There has been a lot of talk amongst the media about government’s backing of the planned A14 upgrades – including widening and tolling of sections. I thought that I’d put a couple of links in so you can see that it’s not just us who are excited about this new scheme. It really is great… Read more

The morning started with interviews at the BBC studios chatting about the A14 upgrade. Then it was into our first face to face board meeting of our new bank. Some good challenge of the executive team and a lot of procedure and policy approval. Interestingly, given I am the only board member without any banking… Read more

Talking about the fantastic news that the government is now backing the A14 upgrade. There have been false dawns before but this time the county council is part of the solution and has influence at the DfT. video Read more

This is great news. We have been working very hard with DfT and the Treasury to get the A14 upgrade back on the agenda. Andrew Lansley MP has been particularly helpful in getting this discussed at the very highest levels in government. I’m not sure where this leaves Julian Huppert, the Lib Dem MP for… Read more

Daniel Zeichner has been selected by Labour activists to fight the Cambridge City seat. At the last election Daniel was beaten into third place behind the Lib Dems and our own Conservative Nick Hilman. My money was on Tariq Sadiq the Labour opposition leader at the County Council. Tariq would have been a much bigger… Read more