The scenic village is among the county’s oldest settlements

A pretty village located about six miles from Cambridge offers a “little gem” airfield museum which was once home to an RAF base. Bottisham is a relatively large village with a population of 2,400, as recorded in 2021.

The village was previously known as Bodekysham and Bottlesham and is among the county’s oldest settlements. There is evidence of human activity dating back thousands of years with archaeological finds, including flint tools and Iron Age remains, showing that people have lived there since prehistoric times.

Bottisham underwent a series of changes over the years after several fires destroyed many homes, leading to the rebuilding of the High Street. The village also played a crucial role during the Second World War with the former RAF Bottisham.

The airfield was initially used for RAF operations but later became home to American fighter squadrons and contributed in the Allied war effort, according to Bottisham Parish Council.

After the war, part of the former airfield site became home to Nicholas Copernicus Grammar School for Boys in 1948. Today, the history of the former RAF base is a popular attraction: Bottisham Airfield Museum.

The museum, which opened in 2009, commemorates the former airfield and those who served during the war. It welcomes visitors and offers a café as a pitstop for those enjoying a day there.

The museum has been described by previous visitors on Google as offering “Interesting displays” with “knowledgeable and enthusiastic” volunteers. It was also described as a “little gem”.

Aside from the former airfield and museum, the village hosts a GP surgery, a primary school, a village college, and several pubs, restaurants and shops including The Bell, Lexi’s Café and Bakery, and Bottisham Community Sports and Social Club. The village, perfectly situated between Cambridge and the horse-racing town of Newmarket, offers classic countryside views throughout.

However, beautiful scenery and a rich history come at a cost. House prices in Bottisham averaged £540,750 over the last year, according to Rightmove. The majority of properties sold in the village during the last year were detached properties, selling for an expensive £668,000.

Meanwhile, semi-detached properties sold for an average of £430,00 and terraced reached £388,750. According to Office for National Statistics, the average house price in East Cambridgeshire was provisionally £344,000 in June 2026.

If you hate trying to clean your food waste bin clean and cannot seem to stop flies from getting into the bin, there are a few tricks you can try to keep the flies away.

A binman on TikTok has shared his method of keeping flies away from your food waste bin that might be worth giving a go.

@theno1.binman Keeping your food waste bin clean #simplerrecycling #binday #binman #binmen #Binformation ♬ original sound – The No1 Binman

How to keep flies away from your food waste bin

The No.1 Binman, also called Ashley, posts videos on TikTok giving people advice on how to make sure their bins are collected and kept clean.

In one of his videos, he has shared some advice on how to keep food waste bins clean and avoid attracting flies.

All you have to do is pick up some large compostable food waste bags and place them inside your food waste bin.

You can fill the compostable bin bag with smaller bags throughout the week.

On collection day, you simply tie the large compostable bag up and remove it from the bin.

You can then add a new liner to the bin for the next week.

He said: “It’s that simple, add your other ones inside it.

“As long as you keep the bin lid closed and out of the sun, it’ll keep it nice and clean and it’ll stop the flies from getting in.”

Ashley added that all councils will accept compostable bin bags when collecting waste.

The government website has a few rules on what liners can be used in food waste bins.

The website says: “There is no requirement for caddy liners to be provided to households or for them to be used.

“Where liners are used, you should promote the use of liners that have the lowest carbon and wider environmental impacts.”

Liners that can be used in the bins include:

• bio-based biodegradable plastic
• bio-based compostable plastic
• bio-based non-compostable plastic
• fossil-based non-compostable plastic (for example, polyethylene)
• bio or fossil-based recyclable plastic
• paper
• repurposed plastic bags (originally intended for purposes other than food waste collection)
• reused newspaper

You should not use fossil-based biodegradable plastic or fossil-based compostable plastic liners.

You should check the government website regularly as the list of recommended liner materials is reviewed often.

Will you be using this method to keep flies away from your food waste bin in future? Let us know in the comments.

The Oasis ‘Live in 25’ reunion tour grossed each of the Gallagher brothers around £100million, and is set to be followed by another reunion tour next year.

But until today, the inside story of how and when the warring pair made their peace has never been told.

A feature documentary, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, premieres at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday night with Noel Gallagher describing Liam as ‘delightful’ and saying that, although Liam has never apologised to him, they have managed to rebuild their relationship.

And the pair put on a brotherly display during the photocall earlier in the day as they posed with their arms around each other. 

Noel, 59, said that he was taken aback by his own emotional response to his reconciliation with Liam and had to turn his back on the audience for much of the 41 date tour to hide his tears. 

He said: ‘All the little things that used to annoy us about each other have gone away. We have come out of it now as equals.’

He added: ‘Here is a word which I never would have thought I would say about him: delightful.’ 

He added: ‘We get along now, we text like normal people. The music brought us together.’

The brothers put on a brotherly display at Venice Film Festival on Saturday as they were seen with their arms around each other during the photocall 

The pair’s feature documentary Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger premieres on Saturday night at the prestigious festival 

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Despite the apparent outbreak of peace the Gallagher brothers opted not to submit to a press conference where they could be asked about their relationship. 

Director Will Lovelace said: ‘They seem to be getting on pretty well.’

In the documentary, where they are both interviewed, Liam notes that the make up was effected: ‘Without saying a word’. 

He never apologised to his brother despite their infamous rows in Oasis before the 2009 break up, and the sniping in the years which followed, including slurs against Noel’s daughter Anais and Noel’s second wife Sara.

Indeed, Sara is not even mentioned, despite the fact that it is widely accepted that their divorce paved the way for the truce, with Liam having called her ‘Yoko Ono’ – and worse.

Liam clearly doesn’t want to discuss or say sorry for what happened. He says: ‘Leave it out mate, we had a little argument, you know what I mean.’ 

He later adds: ‘I didn’t mean it to be the way that it was.’

The film makers admitted that the Gallaghers were not really on speaking terms when the filming began, during rehearsals for the tour. 

They travelled separately and the tour promoters unusually only paid them once they had completed all 41 dates because they had such a history of conflict.

Because they weren’t on speaking terms they were interviewed separately initially, with Noel saying that he simply couldn’t envisage sharing a stage with Liam again.

Their first meeting, in a rehearsal room before the tour, is filmed, and neither is able to look the other in the eye. 

Liam enters the room, asking why the drums have a baffle on them and says: ‘Shall we start?’

He leaves at the end of the day the moment his vocal performance is over, leaving the rest of the band to finish the track as the door swings behind him.

Noel later says to his bandmates: ‘He comes in a bad mood. He leaves in a bad mood. He just comes in and then f***s off.’

Writer Steven Knight said: ‘We didn’t really know how it was going to go when we started. These are British working class men, they are not going to hug and kiss each other.

Noel, 59, said that he was taken aback by his own emotional response to his reconciliation with Liam and had to turn his back on the audience for much of the 41 date tour to hide his tears

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He said: ‘All the little things that used to annoy us about each other have gone away. We have come out of it now as equals’

Liam opted for his signature khaki colour and aviator shades for the photocall 

Because they weren’t on speaking terms they were interviewed separately initially, with Noel saying that he simply couldn’t envisage sharing a stage with Liam again

The brothers were joined by their artistic director Alberto Barbera 

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Despite the apparent outbreak of peace the Gallagher brothers opted not to submit to a press conference where they could be asked about their relationship

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger will launch on Imax screens and in cinemas in November

‘It wasn’t until they were into the tour that they were in a place where they were able to sit down with each other. ‘

Liam refused to do a run through on the eve of their first concert, in Cardiff last year, and showed up for the event with 20 minutes to go. 

Noel is seen nervously pacing the loading bay waiting for him. He says that when Liam arrives: ‘He asks: “What’s the catering like?” and he adds that he is astonished when Liam grabs his hand so that they arrive on the stage hand in hand.

Liam, never one for too much introspection, says: ‘You just have to put on your big boy pants and get on with it. Do it well and move people.’

As the 41 date tour goes on, their children meet each other for the first time and relations thaw. 

Noel has Sonny and Donovan with ex wife Sara and Anais with first wife Meg Mathews.

Liam has Lennon, Molly and Gene who went on tour, and love child Gemma who lives in New York.

Noel says: ‘My kids met his kids. They didn’t know each other they have never met they are all best friends now.’ 

Liam adds: ‘They are loving it – f***ing spangled every night.’

Initially, Noel believes that even though they have agreed to the tour they will not make up. 

He says: ‘I was born with one fatal flaw in my character: I will not forgive people. That is something I was born with. I haven’t got any forgiveness in me at all.’

Of his brother he says: ‘He’s a man who truly does not give a f***. He is who he is and that’s the way of that. He’s not going to change. He’s not going to come to us, we have to go to him.’

Later in the documentary they are interviewed together with Noel laughing at Liam’s jokes and saying: ‘I forgot how funny he was.’

Director Will Lovelace said: ‘There was definite tension and, from our perspective as observers, that didn’t dissipate until that first moment when the expectant energy of the crowds met the nervousness of the band. 

‘That was a real moment of alchemy. It was like something incredibly special happens when these people who’ve been waiting 16 years for this momentous thing to happen got it.’

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger will launch on Imax screens and in cinemas in November, and the directors say that they hope that the fans who couldn’t get – or afford – tickets will finally get as close as possible to the experience of having been there.

They added that they counted up the number of f-bombs which were included in the edit from the potty-mouthed brothers: 179.

The US military says it has hit three Iran-linked oil tankers after ballistic missiles were launched towards two of its warships in the region.

US Central Command (Centcom) said on Saturday it had “permanently disabled” a tanker near Kharg Island and another near the Strait of Hormuz, and “completely destroyed” a third in the Gulf of Oman.

Centcom said it “successfully evaded” multiple attacks from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeting a US aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer. No American troops were harmed, it said in a statement.

Iranian state media earlier reported that one of its oil tankers had been struck by US missiles off the coast of Kharg Island.

“Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost – taking out three of yours,” said Admiral Brad Cooper, Centcom’s commander.

“We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”

The strikes come nearly a week after renewed attacks between the US and Iran, which followed a month of relative calm between the warring sides.

The US and Israel launched wide-ranging strikes on Iran on 28 February, with Iran responding by attacking Israel, US bases and allied states in the Gulf, and effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz to marine traffic.

Amongst the winners announced on the morning of Saturday September 5 was the BL2 5HU postcode, which includes the area around Eksdale Avenue.

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The only way is up, then, as Spurs head north to Nottingham to meet Oliver Glasner’s Forest. Their season has not got off to a much better start, though last week’s draw with Liverpool has at least got them off the mark. He is yet to hand a full debut to his headline addition, club-record signing Liam Delap, while Daniel Munoz is also in line to start for the first time.

The now widely used Mercator map was created in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator.

Its main purpose was to help European sailors navigate the oceans, as cartography Professor James Cheshire at University London College explained.

“He wanted a straight line to be drawn on a map to look like a straight line in reality if you followed a compass bearing,” he told the BBC. “That was what it was intended to do, and that’s what it does brilliantly well.”

To keep those angles correct on a flat map, Mercator had to stretch the grid lines wider as they moved away from the equator toward the poles.

His map accommodates for the curvature of the Earth by making countries near the equator seem much smaller than they are, with countries nearer the poles appearing stretched.

The distortion is a result of it being impossible to accurately represent the surface of a globe on a two-dimensional chart.

More than 450 years on, Mercator’s creation is still the basis for many of the maps we see in classrooms, on TV and online, including Google Maps.

But critics of the Mercator map say there is a psychological effect to viewing some places as smaller than they actually are and others as larger, as we instinctively view bigger things as more important.

For Kenyan geographer Kioko Muendo, this has implicitly downplayed Africa’s vast resources, population and investment opportunities.

“Maps are more than just guides for travellers – they shape how regions are perceived politically and economically,” he told the BBC.

The firebrand left-wing politician alleged the bank had shut down his accounts without notice or explanation.

Goerge Galloway is suing Bank of Scotland after claiming they shut down his bank account which he held for 40 years. The veteran left-wing politician, 72, said his account which he held in the bank’s Byres Road branch in Glasgow was closed “without explanation or notice”.

Dundee-born Galloway alleges the action was unlawful. Lawyers representing the former MP confirmed they’ve launched legal proceedings against Lloyds Banking Group, which owns Bank of Scotland.

Writing on social media, Galloway said: “Thirty-nine years ago, I opened a personal bank account with Bank of Scotland in Byres Road, Glasgow. Yesterday without explanation or notice they closed my accounts.

“My parliamentary and old age pensions are paid into these accounts. The mortgage on our family home is paid out of them. They haven’t heard the last of this.”

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In a flurry of furious follow-up posts, he warned the bank: “I will not stand by while you use your usurious power to wreck my family life… you have broken the law and you must already know that.”

Galloway, who has recently been living outside of the UK including stays in Russia and China, alleged he’d been given no notice of the closure. The socialist firebrand and broadcaster, who leads the Workers Party of Britain, added he’d been sent a cheque with his funds but had “no other bank with which I can lodge it”.

Yesterday Galloway wrote: “Who gave the order to Lloyds Bank to close my 39 year account with Bank of Scotland? We don’t know.

“But in the light of my legal team’s injunction upon them this afternoon on the preservation of evidence, we will find out. Count on it.”

KRW Law said in a statement: “We confirm that we have issued pre-action correspondence to Lloyds Bank in respect of the actions of Bank of Scotland. Without explanation or notice they closed the bank accounts of our client George Galloway.”

Galloway, who served as Labour MP for Glasgow Hillhead and Kelvin from 1987-2005, has long courted controversy for his strident views on foreign policy, the Middle East and Russia. He was expelled from Labour under Tony Blair over his opposition to the Iraq War.

He is also a fierce critic of Israel’s occupation of Palestine – and defeated Labour in the 2024 Rochdale by-election by hammering the party on Gaza, although lost his seat months later in the general election.

As part of plans to deal with nearly-full prisons in England and Wales, Andy Burnham has pledged to bring an end to indeterminate imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences.

For those serving these sentences, this is a long-awaited development. IPP sentences were abolished in 2012, but not retrospectively. Currently, 2,271 IPP prisoners remain in custody in England and Wales.

They were introduced in 2005 to protect the public from “dangerous” offenders, but the definition of dangerous was broad and resulted in the sentence being imposed on many lower-risk offenders.

IPPs function like life sentences: prisoners serve a minimum term (say, 10 years), after which point they are eligible to apply for release. Unlike other sentences, IPP prisoners can only be released from prison by the independent Parole Board – there is no automatic release date set.

The IPP sentence has garnered much media interest over the years because of the shocking plight of prisoners serving this sentence. Being incarcerated is bad enough, but the indefinite nature of the sentence has led to widespread feelings of despair and isolation among this population and their families.

The late Lord Brown, a former supreme court justice, described the IPP sentence as the “greatest single stain on our criminal justice system”. Even David Blunkett, who introduced the sentence as home secretary, has expressed regret.

A justice select committee inquiry into the IPP sentence took place in 2022. The government of the time disregarded many recommendations, including the proposal that all IPP prisoners should have sentences reviewed and then be re-sentenced under current rules. Since then, Keir Starmer’s government introduced the IPP Action Plan to improve the support provided to IPP-sentenced prisoners. The plight of IPP-sentenced prisoners was again highlighted in 2024, when Starmer’s government brought in early release to deal with prison overcrowding. However, none were given automatic release.

Appealing for release

Prior to 2016, a condition of the IPP sentence was that these prisoners could only be released by the Parole Board through an oral hearing. Since then, some people can be released without an oral hearing, with the Parole Board making the decision via a paper-based assessment. However, the vast majority of prisoners still have to undergo an oral hearing. These are conducted in a question-and-answer format, where parole board members ask questions and the prisoner and other witnesses answer.

Prisoners and professionals give evidence of the prisoner’s conduct while in custody, the factors that might lead them to reoffend, and reports of their engagement with rehabilitation programmes.

Ultimately, the members of the Parole Board must determine whether it is still necessary to confine a prisoner for the protection of the public. If the answer is no, then they direct the prisoner to be released under supervision of the probation service.

IPP prisoners have found it harder than other prisoners to be released through parole hearings and – once released – face high rates of recall. In September 2022 the number of IPP prisoners who had been recalled exceeded the number of unreleased IPP prisoners. When IPP sentences were replaced in 2012, the same types of offenders did not have as high a recall rate, and the new sentences had a fixed, rather than indefinite, recall period. This suggests that the IPP sentence itself is partly responsible for the overall increase in the prison population.

During the pandemic, the Parole Board was forced to conduct all hearings remotely, either by telephone or video link. Since the removal of pandemic restrictions, the board has continued to use remote technology as the default way to conduct hearings, deeming this to be a “fair and effective” way of holding most hearings. Around 93% of hearings are held remotely. Regardless of mode, oral hearings should be “inquisitorial” and not “adversarial”, according to the Parole Board’s guidance.

Communication breakdowns

Our research, conducted in 2023, reveals some of the additional barriers that IPP prisoners face when working towards release.

Combining our linguistics and criminal justice expertise, we analysed oral hearings involving IPP prisoners to see whether remotely-held hearings were more or less adversarial than in-person hearings. To do this, we focused on “why” questions asked by panel members to prisoners, for example: “Why did you commit the offence?” Questions like this prompt prisoners to answer with an account, for example: “Because I needed to get money”.

“Why” questions can be interpreted as confrontational and “face-threatening”, especially when the recipient is judged to be responsible for engaging in problematic or criminal behaviour. We focused our analysis on particularly adversarial “why” questions, which also displayed the questioner’s viewpoint. For example: “Why did you behave so badly in the beginning?”

We found that in remote hearings, these adversarial “why” questions were used more frequently when compared with in-person hearings, to a degree that was above the level of chance. This could mean it is more difficult for IPP prisoners to represent themselves in this mode of hearing, with implications for fairness and justice.

Why is this the case? It is possible that Parole Board panel members are compensating for some of the broader communication problems with remote technology by asking tougher questions.

Elsewhere, we have found that breakdowns in communication are more common in remote hearings than in-person hearings. This may lead people to interact in more direct ways. Further research has found that participants in oral hearings often view the remote mode as a barrier to productive interaction. Our findings suggest that IPP prisoners are acutely affected by this. Others have similarly found that the remote mode is associated with problems in other justice settings.

The oral hearings analysed for this research occurred before and during the pandemic, it is now the norm to deliver remote hearings in a number of judicial and quasi-judicial settings. In a positive move, the Parole Board has since introduced mandatory training around questioning vulnerable prisoners, which should improve the way remote hearings are delivered.

Few would disagree with Burnham’s pledge to end the IPP sentence, but the exact process is unclear: who will be released and will the process be fair? Despite improvements in technology and a willingness to improve practice in remote settings, the particular vulnerabilities of IPP prisoners needs to be borne in mind. Our research suggests that if IPP prisoners will still need to undergo a hearing, careful consideration needs to be given to how they are carried out.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Gallagher brothers brought some rock star energy to a sleepy, and sweaty, Venice Film Festival Saturday, where the documentary about their reunion tour is making its world premiere. And like true rock stars, after giving a few waves for photographers on the Lido docks, they skipped the whole “news conference” bit.

“Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” is part concert film and part exploration of the contentious relationship between Noel and Liam Gallagher, whose long-held feud led to Oasis disbanding in 2009 in spectacularly theatrical fashion after a backstage altercation moments before they were due on stage in Paris.

Noel infamously said his brother is “the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.”

Liam told the Guardian in 2018 that his brother “did me out, mate, he threw me under the (expletive) bus, and I won’t forget that. He split the band up and it meant the world to me. Just to further his career.”

The band was founded in working-class Manchester, England, in 1991, and became one of the most popular British acts of the 1990s, hitting No. 1 with their debut album “Definitely Maybe” in 1994. Their 1995 follow up, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” became one of the U.K.’s bestselling albums of all time.

The film looks at the phenomenon of Oasis and the prickly personalities behind the hit songs, most of which were written by the elder Gallagher brother, Noel, from “Wonderwall” to “Live Forever.” It includes never-before-seen rehearsals (where everyone tenses as Liam walks in) and what was, then at least, their first joint interview in 25 years.

In 2025, the brothers ended a 16-year hiatus with a reunion tour that kicked off in Cardiff, Wales to an ecstatic, all-ages crowd of more than 60,000. Many worried that like in Paris in 2009, it might not actually happen. But the show went on, with former Oasis members Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs and Gem Archer on guitar, bassist Andy Bell and drummer Joey Waronker.

The Associated Press wrote at the time that songs like “Supersonic” and “Roll With It,” “sounded as thunderous as ever and sparked mass sing-alongs.”

Steven Knight, who is credited as the writer of the documentary, said he and Noel wanted to explore the question of why the music endured, not just with fans who experienced it in the 90s but with the next generation as well that culminated in such intense demand for reunion tour tickets.

Filmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace spoke to the brothers separately before the rehearsals had started, and then together while the tour was in full swing, to reflect the true progression of the relationship.

“We set out to make a film about the reconciliation of two brothers, infamous for their volatile relationship, but we also wanted to make a film about the power of music and the way Oasis’ songs have continued to have a life of their own, as the band lay dormant for 15 years,” the filmmakers said in their directors’ statement. “The documentary, like the reunion and the tour, took on a life of its own.”

The filmmakers said their goal was to make their cameras and presence invisible to the band during rehearsals. At the concerts, they wanted to make the audience feel like they were there as well. The film also focuses on various fans from around the world.

“Sometimes you might just bump into someone with a dog called Bonehead and that becomes part of the story,” Southern said.

“Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” will be in theaters shortly after the festival. Disney is giving “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” an IMAX release on Sept. 11, and it’s expected to arrive on the Disney+ streaming service later this year.

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