A six-week public consultation has opened on future development of land to the north west of Cambridge City Centre.

The western premieres of the final three string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich will be held at a conference in Cambridge celebrating his 100th anniversary.

Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College Dr Stephen Fleet died aged 69.

A public exhibition was held on Wednesday 12 January to mark the start of the masterplanning process for land to the north-west of Cambridge city centre which has been earmarked for future university-led development.

School/college students thinking about applying for 2005 entry to Cambridge (or deferred entry in 2006) are welcome to come along to one of the many open days and information days taking place this month.

Ethnic minority teenagers from across the UK have been designing bridges and taking part in mock legal trials at a summer school giving them a taste of university life.

César Milstein, Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies, died this weekend on Sunday 24 October, 2002.