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Sew creative: young stitchers on the cutting edge of budget design win fabulous prizes!

Fabric-cadabra! Two girls are celebrating their sewing skills after winning a Summer Stitch competition, run by Sew Much to Do. Over the summer holidays, the Ely High Street Passage shop asked budding young stitchers to submit their sewing, knitting and crochet projects. Entries had to contain a summer theme and all material had to cost …

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Refugee poster campaign gets huge response from "compassionate" kids

A competition aimed at reflecting on the plight of refugees has had an overwhelming response, with more than 100 children from across East Cambridgeshire taking part. The Ely Refugee Resettlement Campaign organised the poster competition, which had the theme “Home/Refuge”. Children were invited to reflect on what a safe home meant to them and how …

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Still time to enter Ely 501

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The creative writing challenge for East Cambridgeshire children up to the age of 13 has launched its 2016 competition and the organisers are hoping to top last year’s astonishing results. Well over seventy entries were received and the standard couldn’t have been higher. “It was truly amazing!” says Annabel Reddick from Burrows Bookshop. Along …

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Ely 501 comes to court

Ely Magistrates’ Court takes on a new lease of life on Saturday 4 July as it plays host to the presentation ceremony for Ely 501, the brand new creative writing challenge for East Cambridgeshire school children. Annabel Reddick from Burrows Bookshop, co-sponsor with Mr Simms Ely, thinks this is probably the first time the ancient …

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