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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
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. . .
30 May 2025
Meet the local people helping to make funerals both more personal and more planet-friendly
17 April 2025
Ormiston Families is doing incredible work, helping families to become more resilient and communities to become stronger
21 March 2025
Next stop on our guided Cambridge city tour? Novelist Susan Grossey is taking us to Bodies in the Bookshop
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. . .
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
07 March 2025
To mark International Women’s Day, Velvet shines a light on the local women blazing trails in the world of business
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
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
13 February 2025
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Touch of Sparkle is making a difference to the lives of patients with cancer
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
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
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. . .
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
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
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. . .
26 July 2024
A life-changing experience inspired Scamp & Dude, the ‘superpowered’ fashion brand which has just come to Cambridge’s Grand Arcade
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!
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