Blog Posts

  • Local Enterprise Partnership – meeting

    On Wednesday the LEP had its regular board meeting. This time it was held in the board room of Unisurge International Ltd (Farboud Innovation Park, Formula Drive, Newmarket, CB8 0BF). Unisurge is another fine example of thriving business in our local area. We reviewed how we are to spend a recent grant of £15m from… Read more

  • Queen’s Award for Enterprise – congratulations

    It was my great pleasure today to write letters of congratulations to the eight Cambridgeshire businesses that have received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise this year. They are: BlueGnome Ltd Colortrac Ltd Domino Printing Sciences Plc Horizon Discovery Ltd Spiral Software Ltd The Moller Centre for Continuing Education Limited Ubisense Group Plc (winners of two… Read more

  • New Member to Join County Council Cabinet

    Today I was informed by Steve Criswell, Cabinet Member for Community Infrastructure, that he had to step down to concentrate on his business and family commitments. I fully understand Steve’s decision in these economic times to concentrate on his business and provide support for his wife who has not been well. Steve has helped shape… Read more

  • Cambridge City Elections – Kevin Francis

    It is great to see able, commercially experienced businessmen standing for election. Kevin Francis is standing in East Chesterton as the Conservative candidate. One thing all Conservatives have in common is a desire to see your public money spent wisely and Kevin is no exception. Its about time Cambridge experienced the financial rigour that a… Read more

  • Fire control Center – waste of £450m of public money

    The previous Labour government embarked on an outrageous spending spree. What I had not really understood was the scale of the spend and how ridiculous some of it was. Last week I had the opportunity to look around the regional fire control Center in Waterbeach. If you need an example of Labour waste this is… Read more

  • Lib Dems – not making false claims again surely !!!!

    Lib Dems – not making false claims again surely !!!!

    What is it about the local Lib Dems that means they seem to want to falsely claim credit. I know it must be hard in opposition but this sort of falsehoods don’t fool anyone. This is the sort of thing that children do and makes the Lib Dems look foolish and untrustworthy. Deceit in any… Read more