Independent builders merchants, Huws Gray has acquired Ridgeons, an independently owned timber and builders merchants trading from more than 40 branches, including Saffron Walden.

Questions have been raised about how Brexit might affect Uttlesford District Council’s (UDC) financial investment in Chesterford Research Park (CRP).

A ballet based Dylan Thomas’s poem, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, with music by Cerys Matthews and Mason Neely, will be danced by Ballet Cymru at The Mumford Theatre, Cambridge (part of Anglia Ruskin University) on Saturday, October 20.

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Lady Constance Lytton was the daughter of a Viceroy of India, born in 1869, so an archetypal, upper class, Victorian young woman.

As Raymond, the savant would say: This is definitely the best play at Cambridge Arts Theatre this year. Definitely the best play....

The first night audience at the venue stood up to applaud and Cambridge audiences rarely give anyone a standing ovation, I say rarely, I mean never.

No Surrender, the celebrated show about an unlikely suffragette, Lady Constance Lytton, who disguised herself as a poor woman because the police refused to arrest a lady - and then wrote the first book about prison from an inmate’s point of view, returns to Cambridge Junction.

Thirty years after its release, Paul Simon’s Graceland will be sung at Cambridge Junction on Saturday, October 6 by the London African Gospel Choir.

A new report has revealed that Uttlesford is one of the top five fastest growing ‘housing hotspots’ in the UK, but campaigners suggest the district is building more houses than it needs and projections are ‘overstated’.

A driver has been taken to hospital with life threatening injuries following an incident at Stansted Airport.

My companion spotted Mathew Horne at Paddington Station. We were getting the same series of trains to Windsor where he is starring in a stage version of Rain Man, which arrives next week, from Monday, October 1, at Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Day four of the 2018 Folk Festival was set to be another scorcher with both the gloriously sunny weather, and the music line-up. Irish Mythen kicked off on Stage One, her musical perfomance punctuated by some absorbing story-telling and craic which had also entertained the crowd during her performance on Stage Two on Saturday.

This was my first time at Cambridge Folk Festival but I hope it won’t be my last.

I would say Gordie MacKeeman, of Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys, is a virtoso fiddle player, except I need a more exhilarating word than that. He doesn’t just play at lightning speed, he plays with the fiddle under his arm while he is doing a thundering step dance. He plays standing on top of a double bass, while the double bass is being played by someone else.

Thursday nights, the first night of Cambridge Folk Festival used to be just the night you stomped round the ground, set up your tent, got your wristband and saw a couple of low-key acts with a beer.

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The manager of an estate agency in Dunmow is preparing to cycle 200 miles in three days across three counties to raise funds for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH).

Among the eccentrics at this year’s Cambridge Comedy Festival will be George Egg and his Anarchist DIY Chef show. He combines cooking and comedy to make a three course meal using power tools, office equipment and hair dressing appliances.

The musical Sweet Charity is in the Great Hall at The Leys School in Cambridge until Saturday, July 14, presented by Cambridge Theatre Company.

There will be some 600 musicians playing at Saffron Walden’s Fete de la Musique on Sunday, June 24 with over 80 acts playing at 11 venues across the town in a free festival of music.

Mischief Movie Night, a play that improvises a movie on stage - after the audience has suggested a genre, location and title, will be at Cambridge Arts Theatre from June 19-23.

Simon Brodkin, (aka Lee Nelson) the comedian and prankster who handed Theresa May a P45 as she coughed through her speech at the Conservative Party Conference, is among the top names at this year’s Cambridge Comedy Festival at Cambridge Junction from July 18-21.

More than 70 keen scooter riders from the local area took part in a May bank holiday ride-out which raised about £300 for a village hall which needs a make-over.

Tracy Beaker Gets Real, based on the book by Jacqueline Wilson about a little girl growing up in care, is at Cambridge Junction on Sunday, June 10.

The ‘vision’ for the North Uttlesford Garden Community (NUGC) in Great Chesterford has been unveiled by the developer, but campaigners have labelled it a “blatant grab for the Cambridge housing market” to meet Uttlesford’s housing target.

A wide range of musicians have signed up to play at Saffron Walden’s free musical event, the Fete de la Musique on Sunday, June 24, where over 350 musicians will play at 10 venues across the town, celebrating Midsummer Day.

So far, 62 music acts and 370 musicians have signed up to play at Saffron Walden’s Fete de la Musqique in Saffron Walden, a free festival of music with sounds all over the town on Midsummer Day, Sunday, June 24.

The parents of a three-year-old boy from Saffron Walden who has cerebral palsy have secured TV personality Danny Dyer as the latest player in a charity football match featuring a host of celebrities.

A man from Saffron Walden who appeared on the latest series of The Island with Bear Grylls said it was the “toughest experience” of his life, but disagreed with the “controversial” decision to divide the two teams into wealthy and working class.

The parents of a three-year-old boy from Saffron Walden who has cerebral palsy have organised a charity football match featuring celebrities in the hope of reaching their £30,000 fundraising target to pay for their son’s operation which would allow him to walk independently.