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 Cambridge South opens as photos show long-awaited £250m station• It's estimated that it will serve 1.8 million passengers a year |
 | CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Traveltoday More works planned for guided busway slammed as locals say 'money thrown in pit'• Cambridgeshire County Council's Highways and Transport Committee is due to discuss new safety improvement works planned for the guided busway |
Cambridge News · Educationtoday Cambridgeshire's top police officer slams 'truly disgraceful' WhatsApp culture• A dozen officers have been investigated over their conduct arising from a 'toxic' culture created by Paul Street |
 | BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Traveltoday Multi-million pound railway station opens• Passengers can travel to London, Stansted Airport and to international rail services via St Pancras. |
 | Cambridge Independent — News · Eventstoday In pictures: Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts students earn plaudits at London Graduate Fashion Week• Five showcase their work - and one emerges with an award. |
Cambs Times (Newsquest) — News · Council and recordstoday Zoo announces reopening after toddler was thrown into crocodile enclosure• Johnsons of Old Hurst in Huntingdon, where a toddler was attacked by a crocodile after being thrown in the enclosure has announced its reopening. |
 | Cambridge Independent — News · Healthtoday Data breach probe after 40 Cambridge University Hospitals staff access records of boy hurt in crocodile enclosure• South Cambridgeshire MP Pippa Heylings described the situation as ‘absolutely unacceptable’. |
 | BBC News — Cambridgeshire · Council and recordstoday Enclosure where child attacked by crocodile reopens• The Cambridgeshire zoo had closed its Tropical House after the incident. |
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