Newmarket

Robert Nobbs, manager of Newmarket’s Heath Court hotel has been elected to the town council.

The Journal’s Memories feature continues this week with a look back to December 1988 and this picture taken at Newmarket Cricket Club’s annual dinner held at the Rutland Arms Hotel.

Warrior Queen Boudicca will feature in a new piece of artwork to commemorate new buildings at Exning Primary School.

Charities from Newmarket, Burwell and Ely have shared in cash giveaway thanks to the Co-op Community Fund.

Pupils in Soham have unearthed evidence that people were living on the site of their school more than 2,000 years ago.

Racing fan, photographer and fund-raiser Jean Ashdown-Coates was at Newmarket’s Craven meeting to present a cheque for £2,500 to Cancer Research UK.

A piece of racing memorabilia signed by the likes of Frankie Dettori, Sir Michael Stoute, and Hayley Turner, will be auctioned ahead of a charity football match later this month to raise funds for Simon Dobbin, the Mildenhall football fan left paralysed after an attack following a Cambridge Utd match in 2015.

Roads on a Soham housing state which had been left to deteriorate since the developer who originally put them in went out of business more than a decade ago, look as if they are finally going to be adopted by the county council.

Since the great horse first arrived at Cheveley’s Banstead Manor Stud the talk has been of nothing else but whether his progeny will inherit just enough of their father’s ability to see them become Classic winners.

The Queen was out on Newmarket Heath yesterday to see her horses which are trained in the town by William Haggas, Sir Michael Stoute and Michael Bell.

Visitors to Newmarket’s Kings Theatre next week will be treated to classic British comedy courtesy of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard regulars of Dad’s Army.

A judge has praised a woman who stepped in to foil what he called ‘a hideous attempted robbery’ in Newmarket.

Items found by metal detectorists around Mildenhall will be on show at the town’s museum until the end of June.

An 81-year-old man has been charged as part of an investigation into alleged abuse in football in Cambridgeshire.

Firefighters extinguished a barn fire in Tuddenham which is being treated as a suspected arson attack.

Members of Newmarket and District Scouts honoured England’s patron saint with their annual St George’s Day parade through the town on Sunday.

This photograph from the Newmarket Journal archives was taken in September 1988 and featured children taking part in a trikeathon on Studlands Park.

Just over five months after it was opened by the Queen, Newmarket’s National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art has become the first sporting museum to be shortlisted for the £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year prize.

Students from Newmarket Academy got the chance to see the town’s Rowley Mile racecourse through the camera lens as part of the school’s Godolphin Beacon project .

When former jockey Michael Jenkins got to know Mary Fritchley through Newmarket’s Befriending Service he had no idea the former stable girl had such a story to tell.