Tag: Vivacity

Peterborough Library Hours Cut

07:20 Wednesday 1st June 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

SUZI ROBERTS: New opening hours, as we’ve been hearing in the news, have come into effect at Peterborough’s libraries, or they will come into effect later on. Every library in the city will see their hours cut, except Central Library. Well Vivacity hopes the changes will save them £171,000 a year. So Heather Walton is Head of Libraries at Vivacity, and she joins me now. Heather, let me just get this right. Central Library hours aren’t affected, but the big libraries at Orton, Bretton and Werrington are being reduced in terms of their hours. How will their times be reduced from today?
HEATHER WALTON: Their hours will be reduced from forty four and a half hours opening per week down to thirty seven opening hours per week. The Central Library hours remain the same, because they get over half a million visits every year, and make up nearly half of all the visits to all the libraries across the city. Continue reading “Peterborough Library Hours Cut”

Old Scarlett’s Ale

08:50 Friday 21st January 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: Now what pray ye know about the legend of Old Scarlett? Well if you’re in the know, you might well be in a minority, because it’s feared not enough people know about one of Peterborough’s most famous sons. So leading figures in Peterborough have joined forces with a local brewery to create a beer in Old Scarlett’s honour. Let’s find out more about the beer, and of course Old Scarlett, by speaking to the Morecambe and Wise of Peterborough, Stuart Orme and the Reverend Charles Taylor, Dean of Peterborough. (MUSIC-BRING ME SUNSHINE) Continue reading “Old Scarlett’s Ale”

Peterborough News 9th December 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 9th December 2010.

Topics:
Today is the day when MPs vote on whether to raise student fees. The local MP supports the policy.
Peterborough Childrens Services have received a “poor” rating but a Council spokesman says the problems are historic and they will do better next time.
Council have passed plans for a massive housebuilding programme over the next 15 years featuring 21,000 new units.
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Peterborough News 22nd November 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Monday 22nd November 2010.

Topics:
A patient from Orton Medical Practice worries that the staff have indicated that the surgery may close but NHS Peterborough are not putting patients in the picture.
Cambridgeshire Police face difficult budget decisions, and their website offers residents the chance to test out different options for cutting the budget, to see how they would deal with the problem.
A possible buyout for the canning operations of Premier Foods in Wisbech leaves 460 workers in limbo.
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Peterborough News 27th October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 27th October 2010.

Topics:
Shailesh Vara MP Cllr John Holdich and the two headteachers concerned travelled to London to lobby for improvement work to Stanground and Orton Longueville Schools. They were told there could be some general funding made available to the Council towards the end of the year, and it would be up to Council how they choose to spend it.
A co-operation between Vivaicity and the Cresset owners means that Cresset Theatre will combine their booking function with Key Theatre to save cash and guarantee the future of the Bretton venue. Note: Panto starts 9th December Jack and the Beanstalk.
A councillor reports a problem in Ravensthorpe caused by private landlords leaving houses empty, leading to dereliction and vandalism. Council are effectively dragging their heels on the problem, citing regulations preventing them taking swift action to improve the situation.
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Peterborough News 19th October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 19th October 2010.

Topics:
With the scrapping of EEDA there are calls for unity as businesses strive to make a success of the Greater Cambridge & Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership.
Local Unison members travel to Westminster to lobby against cuts.
Social landlords predict that life could become more difficult for young families as Govt proposes cutting the social housing budget by more than 50%.
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Peterborough News 4th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 4th August 2010.

Topics:
Discussion rumbles on about the planned closure of the Alma Road surgery in Millfield. Council sends back the NHS consultation document with a request for more detail and further recommendations.
Vivacity confirms that free swimming for pensioners and children will not be returning.
SAT’s results slip a percentage point or two locally but meaningful comparisons are impossible due to the boycott which took place this year.
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