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70-year-old man jailed over murder of retired postmistress

Una Crown was found dead at her bungalow in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in January 2013.

The Independent UK

Straw Bear Festival returns in colourful fashion to streets of Whittlesea

The annual tradition saw Morris dancers donning colourful feathered hats and bright green and yellow attire.

The Independent UK

Ice skaters make most of freezing conditions on flooded Fenland fields

Temperatures dropped low enough for skating on a field near the River Cam at Upware, Cambridgeshire.

The Independent UK

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The New Year Honours list 2025 in full: Every person celebrated this year

From OBEs to Knight Commander

The Independent UK

Drink-driving glamper flips car into ditch while on supermarket run

A drink-driving “glamper” flipped her car into a ditch while going to buy more alcohol in Cambridgeshire late on Saturday, 30 November.

The Independent UK

The most struck railway bridge in Britain ‘with more than nine lives’

Locals regularly post pictures on social media of vehicles damaged on hitting the bridge despite the clear signage

The Independent UK

Government drops official concerns about council’s four-day week

Conservative ministers had issued South Cambridgeshire District Council with a series of Best Value Notices throughout 2023 and 2024.

Evening Standard

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Parrots that escaped London Zoo found together 60 miles away

Critically endangered blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot flew away a week ago

The Independent UK

Parrots missing from London zoo found behind Cambridgeshire garden

Escaped blue-throated macaws, named Lily and Margot, were tracked down after numerous sightings

The Guardian - UK

London Zoo’s flyaway parrots Lily and Margot found in Cambridgeshire

The birds had been at large for six days.

The Independent UK

London Zoo’s flyaway parrots Lily and Margot found 60 miles away in Cambridgeshire

The critically endangered birds had been at large for six days

Evening Standard

Remains of Roman town discovered in Cambridgeshire given protected status

Evidence of highly organised urban settlement found during survey work for solar farm near Great Staughton

The Guardian - UK

Who was Stephen Chamberlain, colleague of Mike Lynch who died after road collision?

Co-defendant in US fraud trial following sale of Autonomy to HP had been out jogging in Cambridgeshire

The Guardian - UK

‘Failure of Roman engineering on industrial scale’: discovery of water wells in England proves trial and error

‘Astonishingly preserved’ remains in Cambridgeshire give clues to substantial Romano-British industrial settlement

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British classrooms breach recommended maximum temperature for lessons

The highest peak indoor temperature recorded was in Cambridgeshire, with 29.6C in the classroom by the end of the school day

The Guardian - UK

Spoonbills return to Cambridgeshire for first time since 17th century

Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England

Evening Standard

‘Stunning’ Northern Lights spotted across the UK

The Aurora Borealis has been spotted in Whitley Bay on the north east coast, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Wokingham in Berkshire.

The Guardian - UK

Woman who caused cyclist to fall into car’s path has manslaughter conviction quashed

Auriol Grey, who waved and shouted at Celia Ward, should never have been charged over Cambridgeshire incident, her lawyers said

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‘These birds are telling us something serious is happening’: the songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods

The dramatic decline of marsh tits in an ancient Cambridgeshire woodland is a story repeated across the UK as human activity drives species towards extinction

The Guardian - UK

Norfolk hawker dragonfly no longer endangered, scientists say

Population has spread from small area of East Anglia to become established in Cambridgeshire, Kent and Herefordshire

The Guardian - UK

Jean Buckle obituary

Other lives: Teacher, keen golfer and crossword fan who was dedicated to her Cambridgeshire village

The Guardian - UK

A day at the baby bank: ‘I feel at ease here, because I’m not the only one struggling’

The UK now has more than 200 baby banks – with demand at some rising 400% since the start of Covid. In Cambridgeshire, we meet the clients and volunteers at one busy centre

Evening Standard

Abandoned 1950s water tower in Cambridgeshire goes up for auction for £350k

Perry Water Tower has already gone under the hammer once this year

The Independent UK

The Great British Bake Off winner for 2023 announced after tense celebration cake finale

Matty, a 28-year-old teacher from Cambridgeshire, has said that he felt like the ‘underdog’ of the baking competition

The Independent UK

Who is Matty Edgell, the ‘underdog’ winner of The Great British Bake Off?

The Cambridgeshire teacher didn’t think he had what it takes to compete in ‘Bake Off’. But after his fiancèe applied for the show on his behalf, Matty rose to the challenge

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