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Suck My Formaldehyde Pickled Balls – My Response
It appears an ex Cambridge City Councillor sending me a message in public saying: “suck my formaldehyde pickled balls” is news. Ex Cllr Brown’s astonishing invitation to me shows how unpleasant people can be to those entering discussion about how we run Cambridge and our wider society. I think this kind of exchange is something […]
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Labour Taking Control of Cambridge City Council
Following the election result on the morning of the 23rd of May 2014 I went on Paul Stainton’s Bigger Breakfast show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire to discuss Labour taking control of Cambridge City Council. I have transcribed the elements of the show relating to Cambridge, which include exchanges with the outgoing council leader Liberal Democrat […]
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Video – 20 MPH for Victoria Road in Cambridge Approved by North Area Committee Councillors
At Cambridge’s North Area Committee on the 8th of May 2014 Councillors unanimously voted in favour of introducing a 20 MPH speed limit on Victoria Road in Cambridge. The road has been excluded from the North Area 20 MPH zone because it is classified as an “A” road and so it would be against the […]
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Patch of Stourbridge Common Taken Over for Growing Potatoes
It appears someone has taken over a patch of Stourbridge Common in Cambridge and is using it as vegetable garden. The patch of common land in question is within a disused tree-guard. Someone has has added what looks like anti-rabbit mesh and planted what appear to be potatoes. If this has been done without the […]
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Marueen Symons Places Concrete Planter on Road In Effort to Maintain River View
Riverside resident Marueen Symons attended Cambridge’s East Area Committee on the 10th of April. In the presence of Cambridgeshire Police’s Inspector Poppet, and councillors from Cambridge City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council Symons admitted to installing a concrete planter on the highway on Riverside to try and deter people parking in front of her house […]
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Electing a Cambridge City Councillor for King’s Hedges
In the last election held in Kings Hedges, the ward in which I live, over 76% of electors in the ward did not vote. In the last Cambridge City Council elections Kings Hedges was one of three wards in the city where neither the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats or Labour put up a candidate who lived […]
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Body Shop Sign Which Will Obstruct Highway and May Endanger Those With Disabilities Approved by Council
Liberal Democrat run Cambridge City Council has just approved permission for The Body Shop to place a sign on the pavement of Petty Cury, one of the city’s main shopping streets. The approval comes despite recent high profile campaigns from the Liberal Democrats on the subject of making the city’s pavements safer, including by removing […]
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Secret Council Experiment Finds Eyes in the Night Displace Dog Poo in Cambridge
At Cambridge City Council’s full council meeting on the 3rd of April 2014 the executive councillor for bins and dog poo, Cllr Swanson, revealed the existence of a secret experiment she has been running. The experiment, which she had not told any of her fellow councillors about, and the existence of which had been kept […]
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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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Lights, Make-up and Extra Pay Required if Councillors to Be Filmed
Cllr Gordon Gillick (UKIP, Waldersey) told Cambridgeshire County Council on the 25th of March 2014, which was debating filming council meetings, that as a member of Equity he would need to be paid if he was to be filmed as well as claiming councillors would need lights, make-up, multiple cameras and professional camera operators. Cllr […]