Whittlesey, England News

FENLAND councillors will make up one third of Cambridgeshire County Council's cabinet for the next 12 months before the committee system comes into force.

THE chemical company responsible for thousands of fish dying in the River Nene has been ordered to pay almost 100,000 for polluting the water course last summer.

The county's 32 Tory councillors will decide at a meeting at 1pm tomorrow if Cllr McGuire or Councillor Martin Curtis, who represents Whittlesey North, as their next leader.

Nine teams of four took to the fairways at Ramsey Golf Club in aid of East Anglia's Children's Hospices with Peterborough Lions Club emerging the winners.

EXPECTED Cambs Tory leadership contender Martin Curtis was among the first to offer congratulations to winning UKIP county councillors "because they are people I am going to be working with." His comments- on his Whittlesey blog- reveal for the first time a prime candidate for replacing defeated county councillor Nick Clarke as leader holding out ... (more)

Volunteers across Cambridgeshire are being called upon to collect money for the British Red Cross next week as part of the charity's annual fundraising drive.

MORE than 100 people were put through their paces by celebrity personal trainer Richard Callender at Sawtry One Leisure Centre yesterday, Callender, who appears on the TV show 'The Biggest Loser', taught Armageddon Circuits, Urban Funk Dance and Body Conditioning and Soulful Stretch classes.

Mary Norris celebrated her 100th birthday on Friday and received a birthday card from Her Majesty the Queen and a telegram from MP Ian Duncan Smith to mark the occasion.