Blog Posts

  • 8th Nov – March Community Centre – ‘Open House’ and Adult Learning Celebration

    The County Council is putting on this open day from 1pm – 6pm. Find out what is happening in your area from a variety of organisations. Try out the games and activities used on the family learning courses. Take a health check – local community health trainers will be on hand to help. Let us… Read more

  • County Council To Co-ordinate Work To Further Improve Safety on A1307

    Cambridgeshire County Council is co-ordinating work to further improve the safety record and to cut accidents on the A1307. County Council Cabinet Member for Community Infrastructure, Councillor Steve Criswell, has endorsed plans to bring together community, campaign and interest groups within and outside of the county to form a partnership which will develop proposals for… Read more

  • Michael Gove – Extra cash for schools – Lib Dem spin

    All money for our schools is welcome. However, it seems the Lib Dem’s don’t want the truth to get in the way of a good story. The recent Lib Dem press release is a piece of political opportunism with Julian Huppert claiming some of the credit for the extra funding because of his lobbying of… Read more

  • Meeting Business Leaders

    On Wednesday I met with Claire Ruskin (Cambridge Network) Michael Mealing (FSB), Chris Parkhouse (IoD) and John Bridge (Chamber) as part of my ambition to make sure the County Council is ‘open for business’ and alert to the issues business representative organisations are hearing from their Members. We had a productive discussion with both offers… Read more

  • Liberal Democrat – Opposition Front Bench at the County Council is ………………..

    ………. unknown. There has been much coming and going on the LIb Dem front bench recently. So much so that a number of us have lost track as to who is on it and what they look after. The only one I am certain of is Geoffrey Heathcock who looks after health. To clear things… Read more

  • Thomas Clarkson Community College Continues To Improve – OFSTED

    It is always good to see a school improving. It gives confidence to the young people, parents and the staff. Well done to the staff who have brought about this change for the good. See the press release below: “Thomas Clarkson” Community College continues to improve and its capacity for further improvement is good, according… Read more