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A recent e-cops newsletter from the County Constabulary has drawn our attention to a despicable scam that could cost you over £300! From the e-cops newsletter … A card is posted through your door from a company called PSD (parcel delivery service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need […]

Fans of our farmer, John Parish, will no doubt relish his talk from 7:30pm on Saturday 24 November 2012 at St George’s church, Little Thetford. We mentioned this talk a few weeks ago but at that time, we did not have John’s title. Please do come along, especially if you are new to our village. […]

David Moss of the Round House, Little Thetford told us about his Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) recently. He uses a DroidWorx Hexacopter UAV from his Sky High Imagery business to take both vertical and oblique photographs of land or property. See brief history of aerial photography below and some of David’s images further down. David […]

According to the Ely Weekly News, the new owners of the Fish & Duck marina at Holt Fen in Little Thetford have given the 80 residents there three months to leave. James and Davina Harvey have plans to develop the site including fixing the crumbling river banks and “redesigning the marina”. It is estimated that the […]

Cambridge News reports that East Cambridgeshire District Council is one step closer to approving the roll-out of wheelie bins as part of their waste management. Do we think such a move is good for our village? We recall that one Devon woman did not think so in her own case. It appears from the news […]

The annual Christmas Bazaar will be held in the village hall on Saturday 8th December. All the usual stalls, with Tombola and Draw and most importantly, hot snacks throughout the day. December 2012 calendar

This concert, on behalf of the Friends of St George’s, will be held on Saturday 20 October 2012 at 7:30 pm. Capriccio are a very talented group of four musicians who have visited us three times previously, never failing to entertain us with a wide variety of music, featuring the wonderful voice of Judith Short. […]

Jamie McCullough, 31, of Little Thetford has just been awarded his grey belt in the Pa-Kua sword discipline by examiner Falco Riegel from Hamburg, Germany. Two other trainees, Anne-Marie Woolley of Ely and Gerry Sutcliff of Southery, also gained their grey belts today. Master Rodolfo Oliva confirmed to us that these are the first three […]

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Local Ely researcher Dr Peter Hoare has sent out an appeal to let him examine any Pliosaur bones locals may still own from the 1952‡ find in Stretham. At that time, Cambridge University’s Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences took what bones they wanted from the Ouse River Board excavation; locals were then allowed to help […]

Cambs Times 24 reports that local entrepreneurs Jonathan and Rebecca James’ James Graven Group has leased the Witchford Road BP garage to BP Connect who will refurbish the forecourt, at a cost of £500,000, replacing the existing