Cambridgeshire police have an idiosyncratic phrase- ‘we can’t be everywhere but could be anywhere”. I thought of that on sitting down in my local coffee shop...
Council taxpayers in Huntingdon face an inflation busting 14 per cent rise in the town council’s precept for the coming year. Huntingdon Town Council says the...
Labour councillor Shaz Nawaz is to stand down as leader of the Labour group on Peterborough City Council and will resign as a city councillor. Cllr...
A £2m expansion of South Fens Enterprise Park, Chatteris, has been pulled. Fenland District Council describes the expansion as being “temporarily paused” but it has been...
Nine houses in the March and Whittlesey area could be bought by Fenland District Council to house refugees. The council is being recommended by its assistant...
Conservative social clubs across Fenland each received £10,000 as part of a grant scheme set up under Covid – but it was £10,000 to a Conservative...
A town council said ‘thanks but no thanks’ to a suggestion put to the Arts Council – who gave them £29,000 for a one-day festival –...
A change in the direction of travel for Cambridgeshire County Council’s wholly owned, arms’ length trading company This Land Ltd has been criticised by one of...
Noelle Godfrey, director of the Connecting Cambridgeshire digital connectivity programme has retired after working for Cambridgeshire County Council for 33 years. Noelle has led many highly successful collaborative...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 man from Friday Bridge and a woman from Parson Drove have been fined nearly £800 between them after rubbish they had paid to be cleared...
Cllr John Batchelor, Lead Cabinet member for housing, said: “Housing fraud costs those in need a roof over their head and lengthens Council waiting lists.” People who are...
A Labour city councillor in Peterborough says he was de-selected after party officials quizzed him about Facebook posts re-iterating his support for Palestine. Cllr Imtiaz Ali...
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...
All nine household recycling centres run by Cambridgeshire County will refuse to accept upholstered domestic seating waste from January 1. It means such things as sofas,...
A popular Cambridgeshire wood – popular with dog walkers – has been closed temporarily because of a dangerous tree. Huntingdonshire District Council announced this morning they...
Electric vehicle charging will become easier across the district thanks to a new grant for public charging points for village halls and community buildings. Grants of...
An unexpected £1m bonus has dropped into the lap of Cambridgeshire County Council because of the pandemic. And that can expect to get bigger, advised Tom...
Cambridgeshire County Council has asked its chief executive Stephen Moir to write to the Home Secretary to press for safe legal routes for people to seek...
The cost-of-living crisis is forcing thousands of people across Cambridgeshire to turn to the county council for support. Since 1 June, there have been more than...
Covid has been blamed for Fenland District Council not updating its tourism plans, council leader Chris Boden told councillors. He was quizzed on the issue by...
A plea for Cambridgeshire County Council to appoint a ‘migrant champion’ has been made by Cllr Alex Bulat. Cllr Bulat, who became the first English county...
A £400,000 Grade II listed shop in Wisbech town centre – until recently a beauty and hair salon – could become a House in Multiple Occupation...
Five Cambridgeshire county councillors who chair committees, and their five deputies, are in line for a jump in their allowances following an independent review. The same...