Fitzwilliam shows off China

Cambridge can be proud that the Fitzwilliam has just opened one of the most glamorous and important exhibitions anywhere in Britain this year with the largest display of imperial tomb treasures ever to leave China. ...

Edgelands

Recently opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, ‘Edgelands’ is an exhibition which tells the story of ‘that uncertain and overlooked zone, neither city nor countryside’, which lingers...

Cambridge: Happy ever afters?

With such grim economic forecasts dominating the news this week, we’re all in need of a little escapism. And what better way to escape than to experience the world through the eyes of our children and for one care-...

Huntingon: 999 call-out

We do like a party and a glass of fizz to break up the week! On Tuesday evening, the League of Mentalmen held a launch party at Pop Bellies restaurant. The Mentalmen are Karn Richmond, Ed Harrison, and Tom Harrison, who ...

St Ives: long-live our market

Apparently, the term tawdry is a St Ives derived word meaning cloth that is cheap and cheerful. It comes from the cloth sold at our town’s famous markets. For nearly 1,000 years the centre of St Ives has hosted som...

Ely: Taking to water

One thing Ely is not short of is opportunities to take to water. A former colleague retired recently and has been singing the praises of her little river cruiser, and the merits of tootling about on the waterways. &nbs...

Huntingdon: Mommy Wars

I'm sure by now, most of you have seen that cover of Time magazine. If not, it was a photograph of a woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son with the emphatic headline "ARE YOU MOM ENOUGH?" It sold a large number of copie...

Ely: Tea for Two

Suzanne Collin’s teen best seller-turned-hit film The Hunger Games showed at Ely cinema this week. If anything, duels to the death are likely to suppress your hunger, so we decided to play our own sort of hunger ga...

Cambridge: Conserving Rights

Something good’s come out of all this rain – we may not have much asparagus to boast of this year, but our city’s drought status has been given a temporary reprieve. And while we all breathe a sigh of r...

Ely: Head over Eels

Eels are curious things. Frustrating to fishermen on piers, cursing whilst disentangling knots of slimy, coiled fish. They are certainly not as pretty as rainbow trout, rock salmon, or red snapper on a fish counter. They...

Cambridge: pop-up cafes

What better way to escape the realities of economic gloom, political uncertainty and relentless rain than to eat your way through the May bank holiday, which is, after all, supposed to signal the beginning of summer. An...

Meet at The Malthouse

Are you looking for a new and interesting venue to hold a meeting, party or function? Need an outside catering supplier? Like the sound of 50% off your first booking?The Malthouse Project might be just the answer.Se...

The Cabin in the Woods

Spoiler alert: this film sucks.Let us explain. We like to start a film review with a snappy introduction - glowing or snarky, depending on our mood and whether the film was good or bad. We’ll segue into a run-dow...

Trio Mediaeval

Three women’s voices and a trumpet in Trinity College Chapel - my mind had already decided what sound we were in for. But this was Trio Mediaeval and Arve Henriksen - a very different kettle of Gravadlax. ...

All You Need is Moza

If you’ve ever had a night out at The Junction, bowling at Tenpin, or seeing a film at Cineworld, the chances are you’ll already know about Moza, the Indian buffet that’s perfect for groups.Drop in, or ...

The latest news from Balsham

The Black Bull is a traditional thatched public house and restaurant situated in the rural Cambridgeshire village of Balsham, about fifteen minutes from the Newmarket Racecourses. On the menu is a tempting range of class...

Drop in at The Anchor

Just five minutes from Newmarket, the recently-refurbished Anchor in Burwell is the perfect location to meet with friends. Whether you're out for an afternoon drink, in need of a sensational meal, just popping in for a f...

The family-friendly Red Cow

An idyllic English thatched country pub in the rural village of Chrishall to the west of Saffron Walden, The Red Cow is the ideal place to bring the family and enjoy wholesome, healthy food in a welcoming atmosphere.We a...

The Long Way Home

On May 8th 2011, a miracle baby was born. On May 8th 2012, Sam's parents are celebrating the unbelievable first birthday they never thought their son would live to see. It's a story that will inspire a fund raising march...

Foods for Spring

In terms of taste, it's important to buy fresh, locally grown asparagus, because the moment the spears are cut, the sugars start turning to starch. But as one local farmer said to me, this has been a weird year for field...

Taking to the Tracks

It has been 8 Months since the guided bus was opened for business. We take a ride on the regions' most controversial transport system to see how it is getting on. The phrase ‘mis-guided bus&rsquo...

Scudamores delivers beer

On the afternoon of Wednesday 16th May, a Scudamore's punt will leave Grantchester Meadows, laden with beer and headed on a three mile journey to the Cambridge Beer Festival. The punt will be carrying the entire festival...

Pop Goes the Restaurant

It’s 4:00pm and Taffeta Scrimshaw hasn’t eaten yet. She’s on her way to order food for herself and her chef husband Jay, recognising the irony of being in the food business yet not having time to feed t...

Budget Bites

When we first moved to Queensland I was enchanted by some money-saving tips in the local newspaper. One suggestion was to forgo butter and economise by mashing up your avocados and spreading that on your bread instead. H...

Tyla Rocks the Portland Arms

It’s been 23 years since I last saw Tyla play. Back then, it was at a Dogs d’Amour gig; Tyla was the lead singer of this English rock n’roll band, with blues, alt-country and metal-trash-glam punk overt...

Band competition soldiers on

The Cambridge Band Competition is now in its 27th year. This possibly harmless-sounding fact made me react like a world-weary ancient misery. 'I first attended the competition in its fourth year,' said an int...

Finding Your Festival

The festival season is upon us and we’re astoundingly lucky in the East to have so many to choose from. There is something for everyone with bigger camping-style festivals like Latitude and smaller daytime fe...

Bury Fest on a budget

Now in its fifth year, and going from strength to strength, the Bury St Edmunds Festival is rocking some big names and it’s hard to know where to spend your hard-earned pennies. But as any seasoned ...

Top Tips for Beer Festivals

You can almost feel the collective shudder from the beer-averse across the region as the Cambridge and District CAMRA Beer Festival is announced. If, like me, you’re not a natural beer-lover, then these point...

Take a punt on the wild side

After what seems like months of uninterrupted rain, the sun is slowly beginning to show itself once more in Cambridge. And what better way to bask in its glow than moseying down the Cam in a punt? Riding high on...

Take aim! The Shooting Academy

Ever fancied learning how to shoot safely and skilfully?Shooting and etiquette lessons with The Green ManPhilip Simpson has now joined us as an experienced coach to teach novices, intermediates or the experienced gun (fa...

Atlantic Mascapade

Justin Coleman, a 46 year old writer and local comedian, known to avid Custard Comedy fans as Rob Coleman, is taking a break from running comedy nights in villages around Cambridge to pedal across the Atlantic in a 26-fo...

Gripping wrestling action

Professional wrestling is often misunderstood, and difficult to define. It has always been a secretive business, carried out by a closed fraternity, with its own jargon. Wrestling is one of the oldest forms of...

On the Podium in Cambridge

“You have friends away from the track, but on the track you have no friends”, says Roberto Merhi, new Cambridge resident and Spain's hottest prospect for a Formula One berth in the next few seasons. ...

To Mongolia by ambulance

Whoever would have thought that your kid's legacy might take the form of a 10,000 mile ambulance drive to Mongolia? Two years ago on Karn Richmond’s birthday, he found himself having a lengthy discuss...

Vintage Flare

I used to think vintage meant bad charity clothes. Memories of sitting outside Oxfam dying of embarrassment as my mum rummaged through bins while I prayed my school friends wouldn’t walk passed haunt me still, but ...

Be Our Guest

If you’re female, heading to a wedding and are not in the party, it’s possible you’ll fall into one of two categories. Either you’ll love every minute of it, swear the bride looks amazing, relish ...

A new look for The Works!

The Works Hair and Beauty is situated on the edge of the village of Willingham, Cambridgeshire. Following our recent salon refurbishment we are excited & delighted to be able to offer a full range of professional hai...

Elajé Homme

Elajé Hair & Beauty, Cambridge's one-stop hair and beauty haven widely recognised for its first-class hairdressing and ultra luxurious beauty treatments, has just added a new zone dedicated to men. Elajé...

HENRY V

A little touch of Harry in the night turns out to be quite a lot. The Globe’s touring version of Henry V hits town with a blaze of medieval trumpets and an uncut script that gives us almost three hours of classic...

Barefoot in the Park

As director Maureen Lipman’s voice-over reminds us before the show, Barefoot in the Park is set before the invention of mobile phones, but as she points out elsewhere, the situation that unfolds could be taking pla...

Questions of Freedom

Cambridgeshire born writer and award-winning film-maker Rick Limentani has brought his new play Freedom to Cambridge’s Mumford Theatre. Having completed a four-week run at the Arcola Theatre in London earlier this ...

Playing out Scott's legend

In recent times Cambridge has seen a fair flurry of events to mark the centenary of Scott’s last expedition to the South Pole; the most recent, a production of Ted Tally’s play Terra Nova, staged at the ADC t...

Yes Prime Minister

If government is a risky business, then so is an updating of a much-loved national institution. ‘Yes Minister’ was a gold-plated comedy in a golden age of sitcom. The scheming, eminence-grise figure of...

Autumn Ghost Stories

Sunny spring mornings aren’t the usual time to dwell on the macabre, but there must be many people in Cambridgeshire for whom the first frost of autumn brings with it an additional thrill – the start of a new...

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