Newmarket

It goes without saying that the education of children is a paramount duty of parents and the state. But in order to achieve it, both parents and state must behave reasonably, not make that education unreasonably hard to reach. This is why we should examine carefully the case of the Soham mother, Anna Davies, newly arrived from Northamptonshire with her three school-age children and a fourth aged only nine weeks. Miss Davies applied for three school places on August 7 and was dismayed when two were still unplaced as the school year began.

MP Matthew Hancock’s West Suffolk constituency is one of only two in Suffolk and Norfolk that will not change if the Boundary Commission’s review proposal are accepted.

Injured football fan Simon Dobbin’s former RAF Regiment comrades have raised £4,000 to help make his care easier.

Boutique hotel and restaurant Tuddenham Mill is celebrating after being acclaimed by the AA and The Good Food Guide.

Police are urging motorists not to leave valuables in vehicles after power tools were stolen from a van in Red Lodge over the weekend.

As I have made clear in the past, I have every respect for vegans like Emily Keates who keeps a big black pig in her home at Soham. I even sometimes toy with the notion of vegetarianism myself – until I catch a whiff of frying bacon. But I do wish vegans could avoid sounding so pious and even, not to put too fine a point on it, rude.

Volunteers who have battled to return the River Lark to its former trout stream glory have been praised by a national conservation body.

A site earmarked for business beside the A11 at Red Lodge has been approved for housing after nobody showed interest in it for eight years.

A five-week public consultation begins today on the future use of land at RAF Mildenhall, which will be released when the USAF moves out.

Two men were taken to hospital with burns after an explosion in Cambridgeshire this morning.

A family has accused Suffolk County Council of reneging on an agreement not to block access to parking in front of their home.

The Secretary of State, Sajid Javid, has turned down Lord Derby’s application to build 400 home on his Hatchfield Farm site in Newmarket’s Fordham Road.

Some of us cannot get used to the way the once-sluggish, unimaginative, argumentative and consultant-ridden Forest Heath District Council has transformed itself into the West Suffolk powerhouse.

Cambridgeshire is one of the top two places to raise a family in the UK new research by uSwitch has found.

A 66.4-mile cycle ride would be a tough challenge for most people but for Paul Clark there is an extra difficulty.

Caring for the environment is about making sure there is a world to pass on to future generations, so it is apt a college is sponsoring our ‘green’ award.

Students in Newmarket, Mildenhall and Soham have delighted themselves and their teachers with a stellar set of GCSE results announced today.

How kind of Highways England to promise almost all roadworks will be suspended from tomorrow for the bank holiday weekend. They say that in the East of England alone, more than 70 miles of works will be either lifted or completed. Good for them and good for us. It would be even more helpful if Highway England would stop pestering us and distracting us with do-this and do-that messages on roadside electronic gantries. I sometimes think looking up to read one of these digital announcements when approaching a roundabout or tricky interaction could be more dangerous than defying the slogans by speeding or drinking. By all means use these costly message systems when some unexpected problem has arisen, but not for everyday generalised scolding and chivvying.

Charity concerts performed by VivaVoices community choirs in Suffolk and Norfolk have raised £1,315 for Macmillan Cancer Support. There were five performances in Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Stowmarket and Wymondham. Anyone can join and rehearsals start mid September. Call 01284 700286

Commuters on the Norwich line have been getting first class views of some of Britain’s rarest breeding birds as they pass Lakenheath Fen.