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Jimmy’s Emergency Accommodation Centre Full and Turning Away Nine People Per Night
Riverside, Cambridge. Cambridge’s homelessness emergency accommodation centre, Jimmy’s, is full tonight and has been turning away an average of nine people a night over the last week. Being approached by people begging for cash is a reasonably common experience for me in Cambridge. Typically the context is someone in one of the city’s shopping streets […]
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More Mud for Stourbridge Common
Cambridge City Council is proposing to spend £15,000 on making a muddy bit of Stourbridge Common even muddier. The published proposal, which the council are currently seeking comments on, states: Cambridge City Council is proposing to create a small ‘scrape’ in the Common, by excavating a small area of land within an existing wet area. […]
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Policing East Cambridge – August 2012
During Cambridge’s East Area Committee on Thursday the 2nd of August 2012 councillors held the police to account for their performance over the previous couple of months and set new priorities. I have written about three aspects of the policing section of the meeting separately: Tackling Problems Caused by Street Drinkers in East Cambridge Police […]