Blog Posts

  • Children and the County Council

    One of the responsibilities of all county councillors is to our looked after children. These are children who have had a difficult start to life and need all the help that can be provided. How lucky our children are to be brought up in a caring, loving family. Not all children have that opportunity. With Read more

  • Public Finances

    Borrow too much, spend too much and think that the boom and bust cycle has been broken for ever and guess what – it all goes wrong. Worse, we now have all to pay, at the local level, for the mistakes of this flawed governments fantasies. Dire warnings from the main UK political parties on Read more

  • Fen Ditton December 2009 parish report

    Cycleway to Fen Ditton At a recent members A14 improvement seminar I was able to raise the issue of crossing the A14 and our new cycleway. I am pleased to say that my suggestion that the highways agency might want to engineer the problem away, when the A14 widening takes place, has now made it Read more

  • Drive to reduce costs – pay freeze for managers

    At a time when everyone is struggling it is only right that those working in the public sector share the pain with those in the private. I have been concerned about pay escalation in the public sector for some time so welcomed the decision to freeze senior managers pay. Cambridgeshire County Council has frozen the Read more

  • Gritting Update

    “Further to your e mail to Richard I can confirm that it was recommended to the Environment Services Cabinet Lead Member & Spokesmen on 5th October that Fulbourn Old Drift, Teversham Drift and Kelsey Crescent were removed from our precautionary gritting routes. This recommendation was accepted. This summer we reviewed all our routes Countywide. We highlighted the Read more

  • Waterbeach – Waste Recycling

    I could not resist the opportunity to visit the new mechanical, biological waste treatment plant in Waterbeach. Hard hats, goggles, boots and gloves were fitted (or did not fit as the case may be), briefings were had and then we were off to look around the plant. I did think at one point we all Read more