This morning I attended a Cambridge & Counties bank board meeting which was held in Leicestershire, one of the Counties the bank is targeting. All is well in our world of banking even if it is difficult elsewhere. Interestingly, it is now clear that banks are very, very regulated. I am sat on a train… Read more

Last night I hosted an event for our Broadband champions. It was a chance to get as many of the 68 together as possible to update them on progress and to give an opportunity to ask questions and to get to know each other to share views. Our broadband champions represent the communities they live… Read more

On thursday night I was a guest of the CBI Easter Region at a dinner at Duxford. Eating under the wing of Concorde was a bit different. It was a great opportunity to meet business people and to share our vision of this county being open for business. The key note speaker was Ed Balls.… Read more

Last week I had a positive meeting with the MD of Network rail. We both wanted to touch base to make sure both our teams were fully cooperating in bring the new train station to Cambridge as soon as possible. All is well it seems. It was clear that we both see this as a… Read more

On friday I hosted my usual meeting with district leaders and MPs including Andrew Lansley, Jim Paice and Jonathon Djanogly. Regretably all three were casualties in the recent minister reshuffle. All  three restated how important to them local constituency work was. We were soon off in full swing discussing superface broadband, A14, Ely bypass to name but… Read more