The Local Newspaper

NEARLY 20 pieces of Chinese art - worth around £18million - were stolen from the Fitzwilliam Museum on Friday (April 13).

SIXTY jobs could go, a residential centre for 24 students with learning disabilities from Cambridgeshire and Norfolk will close and some courses axed at the College of West Anglia.

NEW figures out today show that last year in Cambridgeshire 439 children were victims of sex crimes including rape, incest and abuse through prostitution and pornography.

THE Government is to be asked to provide up to £10million to fund urgent repairs to dozens of Cambridgeshire roads- mostly in Fenland - and all deteriorating rapidly because of the drought.

JOBS will go at Cambridge Building Society and branch hours will be cut back, Cambridge First understands.

THERE are few institutions in existence that entertain 800-year-old traditions alongside groundbreaking scientific research and world-class academics.

PUNT touts made effectively redundant by new regulations on the Cam are planning a protest which could clog up the River Cam.

THE city’s residents are being called upon to get to know their neighbours better by organising street party’s to celebrate the Queen’s jubilee.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE and Suffolk fire services could be merged in order to protect front line services against the continuing impact of budget cuts.

MORE than 850 employees at Cambridgeshire County Council will continue to earn below the “living wage” after councillors rejected calls to pay staff at least £7.20 per hour.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE county councillors have all but one voted to freeze their allowances.

Cambridge City Council has refined its policy on long-term empty homes but it rejected the option of employing a housing officer – because it does not have enough money to pay someone to concentrate on getting 400 empty homes in Cambridge back on the market.

THE stage is set for this year’s summer blockbuster to emerge - and after Cambridgeshire police’s latest offering, it seems they have pretty much got it in the bag.

UNIVERSITIES minister David Willetts has broken his silence on the student suspended by Cambridge University for seven terms for interrupting his speech.

A DISTRACTION burglar targeted a 90-year-old Cambridge man in a “despicable crime”.

CAMBRIDGE city councillor and Pink List stalwart Sarah Brown has written for Cambridge First on the Government’s consultation on gay marriage.

A desperate village Scout troop has written to the Duchess of Cambridge for help - to save it from closure.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE County Council could follow the city’s lead next week as it debates whether to join a nationwide cycling campaign.

A CAMPAIGN to stop illegal tobacco being sold to children at “pocket money prices” across the region will be launched next month.

PLANS have been unveiled for the first 450 homes on the long-awaited Clay Farm development in Trumpington.