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Cambridge Pride: Join the parade – and the party – this weekend

Cambridge Pride: Join the parade – and the party – this weekend

Cambridge Pride: Join the parade – and the party – this weekend

13 June 2025

Cambridge Pride stages its second city-central parade tomorrow (Saturday, June 14), as part of a day of both celebration and solidarity


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

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. . .


Climate: Making funerals kinder for people and planet

Climate: Making funerals kinder for people and planet

Climate: Making funerals kinder for people and planet

30 May 2025

Meet the local people helping to make funerals both more personal and more planet-friendly


Feature: The inspiring story behind East Anglian-based charity Ormiston Families

Feature: The inspiring story behind East Anglian-based charity Ormiston Families

Feature: The inspiring story behind East Anglian-based charity Ormiston Families

17 April 2025

Ormiston Families is doing incredible work, helping families to become more resilient and communities to become stronger


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

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


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

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. . .


Real Life: British racing driver Morgan Kidd is speeding up the ranks in motorsport

Real Life: British racing driver Morgan Kidd is speeding up the ranks in motorsport

Real Life: British racing driver Morgan Kidd is speeding up the ranks in motorsport

18 March 2025

Beginning her racing journey on go-karts at Red Lodge, Morgan Kidd has gone on to win the AIRTEC Motorsport Fiesta ST240 Championship Club class title


International Women's Day: Meet the business trailblazers

International Women's Day: Meet the business trailblazers

International Women's Day: Meet the business trailblazers

07 March 2025

To mark International Women’s Day, Velvet shines a light on the local women blazing trails in the world of business


Body Beautiful: The Ely photographer empowering women to love the skin they’re in

Body Beautiful: The Ely photographer empowering women to love the skin they’re in

Body Beautiful: The Ely photographer empowering women to love the skin they’re in

07 March 2025

“Dear reader: you are enough. Your body shape, size, colour, and ability do not define you.” Photographer Luana Martignon talks to Velvet


Real Life: My journey from homeless teen to top entrepreneur

Real Life: My journey from homeless teen to top entrepreneur

Real Life: My journey from homeless teen to top entrepreneur

07 March 2025

Newmarket’s Inge Hunter started her first business aged just 17, while living in a Cambridge homeless hostel. As told to Alice Ryan


Real Life: Melanie Hersey is spreading love and light to cancer patients

Real Life: Melanie Hersey is spreading love and light to cancer patients

Real Life: Melanie Hersey is spreading love and light to cancer patients

13 February 2025

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Touch of Sparkle is making a difference to the lives of patients with cancer


Real Life: Cambridge para-athlete skis solo to the South Pole in world first

Real Life: Cambridge para-athlete skis solo to the South Pole in world first

Real Life: Cambridge para-athlete skis solo to the South Pole in world first

31 January 2025

Cambridge’s Jonny Huntingdon has just made history - becoming the first explorer with a disability to ski both solo and unsupported to the South Pole


A Boy Called Dad: Do children hold the key to beating January blues?

A Boy Called Dad: Do children hold the key to beating January blues?

A Boy Called Dad: Do children hold the key to beating January blues?

10 January 2025

Cambridge dad-of-three Chris Howard says we should learn a few lessons from our children to find the joy in January


Stories of a City: Join a guided Cambridge tour in our new monthly column

Stories of a City: Join a guided Cambridge tour in our new monthly column

Stories of a City: Join a guided Cambridge tour in our new monthly column

27 December 2024

In her new column for Velvet, Cambridge novelist Susan Grossey takes us to a different city site each month - and tells us their stories. . .


Books: The real-life story behind Cambridge-set thriller The Stalker

Books: The real-life story behind Cambridge-set thriller The Stalker

Books: The real-life story behind Cambridge-set thriller The Stalker

08 November 2024

“It’s a bit like Baby Reindeer. . .” Cambridge author Kate Rhodes shares the real-life story behind her newest thriller, The Stalker


Real Life: How Cambridge Children’s Hospital will change lives

Real Life: How Cambridge Children’s Hospital will change lives

Real Life: How Cambridge Children’s Hospital will change lives

16 September 2024

Supported by charitable festive fair Presents Galore, the new Cambridge Children's Hospital will change lives, say a local mother and son


Real Life: “It’s pretty great having your work-bestie be a tiger”

Real Life: “It’s pretty great having your work-bestie be a tiger”

Real Life: “It’s pretty great having your work-bestie be a tiger”

21 August 2024

Caring for everything from pigs and goats to tigers and bears is a dream job. So say two local women dedicated to animal protection. . .


Scamp & Dude: The real life story behind the ‘superpowered’ fashion brand

Scamp & Dude: The real life story behind the ‘superpowered’ fashion brand

Scamp & Dude: The real life story behind the ‘superpowered’ fashion brand

26 July 2024

A life-changing experience inspired Scamp & Dude, the ‘superpowered’ fashion brand which has just come to Cambridge’s Grand Arcade


Meet the Mumpreneurs: Four entrepreneurs smashing the work/life juggle!

Meet the Mumpreneurs: Four entrepreneurs smashing the work/life juggle!

Meet the Mumpreneurs: Four entrepreneurs smashing the work/life juggle!

15 April 2024

Running a business is hard – so is being a Mum, at times - but these four mumpreneurs show us how it’s done!


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

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

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

15 March 2024

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