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Frankie Dettori leads tributes to boxing champ John Duffy

23 February 2018
Frankie Dettori leads tributes to boxing champ John Duffy

Frankie Dettori leads tributes to boxing champ John Duffy

23 February 2018

Top jockey Frankie Dettori has led the tributes to former stable lads’ boxing champion John Duffy, who died last week aged 50.


Trotting challenge raises more than £800 for East Anglian Air Ambulance

23 February 2018
Trotting challenge raises more than £800 for East Anglian Air Ambulance

Trotting challenge raises more than £800 for East Anglian Air Ambulance

23 February 2018

Young riders have raised more than £800 for the East Anglian Air Ambulance by taking part in a special riding challenge at the National Heritage centre for Horseracing at Palace House in Newmarket.


Newmarket Town Council give go-ahead for High Street restaurant plan

22 February 2018
Newmarket Town Council give go-ahead for High Street restaurant plan

Newmarket Town Council give go-ahead for High Street restaurant plan

22 February 2018

A controversial plan to turn the former Thing-Me-Bobs store in Newmarket High Street into a restaurant has been given the go-ahead by town councillors but they have objected to the licensing hours proposed for the venue.


New era dawns for Newmarket's Doric

22 February 2018
New era dawns for Newmarket's Doric

New era dawns for Newmarket's Doric

22 February 2018

More than 80 years after it first opened as a cinema, a new era will officially begin for the Doric in Newmarket High Street on Thursday.


Racing super six to share win £125,000 windfall in this year's Godolphin awards

17 February 2018
Racing super six to share win £125,000 windfall in this year's Godolphin awards

Racing super six to share win £125,000 windfall in this year's Godolphin awards

17 February 2018

Six racing workers from Newmarket are guaranteed a share of £125,000 prize money after being named as finalists in this year’s Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff awards


Frankel the fund-raiser

15 February 2018
Frankel the fund-raiser

Frankel the fund-raiser

15 February 2018

Legendary racehorse, now successful stallion, Frankel who celebrated his tenth birthday at Cheveley’s Banstead Manor Stud on Sunday is doing his bit to support an online fund-raising campaign to build a new children’s hospice in Norfolk.


Village plan for Kennett goes on show today

09 February 2018
Village plan for Kennett goes on show today

Village plan for Kennett goes on show today

09 February 2018

An exhibition outlining the draft plans for a new 500-home garden village development in Kennett will be on display today between 4pm and 8pm.


Orchard House in Newmarket gets 'outstanding' rating

08 February 2018
Orchard House in Newmarket gets 'outstanding' rating

Orchard House in Newmarket gets 'outstanding' rating

08 February 2018

A Newmarket surgery is celebrating after being named as one of the best in the country by the health watchdog.


Plans to move Newmarket's Oakfield Surgery to hospital site at 'crucial point'

08 February 2018
Plans to move Newmarket's Oakfield Surgery to hospital site at 'crucial point'

Plans to move Newmarket's Oakfield Surgery to hospital site at 'crucial point'

08 February 2018

The clock is ticking on a project to relocate a Newmarket GP practice to the town’s hospital site which is said to be at a ‘crucial point’ and could take much longer than first anticipated.


Council splits £30,000 grant over two years for Lakenheath church project

02 February 2018
Council splits £30,000 grant over two years for Lakenheath church project

Council splits £30,000 grant over two years for Lakenheath church project

02 February 2018

A project which ‘celebrates, supports and empowers fathers to be their best for their children’ is to receive £30,000 funding from a council but spread over two years and not one as originally proposed.


Farmers' Crown for Soham's John

02 February 2018
Farmers' Crown for Soham's John

Farmers' Crown for Soham's John

02 February 2018

A Soham farmer has been named the best tenant farmer in Cambridgeshire.


Newmarket schoolboy’s charity effort helps to provide meals for migrant camp in Calais

01 February 2018
Newmarket schoolboy’s charity effort helps to provide meals for migrant camp in Calais

Newmarket schoolboy’s charity effort helps to provide meals for migrant camp in Calais

01 February 2018

A Newmarket schoolboy has raised £2,000 to help a kitchen which provides hot meals for migrants in Calais.


Council's 'sensitive' approach to items left by rough sleepers on Newmarket High Street

01 February 2018
Council's 'sensitive' approach to items left by rough sleepers on Newmarket High Street

Council's 'sensitive' approach to items left by rough sleepers on Newmarket High Street

01 February 2018

A council has said it will continue to treat the issue of items being left on the street by rough sleepers ‘with sensitivity’.


Dog-fouling poster goes global online

01 February 2018
Dog-fouling poster goes global online

Dog-fouling poster goes global online

01 February 2018

A notice suggesting dog-owners in a village could take up yoga by “bending over and picking up your dog poo” has become a global hit on the internet.


Blackwell achieved great success at Lagrange where he trained Rock Sand to win Triple Crown

28 January 2018
Blackwell achieved great success at Lagrange where he trained Rock Sand to win Triple Crown

Blackwell achieved great success at Lagrange where he trained Rock Sand to win Triple Crown

28 January 2018

In common with so many of Newmarket’s historic stable yards, Lagrange stables in Snailwell Road has changed little in appearance in more than 100 years.


£30k scam puts Newmarket car dealer in jail

25 January 2018
£30k scam puts Newmarket car dealer in jail

£30k scam puts Newmarket car dealer in jail

25 January 2018

A Newmarket car dealer has been jailed for four years after scamming customers out of more than £30,000.


New kerbs installed near Newmarket's Royal statue

25 January 2018
New kerbs installed near Newmarket's Royal statue

New kerbs installed near Newmarket's Royal statue

25 January 2018

Work has begun to improve a Newmarket road close to the recently installed statute of the Queen, following complaints by town councillors.


Grand National hero Bob Champion's plea to replace a lifetime of photos

25 January 2018
Grand National hero Bob Champion's plea to replace a lifetime of photos

Grand National hero Bob Champion's plea to replace a lifetime of photos

25 January 2018

Grand National hero Bob Champion, who conquered cancer to win the toughest race of them all, is appealing to Journal readers for help.


Youngsters explore the science behind the racehorse at Newmarket's National Heritage Centre

20 January 2018
Youngsters explore the science behind the racehorse at Newmarket's National Heritage Centre

Youngsters explore the science behind the racehorse at Newmarket's National Heritage Centre

20 January 2018

Young members of a club set up to honour the Newmarket-born Second World War codebreaker Bill Tutte got to know more about the science of the racehorses when they visited the town’s National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art.


Racing remembers as former jockey Bryn Crossley dies at 59

19 January 2018
Racing remembers as former jockey Bryn Crossley dies at 59

Racing remembers as former jockey Bryn Crossley dies at 59

19 January 2018

Racing has been remembering former Newmarket-based champion apprentice jockey Bryn Crossley, who died recently at his home in Spain aged 59.