Newmarket

Residents had to be evacuated as eight fire crews spent over an hour fighting a blaze at a block of flats in Newmarket’s George Lambton Avenue yesterday.

Northbound and one southbound lane of the A11 at Barton Mills had been re-opened by 9.30am, after a fire at the Esso service station at the Fiveways roundabout which started just after 6.50am caused major disruption on all approach roads.

A fire in a petrol station has closed the A11 in both directions at Barton Mills.

Voters across Forest Heath and East Cambridgeshire will go to the polls on May 4 to elect their representatives on Suffolk and Cambridgeshire county councils for the next four years.

A new generation of rocket engineers gathered at Mildenhall College Academy on Wednesday to take part in a national competition.

A 10-year-old Exning boy who is recovering from a bone marrow transplant has been given a boost after his godfather handed over a cheque for £3,667 raised by a sponsored half-marathon.

The family of a much-loved Fordham mum who lost her battle with cancer three days after Christmas is organising a charity event to raise funds in her memory.

Just over six months after he lost both his lower legs in a hit and run accident just outside Newmarket, Shaun Whiter is preparing to take part in a 150-mile sponsored cycling event.

Providers of pre-school services across West Suffolk showed their fears for the future at a meeting on the county’s new funding formula.

A High Court judge has reserved his decision after hearing from both sides over the controversial proposal to build 400 new homes on Newmarket’s Hatchfield Farm in Fordham Road.

A PlayStation and a motorbike were among the items cleared from the canal that runs through Milton Keynes.

Work should start next month on a new £7.6 million primary school for Red Lodge and academy trusts have been invited to apply to run it.

Work should start next year on preparing RAF Lakenheath for the two squadrons of F-35 Lightning II fighters which will arrive in 2021.

A new street name sign was a surprise for some of the residents of a road in West Row.

Able bodied drivers who park in four disabled parking bays could be fined in future if a parish council gets its way.

A Stradishall man accused of hacking into the FBI and NASA computer systems, among others, is offering to work with the Americans to uncover system vulnerabilities.

Police have released these CCTV images of a woman they would like to speak to in connection with a £12,500 fraud.

Tattersalls has been chosen to conduct what has been called one of the most important bloodstock dispersal sales in Europe.

People living near a new development in Newmarket claim to have been trapped in their homes by vehicles belonging to construction workers on the site.

A Newmarket woman has warned of the dangers of false widow spiders after she was left struggling to walk or talk after being bitten by one.