Derailment of 11 of the 33 wagons on a freight train at Queen Adelaide near Ely is likely to mean passenger services between Bury St Edmunds and Peterborough are unlikely to resume until Monday.

Based on 2011 Census figures, Fenland is home to around 500 travellers/gypsies but many believe the number is double that.

A plea has gone out tonight to find a grey African parrot that slipped from its cage earlier while its owner was passing through Ely.

Mayor James Palmer has bagged himself his own parking space at his new HQ – inside East Cambs offices The Grange in Ely – but only two of his team will also be able to park there.

Bishop Laney’s Charity is encouraging A-Level school leavers to apply to its grant programme to help support their educational costs at university.

Network Rail has warned that disruption caused by a freight train derailment near Ely yesterday (Mon) will last for some days.

Timings and plans for the £16 million upgrade of the Guyhirn roundabout at its junction with the A141 were unveiled today as part of a £300 million A47 improvement plan.

Transport has been on the agenda for SE Cambs MP Lucy Frazer this week.

Images have been released of two men wanted in connection with sexual assaults on two women that happened on the same day and involving trains in and out of Peterborough.

Five councillors have forced a scrutiny committee to review the £1.8 million wage bill – nearly 25 per cent higher than the original budget- to staff the new Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.

A clutch of celebratory activities has been lined up to mark the anniversary of the death of Wisbech’s most famous daughter on Sunday (August 13).

The county council is on the brink of awarding the contract to build the £16.9million new crossing on the A605 at Kings Dyke, Whittlesey.

A petition to speed up improvements to the A10 from Ely into Cambridge has been launched.

The mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has told the chairman of Network Rail that more trains should stop in Whittlesey – and says he is disappointed that the new Soham station will not be opened earlier.

“Costly and unnecessary” is how the chairman of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority describes a proposal to take over the governance of Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Loneliness and how to tackle it were on the agenda at a meeting of more than 100 people for an Age UK annual meeting in Witchford Village Hall.

Police have given an expected timetable of when, or if, any charges are to be brought following a major re- investigation into the murder 23 years ago of six-year-old Rikki Neave.

A railway bridge in Whittlesey is being replaced during the August bank holiday weekend while the river remains open to traffic as part of Network Rail’s upgrade plan.

Cambridgeshire police used guns as part of an arrest six times over a three month period earlier this year, police statistics have revealed.

It could be years down the line before improvements are made to rail stations at Manea and Whittlesey.

Salaries of senior staff to be recruited to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority headed by Mayor James Palmer will be unveiled this week.

One of Cambridgeshire’s most influential business leaders –chamber of commerce chief executive John Bridge – claims that re-opening of the Wisbech to March rail link is a lame duck.

Tom Hunt fought unsuccessfully to enter the European Parliament, failed to win a Commons seat in the June election and yesterday resigned from East Cambs Council to work with newly elected mayor James Palmer.

Hannam’s Wake Hub has been given a new lease of life ahead of the upcoming watersports season.

Around 10,000 cyclists are expected to descend on Cambridgeshire for the first of its kind in a massive cycling event with a chance to qualify for world finals.

A pair of former classmates have reunited – and are aiming to raise the profile of one of the region’s most important historical figures.

A man whose dogs died in a hot car is in a national RSPCA campaign to warn others to take care when leaving their animals unattended in vehicles.

It’s all change at East Cambridgeshire District Council.

More trains are announced as the newest railway station in East Anglia is opened in Cambridge.

Cannabis with a street value of nearly £50,000 was found after two men were spotted leaving a house in Creek Road, March.