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A fresh, exciting and new newspaper, app and website for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire region, published by Iliffe Media, an independent family-owned company that has been publishing in Cambridge since 1922.

Our new edition is out today and leads with an interview with a Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service group commander who...
17/12/2025

Our new edition is out today and leads with an interview with a Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service group commander who helped tackle the multi-storey car park blaze at Addenbrooke’s. He tells how firefighters battled to prevent it spreading to other storeys and how they monitored cracks in the concrete while tackling the intense heat.
Inside, we interview mayor Paul Bristow about his growth plan to triple the county’s economy.
We have picture specials on the filming of Carols at King’s, the Granta Park Santa Run and on Martin Bond’s new photography book, Cambridge: Light & Shade, following his popular A Cambridge Diary project.
We report the ambulance service is on its highest alert, hear about new weekly food waste collections and interview Neil Mackay as hardware store Mackays of Cambridge moves on after more than 100 years in East Road.
Cambridge Growth Company chair Peter Freeman has been discussing its plans, and why the 5,600-home Hartree development is not dead yet. We also feature reaction to the Beehive Centre decision and Cambridge Past, Present & Future chief executive James Littlewood writes about tall buildings in the city.
We report how flying taxis could be coming to the city from 2028, hear how East West Rail was almost scrapped and, in Science, Sera Markoff becomes the first woman appointed as Plumian professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
Look out for columnist Phil Rodgers writing about a year in Cambridge politics and, if you love board games, check out the top 10 of the year from a Waterstones expert in our Culture pages.
In Business, we hear how Nu Quantum has completed a stunning $60m Series A round, while in Sport, the “grumpy” Cambridge United Football Club boss is calling for more goals, and we get the latest on Cambridge City and Histon Fc, plus there’s golf, hockey, rugby and more.
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For the next two weeks, the Cambridge Independent will be out on Tuesdays (23 and 30 December).

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A fresh, engaging, new newspaper, app and website for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire region, published by Iliffe Media, an independent family-owned company that has been publishing in Cambridge since 1922. The Cambridge Independent newspaper is published on Wednesday and available to buy at hundreds of retail outlets - check it out and let us know what you think!