The St Ives Post

15/11/2025

Yellow flood alert - please take care 🚤

02/11/2025

What a rare sight - Spotted locally, this is actually a rare colouration of a red fox, known as a leucistic red fox.

02/11/2025

Don’t we have the best cake shops?

02/11/2025

Man arrested after a multiple stabbing onboard the 6:25 pm LNER train from Doncaster to London King’s Cross.

Ten people have been injured - nine with life-threatening injuries and one with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police say the train was stopped at Huntingdon Station around 7:39pm after armed officers responded. The A1307 near the town centre remains closed as investigations continue.

24/10/2025

The plans will see 120 new homes build on land near St Ives, Houghton and Wyton.

22/10/2025

Despite our two local councillors Alex Bulat and Julie Kerr voting against the proposal, Cambridge County Council has voted for unitary council Option A, which would see St Ives fall under Peterborough rather than Cambridge.

Other councils are yet to decide on their preferred options.

What are your thoughts?

Reminiscent of the American Civil War, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough local governments are drawing battle lines in a North vs South split. There’s no need to worry about muskets being fired any time soon, but what would a local government reshuffle mean for St Ives, and how will it affect us? Pr...

21/10/2025

St Ives delivers for those who wake up too early 🍂

20/10/2025

Urgent repairs at St Ives Staunch Sluice have restored part of its operation in time for winter, with funding now approved for future remedial works.

Essential repairs may alleviate some river worries over the winter months.

18/10/2025

Are you a board game and coffee fan?

Huntingdon’s Commemoration Hall is being reinvented as a board games cafe, set to open next week on Sunday 26th October.

Board games have become increasingly popular in recent years, offering a social daytime alternative to drinking in Wetherspoons, and this will be a welcome addition in Huntingdon.

Would you be interested in a similar cafe in St Ives?

16/10/2025

Misty mornings…

16/10/2025

Sad to see the Tudor being demolished in Fenstanton.

Once owned by Eric Morecombe, the pub/restaurant has shared many happy memories.

Sadly the building is mock-Tudor, built in the 1930s, so not a listed building.

13/10/2025

The Manor, The Moon, and a Bloody Pigeon.