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BBC News By Anna Bailey Published image copyrightAcute Art image captionEven if its cold outside you can look at Solar Friend from your living room Ever dreamed of hanging artworks by leading artists around your home? Well now you can for free, thanks to augmented reality or AR as it is known. Images such as Olafur Eliassons Solar Friend and Tomas Saracenos Peacock Spider are among some of the works that can be displayed in your home - the only catch is they will not physically be there but ca...

Council bills drove resident to verge of suicide, councillor claims The family said they would receive a panicked phone call when documents from the council arrived Updated Cambridgeshire County Council headquarters at Shire Hall Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations f...

"It has especially helped during these times and I never want to stop working here.” Kayleigh Dring, employment skills worker for Cambridgeshire County Council, which helps to run the café, said:"“Despite having to close between March and September last year due to the Covid-19 restrictions we’ve gone from strength to strength.  "We’ve been overwhelmed with the support from the local community for the takeaway and delivery service, something the staff worked together to develop so tha...

The family said in an email to Cllr Nethsingha: “During the last year we get a panicked phone call the moment he receives an invoice. We spend so much time on trying to reassure him. "We try to explain the invoice to him and despite both of us having tertiary education we cannot explain it because we do not fully understand your invoicing system”. They said they and the vulnerable person concerned had contacted the council’s finance department to “resolve inconsistencies” in the invoi...

Voice of the Fens - Credit: Archant East Cambs council leader Anna Bailey wonders why the pedestrian crossing at Lancaster Way was even discussed by the county council. Why indeed and there you have the growing challenge – some may call menace – of our multi layers of local government.  CAPCA – the combined authority – is footing the bill, and East Cambs Council has thrown in some money but the (largely) redundant county council wanted their two pennorth worth.   Oh, for the days of y...

Commissioned by CAPCA and East Cambs council to undertake a public survey.  Horse riders and cycling groups wanted a Pegasus crossing to the western arm of the roundabout – which would have given horse riders some control over it. The type of crossing was named after Pegasus, the mythical winged horse.   But a special study undertaken by the county council following last November’s highways committee came down firmly in favour of a Toucan crossing on the eastern arm, towards the BP rounda...

Published: 10:34 AM January 27, 2021    Updated: 10:35 AM January 27, 2021 Leader of East Cambridgeshire District Council Anna Bailey has urged residents to “think very carefully” about their actions in lockdown. - Credit: Supplied/Council  The leader of East Cambridgeshire District Council is urging residents to “think very carefully about their actions” during the Covid-19 lockdown.   Councillor Anna Bailey has made a video statement encouraging residents to continue following G...

Published: 4:01 PM January 26, 2021    Artists impression of the proposed crematorium at Mepal that will cost £6.5m and owned by East Cambs Council - Credit: EAST CAMBS COUNCIL Residents have until February 1 to share their views on East Cambridgeshire District Council’s proposed plans for a £6.5m crematorium at the site of what was previously Mepal Outdoor Centre. The proposed plans include a main chapel and a small side chapel, an electric cremator, natural burial plots, a modular func...

Naming of the estate turned out to be the least of the multifarious issues that faced HCLT.  Initially it was to be called West End Gardens but the district council felt it sounded too similar to the existing road West End which lies adjacent.  The trustees suggested an alternative, Ovins Rise, that was accepted. The name refers to Ovin, who is believed to have been the steward of Etheldreda, the East Anglian Queen who lived from 636-679AD.   A dash of luxury inside the first community land ...

“This will be a major application and include all the phased elements of development therefore a 13-week application period will apply,” she said.  In the absence of a legal challenge the council hopes for a decision to enable it to be put out to tender and with a contractor, hopefully, appointed by November 30.  If all goes well, work could start on January 1 next year and be completed by the end of the year.  Mepal Outdoor Centre. Aerial shots taken last July show the extent of the gro...