Fire spent nearly an hour in Chatteris on Saturday night tackling a house blaze.

Neighbours say they will oppose a retrospective planning application by a Chatteris businessman for an eight foot high wall that has been built adjoining his home and a private shared car park.

When a helicopter landed on Wednesday at Willow Farm, Little Downham, it was for farmer Ross Taylor "the best day ever".

Dad Ben Johnson died instantly on the school run back to his home - on the day he and his partner were to celebrate their daughter Danielle's second birthday.

Conservationists have thrown in the towel and agreed with Fenland District Council that two 18th century Wisbech shops - one listed in 1976 and the other in 1983 - can be demolished.

A young woman thanked the emergency services after she escaped with only minor injuries after her car hit a lamp post at Whittlesey today.

A bumper crowd lined the streets despite the rain as the teams smashed it over a half mile potato racecourse in Ely high street.

A record number of volunteers who put pride in their communities and help make Fenland a cleaner place to enjoy were recognised at a special award ceremony.

One of the UK's biggest discount health and beauty retailers has been targeted by shoplifters at its store in March and also in Wisbech.

A two day event marked the opening of new offices for Whittlesey town council that include providing housing for two Syrian refugee families.

In a statement, Co-operative Travel - that has branches in Fenland - announced today they have been preparing "for the worst case scenario".

Work could start as early as September next year on building a new rail station for Soham.

Changes to the way adult social care is paid for in Cambridgeshire will have widespread affects that for some disabled people mean they have to find an extra £28.95 a week.

A major fire involving large quantities of household rubbish at a waste processing site broke out in Waterbeach in the early hours of today.

Lib Dem MEP Lucy Nethsingha - until her election the county council group leader for her party - is one of the signatories to a cross party pro Europe declaration signed in Brussels.

Quick thinking by a farming family helped to prevent a straw fire spreading and saved an expensive tractor unit from going up in flames.

A teenager, who broke into a care home, a hair salon and was disturbed during a midnight burglary, has been sent to a young offenders' institute for two years.

District councillor Simon Harries says that an allegation that he sent 'harassing emails' to Ely markets boss Julia Davis is "completely frivolous, potentially malicious and utterly without any form of merit."

Between 2013 and 2017 he led UKIP through what might be termed its finest hour in Cambridgeshire having won 12 seats on the county council.

Wisbech brewer Elgood & Son Ltd has applied to Fenland District Council to allow one of the three town pubs run by deputy mayor and town councillor Aigars Balsevics to stay open from Thursday to Sunday until 3am.

They call it 'intelligence from the public' but in reality it means neighbours calling time on drug activity in their communities.

A company that grows crops for energy has been ordered to pay a total of £45,648.50 in fines, costs and compensation after it polluted two Fenland watercourses.

An academy trust running a Wisbech school was put on warning by the Department of Education that it could be sacked following an Ofsted inspection earlier this year.

A prisoner who was serving a life sentence for murder at Whitemoor Prison, March, had his time behind bars extended by another two years after attacking a prison officer and leaving him unconscious.

A fund set up to support the family of a Littleport teenager who died after falling from a car on the A10 has already reached its £3,266 target.

A Fen road closed for three weeks during March and April is already breaking up and furious villagers want it sorted.

Nursery school provision will be boosted in Wisbech this autumn when Peckover opens it new pre-school building for up to 52 three and four-year-olds.

Dirty bedroom floors, stained walls, insects, rubbish littering bathroom floors, stained and dirty toilets with one broken away from the wall form part of a damning Ofsted report into a Wisbech children's home.

The owner of a dog seemingly left locked inside his car on a sweltering hot day, says the woman who called the police got the wrong end of the stick.

The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) has been unable to publish its final statement of accounts for 2018/19, 'embarrassed' members have heard.