Category Archives: Peterborough
£25 Million To Breathe New Life Into Old Huntingdon
08:40 Wednesday 15th May 2013 Bigger Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire PAUL STAINTON: Huntingdon town centre is to be spruced up to the tune of twenty five million big ones. A new town centre multi-storey car park is due to … Continue reading
Peterborough DNA – Future Cities Demonstrator – Questions Arising
Via a private arm of the City Council, Peterborough recently bid for £20 million funding from the Technology Strategy Board to develop a Future Cities project. As a runner up to Glasgow Peterborough was given £3 million to develop … Continue reading
Stewart Jackson On David Cameron’s Solemn Pledge Of Jam Tomorrow
07:40 Tuesday 14th May 2013 Bigger Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire PAUL STAINTON: The Conservatives are to publish a Draft Bill which will legislate for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union by 2017. The move was announced … Continue reading
Classic BBC Hatchet Job
09:55 Friday 10th May 2013 Mid-Morning Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire ANDY HARPER: Let’s return to public art. That’s what we’re talking about this morning. The fountains on Cathedral Square in Peterborough is an installation that continues to divide opinion, as … Continue reading
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MP Challenges IPSA Valuation On Peterborough Property
17:18 Thursday 9th May 2013 Drive BBC Radio Cambridgeshire HRIS MANN: Conservative MP Stewart Jackson is being sued by the expenses watchdog after refusing to repay profits on his taxpayer funded home. He had been asked to hand back £54,000 … Continue reading
Lee Hammered In Peterborough Leadership Challenge
07:15 Wednesday 8th May 2013 Bigger Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire ONNIE BARBOUR: The Leader of the City Council in Peterborough has survived a challenge for his position from his own Deputy. Marco Cereste won the vote to be Leader … Continue reading
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BBC In Peterborough Again Featuring Marco Cereste On Immigration
In the run-up to the local elections the BBC’s Nick Robinson visits Peterborough, for reasons best known to the Beeb, and advises residents to get over their insularity, and any lingering objections they may have to the loss of their … Continue reading
Peterborough The Self-Harm Capital Of The Prison Estate
07:07 Friday 26th April 2013 Bigger Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire AUL STAINTON: Peterborough Prison had the highest amount of self-harm incidents in the whole of the UK in 2012. More than 1200 incidents were recorded last year. That’s more … Continue reading