THE anti immigration demonstration in Wisbech Park may have grabbed the headlines but organisers of a community day across town were determined to show a kinder, gentler side.

HIS political attacks were famously compared by former county council leader Nick Clarke to being “savaged by a cotton bud” although it is unlikely that accounted for the surprise defeat of Councillor Kilian Bourke as Lib Dem leader.

WISBECH anti immigration demo organiser Dean Everitt said that UKIP speakers withdrew from today’s rally for fear the media “would use their appearance as racist propaganda”.

SHE sprung to national attention 30 years as a social campaigner but today Victoria Gillick took the microphone at an altogether different rally protesting about immigration.

MP SIR Jim Paice branded McCarthy & Stone’s proposed conversion of a Victorian vicarage into 20 flats as “more appropriate for an industrial estate than in one of Ely’s best residential areas”.

AROUND 300 people attended an anti-immigration protest in Wisbech Park today.

RUSSIAN folk songs and Russian Orthodox sacred music will be performed by the St Petersburg Blagovest Ensemble, at a concert held in St Peter’s Church in Wimblington on Sunday May 19 at 7.30pm.

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HISTORIC fire appliances and military vehicles will be on show at Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum on Sunday, including some very rare steam vehicles that will create a spectacular show, pumping water from the nearby drain and jetting it back into the water course .

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SIXTEEN model railway layouts will be on show when Ely and District Model Railway Club stage their annual exhibition at Ely College on Saturday May 18.

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THE Old Palace garden in Ely will be transformed into an open air theatre next week when theatre group The Lord Chamberlain’s Men perform Shakespeare’s summer comedy, As You Like It.

EAST Cambridgeshire’s cutest youngsters are preparing to take centre stage once again as the 2013 Baby of the Year competition is launched by the Ely Standard.

FOUR men – including two from Fenland- have been jailed for a total of 54 years for an armed robbery.

THREE tax dodging Wisbech take-aways who potentially owe over £100,000 were caught in a single night by a revenue task force.

ELY is to be a guinea pig for a county wide survey to find out how people travel-and feed into a to improve their everyday journeys.

FORMER Wisbech mayor Jonathan Farmer claims that putting the brakes on drinks licences in the town centre is “ineffective, won’t make any difference and is anti business.”

A LANDBEACH second hand superstore is raising funds for the Ely Foodbank tomorrow.

MP STEVE Barclay aligned himself to the group of Tory MPs wanting a referendum on this country’s members of the European Union.

INDIAN and Pakistani workers who had over stayed the terms of their visas and Chinese workers – one of who had entered the UK illegally- were among those arrested in Wisbech.

AN enthusiast from Ely has put together startling images of what it’s like to be guiding a paramotor over Cambridgeshire.

A DRIVER who killed two people after attempting a dangerous overtaking manoeuvre at more than 100mph has been jailed.