Author Archives: Cambridge Town Owl

We ask: “Will city become the country’s first anarcho-syndicalist commune where councillors take it in turns to be ‘executive officer for the week’?” Pictured: New Mayor Maria Cleminson – Mayor of Cambridge 2026/27 You can: For those of you interested, Cllr Mike Davey (Labour – Petersfield) name-checked his earliest predecessor Major Dermot Freyer – theContinue reading “Cambridge City Council fails to elect a new council leader”

The annual property bash / industry networking event has been happening this week – with lots of sessions featuring Cambridge I had a browse through the programme and did a search for Cambridge-related events here. A number of institutional social media feeds have been posting updates on LinkedIn. See also this short video clip ofContinue reading “Cambridge’s future discussed at UKREiiF 2026”

It was a session at the UK property gathering UKREiiF 2026 on 19 May, sponsored by British Land (which means they also got a panel seat for the debate) – mindful of the news about Cambridge Science Park which I last wrote about in late 2025 here I can think of a number of reasonsContinue reading “The fantasy of turning Cambridge into ‘Europe’s Most Competitive Innovation City’”

I haven’t been keeping up as much as I normally would because of this persistent cold bug that has also meant missing music rehearsals. So chances are I missed someone who said something about the PM’s relaunch speech which I’ve not had the headspace to watch/listen to. You can watch it in full via ITVContinue reading “Starmer’s relaunch as more MPs call for him to go”

It’s one of the most astonishing scenes in the UK’s early post-war political and military history. And as TV producer in his late 20s, David Attenborough found himself summoned to Downing Street for a live broadcast to the nation. So off he went. When he arrived, this was the scene that he saw. We’ve hadContinue reading “Sir David Attenborough at 100 – and when he sent a Prime Minister to bed to get some rest”

In an historic night for a host of reasons, Cambridge Labour’s hold on political power at the Guildhall evaporates in the face of: Above – delete/amend as appropriate The balance of power at Cambridge Guildhall My vaguely-confident predictions from yesterday (more vague than confident – the only thing strengthening on my side is this persistentContinue reading “Greens now the second largest party in Cambridge, as Labour lose political control”

…according to various people quoting various polling and modelling organisations This despite the best efforts of Cambridge Labour’s elected councillors (City and county) to hold the walls from the combined Lib-Dem and Green Party political onslaughts. (See Cameron Holloway, the current leader here.) There wasn’t much coming from the local candidates whose politics are toContinue reading “Cambridge City Council expected to move to No Overall Control”

…or the old Cattle Market site for those of you who have been around for longer Also, it looks like LandSec are going to be selling on their long term lease. “Whilst we can’t comment on sales processes, we don’t have plans to redevelop Cambridge Leisure Park and the centre will remain open as usualContinue reading “New proposals for The Junction / Cambridge Leisure Park”

The BBC Radio Cambridgeshire recordings will be available for the next 3-4 weeks Plus we also had the annual recording of the Queen Edith’s hustings which, due to event clashes meant it was a ‘set up and record’ operation, along with the regular appearance of the noisy nestlings which you can hear in the background!Continue reading “Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire candidates go head-2-head”

Strange what you stumble across when doom scrolling with a frazzled out brain (You can access the consultation document at the foot of this link) I couldn’t even do basic admin tasks today such was my abnormally-fatigued state, spending most of the time between Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening tucked up and wondering why myContinue reading “Theresa May’s Government consulted on light rail in February 2019”