Cambridge, England News

Cambridge Cycling Campaign claims roads could be used more efficiently - and they say major changes in Hills Road have been a big success, prompting them to make a video of the scheme in action.

To a journalist immured in the sights, sounds and smells of newspaper production, the converted warehouse off Coldham's Lane is home from home, comfortingly familiar territory.

IN 1924, speaking on St George's Day, the then prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, gave thanks that for once he could refer to England "without some fellow at the back of the room shouting out: 'Britain!'" Even then, the tendency of the English to forget the other nations of the United Kingdom irritated the politically correct.

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Millions of your federal tax-dollars are being spent right now to turn around the four worst schools in Petersburg.

A major rescue operation was mounted after a member of the public reported seeing a man floating face down in the water.

AstraZeneca is closing in on a site for its new $500 million home in Cambridge, with a biomedical park just south of the English city the most likely site, property industry sources said.

Instead of the traditional march to the festival in Midsummer Common, fair-goers will be encouraged to decorate their bike and get pedalling.

Reynolds, 26, of Alice Bell Close, King's Hedges, Cambridge, was handed a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, on May 2 after he admitted stealing 21 bottles of alcohol totalling almost 300 from the Co-op store in Great Shelford the previous day.

Anne Harrington '82 and John R. Durant have been named House Masters of Pforzheimer House.

British comedian Rory Mcgrath has been arrested on suspicion of assault following an incident near his home in Cornwall, England, according to reports.

The typical images of welding - a robotic arm burping sparks or a masked Jesse James hovering over a glowing metal puddle - don't apply to friction stir welding .

The two students at Sacred Heart School of Halifax won the International Competition for Young Debaters in Cambridge, England, on May 4. Flynn, a Grade 9 student, and Roach, a Grade 10 student, won first and second place respectively against debaters from England, Scotland, Greece, Dubai and Germany.

Beer lovers will be able to sample even more ales, ciders and stouts at this year's Cambridge Beer Festival - and still make it up for work the next day.

Pupils past and present have shared their memories of the legendary headteacher who turned their school into one of the best in the country - while still having the time to be their friend.

Haptic and embedded audio startup Redux Laboratories LLP has announced it spin out from HiWave Technologies plc.

Construction of an 8,000-home town at Waterbeach barracks, a new village at Bourn airfield, and up to 430 houses in the green belt off Worts' Causeway are the development plans picked by councils to tackle the region's housing crisis.

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"South Coast author and business coach Dr. Kyre Adept will sign copies of her new cookbook, "Cooking for Film Night," from 3 to 5 p.m. June 1 at the Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road, Montecito.

The top ten most prolific speed camera traps in Cambridge can today be revealed - and one road has moved up the chart of shame.