Blog Posts

  • Lib Dems Clueless when it comes to budgets

    Interesting how often the noisy Lib Dems get things wrong. Back in february last year, one of the noiser Lib Dems, Nichola Harrison, demonstrated a complete lack of insight into the financial situation the council faced. She accused the sensible budget steps taken by the Conservatives as being daylight robbery. Without the increase in council Read more

  • Teversham facilities to be sign posted

    Promoting Teversham: Did you know there is a petrol station in Teversham? How many people drive past the village on airport way and back into Cambridge to get fuel because they don’t know of this local facility? A couple of sensible signs pointing out the facilities might be helpful. The rules governing signage are complex Read more

  • Teversham Nov 2010 parish report

    Financial situation facing the County: On October 20th the Coalition Government announced details of its Comprehensive Spending Review. We expect that by mid November information will become available setting out in more detail how much funding Cambridgeshire will have for providing services in the next three years. We have already been informed that if we Read more

  • More waste by Lib Dems? This time at Full Council

    Full Council is an important part of democracy at the council. It is taken very seriously by most members. A lot of officer time is used to service and support the meeting so one would have thought that all members, from all political groups would use the time wisely. Not so it seems. I’m not Read more

  • New chair of school governors group forming

    As the county councillor for Fulbourn division I have a number of primary schools to look after including Fulbourn, Great Wilbraham, Teversham and Fen Ditton ( where I am  a governor). There is considerable change proposed for schools within the south of the city which are likely to have an impact on all of these Read more

  • Lib Dems waste officers time at County Council

    Google alerts are interesting. They pick up activity from individuals that would otherwise go unnoticed. I was alerted to a Freedom Of Information request made by Andy Pellow, a resident of Cambridge. He was asking some questions on the library service review. So what you might say. Well, Andy Pellow is also known as County Read more