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Councillors Deny Knowledge of Bin to Commemorate Codification of Football Rules
@julianhuppert shocked at laughable monument to football at Parkers Piece. Pls intervene. Le Tour will be shocked. pic.twitter.com/BNXw0jYIdr — PMcL (@patsudan) September 5, 2013 On the 5th of September 2013 @Padsudan tweeted drawing attention to a plaque which has appeared on a bin on Parker’s Piece commemorating the codification of the modern rules of football […]
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Dutch Style Cycleways for Huntingdon Road
Cllr John Hipkin’s latest email newsletter (which he doesn’t publish on the web) carried an article headlined ” Dutch style cycleways on the Huntingdon Road?”. The message, sent on the 30th of August 2013 stated: Please keep a lookout for consultation documents hitting your doormat in the next few weeks and do go to the […]
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Busway Announcement Made to Press not Councillors
Earlier today Cambridgeshire County Council announced it had reached an out of court settlement with guided busway contractor BAM Nuttall. Leader of the council Cllr Martin Curtis decided to make the announcement in a secret, private, briefing for selected, friendly, invited, members of the press. Writing on his blog Cllr Curtis described his chosen journalists […]
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Councillors to Step Up Police Scrutiny
Cambridgeshire County Council are considering getting more involved in scrutising the work of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Graham Bright and Chief Constable Simon Parr. Councillors on the police scrutiny committee, which they call the Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee are to discuss their future work programme at their meeting on the […]
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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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More Mud for Stourbridge Common
Cambridge City Council is proposing to spend £15,000 on making a muddy bit of Stourbridge Common even muddier. The published proposal, which the council are currently seeking comments on, states: Cambridge City Council is proposing to create a small ‘scrape’ in the Common, by excavating a small area of land within an existing wet area. […]
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Arrested Suspected Drug Dealers Held Until They’ve Defecated Three Times
Cambridge’s East Area Committee on the 25th of July 2013 was told that Cambridgeshire Police have adopted a policy of keeping arrested suspected drug dealers in custody until they have defecated three times so the police can recover any swallowed drugs. Two days earlier the city’s Community Safety Partnership had also been briefed on the […]
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership – July 2013
I observed Cambridge Community Safety Partnership meeting on the 23rd of July 2013. I have written dedicated articles on three aspects of the meeting: Ecstasy Alternative Benzofuran Linked to Cambridge Drug Deaths Cycling Police to Patrol Cambridge Cambridge Criminals Queuing Up to Volunteer for Police GPS Tags Other notable points include: The meeting was told […]
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Ecstasy Alternative Benzofuran Linked to Cambridge Drug Deaths
A public meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership on the 23rd of July 2013 heard that the recent deaths of Kim Reid and Jimmy Sinclair on the banks of the River Cam, opposite Jesus Green, were due to “benzofuran” a drug of the amphetamine class which was marketed as legal form of MDMA (ecstasy). It […]
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Cambridge Criminals Queuing Up to Volunteer for Police GPS Tags
Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership meeting on the 23rd of July 2013 received a report from Detective Inspector Mick Birchall of Cambridgeshire Police which revealed some of Cambridge’s prolific offenders have been volunteering to wear police GPS tracking tags. The detective told the meeting demand was so great criminals were queuing up to receive the tags […]