Seven people are fighting for two seats in the District Council elections in Stapleford on May 3.  Sir John Sulston FRS, who was jointly awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has died. Between 2.30pm and 3.10pm on April 4, a vehicle parked in a country park in Stapleford was broken into. The rear windscreen to the vehicle was broken and bag was stolen from the boot. Sign up for the free e-newsletter for Stapleford near Cambridge STAPLEFORD VILLAGE WEEKEND 2018 Have you these dates in your diary? – Friday 22 June through to Sunday 24 June Just like last year a bumper series of events is being planned to include the show, cycling, cricket, music, wine and sumptuous food. General meeting on THURSDAY 5 APRIL in the Community Lounge Cox’s Close at 7 pm If your organization is involved do please send a representative A wine tasting evening to advertise the weekend and to just have fun selecting wine for the bar is being planned. Could you cycle the Olympic 2012 route to help a local charity? Everything at the new Bella Mooi beauty and aesthetics studio in Stapleford is half price throughout April. https://www.facebook.com/BellaMooiBeautyandAesthetics/ There's a consultation about a possible new path for Stapleford. Traffic issues in Bar Lane and a possible £25k grant for the Tree Action Group were considered at the February Stapleford Parish Council meeting. Council Chairman Nigel Pett came second in the Parish Councillor section of the South Cambridgeshire's annual community awards The Sampson Orchestra of Cambridge is again devoting the proceeds of its concert in April to the Stapleford -based Karen Morris Memorial Trust As part of plans to improve journeys times and congestion along the A1307 and A1301, the Greater Cambridge Partnership is looking to hear the views of residents in Shelford and Stapleford . One option consists of a new segregated Mass Rapid Transit Route from the A11 via Sawston, Stapleford and Great Shelford to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.  Almost 150 people who attended a meeting about the future of the Shelford Medical Practice were told that the proposed merger will retain, maintain & improve their presence and service in Great Shelford. The route of the 7a bus might soon be changing. A Stapleford family suffered £5,000 worth of damage in Storm Eleanor. (external link) Fancy becoming a "spotholer" to help improve the quality of Stapleford's roads? Keys were taken from the front door of a property in The Chestnuts, Stapleford between 6pm and 7pm on January 8. Current planning applications include proposals to knock down a home in Bar Line and build a replacement. A new Park & Ride is considered for Hauxton, to be built west of Junction 11. (external link) Sir David Attenborough and Professor Stephen Hawking are two of the people featuring in a new showreel video by Stapleford company OH! Films. Stapleford 2G3S are hoping to organise a visit to the Amey Cespa Waste Management Plant at Waterbeach. Date and time to be agreed. If you are interested, contact us at greengroupssss@gmail.com Extending the Mobile Warden scheme to Stapleford, Cambridge from Great Shelford has been suggested as part of the Neighbourhood Plans discussions. There are proposals to extend the cemetery in Stapleford, Cambridge. Stapleford History Society is planning a trip to the Flanders battlefields. More than 80% of people who took part in a survey said they would be happy to pay something extra towards the cost of maintaining Shelford library. Stapleford's school is going to become an academy in 2018. Babraham Research Campus is expanding. A bag was stolen from a car after the rear window was smashed. A grass mound is to be put in place along the Haverhill Road side of the Recreation Ground after the travellers visit in the summer. The Tree pub in Stapleford, Cambridge has taken a step closer to being reopened after a proposal to demolish the existing building was rejected. Police say a suspicious incident involving two Stapleford school pupils, including one from Great Shelford, was " a misunderstanding". A car was broken into and a handbag stolen in Babraham Road, Stapleford on September 29 between noon and 1pm. A house window was smashed in criminal damage which took place in Church Street on the afternoon of September 9. Read what decisions and actions the Parish Council made at their meeting in August. Overnight on September 5th on Gordons Close, Stapleford thieves stole a pedal cycle. A second bike was taken in London Road on September 12. A major fundraising round to save and relaunch the Tree pub is expected to be launched by the end of the year. (External link). Gas pipe replacement in Stapleford has been postponed following the intervention of the Parish Council. A large number of travellers took over Stapleford Recreation Ground from 4 pm on Friday 11 August for 48 hours until they left by 4 pm on Sunday 13 August. Over 70 people attended a community meeting initiated by the Parish Council on 15 August to explain what had happened and how to address the future security of the recreation ground.  A closed pub in Stapleford, Cambridge could be compulsory purchased by the district council so that a local community group can take it on. Great Shelford Mobile Warden Scheme and Cancer Help Centre both benefitted from donations made at the Magog Singers concert in July. A Stapleford man in hospital with Parkinson’s disease was able to watch his granddaughter’s wedding online. (External link) Stapleford, Cambridge now has its own history website. Hot Numbers Coffee is now open at Stapleford Granary 9am-5pm, every Saturday and Sunday. Sign up for the free Stapleford Cambridge e-newsletter A 29 acre development in Stapleford and Great Shelford, with 180 new homes and a "care village", is being offered online by an Essex developer. Catch up with the actions and decisions of Stapleford Parish Council from June. A scientist from Stapleford, Cambridge has been made a Companion of Honour, alongside J K Rowling and Sir Paul McCartney, “for services to science and society" in the Queen's birthday honours. Some changes have been announced to Stapleford's Citi 7 bus service. Changes are taking place at the Stapleford Granary at Stapleford near Cambridge. A car door was damaged by vandals in Dolphin Way in Stapleford near Cambridge. the incident happened overnight on June 16. A handbag has been stolen from a car in one of two vehicle crimes in Stapleford, Cambridge. More new homes could be on the way for Stapleford near Cambridge. Developers have highlighted a number of areas they say should take more houses. Proposals have been published to bulldoze the Tree in Bar Lane, Stapleford and build a new pub and two homes on the site. Stapleford park's play area is the subject of a new video. Read more about the Stapleford Park facilities here.A fourth local estate agents is about to start selling houses in Stapleford, Cambridge. Redmayne Arnold Harris is opening in Woollards Lane, Great Shelford in summer 2017. The four local estate agents with houses for sale in Stapleford, Cambridge are; Read the agenda for the June Stapleford Parish Council meeting. Stapleford Community Primary School is restocking the classroom and library shelves with new reading /reference books thanks to support from the PTA. The hall background curtains and lighting have also been improved. (external link)  Stapleford Cambridge now has its own Facebook page. Almost 20 non- members turned up for Stapleford WI's June session. Read the highlights from the Stapleford 2017 annual village meeting. Read what Stapleford Parish Council decided in April. Three homes in Stapleford near Cambridge have been burgled. Stapleford School is hoping to raise £180,000 for new premises for the Out of School Club. Stapleford near Cambridge has two new county councillors. A1307 local liaison forum update Sunnyside pre-school playgroup in Stapleford near Cambridge has closed. The main pub in Stapleford near Cambridge is the Rose. There is also a campaign to reinstate the Tree pub. A naked man has been indecently exposing himself at Magog Down in Stapleford near Cambridge. The latest incident took place on May 9. (External link). Did you know that Arthur Rank Hospice’s Bistro is open to the general public? Stapleford Parish and District Councillor Charles Nightingale has talked about living with Parkinson's Disease (external link). A special 20mph zone is being created at the heart of Stapleford near Cambridge. The village could soon have its on village hub the annual Stapleford parish meeting was told. Stapleford Primary School near Cambridge says the proposed funding deal for schools is unfair. (external link) A Stapleford resident featured in the top three in the South Cambridgeshire Village Hero community awards. Volunteers are needed to help cut back the shrub and undergrowth in the Stapleford Parish Pit.  A tree that fell across the Stapleford to Sawston cycleway in Storm Doris made headlines in the Cambridge News. Photo Joanne Staines/ Facebook Mingle Lane in Stapleford Cambridge was the most expensive place to buy a house in Cambridgeshire in 2016 (external link). Stapleford singers are needed. The Great Shelford Post Office has moved to Hinton Way. There has been an armed robbery at a shop in Stapleford near Cambridge. The speed limit along Church Street and Mingle Lane in Stapleford near Cambridge could be changed to 20MPH. So many people are using the cycle way to Sawston from Stapleford, Cambridgeshire that there are now capacity issues according to a leading politician. A Stapleford mother who raised more than £2.5 million to help sufferers of the disease that claimed her daughter’s life, has been awarded an MBE. The Stapleford and Shelford Neighbourhood Plan now has its own website. The Parish Council wants a clampdown on signs outside of Spar. South Cambridgeshire which includes Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, is one of the best places to live in the UK (external link). A new cycle route could be created between Stapleford and Cambridge.  South Cambridgeshire MP Heidi Allen (back row, 2nd right) visited St Andrews in Stapleford for a Children's Society service in November 2016. Two well known faces at our doctors surgery, the Shelford Medical Practice , are retiring. Have you visited our sister websites? Little Shelford Online Stapleford is 4 miles from Cambridge. Around 1900 people now live in the village which lies between Great Shelford and Sawston. The village has a Community Primary School, a church hall, the Johnson Hall, St Andrew’s Church, the Jubilee Pavilion and two Public Houses, The Three Horseshoes, and The Rose. There is also a campaign to re-open The Tree pub. The pavilion, on the Stapleford Park or recreation ground, was renovated in 2012 and re-named the Jubilee Pavilion to mark the diamond jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Stapleford is twinned with Villedomer in the Loire Valley, France. Wandlebury, with the remains of a 5th Century BC Iron Age Hill Fort,110 acres of woods and chalk grassland, and 8 miles of footpaths, is in the north-east corner of Stapleford. The Magog Down is an area for restoration, conservation and informal recreation on the Gog Magog Hills off the A1307 road to Linton and on Haverhill Road, Stapleford. Famous people from Stapleford Cambridge include Sir John Sulston, Robert Huff and Thomas Blossom. 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Sign up for the free e-newsletter for Stapleford near Cambridge  Rev Simon Taylor became the Associate Parish Priest at St Andrews in Stapleford Cambridge in 2015. He has written a blog setting out how he is addressing some of the challenges. Disclaimer All information on the website is subject to change at any time without notice. Any logos or trademarks displayed on the website are the rights and property of their respective owners. All information on the website and text is copyright of www.staplefordonline.com and any reproduction of this without express permission is strictly prohibited. David Martin is the editor in chief and writer of the Stapleford village website at www.staplefordonline.com. He was a NCTJ trained journalist before becoming the Managing Editor of BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and the creator of BBC Cambridgeshire Online. 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