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Ely Standard (Newsquest) — News · Local news · yesterday UK frozen food company stocked in 1,000 stores collapses into liquidation and closes • Quality Bites, a halal frozen food brand stocked by over 1,000 UK independent supermarkets, voluntarily entered liquidation and closed on October 7.

Cambridge News · Local news · yesterday Warning for doctor who touched student's groin area 'insufficient to protect public' • The General Medical Council (GMC) is appealing the tribunal decision

Cambs Times (Newsquest) — News · Local news · today Hardest primary schools to get your child a place in • The hardest primary schools in Cambridgeshire to get your child a place in have been revealed in new data. • Most schools are able to offer a place to every student who picked them as their top preference, but some don’t have enough for everyone.

Ely Standard (Newsquest) — News · Local news · today 12,500 Ely households face heating oil costs as MP calls for emergency cap • More than 12,500 households in Ely and East Cambridgeshire are disconnected from the gas grid, with most relying on heating oil, according to Charlotte Cane MP.

CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Local news · yesterday Former Cambridge restaurant will be 'put to good use' as new student accommodation • A former Cambridge restaurant has been demolished to make way for new student accommodation

CambridgeshireLive (Reach) — Home / all sections · Local news · today Houses ‘rattle’ and cars left ‘filthy’ during building of major Cambridge development • The development will include 70 flats, a café, restaurant and office buildings

Cambridge Independent — News · Local news · yesterday Daniel Zeichner MP: The road back to Europe may be long but at last we can see a way forward • Opinion | Daniel Zeichner, Labour MP for Cambridge, writes for the Cambridge Independent.

Cambridge Independent — News · Local news · yesterday 15-year-olds arrested near Longstanton Park & Ride on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle • Two suspected stolen vehicles recovered.

Cambridgeshire Live local democracy coverage RSS feed · Local media · 3 days ago The most affordable area to buy a home in Cambridgeshire • Cambridge remains the most expensive area of the county to buy a property

What's on: next 14 days

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26–27 Oct at 09:00Other than Words: A Sense of Release in the Presence of Art

26–27 Oct at 09:00Living Water: Poetry, Art and the Fight for Clean Rivers

26–27 Oct at 09:00Knowledge in a Fractured World

26 Oct at 10:00Exhibition: Folklore

26–27 Oct at 10:00What Remains

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

26 Oct at 17:30The organization of goal-directed behaviour in the brain - Professor John Duncan FRS MRC

26 Oct at 20:30Cambridge Schola: Vespers at Trinity

27 Oct at 10:00Hidden Histories

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

27 Oct at 10:00A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire

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

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

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 2026

30 OctFREAKY FRIDAY – HALLOWEEN PARTY!!

27 OctHOT GHOUL HALLOWEEN QUEER DANCE PARTY

28 Octpumpkin carving and fun

30 OctDexys Midnight Runners at Cambridge Corn Exchange

29 OctThe Wedding Present - Seamonsters 35th Anniversary Concert LIVE in Cambridge!

27 OctHuey Morgan, The Fun Lovin’ Criminal - Cambridge

28 OctThe Tallis Scholars

7 NovChop Suey + Slip-NOT at Mash, Cambridge

27 OctPet Needs at MASH, Cambridge

31 OctZombie Fest - FISH56 OCTAGON

30 OctCambridge Lindy Exchange 2026

31 OctLight Night: Cambridge

31 OctTHE RISING BLUES - LIVE @ THE BYRON'S BEAR OCT 31st

28 OctJonathan Pie at Cambridge Corn Exchange

30 OctBAILANDO Fridays in Cambridge - Salsa | Bachata | Kizomba

27 OctK-pop dance classes in Cambridge

3 NovCamTango Tuesday milonga at St Paul's with DJ Juan Herrera

31 OctLego Club Drop-In @ Cambridge Central Library

29 OctBird Puppet Making

30 OctTeddy Bears' Picnic at Willingham Library

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

28 OctSeychelles Discovered Cambridge

31 OctWhoosh! At Zombie Fest 9

27 OctAround The Table Supper Club: Korean edition

31 OctKnit&Natter X Warm Hub at Cambridge Central Library

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

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

31 OctCandlelight: Ed Sheeran & Coldplay

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

7 NovRomesh Ranganathan Will Change Your Life

3 NovThe Proclaimers at Cambridge Corn Exchange

3 NovTeenage Fanclub at Cambridge Junction, Cambridge

8 NovJack Savoretti Cambridge Tickets

6 NovRoderick Williams Sings Mystical Songs

27 OctRADIOHEAD "The Soundtrack of our Lives" by Paranohead

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