Cambridgeshire

Part of the A14 in Cambridgeshire will remain closed for the rest of today, Monday February 18, and overnight to allow the road surface to be re-laid.

Peterborough Telegraph photographer David Lowndes has been busy in the city’s primary schools recently capturing the smiling faces of each of the new reception class intake.

“Disappearing Donald” Adey, the councillor who represents Trumpington while living 400 miles away in Fife, says he will now quit Cambridge City Council but still plans to continue as a Cambridgeshire County councillor.

A driver was arrested after 100 bags of what is suspected to be cocaine were found in his car.

A man who repeatedly broke a restraining order banning him from contacting his neighbour has been jailed for 44 weeks.

There were delays on the A1 by Wansford this morning after a car and an HGV collided.

A gun was seized after a raid at a property in Peterborough.

Providers of children’s centres in Peterborough have been given nearly £1.5 million in funding to continue running.

Parents who have children aged one to five years old with Special Educational Needs (SEN) can attend a new support group.

A new teaching facility at a city mosque has been given the go ahead after a four year struggle, with the next task to raise more than £1 million to get it built.

Police have escalated their presence in Peterborough city centre after a “number of incidents”.

Staff and pupils at Nene Park Academy in Oundle Road raised £5,654 for Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice by taking part in the academy’s fourth annual Sponsored Walk.

Pupils at William Law Primary School in Werrington got first hand experience of story writing when a popular children’s author paid a visit.

Nine leaders from Whittlesey Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers have been honoured for their long service in the town.

A drone was flown into conflict with an RAF Wittering plane close to where the Burghley Horse Trials was taking place.

WELL, people of Peterborough, how do you feel about politics at the moment? I can already hear the sound of thousands of you blowing raspberries in response to that question, writes Patrick O’Flynn MEP, Social Democratic Party (SDP) Parliamentary candidate for Peterborough.

W e are fortunate; our hospital in Peterborough has a helipad but that is not always the case. Helicopters, delivering patients needing urgent care to Leicester Royal, have to land in Mandela Park. At Queens Medical (a major trauma unit) air ambulance helicopters have to land across the dual carriageway in the grounds of Nottingham University. In both cases patients then have to be offloaded and continue their journey by road in an ambulance.