Many of the 2,400 signatures on a petition to save Mepal Outdoor Leisure Centre were from outside the area and invalid, councillors were told.

Highway improvement work to the A10/A142 BP roundabout has finished ahead of schedule.

A Christmas tree that Peterborough tired of was re-born in Wisbech today.

The 40ft in the Fens is open again after a tractor came off the road and its trailer became stuck on the embankment.

Police spent most of a Sunday in August bagging up 355 cannabis plants from a house in Wisbech after neighbours called police to a suspected burglary, a court was told.

A Fenland road was closed this afternoon after a tractor and trailer went off the road – and a second followed.

A Conservative councillor – and chairman of his local football club – has nearly quadrupled his target after launching a fund-raising campaign to provide free lunches to children during half term.

The Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Mrs Julie Spence OBE QPM presented March Boxing Club with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service Award at the Braza Club. March.

A man was jailed for 21 months for offences that included ramming his victim’s car with a Land Rover.

A Wisbech mum has discovered that the man she lived with for a year – and is expecting their baby- had not declared his previous conviction for sexual offences against a child.

Tributes have been paid to a “tremendously hard-working” former leader of Cambridgeshire County Council – and Norfolk MP - who has died aged 84.

A man who died following a collision yesterday (October 22) has been named by police.

A man died following a serious collision involving a car and a HGV in Cambridgeshire today (Thursday).

Fenland District Council is to agree a third bailout of Freedom Leisure to ensure centres in March, Chatteris, Whittlesey and Wisbech remain open and solvent.

Sting their cars, seize their dogs, bombard them with community protection orders – and take their photo.

Cash-strapped Cambridgeshire Police plan to halve the number of PCSOs (Police Community Support Officers) to 40, permanently close nine enquiry offices and disband a community safety team.

A van driver who tried to take his removal truck through the bridge near Ely station could face a driving ban.

All Stuart Potts wanted to do was to tidy up – as a matter of respect – the area around the war memorial in his home village of Coates.

Middle Level Commissioners gave a short sharp rebuke to MP Steve Barclay for his criticism of new fees for using local waterways.

Residents on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border must pay £650 a year (plus VAT) if they want to continue to use an iron bridge.

An Ely couple in their eighties are finally hanging up their boots after raising more than £3,500 for the National Garden Scheme in their first year of opening in the city.

A man who repeatedly stalked his ex-partner has been jailed.

“Never will there be laughter as a family because of that man’s actions on that night.”

A convicted burglar had a ‘Damascus-style’ moment in prison and invited police to question him about other offences.

Fenland has the lowest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the whole of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

A major step forward to clamp down on parking across Fenland towns – that would see enforcement switch from the police to the district council – is being recommended for approval.

Criticism of proposals to turn Grade II listed offices into a house of multiple occupation (HMO) for nine people have been dismissed by the agent as having little to do with planning or conservation issues.

The chairman of the audit and accounts committee of Cambridgeshire County Council expressed frustration over delays to a probe into the awarding the tenancy of a council owned farm to deputy leader Cllr Roger Hickford.

A disciplinary tribunal opted to allow former Wisbech Grammar School teacher Mark Jarvis to continue in the profession despite a conviction for assaulting a student.

Wisbech-born and three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Ellen Falkner has been awarded the MBE for services to the sport of lawn bowls in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.