New Link Peterborough is a groundbreaking service that provides guidance and advice to new arrivals in the city, who may not be familiar with the language and culture. Changes in the service now mean that instead of being office-based they will become peripatetic, with four out-reach workers travelling around offering the service at different venues in the city.
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Month: November 2010
Peterborough News 30th November 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 30th November 2010.
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Paston shopkeepers are rightly alarmed at the prospect of a Tesco Express shop opening nearby, which will probably put an end to their business.
It is also a cause of some concern that the two existing Tesco shops in Peterborough will open for almost five complete days in succession in the run up to Christmas.
The New Link service which offers advice to new arrivals will be widened, and will use four outreach workers to provide the service to all residents.
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The Battle of Eye
08:10 Monday 29th November 2010
Peterborough Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
Following a consultation with Eye locals, in which the villagers agreed to 40 new houses, Peterborough City Council have set out to build 685. Resistance is mounting to what residents see as rapacious development, and Dale McKean reports back from the latest public meeting. In related news: Larkpoint and Larkfleet Homes are developers working in Eye. The Leader of Peterborough City Council has now been appointed Chairman of Larkpoint.
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Jumbo Housing Developments No Longer Welcome
Conservative MP Stewart Jackson points out that small sustainable housing builds are the Coalition Government’s new policy, and the giant greenfield sprawls favoured by Peterborough City Council do not fit with current political thinking.
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Peterborough News 29th November 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Monday 29th November 2010.
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Local MP Stewart Jackson has lent his weight to the Eye villagers’ campaign to prevent further low-cost housebuilding in the village. Council wanted another 300 units to add to the 380 already built. Locals say schools, roads and the GP surgery are all full, and that other villages would benefit more from extra houses to help them become sustainable.
Building work has started a week early on the refurbishment of Ormiston Bushfield School.
Local travel has been disrupted by snow, but the Federation of Small Business urges workers to struggle in at all costs.
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Cereste Questioned Over Larkpoint Role
Serious questions are being raised, after it was announced that the Leader of Peterborough City Council Marco Cereste has added the Chairmanship of Larkpoint, specialists in healthcare and retirement living development, and who are engaged in land development in Peterborough, to his long list of outside interests. In essence the claim is that he has too many jobs, too closely interwoven, to carry out his public duties in a proper manner. Councillor Cereste denies this, and says that in any case Leader is a part-time job, and he needs the money.
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Peterborough News 26th November 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Friday 26th November 2010.
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A conflict of interest row is brewing after it was announced that Marco Cereste Leader of Peterborough City Council has taken up the Chairmanship of Larkpoint, which is involved in construction in the city. A question has also been raised over Mr Cereste’s level of commitment to his Council role, given the number of outside interests he pursues.
Osborne, who are engaged in the refurbishment of Cathedral Square and a year behind schedule, have responded to claims that some of their work is also unsatisfactory.
Guild House in Oundle Road, a 50,000 sq ft. building with a glass facade on a four acre site, is in the process of being refurbished and renovated, and will provide a training centre for 500 Anglia Ruskin student nurses when it opens in March.
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Forward Press Goes to the Wall
Forward Press of Peterborough has ceased trading.
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