BBC transcripts
07:40 Friday 12th October 2012 Bigger Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire PAUL STAINTON: “I want to clear out any mischief makers“, were the words of Fenland Council Leader Alan Melton, after sacking all 14 of his Planning Committee. It’s a turn of events that one local newspaper has dubbed SupermarketGate. Planners at Fenland District Council … Continue reading “Whittlesey Supermarket Wars – The Alan Melton Interview”
10:24 Wednesday 25th November 2015 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire PAUL STAINTON: So it’s official this morning. The confirmation has come through. The final site of Peterborough City Council’s big solar park dream scrapped. Councillors have confirmed that plans for America Farm won’t now go ahead, alongside Morris Fen and Newborough which have already bitten the dust. … Continue reading “Supermarketgate – no immediate prospect of a Sainsburys in Whittlesey”
Supermarket saga ends in calamity..
08:27 Tuesday 23rd June 2015 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire DOTTY MCLEOD: It has been dubbed Supermarketgate. For a number of years we have been reporting on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire that the town of Whittlesey could get a new supermarket. Well, there was a battle, and then it was over, between a couple of the biggest players … Continue reading “Whittlesey planning approval for Sainsburys”
07:46 Wednesday 29th August 2012 Peterborough Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire ANDY GALL: Residents of Whittlesey could be one step closer to getting a big supermarket. It’s to be decided at a planning meeting at Fenland District Council whether Sainsburys or Tesco will be given the go-ahead to build on Eastrea Road. The rival bids … Continue reading “The Whittlesey Shopping Experience”
08:26 Friday 9th January 2015 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire DOTTY MCLEOD: A £22 million Tesco store which was due to open in Chatteris last year has been binned by the retail giant. The sprawling store had been earmarked to open its doors to customers two months ago, but has ended up on the scrapheap without serving … Continue reading “Mixed feelings in Fenland on Tesco retrenchment”
08:07 Tuesday 1st October 2013 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire [P]AUL STAINTON: As you’ve been hearing this morning, as a result of a BBC Radio Cambridgeshire investigation, four British supermarkets are investigating claims that migrant workers who pick their vegetables in the Fens are being exploited by unlicensed gangmasters. The investigation found that leeks on sale in … Continue reading “Stephen Barclay On The Exploitation Of Agricultural Migrant Labour”