• Ely Multiplex Cinema Gets Closer

  By elypeople at 16:24 on 19/03/13

  

  East Cambridgeshire District Council is in advanced talks to bring a new cinema development to Ely. Following a public consultation last year, land at the junction of Downham Road/A10 was identified as the best place to build a multiplex cinema. The Council is now in detailed talks with a national developer to bring forward detailed plans for planning consent by the end of the year. Councillor Peter Moakes, Chairman of the Development...

• 'Hamlet' in Ely – Reviewed

  By elypeople at 15:36 on 24/02/13

  

  A cold February evening in the main school hall of Ely College is not the most welcoming of environments in which to sit through Shakespeare's notoriously long Danish saga, Hamlet, but the company assembled by Mike Holland for Ely ADS managed not only to transport their audience to the state of Denmark but to capture the intensity and emotional turmoil this play examines. As the curtains opened, the tableau of cast members set this play...

• Ely Hotelier Guilty Of Hygiene Offences

  By MoonRambler at 18:17 on 19/02/13

  

  An Ely hotelier has been fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £2,000 costs for breaching food hygiene regulations. Mr Robert Setchell of The Nyton in Barton Road, Ely admitted five breaches of The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 last week at Cambridge Magistrates. The case followed routine inspections of the premises by the Environmental Health Team at East Cambridgeshire District Council in August and September 2012. The...

• Ely Boat Owner In Deep Water

  By ElyNewshound at 15:32 on 09/02/13

  

  East Cambridgeshire District Council has made a successful prosecution regarding illegal mooring on Ely's Riverside this week. Magistrates fined Mr Alan Rayner for illegally mooring his boat 'Irene' on the River Great Ouse in Ely without permission for four months. The Byelaws allow mooring for a period of 48 hours only, with no return for 48 hours. Mr Rayner had claimed he could not move the boat, as it did not currently have an engine...

• Ely College Among "Best Improving Schools in England"

  By elypeople at 21:54 on 05/02/13

  

  Ely College is one of the top 100 improving schools in England, in terms of the progress students make between starting at the College and taking their GCSEs, according to a letter sent to Principal Catherine Jenkinson-Dix by David Laws MP, Minister of State for Schools. In the letter, Mr Laws congratulates the "staff, governors and pupils for their hard work and success", and thanks Mrs Jenkinson-Dix for her "leadership...

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