A schoolroom punishment became Witcham’s famous peashooting championship, drawing competitors of all ages for decades

Artist Jane Mackay 'sees' music in colour. Her major recent exhibition marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Benjamin...

A community project is fostering collaboration and is making a difference to lives in Cambridge

Four local authorities allowed early voting in the 2026 local elections. An official and two voters told East Anglia Bylines...

Something should your mind need a change from the local elections.... Two regional wildlife experts tell us why it is...

Lots of broken toasters, some tasty cakes and a cup of coffee – the Repair Café volunteers are back and...

Ten lords a-leaping is carolry; one lord a-wading is history – Noel-Buxton and his improbable paths through Britain’s rivers

Alice Willitts’ shortlisted poetry collection explores the beauty and fragility of the Fens as rising seas threaten their future

An anti-migrant group's protests in Peterborough drew many counter-protesters showing their support for the asylum seekers accommodated in a local...

A street in Cambridge has problems. Community groups are presenting a petition to their local authority. They live in interesting...

Suffolk tree-lover David Hopkins talks about the work of adding to the Woodland Trust's 'Ancient Tree Inventory'

Activists in Diss tell of their counter-demonstration in solidarity with migrants in the Park Hotel, and their plans for the...

Potholes in roads: Cambridgeshire repairs up to 66,000 of them in a year, but they are still a nuisance to...

East Anglia’s air ambulance flies eight times a day – but it’s your donations keeping them airborne

The Great British National Strike (GBNS) staged a protest on Saturday 24 May outside Cambridge Guildhall

Iranian refugee Rouzbeh Parsa will premiere his Kamancheh Concerto in Cambridge on 24 May, in a concert of works by...

The owner of an orchard west of Cambridge challenges plans for a busway that would fell 500 of her trees

The region showed its continuing support for Ukraine, as Russia's full-scale invasion reached its grim third anniversary

People in South Cambridgeshire have until 23 March to comment on their council's experiment of a four-day working week for...

A community union's reasons for demonstrating outside the London office of a housing provider – and where it got them

History may not recur but it often has resonance. Has the internet supplanted the romance of listening to distant radio...

Granta Chorale's seasonal competition attracts talented young composers. They contribute to a rich musical heritage

Balancing tradition and convenience, Aidan and Clare's Christmas card system combines handwritten cards with tailored e-cards. How do you do...

The bridge closure divides Mill Road: traders fear for survival and residents debate traffic while a court battle looms

Creating meaningful protest songs to achieve a worthwhile end. Songwriter Liz Cotton talks to Aidan Baker about her career and...

An appreciation of a former Bishop of Thetford, who wrote over 400 hymns

A movement countering the media portrayal of migrants is putting roots down across the country

Prizes for community radio programmes show the value of broadcasting that isn't commercial

Poetry Bears' Picnic Day offers an opportunity to reminisce about romance, past poems and Fantastic Flapjack – essential for a...

Clacton library was one of the venues marking Refugee Week. Aidan Baker was keen to find out more about the...

Talking to candidates in two Cambridgeshire constituencies reveals some interesting insights into what they stand for

Refugee Week this year was 17-23 June, with its beating heart on Thursday 20 June, World Refugee Day. The theme...

The case — or not — for banning floating bus stops

Where it all started. The folk roots behind the works of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. (Tw suicide)

As an executive retires, we look at her organisation's achievements and challenges

East Anglia Bylines celebrates World Poetry Day with the help of poets from across the region

This, in our series about hymn tunes named after towns in East Anglia, looks to North Essex. Not really the...

Meet Claire Middleton, first prizewinner in the 2023 Granta Chorale carol competition, a multi-talented musician with a promising future

Can protests and demonstrations make a difference? Activists tell us about their various ways to get a point across

Aidan Baker continues his survey of hymn tunes that are named after places in the East of England region

A look at new music for Christmas, especially where it's home-made in this region - from the small to the...

A district council faces up to Westminster displeasure over an experimental alteration in working practices

It’s Black History Month. Apart from its university cities, East Anglia is overwhelmingly white, including the town where Mariam lives

In this interview, retired German virologist Rainer Zawatzky explains how life in Heidelberg was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic

Saturday 23 September was a day of action for the Make Polluters Pay campaign. How effective was silence as a...

Nature and farming don’t have to work against one another. Here we meet a farmer who's devoted his life to...

A review of a new collection, My Name is Abilene, by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, a Fenland poet who has won...

Aidan Baker with poems about locations in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk that he and his wife Clare Sansom have taken...

John Lister owns and runs an unconventional cycle repair business in Cambridge’s Arbury suburb. Why is it so popular?

Aidan Baker hears from two musicians about a mesmerising performance and a government's gaslighting

Aidan Baker has taken to his bike to continue his survey of hymn tunes named after places in our East...

Cambridgeshire badly needs efficient, sustainable public transport. Everyone has good ideas. But what is the best idea?

Aidan Baker hears from a Cambridge student who was surprised to find the letters ‘BP’ on a piece of official...

Aidan Baker tells of an Easter cycle tour with Clare Sansom, on the trail of an eccentric East Anglian peer

An estimated 5000 opponents of a congestion charge for Cambridge gathered on Parker's Piece in the city centre on 26...

Continuing our series on hymn tunes named after places in East Anglia, here are three tunes in honour of a...

1 February saw nationwide demonstrations of solidarity with strikers. Aidan Baker was at the march and rally in Cambridge.

Hertfordshire poet Graham Palmer told EAB about his words for Jenni Pinnock's song-cycle 'Cracked Voices'. Now we hear from Jenni...

St John’s Church, Royston, is open for business again after it was badly damaged by fire in December 2018.

November’s COP27 conference agreed a compensation fund for loss and damage caused by climate change. Should Britain contribute?