Newmarket

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.

If the London Marathon has whetted your appetite for running, there is still time to enter next month’s Newmarket Heath Race and Stable/ Stud Challenge.

Nearly 500 school children from Newmarket and its surrounding villages will be taking part in a special event at Tattersalls next month to mark the centenary of Second World War codebreaker Bill Tutte.

A former Newmarket woman who now lives in California has transformed the walls of a hospital with an aquatic mural splashed across windows and walls.

Staff at Newmarket’s British Racing School are bidding to raise £50,000 for a fund founded in memory of a former director.

Down in the woods near Chippenham children are getting a first-hand taste of the natural world .

Jockey Freddy Tylicki, who was left paralysed from the waist down after a four-horse pile-up at Kempton in October last year, was the guest of honour at a charity boxing tournament staged at Innocence nightclub in Newmarket on Saturday. He is pictured with boxers William Carson, grandson of racing legend Willie Carson, left, and Simon Pearce, who squared up to help their former colleague, with Carson coming out on top on points. More than 300 guests were in the sell-out crowd including leading jockey Andrea Atzeni, Kieren Fallon, Jamie Spencer, Hayley Turner and Rab Havlin. Promoted by Eddie Guest, the event also raised funds for the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

A mother has started two petitions against proposals for housing which she believes will destroy Burwell’s village identity.

Supermarket giant Aldi has unveiled plans of how its proposed new development on the former gas works site in Newmarket’s Exning Road will look.

The US and Nato Europe commander spoke on a visit to RAF Lakenheath of the need to grow to meet possible threats.

A netball team to help women keep fit has been set up in Red Lodge.

As if completing the 26 miles of the London Marathon isn’t enough of a challenge, Ben Blowes is attempting to set a new world record by doing it with a tumble dryer strapped to his back.

Residents of Newmarket’s Studlands Park showed they ‘Love Where they Live’ by turning out in force to support an estate clean-up organised by town and district Michael Anderson earlier this month.

A teacher from Newmarket will be on the start line for Sunday’s London Marathon on Sunday just a week after she feared injury had put pay to her fund-raising effort.

Twenty-three years ago next month Newmarket-based jockey Declan Murphy sustained such severe head injuries in a fall he was given the last rites and the Racing Post published his obituary.

Mildenhall parents Shantelle Mottley and her partner, Aaron Barker, had plenty to celebrate this week.

A Newmarket three year old who has to cope with serious disabilities is now able to get about thanks to a donation from the town’s Lions group.

A missing 57-year-old woman from Beck Row has been found.