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Unbelievable Presentation on Blue Recycling Bins
A third, blue, bin for recyclable waste is due to be introduced to Cambridge shortly. I attended Cambridge City Council’s South Area Committee on the evening of Thursday the 24th of September 2009. One of the items on the agenda was an update and Q&A on Cambridge’s new co-mingled recycling which will involve those who […]
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Cambridgeshire Horizons: A14 – Marshall Move – House Building
I observed a Cambridgeshire Horizons Board Meeting which was held in South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Cambourne Offices (Pictured) On the morning of the 24th of September 2009 I attended a Cambridgeshire Horizons board meeting. Cambridgeshire Horizons describes what it does as project managing the delivery of the growth strategy for Cambridgeshire. It is an organisation […]
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Cambridgeshire NHS PCT Board Meeting and AGM
Chief Executive Chris Banks presents his report to the Cambridgeshire NHS PCT AGM. This evening I attended a board meeting of Cambridgeshire NHS PCT followed by their AGM. The event was held at the South Fens Business Centre in Chatteris. I used the opportunity available for members of the public to speak to at the […]
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Removing the Royals from Government in Britain
Royals still have a significant influence in the governance of Britain. (Source: UK Parliament on Flickr / CC license) On Saturday the 19th of September, along with fellow WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer John Cross, I gave a FOI workshop at an activists day for Republic, the campaign for an elected head of state in the UK. The […]
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Cllr Julie Smith Speaks in Favour of More Spin and Media Management at Lib Dem Conference
I have just watched Cambridge Liberal Democrat Councillor Julie Smith’s few seconds on the stage at the Liberal Democrat party conference. Only at a Liberal Democrat conference could someone give such a muddled and internally inconsistent speech and receive rapturous applause. Cllr Smith told the conference that she is a member of the party’s “Federal […]
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Research Funded by the UK Taxpayer Should be Published in Open Access Journals
Results published on the 9th of September 2009 from the European Youth Heart Study (EYHS), by the Medical Research Council in Cambridge are not openly available. The UK public fund a large amount of scientific research, both though the research councils and via scientific work conducted by public bodies. Many results of publicly funded research […]
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Non-Firearms Officers Account for a Third of TASER Usage
I am very worried by the fact that now one in three TASER uses in the UK, and 27.4% of TASER discharges are by non-Firearms trained officers. I think that TASERs ought be restricted to firearms trained officers for use as a less lethal alternative to a gun. I, unlike the current Government, do not […]
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Management of the Trees between Templemore Close and Holbrook Road
Drastic crown reduction has taken place at one end of a previously magnificent line of trees between Templemore Close and Holbrook Road. Earlier today someone living near Glebe Road in Cambridge phoned me up to talk about tree works being carried out at the back of Templemore Close. Templemore Close is a small cul-de-sac of […]