Nestle Purina’s relationship with the community will play a vital part in determining their position on a proposed £300m energy from waste plant near to their Wisbech factory.

Only four out of every 100 planning applications to Fenland District Council get it right first time.

A Chatteris councillor accepted the challenge to raise the issue of extending the proposed CAM metro out to the town at every future meeting of Fenland District Council.

A visually impaired councillor described having his independence “stolen” as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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March is slowly emerging from lockdown. But whilst many of us stayed indoors, self isolated and stepped only rarely in town, volunteers remained busy.

Fenland is getting a slice of county council money that will benefit Wisbech Market Place, a village community centre and West End Park, March.

Some 2,000 registered an interest within weeks of their announcement but who will get the first of eight £100,000 homes due for completion later this year?

The announcement by East Cambs Council on Friday to build a pet cemetery at Mepal comes as a family run farming and transport business had just announced proposals for a pet crematorium at Littleport.

The economy of East Cambridgeshire was given a boost after a decision by President Donald Trump led to the abandonment of plans to close RAF Mildenhall.

Just 43 days after Covid 19 was blamed for a delay in preparing options for the future of Mepal Outdoor Centre, a surprise plan to turn it into a £6m crematorium was unveiled.

Details are only now emerging of a fraud against the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA).

A Lib Dem councillor angrily denounced Tory controlled East Cambs Council for debating the future of Mepal Outdoor Centre behind closed doors.

Ten years after Fenland Council argued – and then blocked – a second crematorium at Chatteris, their East Cambs Council neighbours confirmed they will build a rival £6m crematorium at Mepal.

A new Dutch-style roundabout – that blew its original budget through the roof – opened today (July 31).

A woman was jailed for nine and a half years after being convicted of trying to persuade hitmen to murder her ex-husband after he won a custody battle for their child.

A secret bid to sell Mepal Outdoor Centre and convert it to a crematorium will be unveiled at a confidential meeting of East Cambridgeshire District Council.

Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a brick barn in Mouth Lane, Guyhirn.

Customers using a new shop in Wisbech run by a local councillor will not be challenged if they are not wearing a face covering.

Covid-19 has provided a serious short-term challenge to the county council’s decision to spend £6.5m on a cinema and three restaurants in Wisbech.

A jailed drug dealer who sold cocaine and ecstasy across Cambridgeshire could return to prison unless he comes clean about how much money he stashed away.

A Wisbech night club has lost a legal challenge against Fenland District Council for operating without planning permission.

Defendants from the Fens due to appear in the dock could be told to attend a new “Nightingale Court’ being set up in Peterborough.

“The prime minister said we would ‘build, build, build’ and what better place than in my own constituency,” his chief secretary to the Treasury, and MP for NE Cambs Steve Barclay, said after work started on the £32m Kings Dyke crossing project.

Trains from Ely to Peterborough will be cancelled for the whole of September – and other dates in August, October and November –to allow for urgent repairs at Manea.

Police were called to Wisbech Castle yesterday (Monday) by a town councillor after another town councillor refused entry to two other town councillors trying to gain access.

A leaked copy of a letter from the Government critical of Mayor James Palmer – dating back to the appointment in 2017 of Tom Hunt as chief of staff – has been obtained by this newspaper.

Police found the body today (Saturday) of 59-year-old Stephen Ridley who went missing on Monday.

Free all-day parking in Ely is to come to an end on August 1 as time restrictions will be re-introduced.

A quirky video of a man filming outside a Cambridgeshire police station has gone viral– with nearly 30,000 views in a day.