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Challenges Filming and Reporting on Cambridge City Council Despite New Law
Since the 6th of August 2014 a right to film, photograph or make an audio recording of proceedings at a local government meeting in the UK has been established in law. In November 2014 Cambridge City Councillors unanimously agreed to update their constitution in light of the new law. Cambridgeshire County Council’s stance on filming […]
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The Liberal Democrat Shadow Cabinet at Cambridge City Council
Cambridge Liberal Democrats are the largest opposition party on Cambridge City Council. They have what is in effect a shadow “cabinet” poised to take over the council if they regain control. I thought it would be useful to collate who these people are, and their respective roles: Name Shadow Role Councillor Tim Bick (@cllrtimbick) Leader, […]
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Cambridge City Councillors Considering Updating Filming Rules Following New Law
Cambridge City Councillors are to review the sections of the council’s constitution relating to people observing, speaking at, and reporting on council meetings at their Civic Affairs Committee meeting on the 17th of September 2014. Ministers gave councils a month to update their rules before a new law on recording local government meetings was introduced. […]
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Proposed Make-up of Cambridge City Council Scrutiny Committee Amended Following Tweet
The proposed make-up of one of Cambridge City Council’s scrutiny committees has been changed following one of my tweets. Cambridge City Council’s Civic Affairs Committee is due to meet at 6pm this evening. Earlier today I tweeted a number of observations on the published agenda and papers, including: What housing role will new Community Services […]
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Cambridge City Council – Anti-Social Behaviour Meeting – April 2014
On the evening of the 2nd of April 2014 I attended an “Anti-Social Behaviour” meeting in my ward of King’s Hedges in Cambridge. I’d found out about the meeting from a Cambridge City Council council tweet which pointed to a webpage on the event. The event in North Cambridge follows one in the East of […]
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Police and Crime Commissioner Bright Says He Has Published Non Emergency Call Answering Decisions
Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright attended Cambridge’s North Area Committee on the 20th of March 2014. I asked Commissioner Bright why he had not published his decisions relating the time taken by the police to answer calls to their non-emergency, 101, phone number. I noted the decisions were not on the Commissioner’s published […]
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Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright Pulls Out of North Area Committee Appearance
Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright was due to attend the Cambridge North Area Committee on the 56th of February 2014. As of the time of writing, the evening before the meeting, the agenda lists item seven as: Police and Crime Commissioner: Sir Graham Bright – 8.30pm Presentation followed by an opportunity for public […]
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Woman Urinated on Cambridge Bowling Green As Public Toilets Are Locked in Evenings
On the 23rd of August 2013 Cambridge based artist and singer Robjn Barker tweeted to report: My mother said she had to piss on the bowling green because there isn’t a toilet open in Cambridge Cambridge City Council runs twenty public toilets in the city. None, not even the coin-operated ones, are open after 8pm […]
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Ravers Attracted by Lawless Romsey Beach Police No-Go Area
Sgt Jim Stevenson of Cambridgeshire Police told councillors and members of the public at Cambridge’s South Area Committee on the 15th of July 2013 that the “Romsey Beach” is a practically no-go area for police. The committee heard the “beach” and lakes near Burnside, the Tins path and Spinney School in South Cambridge had been […]
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Cyclists Branded Anti-Social For Trying to Stay Alive
Arrows highlight the only remnants of markings showing this is the start of a shared use cycle/pedestrian path. On Thursday the 27th of September 2012 councillors in North Cambridge set “anti-social cycling” as one of their three top policing priorities for the area. Councillors set the priority to apply throughout North Cambridge, but expressed concern […]