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Councillor Colin Fordham.

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.

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BBC presenter Jeremy Sallis

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.

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Voice of the Fens

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.

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Andrew Behagg

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.

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Stagecoach bus on Drummer Street

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.

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Cllr Fred Brown

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.

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The new combined law firm

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.

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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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Ken Follett in Ely

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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