Blog Posts

  • Huntingdonshire Regional College – annual awards

    Sometimes being the Leader of the Council feels really special. Tonight I had the honour to not only attend the Huntingdonshire Regional College annual awards, but to make the motivational speech. Young people often get a bad press but tonight was all about celebrating their success. It was fantastic to see our civic dignitaries looking Read more

  • Libraries

    Wednesday was finished off with meetings to discuss the future of the library service and a regular 1 to 1 with Mark Lloyd the chief exec. I have been keen to understand what an excellent library service should look like and what that might cost, to shape our thinking moving forward. I have been encouraging Read more

  • Cambridge City. – in your patch

    On my return from Fenland I attended an event hosted by the Colleges children centre off Campkin Road, Cambridge. This was attended by city councillors, county councillors and officers. This children’s centre is yet another great example of providing a service to families. I have a particular interest in this area of Cambridge building on Read more

  • Fenland District Council – aims and ambitions aligned with County Council

    Driving to March, on wednesday, to meet with the Fenland District Council Leader and Chief Exec you can’t help but enjoy our lovely countryside. Some of the best growing land in the country and a world class university in Cambridge, the question is are we joining the two up effectively enough? We had an excellent Read more

  • Linda Oliver steps down from CCC cabinet

    This is a copy of the press release that went out today announcing Linda standing down from the cabinet. Press Release Cambridgeshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Resources and Performance, Councillor Linda Oliver, has decided to step down from her role. Cllr Oliver has recently had to devote an increasing amount of time to her Read more

  • Monday – where did the day go?

    Diary run through with PA at 0730. Had to duck out of the planned 0800 Northstowe cabinet group meeting in order to have a conversation with a district council leader on an urgent matter. At 0900 I had an interesting meeting to discuss Arbury and what can be done to turn around it’s unfair reputation. Read more