• Parking fines raise £65,000 for council
  A Freedom of Information request reveals the car parks with the most and least fines issued.
• Photos show potholes days before fatal crash
  The pictures, taken by council representatives, reveal the poor condition of the riverside road.
• AI child sex abuse images rise sharply, says IWF
  Technology companies need to design tools to prevent AI-generated abuse images, the charity says.
• Dig suggests answers to Roman field mystery
  An archaeologist says he has found the mostly likely reason behind Roman cultivation trenches.
• Students swap Blu Tack and posters for original art
  The scheme is run by Kettle's Yard and allows students to borrow one painting, drawing or print.
• Prisoners make little library book boxes for city
  The inmates make 10 wooden sharing boxes and one is unveiled outside HMP Peterborough.
• Winds and trees cause 'significant damage' to trains
  People are advised to check before travelling by train in parts of the East of England.
• Police spend £800k on protests at dog-breeding site
  The policing of planned protests at the facility is "impartial and proportionate", the force says.

• Israel's election is on a knife-edge. Here's what to know about the seismic vote
  Years of war, political turmoil and the fallout from October 7 have transformed Israel's political landscape.
• Venezuela's most prominent opposition leader returns home from exile
  Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's return puts her back at the centre of the country's notoriously stormy politics.
• Brazil rejects Bolsonaro heir to re-elect Lula in closely fought election
  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva has narrowly won a fourth term over Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
• Student-led movement ends ruling party's 14-year grip on Serbian politics
  Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's ruling populist party could not overcome a stiff electoral challenge from the surging Student List.
• Presidential vote in Bulgaria heads to runoff amid Black Sea security fears
  Experts said the very low voter turnout expressed frustration "with the very functioning of democracy" among Bulgarian citizens.
• 'Lightning in a bottle': The unlikely election issue aligning Trump voters with Democrats
  Experts say they’ve never seen an issue soar to prominence so quickly — and it could have major implications.
• Houthis claim strikes on a major Saudi Arabian airport hours after flights resumed
  Riyadh's international airport is due to reopen after a two-week closure following Houthi strikes.
• Serbians face a choice between the populist right and the student protest movement
  Serbians are voting after nearly two years of anti-corruption protests.

• News in Brief: sporting success, start-ups, and science shortcomings
  A short round-up of this week's news, including a prize-winning professor and the Cambridge Innovate Summit
• Academics launch rival Arday inquiry
  The inquiry will focus on Jason Arday’s appointment as a professor at the University
• Students join ‘anti-racist’ demonstration on Jesus Green
  Around 200 people gathered on Saturday morning for a ‘Unity Demo’ organised by activist group Stand Up To Racism
• Uni sets out terms for whistleblowing review
  The review's panel comes after the University lost an employment tribunal case brought by astrophysics professor Wyn Evans
• University’s criticism of self-swab options for sexual assault survivors sparks debate
  Students advocating for greater survivor-led solutions have also questioned how transparently student bodies have explained their position on the kits
• Caius cites EHRC guidelines as reason for changing toilet signage
  Gonville and Caius College Cambrige has altered toilet signage, it claims, to adhere to EHRC code of practice 
• Gov halts permission for Christ’s Library plans 
  The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has frozen the plans less than a week after Cambridge City Council approved them 
• Scammers target freshers by pushing fake flyers under student room doors 
  One Homerton student described finding a scam ‘Fresher Week Form’ flyer under their bedroom door as ‘unnerving’ 

• Ambulance control rooms handled record 1.5 million 999 calls in busiest year on record
  It comes as the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) marks International Control Room Week.
• Four-year ban for teenage disqualified driver who fled from police
  The teenager was arrested with the help of police dog, Ghost.
• Teen arrested on suspicion of arson endangering life after fire engulfs two properties
  Emergency services from Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire were called to the scene.
• Cambridge is top of the shops again in national retail rankings
  City leads Retail Vitality Rankings after analysis of 1,000 locations.
• Milton Road Primary in Cambridge is most over-subscribed primary school
  Toughest primaries to get into have been revealed.
• Cambridge Carbon Footprint: The real currency of repair cafés is drawing people in
  Opinion | Cambridge Carbon Footprint volunteer Chris Everitt talks to volunteers about the importance of repair cafés.
• Daniel Zeichner MP: The road back to Europe may be long but at last we can see a way forward
  Opinion | Daniel Zeichner, Labour MP for Cambridge, writes for the Cambridge Independent.
• 15-year-olds arrested near Longstanton Park & Ride on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle
  Two suspected stolen vehicles recovered.

Cambridge Uni News

• Brazil's presidential elections linked to decades of fluctuating environmental destruction – study thu, 22 oct 2026 13:05:20 +0000
• Good growth: Innovate Cambridge Summit 2026 thu, 22 oct 2026 08:56:49 +0000
• Women scientists almost entirely omitted from exam boards’ compulsory learning material for UK schools thu, 22 oct 2026 06:04:56 +0000
• White paper sets out blueprint for keeping innovation in the UK wed, 21 oct 2026 09:36:40 +0000
• Winter sea ice loss may be underestimated, according to ancient clues from a warmer Arctic fri, 16 oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000
• Children and young people broadly support health data research – but want safeguards thu, 15 oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000
• Cambridge and AstraZeneca extend programme to support PhD students wed, 14 oct 2026 11:25:39 +0000
• Females with autoimmune diseases ‘less likely to be believed’ than males and face longer diagnostic delays mon, 12 oct 2026 22:30:00 +0000
• Cambridge researchers awarded ARIA funding fri, 09 oct 2026 13:44:02 +0000
• Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record thu, 08 oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000
• Genetic analysis of the world's oldest land animal reveals secret of living 194 years wed, 07 oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000
• Countdown starts to The Boat Race 2027 thu, 01 oct 2026 14:28:26 +0000
• Vice-Chancellor's annual address: 'the case for change' thu, 01 oct 2026 13:29:16 +0000
• Edinburgh writer and Birmingham student win 21st BBC Short Story Awards with Cambridge University wed, 30 sep 2026 10:35:28 +0000
• AI tool for mapping smallholder crops proves itself in Senegal tue, 29 sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000