Watch out for events featuring small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Energy-saving light bulbs and household batteries can now be recycled at Sainsbury’s Coldhams Lane and Cherry Hinton Hall car park. Batteries can be recycled at most supermarkets. Watch for the new recycling bins in the City centre.

I have had several complaints about the drains problems in Hills Road. Whenever we have heavy rainfall, the northbound side of the road turns into a mini-canal. The cycleways are unuseable so you have to go in the road with the cars, and you get a shower as you are waiting to cross Long Road. […]

As reported earlier in the year, Cambridge City Council has allocated funds to improve the Wulfstan Way shops – £101,000 to be exact. There will be a follow-up workshop on 22nd June to discuss proposals in more detail. For more information, contact Penelope Hird — [email protected].

Have you visited the Nightingale Avenue rec’ lately? The City Council has put lots of extra kit in over the last few years — new climbing frames and spinners in the children’s playground, a second tennis court, a wheel-friendly path round the park, and most recently, a multi-use games area that can be used for […]

This morning to church – not unusual for me on a Sunday morning, except today I worshipped at Holy Trinity in the Cambridge city centre instead of my ‘local’, St John the Evangelist. The occasion was the Mott Sermon, an historic endowed sermon, preached today by the Rt Revd David Thomson, Bishop of Huntingdon. Mr […]

Queen Edith’s young people have been taking outdoor cookery classes as part of the City Council’s CHYYPS (Children and Young People Participation Service) this summer. On Tuesday, I was invited to go and  sample the results. Despite an unseasonally rainy day (what passes for summer in this country!) there were about 20 children chopping and […]

The South Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats are holding a Pig Roast on Saturday 3rd July, starting at 5.30 p.m.Tickets are £30 for a family or £13.50 for one, from Susan van der ven — [email protected].

Cambridge workers are being urged to take part in a Cycle Challenge. We are being pitted against The Other Place. We’ve beaten Oxford in the Boat Race and University Challenge already this year, so here’s the next trial of fortitude! It works like this: you sign up at your place of work, then encourage your […]

Our Lib Dem candidate for South Cambridgeshire,Sebastian Kindersley, has asked me to sharethis letter of thanks to all who supported theLiberal Democrats in the General Election:  Thank you for your support in the recent elections. Thanks to your help, we made some real progress in South Cambridgeshire on 6th May. In the general election, we […]

Newly elected MP for Cambridge, Julian Huppert, will be speaking to South Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats at a supper club this Saturday night. The evening starts at 7 p.m. and the venue is Comberton Village Hall. Tickets are £10 each, to include a buffet supper, and can be bought from Cllr Susan van de Ven by […]