Cambridge councillors at the Lib Dem party conference came home from Birmingham with an award for our work on improving transport from the Local Government Association Liberal Democrat Group. It is the ‘Improving Transport Award 2010’. Although the County Council is the main transport authority, the City Council were praised for some of our innovative […]

Credit where credit is due. Thank you to the County Highways Department, who have filled in a dangerous hole on Hills Road in record time. Over the weekend, an eagle-eyed resident alerted me to a nasty hole in the pavement on Hills Road near the Long Road junction. It looked like a missing manhole cover […]

Ambitious plans to revitalise a Cambridge shopping centre will be unveiled on Thursday evening (March 11). The scheme for the parade of shops at Wulfstan Way is being developed following consultation last summer with local residents (see picture), including one survey carried out at the local primary school.   Projects, costing around £250,000 which include […]

Cambridgeshire County Council’s Highways Department has promised thorough repairs to the potholes in our area next week. Queen Edith’s Focus Team member Jean Swanson is keeping a list of all potholes in the Queen Edith’s area and passing them on to the County Council.  Help us make sure they don’t miss any by sending us the details of […]

Did you know that only one in four women and girls in the UK ever cycles? I was staggered by this statistic, which came out of research carried out by Sustrans last year. It resulted in a 9,000 petition to the Minister for Transport asking for safer cycle routes. The Cambridge Cycling Campaign (of which […]

LOVE CAMBRIDGE, the city centre partnership, has teamed up with Cambridge Nespapers, Park & Ride and Stagecoach to launch ‘Wonderful Wednesdays’, a great deal to encourage people to visit Cambridge for shopping, culture, entertainment or just to enjoy our fine city. Wonderful Wednesdays runs all through March and offers two Park & Ride bus fares […]

Along with other city councillors, I was asked if I would like to read my council agenda and papers on a ‘tablet’, with the aim of saving paper (and therefore money) as well as carbon usage. We often have agenda papers of 500-1000 pages for some of our meetings, particularly the one I chair, where […]

Diana Manasseh, a pineapple grower from Ghana, was in Cambridge today telling us all about fair trade pineapple and mango farming and the tangible differences that the fair trade premium makes to the farmers and their families. It was fascinating to hear how the shopping choices we make in Cambridge affects the people who grow […]

Police Community Support Officer David Jackson will be at the Cherry Hinton Village Centre on Wednesday 3rd March between 6 and 7pm to listen to people’s concerns or comments about the neighbourhood. He will have information about making your property secure, and how to register your property using a computer data base. Please do go […]

I picked up an interesting piece of news at a Lib Dem meeting last Thursday. Local bus operator, Stagecoach, is so exasperated at the never-ending delays to the Guided Bus that it is letting everyone know. Its fleet of 15 buses bought a year ago for the busway used to sport ads saying ‘I’ll be […]