03/09/2025
This week’s Cambridge Independent, out from today, reports how £80m was spent on plans to move the Cambridge sewage works into the Green Belt and develop the existing site with housing before the plans were abandoned.
We reveal how Anglian Water will now object to all planning applications that would need to connect to the existing network.
Look out for a fabulous spread of pictures from the Duxford Soapbox Derby and another from Northstowe Running Festival, along with images of Grantchester stars returning to film the final series.
We also have images from the Ancient Oak Fayre, the Botanic Garden, Histon Beer Festival, the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair at Audley End House and Gardens and the new Summer at the Beach exhibition.
We report on the controversial plans for Christ’s College’s library, the mixed views over grants made to Russian culture organisations to help Ukrainians and on calls to report those trapping signal crayfish at Byron’s Pool without a licence.
There’s funding for the Catholic church to stop masonry falling from it and the latest on the lock repairs, and we report how masked raiders targeted two Post Offices and a Co-op in one weekend.
There’s an interview with Cambridge classicist Mary Beard, we hear from Pippa Heylings MP, district council leader Cllr Bridget Smith and city councillor Anthony Martinelli writes for us on what he calls the deepening crisis in the management of city council housing. There’s our latest Kerry on Cambridge column plus our fitness and wellbeing expert Ollie Thompson describes some simple ways to undo years of slouching.
In Business, we look at the Cambridge 2030 school partnership, a year after it won the Award for Collaboration at the Cambridge Independent Business Awards, plus we feature the $100m fundraising of Cambridge Aerospace and $44m funding for Cyted Health.
In Sport, there’s the latest on Shelford Rugby Club, a European win for Melbourn squash player Kate Bradshaw, Burwell & Exning competing for the title in the cricket plus, of course, all the latest from Cambridge United Football Club, Cambridge City Football Club and Histon F.C..
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