Month: August 2010

Peterborough News 16th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Monday 16th August 2010.

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Cambridgeshire Police have been invited to cut their spending by £9 million by next April. Police officers cannot be made redundant. Staff will be consulted.
There is a shortage of primary school places in Hampton and in the PE1 postcode. Housebuilding and immigration are the two causes.
A dispersal order has been made against street drinkers and rowdies in Manor House Street outside St Theresas Shelter for the homeless.
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Alma Road Surgery Closure Opposed

Yesterday we heard that a Peterborough woman sent away from the Walk-In centre with a diagnosis of allergic reaction, died the following day from a flesh-eating bug. In the light of recent perceived failings at the NHS Walk-In Centre, which is effectively a triage service, a cross-party consensus of councillors repeat their objection to the closure of the Alma Road out-of-hours doctors’ surgery.
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Peterborough News 12th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 12th August 2010.

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Traders who are adversely affected by the refurbishments in St John’s Square are disappointed to learn that construction work could linger on into November. They say a rate rebate is essential in the interests of fairness.
In the light of recent perceived failings at the NHS Walk In Centre, which is effectively a triage service, councillors repeat their objection to the closure of the Alma Road out-of-hours doctors’ surgery.
The Italian community is determined to replace their church in Fletton, recently closed without warning by the owners the Scalabrini Fathers.
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Peterborough Migrant Funding Cut

Despite the widespread problems being experienced by Peterborough as a result of the large influx of migrant workers into the city, many of whom have become unemployed and homeless, Government has cut funding designed to address the issue. Broadcast at 08:11 on Wednesday 11th August 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show hosted by Paul Stainton on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 11th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 11th August 2010.

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A Peterborough woman sent away from the Walk In Centre with a diagnosis of allergic reaction died the following day from a flesh-eating bug.
The final scrapping of the migrant impact fund will cost Peterborough £168,000 this year and twice that amount overall. Peterborough continues to target rough sleeping by migrants with the appointment of two extra staff to that task but English teaching places will be cut back.
St Anthony Catholic Church in Fletton has suddenly been declared unsafe to the disappointment of the Italian congregation who may have to travel up to Geneva Street where All Souls have offered an Italian Mass.
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Another New Chief Executive at NHS Peterborough

Henceforth NHS Peterborough will be sharing a Chief Executive with NHS Cambridgeshire until such time as PCTs are phased out altogether. He will take on the massive budget deficit and replaces the interim Chief Executive put in place following the departure of Marco Cereste. The brand new man Dr Paul Zollinger-Read who starts this week talks to the BBC’s Paul Stainton and learns from the BBC that the Dental Clinic in Midgate is to close without warning. Broadcast at 08:36 on Tuesday 10th August 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 10th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 10th August 2010.

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Homeless migrant workers are living on the Boongate roundabout under the flyover according to BBC Look East who are covering this issue all week.
Cresset Theatre has been successful in avoiding closure by moving over to a room hire only basis.
NHS Peterborough is closing the Midgate Dental Practice forthwith. No explanation is currently forthcoming. NHS Peterborough is now sharing a CE with NHS Cambridgeshire.
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