Local Press

RUSSIAN folk songs and Russian Orthodox sacred music will be performed by the St Petersburg Blagovest Ensemble, at a concert held in St Peter’s Church in Wimblington on Sunday May 19 at 7.30pm.

HISTORIC fire appliances and military vehicles will be on show at Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum on Sunday, including some very rare steam vehicles that will create a spectacular show, pumping water from the nearby drain and jetting it back into the water course .

SIXTEEN model railway layouts will be on show when Ely and District Model Railway Club stage their annual exhibition at Ely College on Saturday May 18.

THE Old Palace garden in Ely will be transformed into an open air theatre next week when theatre group The Lord Chamberlain’s Men perform Shakespeare’s summer comedy, As You Like It.

EAST Cambridgeshire’s cutest youngsters are preparing to take centre stage once again as the 2013 Baby of the Year competition is launched by the Ely Standard.

FOUR men – including two from Fenland- have been jailed for a total of 54 years for an armed robbery.

THREE tax dodging Wisbech take-aways who potentially owe over £100,000 were caught in a single night by a revenue task force.

ELY is to be a guinea pig for a county wide survey to find out how people travel-and feed into a to improve their everyday journeys.

FORMER Wisbech mayor Jonathan Farmer claims that putting the brakes on drinks licences in the town centre is “ineffective, won’t make any difference and is anti business.”

A LANDBEACH second hand superstore is raising funds for the Ely Foodbank tomorrow.

MP STEVE Barclay aligned himself to the group of Tory MPs wanting a referendum on this country’s members of the European Union.

INDIAN and Pakistani workers who had over stayed the terms of their visas and Chinese workers – one of who had entered the UK illegally- were among those arrested in Wisbech.

AN enthusiast from Ely has put together startling images of what it’s like to be guiding a paramotor over Cambridgeshire.

A DRIVER who killed two people after attempting a dangerous overtaking manoeuvre at more than 100mph has been jailed.

IT may have been a new supermarket for Soham that captured yesterday’s headlines but today the focus is on nearby Newmarket where no less than FOUR supermarket applications are with planners.

VISITORS to Haddenham took a step back in time at the annual Blossoms and Bygones festival on Sunday afternoon, as the village took on a Victorian theme to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the village school.

AN ELY salad grower has become the star of a national healthy eating campaign.

POLICE commissioner Sir Graham Bright says his personal office has grown to 10 staff and may get bigger but is still cheaper than the police authority he replaced.

The Journal campaign to honour Newmarket-born wartime code-breaker Bill Tutte could see a permanent memorial in place by the end of the year.

Newmarket College has announced it will be offering 15 new music and drama scholarships as part of its plan to improve.