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Cambridge Independent — News · Safety · 2 days ago Magpas Air Ambulance launches £50,000 winter appeal as fuel costs soar • Demand for the charity’s lifesaving service is at record levels, and its fuel bill is currently twice as high as expected.

Cambs Times (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday Cambridgeshire welcomes new tax powers to tackle 1,800km of sinking roads • Cambridgeshire County Council has welcomed new tax powers announced by the Chancellor during the Budget.

Cambs Times (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday Cambs disability charity marks 35 years after securing £1.32m for clients • A disability support charity in Cambridgeshire is celebrating 35 years of service.

Cambridge News · Local news · yesterday Man dies at Holbeach property as two arrested on suspicion of murder • Lincolnshire Police are investigating the unexplained death of a man after they were called to a property on John King Street, Holbeach, on Monday morning

Saffron Walden Reporter (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday More than a TONNE of waste removed from roads including 710kg clean-up on A12 • Colchester Council cleared more than 1,100kg of litter and waste in October, including 710kg from a major A12 clean-up and fly-tipping across Colchester.

Cambridge News · Local news · yesterday Residents slam 'devastating' East West Rail project set to impact 'everyone in the region' • 'Will we be able to live here - will we be able to get our children to school – will we be able to breathe here'

Ely Standard (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday Two Slimming World consultants honoured for helping thousands improve their health • Two East Cambridgeshire Slimming World consultants have been recognised for their dedication to helping people lose weight and improve their health.

CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Local news · yesterday 'New lakeside neighbourhood’ with hundreds of new homes approved for growing town Waterbeach • The new neighbourhood forms part of a wider 6,500-home masterplan

Saffron Walden Reporter (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday Hundreds of pumpkins smashed at patch in ‘heartbreaking’ vandalism • Owners of a popular pumpkin patch have spoken of their heartbreak after visitors deliberately smashed hundreds of pumpkins

BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Local news · yesterday Mum pilots daughter and classmates on Iceland flight • Marnie Munns says it was "a huge privilege" to fly her daughter's school party to Reykjavik.

Cambridge Science Park news RSS feed · Business and development · yesterday What can Cambridge learn from Shanghai? • Cambridge Science Park’s Director of External Relations and Innovation, Jane Hutchins, has spent the week in Shanghai at the World Top-performing Incubators Conference 2026. • In her second dispatch from China,

Ely Standard (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday WATCH: Court shown CCTV that ‘captures knife attacker on LNER train’ • CCTV footage shows a knifeman on a London-bound train where he stabbed 10 people, a court heard.

BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Local news · yesterday Plan to turn school into three-bed house approved • The planning applicant says he "cares deeply" about the listed building, which is deteriorating.

CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Local news · 2 days ago Cambridge teenager accused of causing death of young man named • The young man died at the scene of the crash

What's on: next 14 days

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30 Oct at 09:00Other than Words: A Sense of Release in the Presence of Art

30–31 Oct at 09:00Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers

30 Oct at 09:00Knowledge in a Fractured World

30–31 Oct at 10:00Hidden Histories

30–31 Oct at 10:00A Call to Art: William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites

30–31 Oct at 10:00A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire

30 Oct at 10:00An Enamel Revolution: China and the World

30 Oct at 10:00Exhibition: Folklore

30 Oct at 10:00Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime

30 Oct at 10:00What Remains

30 Oct at 11:00Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now

30 Oct at 14:00Misery and Beauty: Harry Becker's Portrait of East Anglian Farm Labour around the Great War

30 Oct at 14:15Tacitus' Germania, with K. Clarke (Oxford)

30 Oct at 17:30Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour

31 OctThe Fright Crawl | Cambridge's #1 Halloween Bar Crawl 2026 | Sat, Oct 31

31 OctThe Fright Crawl | Cambridge Halloween Day Bar Crawl 2026 | Sat, Oct 31

31 OctZombie Fest 9 - East Anglia's Biggest Indoor Halloween Festival

31 OctHalloween Party at Tram Depot

30 OctDunna Runna - Halloween Special THIS FRIDAY IN CAMBRIDGE!

31 OctHalloween Silent Disco Party- ALL AGES welcome!

30 OctFREAKY FRIDAY – HALLOWEEN PARTY!!

30 OctDexys Midnight Runners at Cambridge Corn Exchange

3 NovTeenage Fanclub at Cambridge Junction, Cambridge

7 NovKings of The Rollers | Holy Grail UK Tour | Cambridge

7 NovChop Suey + Slip-NOT at Mash, Cambridge

30 OctA Band Called Malice // CAMBRIDGE // The Portland Arms

31 OctZombie Fest - FISH56 OCTAGON

31 OctDanny T Waits Performs Closing Time On The Wirral!

12 NovGentleman's Dub Club in Cambridge

7 NovCambridge Bachata Magic - Sat Party (7 Nov)

7 NovMakani Dabkeh and Drumming Circle 2026

5 NovThe Barn international cafe (for international students)

7 NovStreet Photography at Night Meetup

31 OctKnit&Natter X Warm Hub at Cambridge Central Library

3 NovThe Fate of the World: a History and Future of the Climate Crisis

6 NovThe Misanthrope - National Theatre Live - Cert 15

5 NovADDAMS FAMILY HENLEY 5-7 November

5 NovNational Theatre Live: Golden Boy

5 NovJason Byrne: 30 Years Byrning

12 NovThe Big Gong Show

6 Nov“Rachmaninoff and the Myth of Exile”, a talk by Prof Marina Frolova-Walker

1 NovWEEKLY Sunday Jazz w Andy Bowie 4tet

1 NovJools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra at Cambridge Corn Exchange

31 OctCandlelight: Ed Sheeran & Coldplay

7 NovRomesh Ranganathan Will Change Your Life

3 NovThe Proclaimers at Cambridge Corn Exchange

31 OctPaint and Sip - Spooky Starry Night | Portland Arms

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