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Friends of Midsummer Common 2015 AGM – Lighting – Path Widening – Cows
I attended the AGM of the Friends of Midsummer Common in Cambridge on the 22nd of April 2015. The meeting was commendably held in public and many of those attending were, like me, not members of the group. Bat Detector The meeting heard that the group, which receives public money via Cambridge City Council, has […]
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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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Cambridge Labour Propose Dedicated Officers to Promote Water Meters, Chesterton and the Living Wage
If the majority of those elected to Cambridge City Council are members of the Labour Party following May’s elections, Labour will get to implement their manifesto for Cambridge we will see the creation of a number of new city council officer positions: Living Wage Promotion Officer Labour propose creating the new post of “Living Wage […]
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Cycling on Stourbridge Common with Cllr Martin Curtis
The leader of the County Council, Cllr Martin Curtis, is to speak at the Friends of Stourbridge Common AGM on Friday the 13th of September 2013 on the subject of cycling on the common. I cycle almost daily on the common, it lies between my house and Cambridge city centre, if I’m opting for a […]
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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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Rewards for Anti-Social Behaviour in Cambridge
A meeting of Cambridge’s Community Safety Partnership held on the 30th of April 2013 decided to spend £5,000 on rewards for people, primarily teenagers, responsible for “anti-social behaviour” in the city. The rewards may include boat trips and trips to residential activity centres. One of the stated aims of the project is: Decrease in offending […]
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Council Spooks Deployed Against Boaters
Cambridge City Council has reportedly used tactics one might expect to see in an episode of Spooks, or used in serious criminal investigations, to probe the living arrangements of those living on boats moored in the city. Amy Tillson, who lives on a boat on the river, and who represents boaters at meetings with the […]
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Objection to Proposal to Accommodate 172 Pupils at Mitcham’s Corner
Proposal: Mitcham’s Corner Cambridge I have submitted an objection to a planning application to demolish the buildings on Mitcham’s Corner in Cambridge currently housing Staples and Lloyds Bank, replacing them with a commercial space, that Staples and Lloyds are expected to move back into, along with 172 rooms for the largely 16-18 year old pupils […]
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Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel – Volunteering to Join
On the 26th of October 2012 I submitted an application to become one of the two independent, non councillor, members of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel. I am making the application, and covering email, which I submitted available publicly below. Dear Sarah Swift, I am writing to volunteer to serve as one of the non-councillor […]
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Cambridge City Council Covert CCTV Deployed In Someone’s Home
A report on Cambridge City Council’s use of covert surveillance is to be taken to the council’s Strategy and Resources Committee on Monday the 15th of October at 17.00 in the Guildhall. The key message from the report is simply: [The council] has not authorised the use of RIPA powers in the period covered by […]