THE owner of a takeaway in Burwell has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £1,200 costs for breaching food hygiene regulations.

YOUNG street dancers from Fenland have helped England win gold in Amsterdam.

PLANS to create a wildlife haven for birds on the Ouse Washes were submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council this week following years of consultation and planning by the Environment Agency.

PHOTOGRAPHS of a dead Wisbech woman laying face down and covered in a duvet were shown to a jury today at Cambridge Crown Court.

A ROW over the painting of community flower tubs in Benwick has landed a parish councillor in front of Fenland District Council’s conduct committee next week.

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ASPIRING artists and designers from the College of West Anglia’s Isle Campus will showcase their talents in an end-of-year exhibition starting on Monday.

A FUNDRAISING campaign has been set up in memory of a popular Big Issue seller who died earlier this year.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE Fire and Rescue cannot reduce its services further without cutting its frontline services, the new chairman of its ruling authority has warned.

THEY feared a sonic boom 24 hours earlier but it was more of a tonic boom as Cambridge Arts Theatre lifted the curtains on Dreamboats and Petticoats.

POLICE have released CCTV images of a man they want to trace in connection with a shoplifting incident in Cottenham.

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GARDEN nursery worker Lee Ollington described how he rushed to help a collision victim reliant on first aid “I’d picked up from watching programmes on TV”.

A MAN who filmed himself sexually abusing young boys in his Peterborough flat has been jailed after he posted an image on Facebook.

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TWO spectacular floral displays have appeared in Wisbech as the town gears itself up for this year’s Anglia in Bloom and Britain in Bloom competitions.

A NEW deputy chief constable for Cambridgeshire police has been appointed.

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PUPILS were put through their paces by British Army personnel during an action packed school day with a difference.

CADETS from the three uniformed youth organisations took part in Wisbech’s first tri-service camp.

CLASSIC cars, tractors and lorries and a dog show drew in the crowds at Coldham’s sixth annual fun day.

AN OPTICAL assistant is lacing up her walking boots to raise funds for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices.

COUNCIL chiefs believe a Channel 4 programme depicting Fenland as a perks driven local authority are well wide of the mark.

A NOBEL prize winning scientist returned to the town of his birth on Friday.