In May, when I became Leader, I asked officers to present me with a list of capital projects that made common sense but for various reasons had not gone ahead. The second station in Cambridge was a very obvious one. For 20 years everyone who knows anything about rail and Cambridge knew that a station Read more

Whilst in March I took the opportunity to meet with John Elworthy. Whilst we might chase each other around sometimes we have one thing in common and that is improving things for the people of Cambridgeshire. I intended to pop into his office but ran out of time. Instead I invited John to have a Read more

When I opened the March community Center, last year, I had the privilege to present awards to a range of people who had started on an educational journey to full literacy and numeracy. Individuals all had an individual story to tell but there was a common theme about how difficult and how high some of Read more

I was contacted by one of my parish council clerks who was rightly concerned about an elderly villager who was not well and for some reason was not able to get his phone line repaired. This phone was literally a life line as mobile signals are poor in his house. The parish clerk had spent Read more

I was contacted by one of my parish council clerks who was rightly concerned about an elderly villager who was not well and for some reason was not able to get his phone line repaired. This phone was literally a life line as mobile signals are poor in his house. The parish clerk had spent Read more