The way Neighbourhood Councils are being run in Peterborough could soon change. The new proposal would see the twenty five thousand pounds given to Neighbourhoods come from a different source. If approved, the changes would also see the meetings take place less often.
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Month: November 2010
Peterborough News 15th November 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Monday 15th November 2010.
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The new Peterborough super hospital opens today and the local MP hopes H.M.Queen will be able to perform the official opening.
There are some changes on the way for Neighbourhood Councils as future monies will need to come from housing developers, as debate continues over whether they should be scaled down or modified.
A mass sleep-in by 135 plucky volunteers at Bretton Sainsburys on Friday successfully raised more than £32,000 for a new vehicle for the Peterborough Soup Kitchen.
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Peterborough News 12th November 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Friday 12th November 2010.
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Peterborough City Hospital opens on Monday, and staff are currently transferring from the Edith Cavell Hospital.
Foundation East a community finance company is now offering help to start-ups and entrepreneurs in this region.
All Souls Church in Geneva Street is planning to offer an Italian Mass to worshippers who have lost their Fletton building.
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Bob Satchwell on Old Media, New Media and the Spread of the Metro
17:19 Friday 12th November 2010
Drivetime BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
ANDY GALL: Local newspapers could lose out following an announcement by the London freesheet The Metro to hand out fifty thousand extra copies of its daily paper to commuters travelling from the region. People from Cambridge, Peterborough, Ipswich and Bedford will be among those able to read the paper. Bob Satchwell is the Director of the Society of Editors and former editor of the Cambridge Evening News, and we should be able to speak to him now. Good afternoon Bob.
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Where Peterborough Council Spent the Money
The next post will be delayed until this evening (edit: make that midnight) due to constant power cuts in Peterborough.
Something to be going on with is a list of all payments made by Peterborough City Council during the year which seems to be 2008/9
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Nick Sandford on Missed Deadlines in Consultant Inquiry
Back in January 2010 Cllr Mike Fletcher posed a number of questions to Peterborough City Council relating to the amount of money spent by the Council on consultants. In March a Committee was set up to look into the matter. They were due to report back in September. This was put back to November without notice, and now they have produced an Interim Report stating that the questions will be answered in February 2011. Liberal Democrat Cllr Nick Sandford is a Member of that Committee, and he tells the BBC what progress they have made.
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Peterborough News 11th November 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Thusday 11th November 2010.
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Living longer: according to charity PRIME 20% of over 50s in Peterborough cannot find work yet the pension age rises.
Bans on public drinking are to be set up in more parts of Peterborough.
The landlord of the Crown Pub Millfield says there are too many off-licensed outlets in Millfield and drunkenness is rife.
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Call for Minister to Intervene on Consultant Secrecy
Back in January questions were asked by the Chairman of the Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee about the full extent of Council’s financial involvement with consultants, said to be twelve million pounds a year and rising. A report was promised in June, then again in September, then again in November, and now the answers to those questions have been put back to February of next year.
In the meantime the Chairman has been ousted from his post. Today he gives the BBC some more details of his cause for concern, including the fact that consultants have been paid one thousand pounds a day. The constant reluctance on Council’s part to deliver the information requested has prompted him to join with MP Stewart Jackson in writing to the Minister for Local Government to ask him to act to get to the truth about the issue.
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