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If Labour Run Cambridge City Council
I’ve been looking into what we should expect in Cambridge if the majority of councillors elected to Cambridge City Council are members of the Labour Party following May’s elections. The Labour Party have published a manifesto for the city council: One Cambridge – Fair for All. That’s not all we’ve got to go on, we […]
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Cambridge Labour Propose Dedicated Officers to Promote Water Meters, Chesterton and the Living Wage
If the majority of those elected to Cambridge City Council are members of the Labour Party following May’s elections, Labour will get to implement their manifesto for Cambridge we will see the creation of a number of new city council officer positions: Living Wage Promotion Officer Labour propose creating the new post of “Living Wage […]
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Labour Policy on Regulating House Sharing in Cambridge – May 2014
Cambridge Labour Party have in recent years proposed capping the number of shared houses permitted on any street, or part of a street, in Cambridge, and have proposed requiring properties shared by just three people be licensed by the council. I have strongly opposed such excessive regulation as I fear it would reduce the availability […]
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Electing a Cambridge City Councillor for King’s Hedges
In the last election held in Kings Hedges, the ward in which I live, over 76% of electors in the ward did not vote. In the last Cambridge City Council elections Kings Hedges was one of three wards in the city where neither the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats or Labour put up a candidate who lived […]
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More TASER use Consequence of Arming More Officers With TASERs say Sussex Police
On the 27th of March 2014 the UK Home Office released police TASER use statistics for England and Wales in 2013. I have made the statistics available in a spreadsheet 2013 saw four forces issue TASERs to non-firearms officers for the first time. These forces were Cambridgeshire, Essex, Sussex and Thames Valley. All UK police […]
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Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency Launches With Social Media Policy
Q: How many Twitter accounts do you need if you’re setting up a new @GovUK organisation? A: 8 if you’re @DVSAgovuk https://t.co/BLtrAsCsnn — Richard Taylor (@RTaylorUK) April 6, 2014 On the 2nd of April 2014 Minister Stephen Hammond launched a new Government agency, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Mr Hammond’s new organisation has […]
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Body Shop Sign Which Will Obstruct Highway and May Endanger Those With Disabilities Approved by Council
Liberal Democrat run Cambridge City Council has just approved permission for The Body Shop to place a sign on the pavement of Petty Cury, one of the city’s main shopping streets. The approval comes despite recent high profile campaigns from the Liberal Democrats on the subject of making the city’s pavements safer, including by removing […]
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Cambridgeshire Police Retract Hedge Threat After Twitter Outcry
On the evening of the 4th of April 2014 Cambridgeshire Police tweeted a warning to residents stating: Doing a bit of gardening this weekend? Make sure your hedges are neatly trimmed, max 1m at the front and 2m at the back This is utterly bizarre. Not only is there no requirement for hedges to be […]
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Secret Council Experiment Finds Eyes in the Night Displace Dog Poo in Cambridge
At Cambridge City Council’s full council meeting on the 3rd of April 2014 the executive councillor for bins and dog poo, Cllr Swanson, revealed the existence of a secret experiment she has been running. The experiment, which she had not told any of her fellow councillors about, and the existence of which had been kept […]
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Cambridge City Council – Anti-Social Behaviour Meeting – April 2014
On the evening of the 2nd of April 2014 I attended an “Anti-Social Behaviour” meeting in my ward of King’s Hedges in Cambridge. I’d found out about the meeting from a Cambridge City Council council tweet which pointed to a webpage on the event. The event in North Cambridge follows one in the East of […]