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Popular councillor stuns public meeting by revealing his firm has gone bust
TOWN and district councillor Colin Fordham surprised colleagues by announcing at a public meeting that his business had gone bust with the loss of eight jobs.
BREAKING NEWS: Paul wins BBC battle for breakfast as Jeremy gets moved to afternoon
BBC RADIO Cambridgeshire announced tonight they are to remove one of their breakfast shows as part of a series of cuts.
VOICE OF THE FENS: Why it’s time to ditch this unseemly and lemming like approach to new Soham superstore
FRED Brown has a simplistic approach to planning best summed up in his own words: if a horse likes hay you don’t feed it oats.
Chatteris potato supplier facing jail over his part in £3.8m Sainsbury’s swindle
A POTATO firm director from Chatteris has been told he faces a significant jail term after he was found guilty of paying bribes to a buyer at supermarket giant Sainsbury’s.
Lib Dems spring aid villagers who fear cuts on Ely to Cambridge bus service
COUNTY councillors today voiced their support for villagers who fear they may lose their ‘life-line’ hourly bus service to Ely after Stagecoach decided to cut it back.
I don’t work for superstore developer but if he wants me then I’m free says ex council leader Fred Brown
A SUPERSTORE planned for Soham could easily double in size and become a major regional retail outlet, says former East Cambs Council leader Fred Brown.
- Littleport school boy raises more than £500 by staging swim-a-thon
- Bravo for Juliet as her Haddenham based beads and jewellery business is crowned a nation’s best
- Scottish folk artist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominee Emily Smith to perform in Ely
- East Cambs deputy leader tells town meeting he’s ‘slightly in favour’ of 41,000 square feet Soham superstore
- Man killed in A142 smash named by police
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Merger will create one of region’s largest firms
ELY’S longest established law firm, Archer & Archer has announced that it is to merge with King’s Lynn and Swaffham-based lawyers, Ward Gethin, a move which will create one of the largest legal practices in the region.
- Fenland enterprise park “recession-beating success”
- New Business Park for Littleport
- Ely butchers celebrates gold for award winning bacon
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- Popular councillor stuns public meeting by revealing his firm has gone bust
- VOICE OF THE FENS: Why it’s time to ditch this unseemly and lemming like approach to new Soham superstore
- Chatteris potato supplier facing jail over his part in £3.8m Sainsbury’s swindle
- BREAKING NEWS: Paul wins BBC battle for breakfast as Jeremy gets moved to afternoon
- Man killed in A142 smash named by police
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Ely off to flying start in season opener
CITY of Ely kicked their season off with an excellent seven-wicket victory over Wisbech II on Saturday.
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BRAKESPEARE: ‘Tastefully designed’ pet coffins, Ken Follett in Ely and the new Fenland typeface
FORMER Ely man Reg Kemp’s plan to complain to the standards board over the appointment of March’s town crier is also featured by our diarist this week.
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