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'Sick of the lies': Michelle Mone breaks silence on covid PPE scandal

The BBC licence fee is set to increase in line with inflation.

BBC licence fee set to increase in 2024 - here's what you need to know

Pictured outside the progressing Wisbech Park community pavilion are, from left, Cllr Sidney Imafido

New Wisbech Park community pavilion nears completion

Find out if you are eligble for Cold Weather Payments.

Who is eligible for Cold Weather Payments?

The Dogsthorpe landfill tip in Eye, Peterborough, which could become home to a new solar park.

Plans unveiled for solar park at landfill tip

Peterborough's Passport Office in Midgate before its sale. Now plans have been drawn up to convert the building into flats.

Flats plan revealed for former Passport Office

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

RiverCare volunteers with stacks of industrial laughing gas canisters

Sharp increase in littered laughing gas canisters reported by Keep Britain Tidy ...

A range of activities are on offer

Christmas activities on offer for Peterborough families during school holidays

Fenland's young people are connected

Wisbech sports club has hailed new technology for helping it grow its reach into...

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: An overwhelming vote of confidence

Figures from The Trussell Trust show the largest number of food parcels were distributed in Peterborough this summer - many of them to children

Largest number of food parcels handed out in six years, figures show

A newborn baby in the maternity ward at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey on May 22, 2020 in Frimley, United Kingdom. (Stock Image. Credit: Steve Parsons - Pool/Getty Images)

Bereaved families call for inquiry into NHS maternity services

Peterborough MP says he stands by his call for a ceasefire in Gaza

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accompanied by Paul Bristow MP in Peterborough

City MP says he understands decision to sack him from role after ceasefire call

Peterborough City Council

Independent panel to oversee children's services
The council was issued an improvement notice after a critical Ofsted report

Peterborough’s Great Northern Hotel

Opinion: Glad to see my campaign pay off

Heat pumps grant rises to £7.5k as UK Government warned it won’t meet 2050 net zero target

UK government increases heat pumps grant in effort to achieve net zero

The historic Great Northern Hotel in Peterborough has been in use as a refuge for asylum seekers for nearly a year. But Peterborough MP Paul Bristow, inset, says plans are being drawn to restore it its original use.

New plan to end use of Great Northern Hotel as asylum seekers’ refuge

A general view of scaffolding at Balbardie Primary School on September 04, 2023 in Bathgate, Scotland, after its buildings were found to contain RAAC. Credit: Getty Images

43 more schools found to have crumbly RAAC concrete

Greta Thunberg was among those speaking at the protest in central London. Credit: XR/Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images.

'Oily Money Out': Greta Thunberg joins protesters in central London

Concern has been voiced at the number of homes being built in Peterborough

Figures show increase in new homes being built

Mayor of Peterborough Nick Sandford opens the Bridge Fair at the Embankment . Taking the wheel of one of the dodgems.

Opinion: Some serious business and fun attending mayoral duties

Four British nationals who were being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan have been released and are set to return to the UK on a flight

Four British men freed by Taliban after being detained in Afghanistan

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer pledges to tackle NHS wait times with £1.5bn plan

Dale Vince joins Just Stop Oil activists during a protest by the environmental campaigners in central London. Picture Date: Thursday June 8, 2023. Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Just Stop Oil donor pulls funding over ‘pointless’ further protests

Combustion engine cars would be banned by 2030 but it has been pushed back to 2035. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Government U-turns are going to cost us
There’s been a lot of headlines about rowing back on net zero plans but does this mean my bills will go up or down?

Police and Crime Commissioner Darryl Preston speaks about the work being done to tackle drug addiction in the city

Opinion: Police and volunteers doing their best to help tackle drug addiction

New grant scheme aims to help small businesses in Fenland

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

Rishi Sunak's government will preside over the highest tax rises on record, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. (Credit: Getty Images)

Sunak's government will oversee highest tax rises on record

Does your favourite feature in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2024 ?

Peterborough pubs in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2024

From left, Peterborough MP Paul Bristow, Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper and Councillor Wayne Fitzgerald, leader of Peterborough City Council, talk about plans to create a Station Quarter; below right, Mr Harper in a GBRailfreight engine to open the new rail maintenance hub in Peterborough, below left.

Transport boss gets whistle-stop tour of station regeneration zone

The UK's first drug consumption room in Glasgow has been given approval. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK's first drug consumption room gets approval to open in Glasgow

According to a leaked photograph, the government is said to be possibly planning on scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester HS2 phase in order to cut down on costs. (Credit: PA)

Labour mayors join forces to urge Sunak not to scrap HS2 Northern link

Guy Singh-Watson, founder of Riverford farm, has launched a national Get Fair About Farming campaign to secure a 'fairer' deal from the supermarkets

Peterborough farm starts national campaign for better deal from supermarkets

Millions of people are receiving payments to help with high bills amid the cost of living crisis - what further support is coming in 2023?

Cost of living payment: What other support is coming in 2023?

The DWP will pay more than seven million households and HMRC will follow with around 830,000 more, taking the total number of households eligible for the cost of living payment to around eight million.

Cost of living payment: Exact date £300 boost will be paid this autumn

Jack Hunt is one of the schools run by the trust

Peterborough schools awarded thousands of pounds to become carbon neutral

39% of children can't see a dentist - and it's worse for adults

Insulators on an electricity sub station are seen near homes in Manchester.

Homes to save £100s on energy as new scheme begins - are you eligible?

Employment Minister Guy Opperman at the Jobs Fair at Peterborough Town Hall

Minister opens jobs fair for health employers

Wisbech Park, where one consultee for a renewal of the area's street drinking ban said they have seen people breaking the law

Ban on street drinking in Wisbech is 'useless'

Doreen Thompson adjusts her thermostat at her home as she limits her use of heating to keep up with her increasing energy bills, at her home in south London.

Ofgem chief’s warning energy bills could be ‘even higher’ this winter

An open cash register containing pound coins and notes is pictured in a convenience store in London

DWP confirms £300 cost of living payment in update on £94bn support

Peterborough City Council's audit committee told Ernst & Young of its frustration with their slowness to complete audits of its finances

Council makes official complaints about external auditors

A 'persistent culture' of secrecy among Peterborough City Council’s lower tier officers should be tackled by higher-ups, an independent report says

'Persistent culture of secrecy' among council officers

This image shows how the former TX Maxx store in Bridge Street, Peterborough, could appear if development plans go ahead.

Talks still ongoing for sale of ex-TK Maxx store

A sign reading 'No Mega Incinerator for Wisbech' on Algores Way where the waste-to-energy incinerator is proposed

Council renews opposition to Wisbech incinerator

The UK Addiction Treatment Group (UKAT) is a private provider of detox and rehab treatments

Cuts to drug and alcohol treatment 'fuelling rise in addiction'

More than half of the Ukrainian families taken in by Peterborough households since Russia’s invasion are no longer living with their original hosts

More than half of host families no longer house Ukrainian refugees

Some of the vapes sold at Corner Shop (photo: Lincolnshire Police).

Opinion: 'Government and industry action needed to tackle children vaping'

Cambridgeshire County Council's New Shire Hall

Ombudsman upholds complaint over sedative drug prescriptions

Peterborough City Council

Council will make below average savings this year

Peterborough City Hospital

'Government has shown yet again they believe in our potential' - MP Paul Bristow