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Jul 23 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
Each day, Mike Petty and I look through the archives of the Cambridge News and recount some of the stories that occurred on this day in history.
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We're looking for the best 'Garden in Bloom' in Cambridge
Enter your photos now and you could win a £250 Dobbies Garden Centre gift card.
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Apr 30 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
On this day, a 500lb bomb was defused by an R.A.F. disposal team, the first store opened at Bradwell’s Court, and a demonstration of an invention which insures motorists against tyre trouble was given at Messrs Saints’ garage.
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Apr 09 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
On this day, a fire broke out at the ladies training college on Wollaston Road, councillors debated whether old mills should be turned into lecture rooms, and Billy Fury was greeted by a stampede of young girls at The Regal.
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Apr 02 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
On this day, Messrs Chivers proposed erecting model cottages for its workpeople, Cambridge's new parking scheme was set in motion, and Uncle Clive Sinclair began to manufacture microchips and the mini television.
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East Anglia children's charity calls for extra volunteers to help at fundraising events
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices are reliant on members of the public helping out and are encouraging more people to sign up as a volunteer.
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Mar 26 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
On this day, returning soldiers seriously upset Cambridge's labour market, plans were drawn up to create the country's first new village for a century, and the bells rang out again at St Cyriac’s Church in Swaffham Prior.
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Hospital cleaner jailed for stealing from dead patients
Staff noticed items going missing from the hospital and from patients last year,
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Mar 12 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
On this day, the First Cambridgeshire Regiment recorded its first losses in the Great War, the Duke of Bedford offered Thorney estate to Crown, and the Cambridge gallows were rebuilt in suburban Nottingham garden.
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Mar 05 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
On this day, middle-aged fans 'swooned with delight' to listen to Frankie Vaughan, the Scouts welcomed Baden-Powell to Cambridge with a Zulu chorus, and a Cambridge professor was warned never to marry a crocodile girl.
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Feb 19 – On this day in Cambridgeshire history
On this day, Lonnie Donegan made his first appearance in Cambridge, the Vicar of Hemingford Grey was killed on a railway bridge, and the town resolved to take action in fighting the Nazi party's extermination of the Jews.
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Importance of listening explored in Cambridge in a powerful new one-woman play
“This show is about the art of listening and the power of your voice."