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Oakington Plane
Century wait for plane lift-off
It has been 100 years since a pair of Oakington villagers failed to create a fantastic flying machine - now their legacy is being continued.

Siegfried Sassoon Sassoon fund gains £550,000 boost
A Cambridge University campaign to save the papers of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon is bolstered by a £550,000 grant.

Jack Binns Jack Binns: Hero of the high seas
The first distress call from sea was made 100 years ago by one of Peterborough's very own sons.


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