GOING VIRAL RNA transcribes DNA to make blueprints informing protein. This step includes proof-reading to fix or block mutations. "RNA virus...

More cargoes Ledbury Masefield's "once upon a time" has a tall ship, becalmed in Panama, find new work -- crew enriched above a dime, and ...

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 Britten

A community project 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 how it was for them

Here's Clare's video (with her permission) of me declaiming edited highlights of my 1993 sequence 'The St Pancras resonances' on 30 April 2026 in Cambridge's Hot Numbers cafe. This was a meeting of Mill Road Poetry. You'll find a more complete written version of the sequence at https://bit.ly/1ho88np .

Something should your mind need a change from the local elections.... Two regional wildlife experts tell us why it is important to help toads across roads

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

Lots of broken toasters, some tasty cakes and a cup of coffee – the Repair Café volunteers are back and they can mend your toaster too

LORD NOEL-BUXTON who found fame in tracing shallow paths across great rivers Lord Noel-Buxton was a peer who forded rivers with no fear an...

This is a poem of mine from 2005. It was published in Streetwise 61, Winter 2005, p. 14, from St Matthew's church, Cambridge. PEACE PROCE...

Donald Trump is using trade wars and high tariffs to bully countries around the world into dropping taxes and regulation on US big tech. From digital taxes to anti-monopoly policies, we desperately ne...

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

EXHIBIT AT 'INSIDE' Exhibit at 'Inside: artists and writers in Reading Prison': old release-day shots of men and women with thei...

I explained, when blogging an earlier appearance of poems by me in  The punch, that this   online  Indian magazine, with a poetry issue onc...

Red (Westminster Bridge) “Earth has not anything to show more fair.” Our bridge, from decades after Wordsworth wrote, still sees triumphan...

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

YouTube video by Aidan Baker

A mosaic of English memory and moral reckoning — from war and worship to class, cruelty, and fading glory — these poems trace how history, hierarchy, and human frailty echo through landscape, time, an...

Volume 3, Issue 1, October 2025Come on Down by Duane Anderson She called on her phone telling the person on the other end to come on down to see us, except that the blood drive was taking place on the...

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

Bridge: Westminster Bridge Writer: Aidan Baker Artist: Clare Trowell. Title of poem: Red Title of artwork: Westminster Bridge The work: Framed linoprint, showing red bus crossing Westminster Bridge am...

YouTube video by Aidan Baker

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The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt celebrates his 75th birthday on 11 September 2010. Allow me to blog a poem that I wrote in 1987, attempting...

A trustee of a charity making waves in Thelnetham explains how they are helping restore the Little Ouse's natural conservation function.

Retired librarian Aidan Baker looks at the response of British librarians to Russia's war on Ukraine.

Melanie Wicklen tells Aidan Baker what she and her AgeUK colleagues think of what's in the social care White Paper.

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

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

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

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

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

Last year Robin Hiseman asked me for something from my back catalogue  for the Ledbury Carnival  https://ledbury-carnival.co.uk /  programme...

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

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

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

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