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Response to the Cambridgeshire Transport Commission Consultation.
The Cambridgeshire Transport Commission has been set up by the County Council to look at ways of tackling the transport problems the region experiences now and is expect to face in the future. The commission ran a survey on their website in Spring 2009. My response is reproduced below. There will be further opportunities for […]
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Marshall of Cambridge – A Centenary Celebration
On Wednesday the 11th of March 2009 I attended a free public presentation entitled: “Marshall of Cambridge ‘A Centenary Celebration’” which had been organised as part of Cambridge University’s Science Festival. The “lecture” was given by Group Captain Terry Holloway a retired RAF officer who has worked for Marshall since 1995. Marshall is a fantastic […]
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Proposed Job Cuts at the Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge University Press (CUP) are planning to cut 160 jobs in the city, probably as the first stage of plans to close the printing business of the CUP within three years. There was discussion of CUP’s plans at Cambridge City Council’s Full Council meeting on February 26th 2009, a full record of what was […]
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Cambridge Liberal Democrats Oppose A14 Improvements
The current state of the A14 around Cambridge and towards Huntington is in my view one of the biggest problems affecting Cambridge and the surrounding region. The road is regularly crammed full of heavy goods vehicles using both lanes in each direction. Accidents, when they happen are worse than they might others wise have been […]
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June 2008 North Area Committee – Cambridge
I attended the 19th June 2008 North Area Committee meeting tonight. I think the interesting decisions made were: 1. To demand from officers a better minuting of the element of the previous meeting where police priorities were set. ` 2. To set a fixed time 19.30 for the policing agenda item at the next meeting, […]
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Arbury Election Candidates 2008
Shapour Meftah, conservative candidate for Arbury at the City Council Elections posted a leaflet to my house today, and as he was still on the street by the time I’d read it I went out to ask him some questions. I started with asking why he wants to scrap the “expensive area committee meetings”, he […]
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Questions to Cambridge’s Party Leaders
Andy Harper, (BBC Radio Cambridgeshire) I heard on your show that you’ll be interviewing the leaders of the main political parties this week so I am writing to you with some of my thoughts on the upcoming election: During these local elections the important issues to me are the proposed expansion of the city and […]
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Conversation with my County Councillor
I had an interesting conversation with Cambridgeshire County Councillor Rupert Moss Eddcart during which we discussed a range of subjects: On Schools The executive county councillor responsible for schools is not technologically aware, and takes it on trust when officers say schemes such as fingerprinting pupils, issuing online laptops to pupils and creating databases of […]