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Style.Devine: Hero pieces to keep you looking cool in a heatwave

04 July 2025
Style.Devine: Hero pieces to keep you looking cool in a heatwave

Style.Devine: Hero pieces to keep you looking cool in a heatwave

04 July 2025

How to both look and feel cool in a heatwave? Cambridge-based expert Maggie Devine shares her warm weather wardrobe heroes


Column: Say Cheese! Chris Howard discusses his family’s love of fromage

25 June 2025
Column: Say Cheese! Chris Howard discusses his family’s love of fromage

Column: Say Cheese! Chris Howard discusses his family’s love of fromage

25 June 2025

“When I was a kid, there were two types of cheese; sliced and grated,” says Chris Howard, whose girls are veritable dairy queens!


Wellbeing: Heemali Inamdar explains how yoga has shaped her life

23 June 2025
Wellbeing: Heemali Inamdar explains how yoga has shaped her life

Wellbeing: Heemali Inamdar explains how yoga has shaped her life

23 June 2025

In celebration of World Yoga Day, Heemali Inamdar describes her journey to becoming a trauma-trained yoga facilitator


What’s On: The game is on at Newmarket’s National Horseracing Museum

14 June 2025
What’s On: The game is on at Newmarket’s National Horseracing Museum

What’s On: The game is on at Newmarket’s National Horseracing Museum

14 June 2025

Think you can crack any escape room? Or win every board game? Try your hand at Newmarket’s National Horseracing Museum, writes Angela Youngman


Stories of a City: Celebrating Cambridge's commons – and their cows

30 May 2025
Stories of a City: Celebrating Cambridge's commons – and their cows

Stories of a City: Celebrating Cambridge's commons – and their cows

30 May 2025

Cambridge novelist Susan Grossey takes us to a different city site each month. In June, we’re visiting the commons to see the cows. . .


Stories of a City: Exploring the hidden delights of Cambridge’s Botanic Garden

16 May 2025
Stories of a City: Exploring the hidden delights of Cambridge’s Botanic Garden

Stories of a City: Exploring the hidden delights of Cambridge’s Botanic Garden

16 May 2025

Cambridge novelist Susan Grossey’s guided tour of the city continues. This month, we’re taking a pew in the Botanic Garden. . .


Five Global Flavours: The best Cambridge restaurants to book now

02 May 2025
Five Global Flavours: The best Cambridge restaurants to book now

Five Global Flavours: The best Cambridge restaurants to book now

02 May 2025

Planning to dine out this weekend? Cambridge blogger One Two Culinary Stew shares her five favourite restaurants in the city


Stories of a City: Making sweet music at Cambridge’s West Road Concert Hall

02 May 2025
Stories of a City: Making sweet music at Cambridge’s West Road Concert Hall

Stories of a City: Making sweet music at Cambridge’s West Road Concert Hall

02 May 2025

Novelist Susan Grossey’s guided tour of Cambridge continues. This month's stop? The wonder that is West Road Concert Hall


Column: The mountains and deserts of Morocco captivate the Howard family

24 April 2025
Column: The mountains and deserts of Morocco captivate the Howard family

Column: The mountains and deserts of Morocco captivate the Howard family

24 April 2025

From fire-breathing belly dancing entertainment to sunset camel rides, Morocco proves a hit for adventurer Chris Howard and his family


Out & About: The best bluebell walks in Suffolk and Herts

18 April 2025
Out & About: The best bluebell walks in Suffolk and Herts

Out & About: The best bluebell walks in Suffolk and Herts

18 April 2025

What better way to celebrate the Easter weekend than with a bluebell walk? These are the best local places to go


Style.Devine: The top Nineties trends to wear now

11 April 2025
Style.Devine: The top Nineties trends to wear now

Style.Devine: The top Nineties trends to wear now

11 April 2025

Cambridge-based stylist Maggie Devine explores the new wave of fashion nostalgia - and how to wear it well


Gardens: Edimentals are trending. Here’s how to grow them

28 March 2025
Gardens: Edimentals are trending. Here’s how to grow them

Gardens: Edimentals are trending. Here’s how to grow them

28 March 2025

Whatever the size of your space, Newmarket garden designer Melanie Taylor invites you to experience the joy of growing your own


Fashion: Get the cool country-girl look with R.M. Williams

28 March 2025
Fashion: Get the cool country-girl look with R.M. Williams

Fashion: Get the cool country-girl look with R.M. Williams

28 March 2025

Country style continues to trend. Shooting at Cambridge’s Waresley Park Estate, Velvet’s Rohiny Belani models looks from R.M.Williams


Stories of a City: Why it’s a crime not to visit Bodies in the Bookshop

21 March 2025
Stories of a City: Why it’s a crime not to visit Bodies in the Bookshop

Stories of a City: Why it’s a crime not to visit Bodies in the Bookshop

21 March 2025

Next stop on our guided Cambridge city tour? Novelist Susan Grossey is taking us to Bodies in the Bookshop


The Style Story: Spring is cue to cleanse your wardrobe. Here’s how

21 March 2025
The Style Story: Spring is cue to cleanse your wardrobe. Here’s how

The Style Story: Spring is cue to cleanse your wardrobe. Here’s how

21 March 2025

Spring’s arrival is cue for a wardrobe cleanse. Here’s how to do it, writes Cambridge stylist Nerys Copping


Waste Not Rowen: Saggy salad leaves? Whip up a pesto

21 March 2025
Waste Not Rowen: Saggy salad leaves? Whip up a pesto

Waste Not Rowen: Saggy salad leaves? Whip up a pesto

21 March 2025

Bag of sad salad leaves in the fridge? Turn them into a peppy pesto, writes food sustainability advocate Waste Not Rowen


Town Meets Gown: New columnist Dr Julia Johnson on the pursuit of sparkle

20 March 2025
Town Meets Gown: New columnist Dr Julia Johnson on the pursuit of sparkle

Town Meets Gown: New columnist Dr Julia Johnson on the pursuit of sparkle

20 March 2025

At home, she’s Town; at work, she’s Gown. In her new column, academic Dr Julia Johnson reflects on Cambridge life and our times. . .


Soul Sanctuary: Columnist Heemali Inamdar ponders the elusiveness of sleep

13 March 2025
Soul Sanctuary: Columnist Heemali Inamdar ponders the elusiveness of sleep

Soul Sanctuary: Columnist Heemali Inamdar ponders the elusiveness of sleep

13 March 2025

It’s hailed as the key to wellbeing, but just how do we achieve an optimum level of good sleep? Heemali Inamdar has a few ideas


Column: How do you eat yours? A Boy Called Dad’s Chris Howard talks pancakes

04 March 2025
Column: How do you eat yours? A Boy Called Dad’s Chris Howard talks pancakes

Column: How do you eat yours? A Boy Called Dad’s Chris Howard talks pancakes

04 March 2025

Coast-walking dad, Chris Howard, emerges from a cloud of flour and a dousing of syrup to discuss the perils of pancake making with his three daughters


Stories of a City: The Cambridge tour continues. Off to Garret Hostel Lane. . .

28 February 2025
Stories of a City: The Cambridge tour continues. Off to Garret Hostel Lane. . .

Stories of a City: The Cambridge tour continues. Off to Garret Hostel Lane. . .

28 February 2025

Our monthly Cambridge tour – guided by novelist Susan Grossey – continues with a trip to Garret Hostel Lane. To the river. . .