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Nearly £500,000 is being awarded towards the cost of converting the town's Spencer Mill into an arts and community centre

A convicted paedophile from Cambridgeshire has appeared in court after being found in possession of images of children.

It's after a violent disorder in the town last weekend.

A Cambridge shoplifter has been jailed for stealing goods worth more than £500.

Labour MP Dawn Butler has told Sky News she believes she was the victim of racial profiling after the car she was in was stopped by police.

Boris Johnson has been urged to boost the government's coronavirus test and trace scheme in order to safely reopen schools next month, with calls for teachers and students to be tested as often as once a week.

Customers at a pub in the West Midlands have been told to self-isolate after an outbreak of coronavirus was linked to a barbecue at the venue.

A political row between the UK and France over migrant crossings in the Channel has intensified, with Britain's immigration minister saying the "unacceptable" increase in numbers "simply cannot go on".

Simon Cowell has broken his back while testing his new electric bicycle at his home in California.

A BBC radio DJ has quit after the corporation used a racist slur in a news report, which he said felt like "a slap in the face to our community".

As he talks over Zoom, photographer John Rankin Waddell sits in front of his portraits of the Queen and Rolling Stones musician Ronnie Wood.

The stars of I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" will be swapping their shorts for thermals this year as the show abandons the sweltering Australian jungle for a cold British castle.

A Lebanese government minister has quit following the devastating explosion in Beirut that killed more than 150 people, as protesters called for a sustained uprising to topple the country's leaders.

Brazil has hit the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths - only the second country in the world to do so.

The operator of a ship that spilled tonnes of fuel into the ocean off Mauritius, sparking an "environmental emergency", has apologised.

Seething with anger, Beirut is a traumatised city that is in danger of tearing itself apart.

England all-rounder Ben Stokes will miss the remainder of the #raisethebat Test series against Pakistan for family reasons.

Liverpool are close to signing Olympiakos left-back Kostas Tsimikas for an £11.75m fee.

Dustin Johnson will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the PGA Championship as Brooks Koepka stayed in the hunt for a third straight win on an intriguing day three.

Lewis Hamilton admitted Max Verstappen's win at F1's 70th Anniversary GP was "definitely unexpected" as big favourites Mercedes struggled with their tyres in the Silverstone heat to lose their unbeaten 2020 record.

Egyptian experts have hit back at Elon Musk after the SpaceX founder tweeted about a conspiracy theory that aliens built the pyramids.

A kitten had to be rescued from three vehicles in one day after it kept climbing into engines in Norfolk.

A US woman who began a trading challenge with a hairpin has said she won't stop until she has traded up to a house.

An online campaign has been launched to stop a beloved bear from being trapped and relocated.