Blog Posts

  • Initial campaign – so far so good

    The campaign trail is exciting, hard work and this year creates very cold hands. I have delivered leaflets and chatted to lots of people. I have had lots of offers to deliver leaflets which has been very welcome. When I stood in 2009 Neil Scarr (Independent) came a close second with a significant personal vote.… Read more

  • A14 Improvement scheme – Link to the CCC website

    We will be developing an information pack as the details of the A14 upgrade scheme unfolds. The key issues will be put on our website. THe link is here: A14 Improvement scheme. Read more

  • A14 – local MP view

    Last week on BBC radio Cambridgeshire I listened to Julian Huppert being asked if he supported the A14 upgrade. He failed to answer the question despite being repeatedly asked. Given his own party leader, Nick Clegg supports the upgrade, and Julian claims to support business in Cambridge what is going on? I would have thought… Read more

  • Highway heroes hit the hundred mark

    Brilliant effort team. Cambridgeshire County Council’s gritting teams have for the first time carried out 100 runs during a single winter season and they look set to be kept busy as the cold weather continues. A fleet of 39 specialist gritters – four of them newly acquired for this season – and their team of… Read more

  • Nick Clegg supports A14 upgrade – transcribed by The New Listener

    17:08 Thursday 22nd November 2012 Drive BBC Radio Cambridgeshire CHRIS MANN: One of the big concerns, and you’ll know this as an ex-Cambridge man yourself, one of the big concerns here of course is getting around the problems with the motorway system, and the A14 and so on. Might some of this money go to… Read more

  • BBC interview talking about the transport including the A14 – transcribed by The New Listener

    08:20 Wednesday 27th March 2013 Bigger Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire PAUL STAINTON: Fifty years ago the Beeching Report was released, massive cuts to lines, massive cuts to jobs. It begs the question, are we suffering for it now, as our roads struggle with the weight of traffic. And could expensive projects like the Guided… Read more