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Paramedics Slow to Reach Seriously Injured Man on Jesus Green
The plane tree avenue on Jesus Green, where on the 16th of April a 31 year old pedestrian was seriously injured in a collision with a cyclist. On Friday the 16th of April, under the plane tree avenue on Jesus Green, a man was knocked over by a cyclist and suffered serious head injuries. While […]
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Prompting a City Council Statement on Strawberry Fair
A girl with a chicken’s head at the 2009 Strawberry Fair. At Cambridge City Council’s Community Services Scrutiny Committee on the 25th of March 2010 I asked a public question about the recently cancelled Strawberry Fair. I explained that I was using the public question to try and prompt a statement from the council and […]
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Friends of Midsummer Common 2010 AGM
Midsummer Common – Cambridge On the 17th of March 2010 I and about thirty others attended an annual general meeting of the Friends of Midsummer Common. This was a meeting, open to all, which had been advertised on the common. Interesting Points Council officer Alistair Wilson reported that the Horse Chestnuts on Victoria avenue have […]
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Cambridge Lib Dems Fail to Shortlist Credible Candidate
Despite presiding over mass fellings of healthy trees and substantial folk festival losses Cambridge City Councillor Julie Smith appears to be the best the Liberal Democrats can come up with to stand for election as Cambridge’s MP. On Tuesday the 15th of December 2009 Cambridge Liberal Democrats announced the six person shortlist from which they […]
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Single Streetlight Foils Four Wannabe MPs
All elected representatives in West/Central Cambridge want a street-light under this archway, yet the county council refuse to fund the electricity. Four of of the six Liberal Democrats who are seeking to be the Lib Dem candidate for Cambridge in the forthcoming general election took part, as councillors, in the West / Central Area committee […]
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Councillors Refuse Permission for More Floodlights at Tennis Club
This evening I watched councillors refuse a planning application from Cambridge Tennis Club on Wilberforce Road. The club had applied for permission to put up floodlights on three currently unlit courts. The Vote Cambridge City Council don’t record which why councillors vote, even on matters of substantial public interest such as this application. I have […]