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Five Global Flavours: Cambridge’s best pizza (and flatbread) places

In her regular column, One Two Culinary Stew’s Pina takes us on a world food tour – right on our doorstep. Up next? Pizzas and flatbreads

Inside Story: Try these quick – and cost-effective – room updates

Inside Story: Try these quick – and cost-effective – room updates

Cambridge interior designer Georgina Robertson shares simple - and cost-effective - ideas to update your interiors for the new season

Style.Devine: The Cambridge stylist shares her top spring updates

22 March 2024

Style.Devine: The Cambridge stylist shares her top spring updates

22 March 2024

Cambridge-based stylist Maggie Devine shares her top wardrobe updates for spring

History: How the University locked up the city’s women

History: How the University locked up the city’s women

Marking Women’s History Month, we meet Caroline Biggs – author of The Spinning House: How Cambridge University Locked up Women in its Private Prison

Good Cooking: Bake the best-ever vegan shortbread

Good Cooking: Bake the best-ever vegan shortbread

Cambridge nutritionist and plant-based chef Melanie Hanspall shares a monthly recipe with Velvet. On the menu for March: vegan celebration shortbread

A Boy Called Dad: Chris Howard on the joy of kids’ quirky fashion sense

12 March 2024

A Boy Called Dad: Chris Howard on the joy of kids’ quirky fashion sense

12 March 2024

Let your children dress themselves for funny and fabulous results, says coast-walking dad Chris Howard

Fit Bits: The former US athlete promoting better health in Cambridge

09 March 2024

Fit Bits: The former US athlete promoting better health in Cambridge

09 March 2024

Former US athlete and PT Zoe Cheng is helping promote mental and physical wellbeing

Mother’s Day: The mum and daughter behind Suffolk’s cult organic beauty brand

Mother’s Day: The mum and daughter behind Suffolk’s cult organic beauty brand

The brainchild of Suffolk mother and daughter Margaret and Abi Weeds, Odylique is a way-paving organic beauty brand

Real Lives: The stories of local women in words and pictures

Real Lives: The stories of local women in words and pictures

The work of Cambridge photographer Elodie Giuge, 21 Tales of Real Women celebrates local women and their lived experience in words and pictures

Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog rounds up our area’s top new venues

Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog rounds up our area’s top new venues

Want to try something new? Here are five fab new venues to add to your eating-out repertoire, writes Cambridge Food Blog’s Grace Mills

Interiors: Five steps to refresh your rooms for spring

Interiors: Five steps to refresh your rooms for spring

It’s time to bring in the spring. . . Cambridge interior designer Emma Downie shares five failsafe steps to give your rooms a fresh look

Parenting: Adventurer Chris Howard braves cooking pasta with his mini chefs

18 February 2024

Parenting: Adventurer Chris Howard braves cooking pasta with his mini chefs

18 February 2024

How hard can it be to cook ravioli with children? Dad-of-three Chris Howard finds out, with hilarious results!

Wellbeing: Lifestyle coach Karl Williams on how to achieve your 2024 goals

Wellbeing: Lifestyle coach Karl Williams on how to achieve your 2024 goals

Are you one of the 43 per cent of people who gave up their 2024 resolutions by the end of January? Here’s how to keep up the momentum

Wellbeing: Overcome fear (of failure and success) to follow your dreams

Wellbeing: Overcome fear (of failure and success) to follow your dreams