Metro Mayor James Palmer clashed with members of the combined authority when the question of funding for projects such as the University of Peterborough was raised.
The number of criminals given an immediate prison sentence for carrying a knife or offensive weapon in Cambridgeshire is increasing, new figures reveal.
Longer trains will be stopping at Littleport and Waterbeach from next year after Network Rail agreed a £27 million improvement package that will lengthen platforms to enable eight car services to stop there.
Plans to extend the M11 north of Cambridge through the Fens have “quietly died” due to lack of funding, according to a senior combined authority board member.
A treatment centre in Wisbech that provides a range of free out-patient care and support services to people with life-threatening conditions is being expanded.
Mayor James Palmer has released the balance sheet of his charity ball last summer to refute allegations made in satirical magazine Private Eye that it had been funded by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA).
A health lobbying group is calling on an NHS funding provider to reverse its 2017 decision to suspend IVF treatment in Cambridgeshire, due to the impact on patients.
Over 30 questions have been put to Cambridgeshire County Council as part of our investigation into how the deputy leader of the council Roger Hickford acquired the tenancy of a county council farm.
The NHS 111 helpline in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is referring an increasing number of people to emergency services or calling an ambulance, prompting concerns about extra strain on A&E departments.
As it was the United Nations’ International Day for the Abolition of Slavery yesterday, Cambridgeshire police have told us what they’re doing to tackle modern-day slavery in the county.
Police forces in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire cannot act on a total of 74 complaints made in the last four years about adults having sex with teenagers in their care because of a legal loophole, the NSPCC has found.
There are fears the combined authority’s spending is “spiralling out of control” as it is revealed the cost of staff salaries has risen significantly in the last year.
Homemade guys will battle it out in Ely tomorrow (Sat) for one to be crowned champion before being set alight as part of the city’s community fireworks celebrations.
The high cost of living and working in and around Cambridge has been blamed for problems recruiting staff in some key businesses, and must be addressed if the region is to succeed in the future, a report says.
