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Gallery: View all the babies entered in this year's Baby competition!

17:24 - 18 August 2008

We now have all the babies and toddlers who were photographed for the Ely Standard s third Baby Of The Year competition. Our photographer Geoff Durrant photographed 129 youngsters at The Shoe Tree in Market Street, Ely, after the store agreed to host the...

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Goldie Misses Out On Medal Chance

13:37 - 21 August 2008

British javelin thrower Goldie Sayers has missed out on the chance of a medal at the Beijing Olympics. Goldie, a former King’s School pupil who lives in Ely, managed to set a new British record but finished in fourth place in Thursday’s final. Before...

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Emma Pruce, Jack Martin, Zoe Knight and Kayleigh Simpson

GCSE Students Celebrate Exam Success

GCSE students celebrated exam successes today (Thursday) as all schools in the area gained record results. Witchford pupils had an astonishing 20 per cent increase in A*-C grades, under the leadership of headteacher David Taylor who has only been at the...

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Video: MP visits hauliers to discuss fuel prices

HAULIERS had a visit from Jim Paice MP to discuss the rise in fuel duty on Friday. Partners from Geoff Hobbs Haulage in Soham told Mr Paice that their costs had gone up 15 per cent in the last year - and at 36,000 litres of diesel every 10 days, they are...

Sarah Deamer who achived one of the top five marks in textiles

Gallery: One In Three King's School Students Achieve As or Bs

One in three King s School Ely students achieved As or Bs in their three principal A-level subjects – the best-ever results in those two top grades. The overall percentage achieving As and Bs was 65 per cent, which was 6 per cent better than last year an...

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Olympics

Ely's Goldie is Going For Gold in Beijing

GOLDIE Sayers easily qualified for the Olympic javelin final on Thursday after throwing 62.99m in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Goldie, who lives in Ely, has been suffering from a stomach bug at the Macau holding camp, but on her arrival at the Bird...

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Cricket

Gallery: Ely defeated at home by Histon

CCA Senior League Division 2 City of Ely I 108 Histon II 182-8 Histon won by 74 runs ELY were defeated at home on Saturday when the visitors batted first and made 182-8 in their 45 overs. In reply, Ely were bowled out for 108....

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