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An opportunity to purchase a one-bedroom affordable home in Fordham for £117,000 is available to residents who meet the eligibility criteria. The property is one of a number set aside by East Cambridgeshire District Council to help local residents struggling to get on the housing ladder. They are sold to local people on average salaries …
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Residents will be advised on how to protect their homes and belongings from crooks during a special crime prevention workshop in Fordham this week. The event is part of a police day of action on Wednesday (February 21) across Cambridgeshire. It’s Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s biggest ever crime prevention event, involving 40 police officers, 80 PCSOs and …
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A ram raid in Fordham in the early hours of this morning is the latest in a string of ATM related thefts across the area. Police are appealing for information after crooks smashed the brick work and window of a convenience store in Carter Street in an attempted raid on a cash machine. At about …
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The fun craze of rock art has accumulated an avalanche of hunters and artists across East Cambridgeshire. In about six weeks, Spotted in Ely Rocks has attracted 1085 members, with numbers soaring each day. Visitors and residents alike are choosing Ely and surrounding areas as rock hunting destinations, while local art shop Tindalls has devoted …
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We all love Ely – and now more tourists than ever are discovering the delights of one of England’s smallest cities. East Cambridgeshire is enjoying bumper tourism, with almost four million visitors heading to the area in the past three years, according to figures released today. Statistics show that overnight stays in the region have …
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School funding will remain at the top of Lucy Frazer’s agenda, the MP promises Spotted in Ely, announcing “an additional £3.1 million” for South East Cambridgeshire’s schools. This week Ms Frazer said that once the government’s new National Funding Formula was fully implemented, primary and secondary schools across her constituency would get a funding boost …
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Cash strapped schools across East Cambridgeshire face a funding crisis, with all of the district’s colleges set to have their budgets slashed and teaching staff reduced in the next four years, unions warn. Figures released today predict that in real terms 88 per cent of schools throughout England face crippling budget cuts by 2020, with …
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Parents and teachers alike have voiced their anger and concern about cuts to school budgets during a picnic at an Ely primary school this afternoon. The Lantern Community Primary School was among numerous schools and colleges nationwide to host “Fair Funding Picnics” today, organised by the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the country’s biggest teaching …
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East Cambridgeshire’s schools, already some of the poorest funded in the country, will lose teachers and suffer a funding crisis unless they receive a major cash boost, the country’s biggest teachers’ unions warn. Cambridgeshire’s schools already receive £600 less per pupil than the English average, with £4200 a year being spent per pupil – some …
East Cambridgeshire is earning itself a reputation for brewing booze. Quality booze, that is. The Fordham Abbey Estate has just been given the green light to set up the UK’s first sake brewery and an application has been submitted to set up a tiny micro brewery in Little Downham. With The Ely Gin Company becoming …
Cheers! Or should we say "kanpai"! UK's first sake brewery will be in the Fens Read More »
Cambridgeshire’s schools have received some shocking end-of-term news: despite getting some of the lowest investment per pupil in the country, the government has temporarily put the brakes on fairer funding. As students and teachers prepared for the start of the school summer holidays, Education Secretary Justine Greening announced that plans to bring in fairer funding …
Bad news for Cambs schools – no fairer funding for at least another year Read More »
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