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Anglian Water made the announcement today – what will happen to the earth that will need to be excavated to make way for the huge volumes of water? Could a light rail line be constructed that can then be converted into a passenger line? See https://www.fensreservoir.co.uk/ for the main website You can also read theContinue reading “Chatteris to be the site of the Fenland Reservoir”

Over 30 people turned up to discuss how to hold the University of Cambridge and its colleges accountable for the decisions they take as corporate institutions It was mainly students at this gathering at the back room of St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church, plus a handful of us not-so-young town people, who went to thisContinue reading “Meeting the Cambridge Land Justice Campaign – Oct 2022”

I promised staff caring for me last December that I’d follow up housing and transport issues. It took me a while to figure out the structures (amongst other things) but I managed to table some Qs to their annual meeting. When I was in hospital in December 2021, it was in the middle of theContinue reading “Asking Addenbrooke’s Hospital / CUH about housing and transport plans”

Who is this made-up anti-growth coalition? And will the divide-and-rule strategy backfire? “Vested interests dressed up as think tanks?” Yup. The response from her opponents has been something like this: Above – “Tarantino’s new star” by North & South, 1997 And not just ‘the usual suspects’. This from the Institute for Government’s Dr Hannah White.Continue reading “Greenpeace gatecrash Liz Truss’s party conference speech”

It was commissioned by a Conservative-led council – which makes it all the more interesting given their party is now opposing it. I found the report in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Go in there and give them free money! Actually, the number of people from the property sector who use the Collection makes me wonder ifContinue reading “Councillors must study the county-council-commissioned survey report on congestion-charging for Cambridge from 2008”

The fact that councillors are having to debate this shows how much successive Conservative governments have cut from local councils across the country Furthermore, it shows the impact of their refusal to enable Cambridge City Council (and other councils) to raise money through a wider range of taxes beyond council tax and business rates. YouContinue reading ““Future of the Guildhall in Cambridge to be debated” (Version 2022)”

So when I saw the headline about further cuts to school budgets, I was reminded of the song. For those of you who need a reminder about the state of the present UK Government, here’s a Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) reminder from Juice Media. This was on the back of the markets punishing the UK economy overContinue reading ““If you tolerate this, then your children will be next” sang the Manic Street Preachers in 1998″

…and a missed opportunity to live-stream the speeches by the young green party leaders TL/DR: Watch the joint speech by the Greens’ co-leaders here, and with future events ensure you advertise the link to the livestream (and any event hashtags) repeatedly, and ensure you get good audio for your livestream. (People will forgive bad visualsContinue reading “The Green Party Conference 2022 – the co-leaders’ speeches”

It made a change from big names interviewing “The Minister for The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4”. Browse through this thread for highlights. Or alternatively listen to all of them all of the way through. It was that excruciating. The lack of public statements in recent days as the financial markets punished the UKContinue reading “Prime Minister Liz Truss vs BBC Local Radio presenters. And a comment from Emily Maitlis”

Slightly loaded question given the huge opposition to it – and that is in the face of the Stagecoach shambles. Also, the County Council publishes its cycling and walking infrastructure plan (See item 8 here – and compare it with Oslo here) Above – the Cambridge Independent leading with the opposition to bus cuts –Continue reading “Consultation on a Cambridge Congestion Charge, and a new walking & cycling plan”