Wisbech

The term ‘Horticulture’ covers a wonderfully diverse range of occupations, careers and hobbies.

With the temperatures soaring outside it might seem strange to be talking about snow and skiing – but now is the perfect time to start planning your winter break.

The recent summer budget has suggested some big changes for limited companies.On a positive, note the rate of corporation tax is being lowered from 20% to 19% in 2017 and down to 18% by 2020.

While walking my dog on Roman Bank at Leverington I got talking to a charming couple from Norway.

The recent Open Gardens event in aid of the Medical Loans Service run by Chatteris Community Group resulted in £201 being raised for the service.

A Fenland care home is celebrating after its most successful summer fete to date raised a bumper £1,200.

“A momentous day” was enjoyed at King’s Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital when the trust learned it was recommended to be taken out of special measures.

Peterborough City Hospital has had its rating bumped up to ‘good’ by inspectors after making improvements.

Six local charities and organisations were the lucky recipients of extra funds when the Mayor of Chatteris, Coun James Carney, held a presentation evening on Thursday.

The future development of Fenland’s rail network is steaming ahead after new plans and studies were revealed.

A Fenland plasterer will have it covered – when he travels from Chatteris to Copenhagen for a half marathon in memory of his parents.

A weekend of family fun and entertainment is being planned in March in aid of armed forces charity Scotty’s Little Soldiers.

Calls have been made to clean up a Fenland war memorial ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

Craftsmen will be showing off their skills at an event in Wisbech town centre next week.

A Fenland auction hall will be closed later this year after the owners have blamed an increase in costs due to the new living wage.

An unusual clock created by James Dann has been found hidden behind decades of paint at a Wisbech building.

Police are appealing for more information into a crash in St John’s Fen End on Tuesday last week. A black pick-up truck and a blue Astra were involved in the collision on Middle Drove at 9am.

The chief executive of Cambridgeshire County Council is leaving after seven years at the helm.

Wisbech’s sixth Rock Festival has been hailed as ‘the best yet’.

Fenland MP Steve Barclay has hit out over warnings improvements to the A47 could take up to eight years.