Remembrance in Royston This year Armistice Day falls on Remembrance Sunday, the 11th November 2018. It will be one hundred years to the day since the guns fell silent on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month of 1918, bringing the First World War to an end. It was supposed to be the war to end all wars. This year to … [Read more...]

RSPB Fowlere RSPB Fowlmere is a small nature reserve with reedbeds and pools, forming a refreshing natural oasis in the agricultural landscape of south Cambridgeshire. Formed of once extensive watercress beds, the site is now a haven for wetland and woodland wildlife. The River Shep, a natural chalk stream runs through the reserve and brown … [Read more...]

Royston Kite Festival The Kite Festival has been a feature of the Royston summer calendar for a surprising 28 years. That’s quite a record. It’s likely that some of the parents who’ll be taking the family to the Heath to see the kites this year will themselves have been taken there as children two or three decades ago. It’s usually … [Read more...]

The Cracked Voices Story Servandus son of the Spaniard willingly fulfilled his vow to the goddess Many hundreds of miles from home, one man makes his offering to Senuna. We know nothing more than his name, which means both the person who watches over things and the preserver. His voice has long been silenced. In 2002 a metal detector bleeps. … [Read more...]