards

The Best Dressed winners were chosen as the July Festival got under way.

Princess Anne visits Newmarket Racecourse for Moët & Chandon July Festival

The Princess Royal attended the July Course yesterday (July 8).

Cows about Cambridge 2021: Interactive trail map featuring every large cow sculpture and mini moo

Use this to find all 90 cows dotted around the city.

FairWildWeek: How to support wild harvesting fairly

TRAFFIC, part of Cambridge Conservation Initiative, explains how millions of people rely on wild plant collection.

FOOD AND DRINK

El Cafecito: Latin American coffee in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside

The business was created as a roastery in 2015 and opened as a coffee shop at Deans Farm in Fowlmere late last year.

Fin Boys has made fish part of the Mill Road dining sea-ne

Restaurant, shop or delivery as chefs Richard Stokes and Jay Scrimshaw take helm

Cambridge Foodies Festival cooks up a storm on Parker’s Piece for three days

Learn the secrets of top chefs including Tristan Welch and Daniel Clifford.

British Kebab Awards: Four Cambridgeshire outlets make the shortlist

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi is among the judges

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SHOPPING

46 pictures from Ladies’ Day at Newmarket, including the winners of the 2021 Style Awards

The Best Dressed winners were chosen as the July Festival got under way.

FairWildWeek: How to support wild harvesting fairly

TRAFFIC, part of Cambridge Conservation Initiative, explains how millions of people rely on wild plant collection.

Future of the Grafton Centre up for debate

Businesses are waiting to hear what the sale of the shopping centre will mean for their future.

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Velvet

Opening: The Rupert Brooke unveils new look

The Rupert Brooke, the much-loved Grantchester inn famously named after the war poet, has reopened with both a new look and new menu. . .

Shop local: Visit Histon's new Smokehouse market

As well as reopening with a new onsite smokery, barbecue menu and Estrella bar, Histon Smokehouse has built a mini marketplace in its back garden

Beauty: Top bodycare to love the skin you're in

It’s the season of swimwear and shorts: time to celebrate the skin you’re in. Alice Ryan rounds up this summer’s best bodycare

Fitness: Why wild swimming is worth the plunge

During the pandemic the popularity of wild swimming has soared.Velvet's Lydia Parkin chats to some Cambridge converts – and takes a dip herself

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GARDENING

Petition demands Cambridge is made pesticide-free

Labour councillors on the city council have been urged to live up to their manifesto promise.

Enjoy stunning open gardens in Cambridgeshire under National Garden Scheme

They will open over the bank holiday weekend and into June.

The majesty of trees at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Martin Walters inspects some of the amazing species.

Joy at flowering of Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s rare moonflower

“It's been worth the wait’ say followers as the CUBG’s moonflower - Selenicereus wittii - finally blooms.

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NATURE

Cambridge residents’ ongoing vigil to protect trees at Alexandra Gardens

Vow to save London plane duo set to be savagely pollarded for insurance certification

The boy and the snail

Martin Walters asks: What is it about young children and snails?

Stunning Tower of Flowers celebrates five years of country park at Trumpington Meadows

The community artwork features 1,000 hand-made flowers.

Read more

PHOTOGRAPHY

Stunning Tower of Flowers celebrates five years of country park at Trumpington Meadows

The community artwork features 1,000 hand-made flowers.

46 pictures from Ladies’ Day at Newmarket, including the winners of the 2021 Style Awards

The Best Dressed winners were chosen as the July Festival got under way.

Cambridge charity unearths signed picture of Princess Diana with hopes to raise thousands of pounds at auction

The Princess of Wales would have turned 60 on July 1.

See the incredible Gaia installation - a 7m replica of planet Earth - at Ely Cathedral

The artwork is on display throughout July.

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TRAVEL

Cambridge Clinical Laboratories offers Covid-19 travel tests directly to consumers

It has teamed up with C-19 Direct to offer the tests to those travelling abroad.

Interview: Chef Adam Wood to front new Garden House restaurant in Cambridge

The restaurant, set within the Graduate Cambridge hotel, is due to open in July.

Novotel opens up by Cambridge North station

Hospitality group Accor opened its first Novotel hotel in Cambridge on Monday (May 17).

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