Participants

Relay for Life event at the Embankment track.

In Pictures: Relay for Life 2024

Enjoy fun and drama games at the holiday club

A week of creative fun with theatre-makers

Volunteers are needed to take part in the study

Peterborough patients needed for hospital research study into Glaucoma

Cancer Research UK's Relay for Life returns to Peterborough in September. Photo by Brian Thompson

Huge relay event hopes to smash £100k fundraising mark

Fossils Galore in March town centre is laying on a host of family-friendly activity sessions over the school holidays.

Dig this! Fossils Galore is laying on a host of special events this summer

Matthew Rice at Angle Entertainments, Lincoln Road

Exciting new attractions open at Peterborough entertainment venue

Gi Group team

Peterborough recruiter hikes to success for good causes

Peterborough Presents is bringing a filmmaking course to Westwood and Ravensthorpe.

Hollywood to Westwood! Filmmaking opportunity for Peterborough teens

Ferry Meadows' hard-standing paths and flat terrain will help ensure participants enjoy a ‘flat and fast' course.

New running festival to be staged at Ferry Meadows for first time

Last Year 2023

Dancing for a cause: Peterborough Zumbathon® charity event supporting breast can...

Businesses are being urged to help set the challenges for ARU Peterborough's STEM Festival

Appeal for firms to provide tasks for STEM Festival

Current Champions Aaron and Lewis

Can you conquer the 20” Bada Bing? Peterborough's Pizza Parlour launches legenda...

E-Cargo bikes come in various styles and sizes - holding either children or heavy objects

'Try-before-you-buy' e-cargo bike scheme planned

Celebrations during the nine day festival

Peterborough Hindus come together to celebrate festival of Navaratri

In order to take part, you’ll need to have a smart meter installed and your energy supplier must be signed up.

Millions will be paid to cut energy to avoid blackouts in winter 2023

The cancer survivors team pictured at Relay for Life walk at Ferry Meadows in 2021 by David Lowndes.

Peterborough to hold 12-hour festival to raise money for cancer research

Previous events have raised up to £26,000

Carly Roberts

Top 10 coastal destinations revealed - is your area on the list?

X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson has called for an independent inquiry into reality shows

Rebecca Ferguson calls for independent inquiry into reality shows

The NextCOVE Study is evaluating a new vaccine that may protect people from getting sick if they come into contact with the virus that causes COVID-19. Moderna. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Wansford GP Surgery recruiting patients for new Moderna Covid study

Big Brother is returning for its twentieth series to its new home of ITV.

Big Brother producers looking for participants to apply for new series

Queensgate has a host of activities planned for half-term

Queensgate has a blooming lovely event for families at half-term

Eurovision fans suffered a voting mishap through the official app

Eurovision app frustrates users in voting mishap

The Race for Life returns this weekend

Hundreds to Race for Life in Peterborough as charity run returns to city

Finland to teach Brits how to be happy on all-expenses paid trip to luxury Finnish resort

Finland to teach Brits how to be happy on free luxury trip - apply now

Westminster Abbey’s mediaeval Cosmati Pavement can be walked on by the public for the first time in living memory - Credit: Getty Images

Westminster Abbey’s Cosmati Pavement opened to public for coronation

Donkeys Mandy and Elise will be outside the Guildhall on Cathedral Square at 10.30am on Palm Sunday (April 2), ready to lead the Cathedral Choir and congregation to the Cathedral for their traditional service.

Celebrate easter with donkeys and chocolate eggs at Peterborough Cathedral

There will be free sanitary products, breast-feeding areas and more support for women on the day

London Marathon to hand out free sanitary products in this year’s race

There will be free sanitary products, breast-feeding areas and more support for women on the day

Chelsie Sewell

Sophie and Pete, from Blackpool, have revealed all - Credit: Channel 4 / Gogglebox

Gogglebox stars Pete and Sophie reveal ages and real life jobs

A UK vape company, Blo Bar, has launched a new scheme to encourage users to recycle their empty vapes rather than throwing them away.

Free vape pen for users who recycle under new scheme

Experts warn that these common foods can increase cancer risk

Mike Tindall charges £20k to go shooting in the Cotswolds with him

Organisers of Wisbech's free new 'Run for Fun' sessions hope they will encourage Fenland residents to live ‘happier, healthier lives’ (image:stock/Getty Images).

Check out this free new beginner weight loss programme

More than one in 20 Peterborough residents providing unpaid care, latest census figures reveal.

More than one in 20 Peterborough residents providing unpaid care - Census 2021

National Grid will be rewarding some UK households for reducing energy usage tonight

Households to be rewarded for reducing energy usage tonight

People of all ages were delighted to see the return of the Loony Dook and this plucky pensioner was determined to get a good view from the beach!

Can early retirement lead to a decline in cognitive ability?

Peterborough Cathedral nave ceiling

Cathedral ceiling is a top 10 treasure

The double McPlant burger is set to launch in McDonald’s stores on January 4 2023.

Double McPlant burger to land at McDonald’s stores - here’s when

Alcoholics will be offered ketamine to help them stay off the booze for longer in a new medical trial led by the University of Exeter.

Alcoholics to be offered ketamine in new NHS medical trial

Silentnight warns that Black Friday shoppers could lose out on sleep.

Third of people in Britain could lose sleep over Black Friday deals

The ballot results for the London Marathon 2023 have been announced

London Marathon 2023: Ballot results announced and other ways to enter

The start of the fun run.

GER to be 'bigger and better' next time after problems this year

Members of the public finish during the 2021 Virgin Money London Marathon

London Marathon 2023: How to enter ballot to race next year

A person with suspected stroke may have sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes (Photo: Adobe)

Irregular evening meal times could increase stroke risk, study warns

Robert Downey Jr who played the most popular screen detective of them all, Sherlock Holmes (photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

It's elementary for the top named screen detective

The World's First Edible Christmas Cracker

Woman sleeping

Going to sleep between 10pm and 11pm linked to lower heart disease risk, study f...

People are due to step out for Sue Ryder's Walk to Remember - Peterborough this Sunday October 24

Peterborough residents will Walk to Remember this weekend to celebrate lives of ...

Health It is hoped thousands of Peterborough residents will take part in the trial

Peterborough selected to take part in world’s largest trial of new cancer detect...

There was a drop in the number of people in Peterborough taking part in special British citizenship ceremonies last year. Photo: PA EMN-211009-094056001

Fall in number of people taking part in citizenship ceremonies in Peterborough

A modified truck where the Galleri Trial will take place, where thousands of people will take part in the NHS's trial for a simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear. Picture: PA

People in Peterborough first to to be asked to take part in NHS cancer blood tes...

The blood test can pinpoint exactly where in the body the disease is coming from (Photo: Getty Images)

New NHS blood test detects more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms show

Anyone over the age of 18 in the UK can opt in to the antibody testing programme (Photo: Getty Images)

How to get a Covid antibody test as new UK programme launches this week

‘Wonder Women’ is a project to support women overcome the effects of Covid-19

‘Wonder Women’ project launched to support Peterborough women suffering from Cov...

Why young people are being offered £5k to be reinfected with Covid

Why young people are being offered £5k to be reinfected with Covid

Pfizer said the jab 'demonstrated 100 per cent efficacy and robust antibody responses' (Photo: Nick Potts/PA Wire)

Trials show Pfizer's Covid vaccine is ‘100 per cent effective’ among children ag...