The Queen Edith County Primary School (Godwin Way) is holding its summer fete this Saturday, 22nd May. These events are great for their teas and hot dogs as well as other fête fun such as bouncy castles, assaults courses, music-making and games. There’s a car boot sale too, so a chance to pick up a […]

Here are the results for the Queen Edith’s city council election and the South Cambridgeshire parliamentary election held on 6th May 2010: Queen Edith’s City Council seat Jean Swanson (Lib Dem) 2129 — a new record! Vincenzo Marino (Con) 1221 Jonathan Goodacre (Lab) 541 Brian Westcott (Green) 334 Carol Jackson (UKIP) 122 Lib Dem majority […]

Polling stations are open May 6th from 7 AM to 10 PMQueen Edith’s voters vote at St Jamse’s Church Wulfstan Way and St John’s Church, Hills Road (opposite Homerton College). The Liberal Democrats have opened up this election and we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reform our political system to one that is fair and […]

Train passengers are being asked to allow extra time to get to Cambridge railway station while work is carried out to improve public transport. To keep all traffic moving and minimise delay,s the roundabout outside the station will have temporary traffic lights in place for the next two weeks (starting next Tuesday, 4th May). The […]

The South Cambridgeshire candidates will be attending the following hustings meetings in the constituency, two of them in Queen Edith’s: 7.30 pm April 25th, Queen Edith Chapel, Wulfstan Way 10-11 am 27th April, Radio Cambridgeshire 7-9 pm 27th April, Addenbrooke’s 7.30 pm 28th April, Cottenham

GOVERNMENT BLOCKS CITY COUNCIL’S BID TO KEEP COUNCIL HOUSE INCOME Cambridge City Council’s bid to make significant changes to the law governing “green” building has been left stagnating in the government’s in-tray. The City Council involved an enormous number of people — groups and individuals, including schools, colleges and businesses– in drawing up proposals under […]

At last! Gordon Brown has called the General Election and as anticipated, it is to be on Thursday 6th May, the same date as the local council elections. So most Queen Edith’s residents will have two votes — one for a Member of Parliament for South Cambridgeshire (as that is the constituency to which Queen […]

Cambridge City Council is to explore a community self-provision scheme on land that it owns in Orchard Park. Potential individual owners will be invited to plan and design the scheme, working with the Council and a development partner. This innovative approach to housing was approved last Monday at a meeting of my council committee, the […]

In Waitrose this morning, I encountered a dismayed City Council tree officer, who told me six newly planted trees on Hauxton Road had been chopped down overnight. What a waste of taxpayers’ money! This was County Council land, but there has been no consultation with the City, who planted the trees. Any information on who […]

The Local Government Association has issued its annual list of words that council officers are banned from using when communicating with the public. My own personal bugbear is ‘going forward’, but do see the LGA list and tell me if you can think of any more awful words that should not be used.