Newmarket

Rare nesting stone curlews in the Brecks have been fitted with GPS ‘sat nav’ to find out where they go.

A former banger car driver who caused a pregnant woman to lose her unborn child when he hit her in a head-on crash has been banned from getting behind the wheel for a year.

I trust someone at Forest Heath who has Newmarket’s happiness at heart is keeping an eye on what is happening at Ely where after four years’ patient planning a multi-million Leisure Complex nears completion this year. Masterminded by East Cambs District Council, Ely Leisure Village is cinema-centred and has already signed up five big names in the restaurant industry. Sadly, Newmarket, for centuries the capital of the region’s leisure industry, has lately hitched its wagon to the sometimes seamy scene of naughty nightclubs. Meanwhile, what most of us would prefer is a proper picture house and decent places to meet and eat.

After a gap of a year, Lakenheath’s annual carnival and fete returned to the village at the weekend.

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It is time to make your nominations for the fifth Bury Free Press Business Awards so the individuals and companies who excel can get the recognition they deserve.

As the school summer holidays get under way I feel some sympathy for those many parents who see the world as such a perilous place that they protect their children from every risk, real or imaginary. But how can I convince some of these doting mums and dads that they may be a little too cherishing? How dare I suggest they are robbing their darlings of precious experience of the real physical world? The best I can offer is that from the ages of seven to 17 I spent every summer roaming free, alone or with my mates, over square miles of rough open countryside full of ponds and pitfalls, barbed wire, thorny thickets and ruined buildings, without getting more than a scratch. My only serious injuries throughout that joyous period were sustained at home, usually under the very eyes of my watchful mother.

A Beck Row road crash hero, who spent four days in hospital after saving a man from a blazing Transit van, has been awarded a top national bravery honour by Royal approval.

A man is being treated for serious internal injuries after two cars collided on the B1112 at Eriswell yesterday.

A controversial plan for 375 homes and a school, over which Lakenheath Parish Council threatened a legal challenge, has been approved by councillors.

The latest version of a plan for 138 new homes in West Row was approved by Forest Heath’s Development Control Committee yesterday,

Hundreds of supporters were at Newmarket’s Town Ground on Sunday in support of Shaun Whiter who lost both his legs as the result of a hit and run accident last month.

An operation on a crooked finger and tracing his family tree inspired John Bean’s first novel.

Emergency services have been dealing with a hazardous chemical spill at a factory in Haverhill this afternoon.

A Newmarket takeaway has been fined more than £1,600 and ordered to pay nearly £3,000 in court costs after its director admitted seven charges of failing to comply with food safety and hygiene regulations.

Six officers from Cambridgeshire Constabulary set off on a three day cycle ride to raise funds for the families of police officers who have lost their lives on duty.

A community is rallying round to help buy a special piece of equipment for a little girl who was born with parts of her brain undeveloped.

An online petition calls on the Government to invest in RAF Mildenhall as a commercial airport instead of expanding Heathrow and Gatwick.

In spite of being a nurse, Kirsty Lane had no idea what to expect when she was diagnosed with a pituitary gland tumour.

The search is on to find a Newmarket Community Hero who will win £2,000 for their chosen charity or project.