BBC transcripts
17:55 Tuesday 18th October 2011
Drive BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
ANDY BURROWS: It’s been on sale for 100 years, and if you’re a fan of it, boffins think we probably chew 100 pieces of gum every year. But do you love it or hate it? It’s a sticky problem, or an irresistably chewy treat. Kat Harbourne reports. (TAPE) (MUSIC)
KAT HARBOURNE: Happy 100th birthday, stick chewing gum. Continue reading “100 Years of Chewing Gum”
10:09 Monday 17th October 2011
Mid-Morning Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
ANDY HARPER: To go back to the subject of deer, this caught my eye over the weekend, the fact that they cause huge numbers. thousands and thousands of accidents each year, and far too many are fatal. There are calls for a cull, particularly in certain parts of the country. This is all because their numbers have more than doubled in the past decade, to reach two million. Continue reading “Muntjac Deer Management”
08:08 Thursday 13th October 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
PAUL STAINTON: Peterborough City Council’s mortgage scheme is “bonkers”, according to one city councillor. The Council wants to invest £1 million into the scheme, which could help first-time buyers with up to 20% of a deposit, and then get them a 75% mortgage on top of that. Ed Murphy is the Labour councillor for Ravensthorpe. He was unhappy with the original plan, and wanted officials to add a clause that meant only local people could benefit from the idea. Continue reading “Council Mortgage Scheme Switch from Housing Local People to Selling Local Houses”
07:55 Wednesday 12th October 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
PAUL STAINTON: The Orton Medical Practice has become the first casualty of NHS Peterborough’s cutbacks on GP surgeries. NHS Peterborough is looking to save £4 million over the next five years, and says services need to be improved. The surgery, where a protest was held last week by angry patients, will shut its doors on December 9th, and 3,500 patients will have to register elsewhere. Peter Whiteman is Director of Primary Care at NHS Peterborough, and says the neighbouring Orton Bushfield surgery will be able to cope with that number of patients. (TAPE)
PETER WHITEMAN: It could take all of the 3,500 patients, if they chose to register with Orton Bushfield. But we also expect people to choose to go to Nene Valley Medical Centre in Orton Malbourne, or to the surgery in Botolph Bridge. And we’ll be writing to every patient this week, to describe all the surgeries that they could choose to register with, and we’re holding an open evening on 2nd November, when patients can come and meet their potential surgeries and doctors and choose which surgery to register with. (LIVE)
PAUL STAINTON: Well let’s speak to Bernard Barker. He’s a patient at the Orton Medical Practice. Bernard, good morning.
BERNARD BARKER: Good morning.
PAUL STAINTON: Thank you for coming on this morning. So you’re at the Orton Medical Practice at the moment. Peter says it’s not such a big deal. You can just nip along to the Bushfield Surgery.
BERNARD BARKER: Yes. Absolutely brilliant. We found out in the paper yesterday. There’s been no contact with patients at all by NHS Peterborough. 3,700 of us have been dumped with no doctor, no local access to primary health care, and no communication from the health trust about how that’s going to happen. All our doctors are withdrawing from working for NHS Peterborough, so none of our doctors will be there. There are lots of disadvantaged, sick and immobile people who live in Orton and use this practice, and they’re now deprived of the doctors who’ve cared for them. All the support staff and administrative staff and nurses at the practice, they’re all discontinued with effect from 9th December. We found out yesterday in the media. This is a gross insult to the people of Orton, with serious consequences for the health and welfare of all of us. Continue reading “Orton Medical Practice Closure “A Gross Insult””
07:20 Tuesday 11th October 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
PAUL STAINTON: The River Nene is now home to more fish, after the Environment Agency opened one of the lock gates, to encourage more fish to pass through. As a result there are now more elvers, smelt, sea trout and bream, and roach can be found as well. Johnnie Dee is fishing this morning. Morning sir. (OB)
JOHNNIE DEE: Good morning young Paul. I’m at the Dog in a Doublet sluice, on North Bank Road between Whittlesea and Peterborough. And what a fantastic sight greets me here, because we’ve got this big gantry walkway, going right across the River Nene here. I’m actually going to go up the steps if we can. I’ve got a black gate just to the left of me, which is actually the sluice gate they open up. And it’s 25 feet across. A big black steel beast it is Paul, and about 25 feet deep as well. And this is the thing they open up. I’ve got with me a guy from the Fisheries Team at the Environment Agency, Chris Reeves,. Now when did you start this project Chris? Continue reading “Nene Fish Stocks Raised with Nifty Sluice Work”
08:32 Friday 7th October 2011
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridge
PAUL STAINTON: Council tax collection is just one of a number of back-room services at the City Council set to be transferred to a private firm, in a deal which could save the city £25 million. 450 workers at Peterborough City Council will be transferred as part of the move, and the City Council assures there’s unlikely to be job losses, and say they have already made £2 million worth of administrative savings in 2009/10. Let’s Speak to David Seaton. He’s Cabinet Member for Resources at Peterborough City Council. Morning David.
DAVID SEATON: Morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: So you’ve already made £2 million worth of savings. How have they come about? Continue reading “Peterborough: the Transfers Continue”
07:21 Thursday 30th June 2011
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Let’s find our more by speaking to John Richards, who’s the Executive Director of Children’s Services at Peterborough City Council. Joins us now. Good morning John. So how does this grant work? You’re planning to pay £120,000 to Cranfield University to fund this role and why? …
Now the actual cost of the Chair and all the accoutrements of a Chair of Renewable Energy is over £300,000. The City Council is only putting in £120,000, that’s £40,000 over three years, and the rest of the money is being put up by PREL. So this is a real partnership between business, the Council and the university.
Council Subsidy for PREL’s Cranfield Link-Up
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Minutes of a Council meeting held on 13th July 2011
From Questions Without Notice on the Record of Executive Decisions:
Provision of grant support to Cranfield University
Councillor Sandford queried what benefit this £300k grant would provide to residents of Peterborough. Councillor Cereste responded that it would ensure a reputable organisation remained in the city providing skills and education opportunities for the residents of Peterborough.
From here: Council Website – 11mb pdf file
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Marco Cereste is the Conservative Leader of Peterborough City Council and Chairman of PREL, Peterborough Renewable Energy Limited.
17:06 Thursday 6th October 2011
Drive BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
ANDY BURROWS: Plans for a massive housing development in Cambridgeshire are back on the agenda. The Northstowe development was first put forward over ten years ago. But the plans have been heavily criticised, because of the amount of traffic they would bring to the already congested A14. The Leader of Cambridgeshire’s Chamber of Commerce, John Bridge, says it must be stopped. Continue reading “Northstowe and the A14”