Council votes to defy government on four-day week
A district council faces up to Westminster displeasure over an experimental alteration in working practices
Aidan Baker is a retired librarian living in Cambridge, England. His
poems have appeared in ‘Sledgehammer’, ‘RIC’, ‘Orbis’, projects from
26 Characters, and numerous other outlets both printed and online. He
blogs his published poems at Blurtmetry. Aidan is a member of the EAB editorial team.
A district council faces up to Westminster displeasure over an experimental alteration in working practices
On 5th November East Anglia Bylines saw its millionth view, with 1,200 stories published in 27 months. To mark this,...
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
A shocked Norfolk council faced a noisy crowd who had heard rumours about plans to restrict their movement around their...
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?
Aidan Baker traces the fortunes of Robert Walpole, a politician from Norfolk, and wonders about modern parallels
Cambridge is split over a plan to get its traffic moving. A mooted congestion charge has caused a furore.
Roman gods, a Hertfordshire hermit, and the first person of colour in Royston: poet Graham Palmer combines song with local...
A trustee of a charity making waves in Thelnetham explains how they are helping restore the Little Ouse's natural conservation...
Another in Aidan Baker's series about hymn tunes named after places in our region.
This latest in our series Rivers of East Anglia traces the Little Ouse upstream, and meets several interesting buildings on...
Autumn 2022 is expected to turn more and more economically grim. Might homemade money help to ease its grimness at...
Aidan Baker gives local residents’ responses, and reports on a planning dispute in a Cambridge suburb.
Aidan Baker sounds out protesters on reports of Cambridge University plans to rebrand the controversial research facility
Aidan Baker reports from an event in Cambridge Market Square supporting a legal challenge to the Rwanda flights.
Aidan Baker continues his exploration of places in East Anglia that have given their names to hymn tunes used in...
Interview with Beth Doherty on activists' 63-minute recent occupation of Cambridge University's BP Institute
Aidan Baker lists some reasons to be cheerful for the rest of the year.
Round-up of recent local elections. Result reflected the national picture: defeats for the Tories, gains for progressives and Independents.
Melanie Wicklen tells Aidan Baker what she and her AgeUK colleagues think of what's in the social care White Paper.
Ahead of the South Cambridgeshire elections, Aidan Baker finds local issues dominating, but not by much, and national issues never...
Music with contributors from Cambridge, Iran, Taiwan, and China; and poetry in the university's Botanic Garden in illustrious company.
People around the world want to do something to help Ukraine. A Prague-based software executive describes how he's addressing the...
Retired librarian Aidan Baker looks at the response of British librarians to Russia's war on Ukraine.
The burden of providing care is borne disproportionately by women. Aidan Baker finds out about this world from friends.
Aidan Baker with another in his exploration of places in East Anglia that have given their names to tunes used...
Aidan's reasons to be cheerful: a range of festivals across the region planned for 2022.
Aidan Baker continues his exploration of towns and villages in East Anglia that gave their names to tunes used for...
Food bank use has doubled in five years. What does this mean for the people who use them and the...
The hymn 'O God of earth and altar' and the tune 'King's Lynn', how they met through composer Vaughan Williams,...
How the Cambridge Archaeological Unit has kept archaeology going despite Covid-19 and Brexit, with links to some of what they've...
Protesters campaigning for voting reform gathered in Cambridge as part of a national Make Votes Matter day of action.
Interview with On the Verge founder and East Anglia poet Alice Willitts on her poetry about the region and her...
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