Blog Posts

  • Horningsea Reservoir – Improved Safety

    Horningsea Reservoir – Improved Safety

    A local Horningsea resident was concerned that there were no warning signs nor life saving equipment at the Horningsea reservoir. Having been alerted to this by the parish council I arranged for signs to be installed along with a couple of life belts. Read more

  • Fulbourn Library Access Point

    The LAP service is under financial pressure with £30k of savings required from the LAP service budget. This has caused some concern, in all the LAPS. When Kathy Attmore, the chair of the volunteers, raised the issue with me it seemed incredible that this fantastic service should be put at risk for such a small… Read more

  • 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