Blog Posts

  • Ministerial Visit – Olympic Contracts

    Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude visited two businesses flying the flag for UK PLC through winning contracts to supply good for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Minister’s flying visit on Monday January 9 marked 200 days to go until the start of the games, and he visited two Cambridgeshire businesses, Touch of Ginger Read more

  • Christine is Busway’s One in a Million

    The millionth Busway passenger took a ride on Thursday, January 12, on the highly successful and record breaking transport facility opened in August last year. Christine Chandler from Colne was picked as the millionth passenger as she took her father Len Burrow, the millionth and one passenger to Addenbrooke’s Hospital from St Ives Park and Read more

  • Fulbourn Post Office

    The post office is so important to rural communities. When the post office in Fulbourn was closed a lot of hard work was carried out by the Parish Council and district councillors to get it re-opened. It re-opened in November on a trial and consultation basis. I was very pleased to receive a letter from Read more

  • Brilliant visit to our transitions team

    The transitions team help young people transfer to our adult service within the social care framework. This may seem obvious but it is interesting how the rules, processes, rights et al change on the birthday when a child becomes an adult. This small team are unique in that they see and experience both the adult Read more

  • A day of technology – or so it seems

    In the office at 0730 to prepare for a meeting with the LGSS (sharing back office functions with Northamptonshire) Director of Operations at 0800. We discussed a range of matters including how effectively our IT dept has integrated within LGSS. We also explored how important IT is in transforming services across the council. Sometimes our Read more

  • Conservative Home recognise our work to save our libraries

    The library service in Cambridgeshire is safe in our Conservative hands. Nice for it to be recognised nationally. http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2011/12/13-libraries-saved-in-cambridgeshire.html Read more