Showing posts with label Cambridgeshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambridgeshire. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2026

New crematorium evacuated just weeks after opening as firefighters rush to scene

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I'm hoping the judges will decide it's time for a holiday soon. But for now, Cambridgeshire Live wins our Headline of the Day Award...
Monday, July 27, 2026

The Fenland floods of 1947

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A film about farming and the harsh winter of 1946/7. In particular, about the flooding that hit the Fens when the snow finally thawed and th...
Tuesday, July 07, 2026

Navigating for Change calls for more investment in Fenland rivers

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A flotilla of boats will make its way up the Great Ouse from St Ives to Bedford this month to highlight a critical lack of investment in the...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1508

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"Between calling for an end to 'the postwar neutering of Germany and Japan' and a reinstatement of the draft, Palantir also dem...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Joy of Six 1497

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"A child who grew up in the United Kingdom, attended British schools, made British friends, and considers this country their home will ...
Saturday, January 17, 2026

Will Neolithic stones in garden of James Corden's former £8.5 million mansion be returned to Jersey?

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Embed from Getty Images It's the question everyone's asking and it's our Headline of the Day too. Well done ITV News . Because t...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

The way we talk about and portray children in care really matters

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Photo by  Phil Hearing  on  Unsplash In the report of his inquiry into the death of Dennis O'Neill in 1945, Sir Walter Monckton wrote: I...
Saturday, November 01, 2025

The Joy of Six 1429

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"The academics from three UK universities who wrote the report said their analysis had found that 21 of 24 objective performance indica...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Joy of Six 1413

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Peter Black says the Liberal Democrats must continue to oppose national identity cards. Wealthy donors are increasingly funding political c...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Wits in Felixstowe: The genesis of Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

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Filmed at King's College, Cambridge, and on the Suffolk coast, Wits in Felixstowe looks at the genesis, influences and setting of M.R. J...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

The Joy of Six 1390

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John Oxley says it will be hard to assemble a successful new party to the left of Labour: "Building an effective left populist bloc re...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Charlotte Cane on the long campaign for improvements to the Ely North Junction bottleneck

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Charlotte Cane, the Liberal Democrat MP for Ely and East Cambridgeshire, is right: "Every new government or [rail] minster wants to loo...
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Friday, May 23, 2025

The refloating of the Baltic Arrow on the River Nene near Wisbech

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That Norwegian guy with a container ship in his front garden has reminded me of an incident on the River Nene last summer. On 25 June the ...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Regions of Britain: The Fens (1977)

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Made in 1977 but feeling somehow older, this pleasant little film takes us round various Fenland locations and discusses the history of the ...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

A goods train from Wisbech to March in 1996

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There has long been talk of reopening the railway from March to Wisbech, but what was it like when it was open? It closed to passengers in 1...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Rediscovering the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway

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This is a superior video from the Rediscovering Lost Railways YouTube account. It's notable not so much for the relics it finds as for ...
Saturday, November 09, 2024

Change of government means Lib Dem South Cambridgeshire is free to continue with its four-day week

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The Labour government is not going to continue the Conservatives' harassment of Liberal Democrat South Cambridgeshire for introducing a ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Ed Davey: Tomorrow's election is a once-in-a-generation chance to put an end to years of Conservative chaos

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Embed from Getty Images In an article posted on the Guardian's website this afternoon, Ed Davey describes tomorrow's election as ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

The lost branch lines to Wisbech

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Not for the first time on this blog, we follow the derelict lines from March to Wisbech and from Wisbech to Watlington. The former line is a...