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Saffron Walden Reporter (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday New Christmas market flights to run from Stansted Airport • Jet2 launches 23,000 Christmas market flights from London Stansted for winter 2027/28, with Krakow, Prague, Vienna and Strasbourg routes.

Cambridge News · Local news · yesterday Ofsted warns school it ‘needs attention’ after 10 years of being ‘good’ • The school had previously been judged as 'good' overall under Ofsted's old grading system

Saffron Walden Reporter (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday Wanted man arrested during traffic stop • Chelmsford police arrest 48-year-old wanted over domestic abuse offences on September 26 during operation targeting drink and drug drivers, with 17 arrests.

CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Local news · yesterday Cambridge restaurant with panoramic city views from your own private dome • It has been described as a 'very special way to experience dinner in Cambridge' by a previous customer

Ely Standard (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday Tea party at Cambs care home raises charity cash • A care home in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, has raised more than £100 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

Cambridge Independent — News · Local news · yesterday Cllr Ingrid Flaubert: Cambridge’s water crisis is bigger than sewage • Opinion | Cllr Ingrid Flaubert, Green Party member for Trumpington on Cambridge City Council, writes for the Cambridge Independent.

Cambridge Independent — News · Local news · yesterday Rise in rural shoplifting in South Cambridgeshire to be tackled - and nine areas prioritised • ‘The gall with which it is carried out is quite mind-boggling’ says council leader.

CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Local news · yesterday The demolished Cambridge theatre that launched a comedy empire • Without it we may never have some of our greatest British comedians

Ely Standard (Newsquest) — News · Local news · 3 days ago Campaign launched against two wind farms on Grade 1 farmland in East Cambs • An East Cambridgeshire councillor has launched a petition against two proposed wind farms, claiming they would be built on some of the country’s most productive farmland.

What's on: next 14 days

A quick-view of 42 priority public listings from 42 tracked events over the next 14 days. Tap any item for the source and full details.

4 Oct at 10:00Art Exhibition: 'Images and Other Conversations'

4 Oct at 11:00; 5 Oct at 10:00Portraits of Cambridge: A Town in Transition

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

4 Oct at 11:30Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour

4 Oct at 12:00; 6 Oct at 10:00A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire

4 Oct at 12:00Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime

4 Oct at 12:00TEN GOOD YEARS

4 Oct at 14:30Sex and the City: Cambridge Women, Town and Gown

4 Oct at 15:00Muisc for choir and brass

5–6 Oct at 09:00Other than Words: A Sense of Release in the Presence of Art

5–6 Oct at 09:00Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers

5–6 Oct at 09:00Knowledge in a Fractured World

6 Oct at 10:00Hidden Histories

8 OctCircus Cortex at Cottenham, Cambridge. 8-11 October 2026

10 OctMind Cambridge * World Mental Health Day Benefit *

15 OctNerina Pallot at Storey's Field Centre - Cambridge (Solo show)

15 OctBollynights Cambridge – FRESHERS WELCOME PARTY | Thursday 15th October | Revolution

17 OctABBA Day Party: Cambridge

16 OctThe Big Pants Party

10 OctCambridge Swing Dance's 20th Anniversary Party

10 OctLive Music @ Milonga Connection

11 OctDance in the Dark Cambridge Junction

6 OctDandiya Dance Class

17 OctSara White's Blues BootCamp

7 OctDisrupt Cambridge 13.0

10 OctShiny New Model 2026 | Cambridge Junction 1, 2

9 OctBoys Club (ages 12-17) - October 2026

17 OctOctober's FREE Children's Clothing Event

10 OctChildren's Craft Drop-In at Cambridge Central Library

17 OctThe Newmarket Vintage Furniture & Fashion Flea

17 OctArtist Conversation and Workshop

4 OctWEEKLY Sunday Jazz w Andy Bowie 4tet

17 OctIndian Cultural Society, Cambridge Durga Puja 2026 17th and 18th October

12 OctAlice Cooper - Devil on My Shoulder Book at Cambridge Corn Exchange

17 OctWCB Comedy at The Great Hall at The Leys with Headliner Hal Cruttenden & Reginald D Hunter

6 OctDon Broco at Cambridge Corn Exchange

4 OctCambridge Hanabi - Japanese Market Autumn Edition

9 OctReef in Cambridge

7 OctFRESHERS 2016 CLUB 2010

11 OctKris Barras Band at MASH, Cambridge

11 OctRoachford and Hue and Cry at Cambridge Corn Exchange

7 OctShaping north Cambridge community event Our latest event takes place at Meadows Community Centre on Wednesday 7 October.

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