Everything you need to know as £255m Cambridge South railway station opens
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Everything you need to know as £255m Cambridge South railway station opens
• Station on Cambridge Biomedical Campus is due to welcome 1.8 million passengers.
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CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Traveltoday Town loses only butcher after shop closes due to ‘financial pressures’• The family business announced its closure earlier this month |
Cambridge Independent — News · Council and recordstoday Crocodile attraction where boy, 3, was seriously injured reopens to public• Johnsons of Old Hurst confirmed that the whole site is now open. |
CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Council and recordstoday DWP urged to means-test PIP amid rising disability benefit costs• The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged to introduce means-testing for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) as part of the Timms Review, amid warnings that rising costs will add an extra £5 billion to the welfare budget this year. |
BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Planningtoday Council removes Pride flag after Reform challenge• The council says it investigated and the Progress Pride flag needed planning permission. |
BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Healthtoday Critical incident declared at Addenbrooke's A&E• Only those with "a serious and life-threatening emergency" should go to the department, says trust. |
BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Safetytoday Cost of busway fencing nearly doubles to £12.5m• The safety measure is being installed on Cambridgeshire's guided network after three people died. |
Cambs Times (Newsquest) — News · Council and recordstoday Carers 'bundled suspect into car' after boy was thrown into crocodile pit• The carers of a man suspected of throwing a three-year-old boy into a crocodile enclosure reportedly bundled him into a car moments after the incident. |
BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Educationtoday Cambridge college swift boxes used for first time• The endangered birds are nesting for the first time at the college, which delights its master. |
Cambridge Independent — News · Eventstoday Wildlife Trust Nature Girls expands to Cambridgeshire to bring like-minded women together• Cambridge Independent — News is included for local events and date-sensitive listings across Cambridge, Ely, Cambourne, Northstowe and Saffron Walden. |
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