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Emilie Silverwood-Cope: Too negative for too long? Make motherhood great again

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: Too negative for too long? Make motherhood great again

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: Too negative for too long? Make motherhood great again

17 June 2025

Emilie Silverwood-Cope writes about Parenting Truths.


Mayor Paul Bristow: ‘The Mill Road bus gate has done more harm than good’

Mayor Paul Bristow: ‘The Mill Road bus gate has done more harm than good’

Mayor Paul Bristow: ‘The Mill Road bus gate has done more harm than good’

07 June 2025

Opinion: Combined Authority leader writes about how he ‘means to deliver’ on promise to reopen it to all traffic.


Cambridge City Council’s new Labour leader: ‘We must enthuse and involve residents’

Cambridge City Council’s new Labour leader: ‘We must enthuse and involve residents’

Cambridge City Council’s new Labour leader: ‘We must enthuse and involve residents’

31 May 2025

Opinion | Cllr Cameron Holloway writes for the Cambridge Independent.

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Emilie Silverwood-Cope: Feeling bored, lonely and misunderstood is a teen rite of passage

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: Feeling bored, lonely and misunderstood is a teen rite of passage

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: Feeling bored, lonely and misunderstood is a teen rite of passage

27 May 2025

Emilie Silverwood-Cope writes about Parenting Truths.


Phil Rodgers: Lessons from the elections – and prospects for the future

Phil Rodgers: Lessons from the elections – and prospects for the future

Phil Rodgers: Lessons from the elections – and prospects for the future

24 May 2025

Our political correspondent, Phil Rodgers, examines the mayoral and county council election results and looks at what the future may bring.


Read mayor Paul Bristow’s new column: ‘I’ve got a clear plan for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’

Read mayor Paul Bristow’s new column: ‘I’ve got a clear plan for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’

Read mayor Paul Bristow’s new column: ‘I’ve got a clear plan for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’

19 May 2025

He writes for the Cambridge Independent as he settles into new role.

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Going green at the Ickleton Lion - with help of cash grants

Going green at the Ickleton Lion - with help of cash grants

Going green at the Ickleton Lion - with help of cash grants

27 April 2025

Jo Hancock explains how the Lionhearted group will achieve their sustainable vision.


Phil Rodgers: County council likely to remain in no overall control after poll on 1 May

Phil Rodgers: County council likely to remain in no overall control after poll on 1 May

Phil Rodgers: County council likely to remain in no overall control after poll on 1 May

20 April 2025

Our political correspondent, Phil Rodgers, looks at the seats up for grabs in the Cambridge and elsewhere in the county council elections on 1 May.


Emilie Silverwood-Cope: On a scale of 1 to 10, how good is your parent WhatsApp game?

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: On a scale of 1 to 10, how good is your parent WhatsApp game?

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: On a scale of 1 to 10, how good is your parent WhatsApp game?

14 April 2025

Emilie Silverwood-Cope writes about Parenting Truths.


People power at the pub: Volunteers help Ickleton Lion roar once more

People power at the pub: Volunteers help Ickleton Lion roar once more

People power at the pub: Volunteers help Ickleton Lion roar once more

30 March 2025

The pub is throwing open its doors (and the garden gate) to volunteers who are transforming the Lion – inside and out.


Phil Rodgers: Who are voters likely to choose as the Combined Authority’s next mayor?

Phil Rodgers: Who are voters likely to choose as the Combined Authority’s next mayor?

Phil Rodgers: Who are voters likely to choose as the Combined Authority’s next mayor?

22 March 2025

Our political correspondent, Phil Rodgers, looks at candidates for the mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority elections.

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Emilie Silverwood-Cope: If childhood obesity was a virus, we’d be in lockdown

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: If childhood obesity was a virus, we’d be in lockdown

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: If childhood obesity was a virus, we’d be in lockdown

18 March 2025

Emilie Silverwood-Cope writes about Parenting Truths.


Cambridge Connect: The case for light rail

Cambridge Connect: The case for light rail

Cambridge Connect: The case for light rail

25 February 2025

Opinion | Cambridge Connect’s Andrew Duff says light rail is the right mode of transport for the region – clean, fast, safe, efficient and spacious.

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Opinion: GCP chair Elisa Meschini explains importance of Waterbeach to Cambridge busway

Opinion: GCP chair Elisa Meschini explains importance of Waterbeach to Cambridge busway

Opinion: GCP chair Elisa Meschini explains importance of Waterbeach to Cambridge busway

23 February 2025

The busway is designed to ease A10 congestion as the new town at Waterbeach is built.


Phil Rodgers: What council reorganisation could mean for our local politics

Phil Rodgers: What council reorganisation could mean for our local politics

Phil Rodgers: What council reorganisation could mean for our local politics

23 February 2025

Our political correspondent, Phil Rodgers, on what the most sweeping changes to local government since the 1970s could mean for our county.


Emilie Silverwood-Cope: A school ban on mobile phones doesn’t matter: parents, the rest is up to us

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: A school ban on mobile phones doesn’t matter: parents, the rest is up to us

Emilie Silverwood-Cope: A school ban on mobile phones doesn’t matter: parents, the rest is up to us

16 February 2025

Emilie Silverwood-Cope writes about Parenting Truths.


Paul Kirkley: Goodbye to all that… his final regular dispatch for this newspaper

Paul Kirkley: Goodbye to all that… his final regular dispatch for this newspaper

Paul Kirkley: Goodbye to all that… his final regular dispatch for this newspaper

09 February 2025

Paul Kirkley: In his final regular column, he reflects on how the world has become progressively madder since his first Indy column eight years ago.


Opinion: Why I believe it’s time councillors scrapped their support for the obsolete £200m Cambourne to Cambridge busway scheme

Opinion: Why I believe it’s time councillors scrapped their support for the obsolete £200m Cambourne to Cambridge busway scheme

Opinion: Why I believe it’s time councillors scrapped their support for the obsolete £200m Cambourne to Cambridge busway scheme

07 February 2025

Anna Gazeley, of Coton Orchard, says much has changed since it was conceived.

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GCP chair Elisa Meschini says Milton Road contractors were subjected to ‘awful verbal and sometimes physical abuse’

GCP chair Elisa Meschini says Milton Road contractors were subjected to ‘awful verbal and sometimes physical abuse’

GCP chair Elisa Meschini says Milton Road contractors were subjected to ‘awful verbal and sometimes physical abuse’

03 February 2025

She writes about the ‘amazing’ work - and positive comments from the majority.


Lionhearted group: New year, new pub

Lionhearted group: New year, new pub

Lionhearted group: New year, new pub

31 January 2025

Opinion | Patrick Watson, volunteer project manager for the Ickleton Lion, talks about progress to date in bringing an empty pub back to life.


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