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NHS Peterborough – Angela Bailey’s Farewell Interview

The outgoing Chief Executive for NHS Peterborough gives an account of what went wrong with the budget, and why she tendered her resignation. Broadcast at 07:10 on Thursday 4th February 2010.

STAINTON: Now as we’ve mentioned already NHS Peterborough’s debt has spiralled to nine point six million pounds. We reported last month that the PCT’s Chief Executive Angela Bailey said she was retiring when the shortfall stood at seven million. Well an Extraordinary General Meeting was held yesterday to prevent debts reaching twelve million by the end of March. Angela Bailey is on the line. She’s continuing in post as Chief Executive until her interim replacement starts. Morning Angela.
BAILEY: Good morning.
STAINTON: These are frightening figures aren’t they?
BAILEY: Yes. I agree they are concerning and hence why we held the Extraordinary Meeting yesterday of the Board.
STAINTON: Just remind us how we’ve spent so much over the budget that we budgeted for. Continue reading “NHS Peterborough – Angela Bailey’s Farewell Interview”

BBC Peterborough April 19th 2010

A summary of the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Peterborough broadcast Monday 19th April 2010.

Topics:
Atmospheric conditions continue to prevent air travel. COBRA meets. A boatlift is mooted.
A stranded passenger praises the efforts of her travel company.
Two further bouts of road works begin today to the east of the city.
Eight Peterborough councillors inadvertently omit to state their political party on nomination papers.
A bereaved mother wins a campaign to alter a Thornaugh access road.
New Bishop Venerable Donald Spargo is installed in Peterborough Cathedral.
Migrants will be evicted today from a makeshift camp on Potters Way.
NHS Peterborough will pay consultants to find savings to balance the books.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will grace the Peterborough Dragon Boat Festival.
Peterborough United FC take a thumping at Reading.

Interviewees:
Jack Thorpe Eye Local.
Sheila Scott Conservative Council Candidate.
Lorna Laithwaite Road Campaigner.
Marco Cereste Peterborough City Council Leader and Chair NHS Peterborough.
Stuart Moundfield Project Manager Peterborough City Council.
Nilesh Patel PUFC Fan.
Annette Beaton Stranded Passenger.
Squadron Leader Ian Smith Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
Toby Earle TV Easy Magazine.

Companies mentioned:
Lufthansa.
Air Berlin.
KLM.
BA.
Cicerone Travel.

Staff:
Presenter: Paul Stainton
Producer: Heather Noble
Sport: John Symes
News: Andy Burrows
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: Steve Weston
Phones: Kerry Devine
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Rob King English Democrat Candidate

An outside broadcast from the launch of the English Democrat election campaign in Cambridgeshire. Broadcast at 07:35 on Thursday April 15th 2010 in Paul Stainton’s Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

An outside broadcast with studio edit from the launch of the English Democrat election campaign in Cambridgeshire. Broadcast at 07:35 on Thursday April 15th 2010 in Paul Stainton’s Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

STAINTON: Yesterday the English Democrats launched their General Election manifesto in Peterborough. The Party made waves in the city last year when two city councillors joined them, after defecting from the Tories. One of those councillors, Stephen Goldspink, is now standing in the North West Cambridgeshire constituency, alongside Rob King, who’s standing in Peterborough. Our political reporter Steve Titman was at the launch event in Peterborough yesterday. (TAPE – OB and studio edit)
GOLDSPINK: (OB) A twenty billion pound bill each year for England’s taxpayers. English MPs can’t vote … (RINGTONE – “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder”) ..Yes. Well that’s a reminder to us all, isn’t it? Continue reading “Rob King English Democrat Candidate”

Stewart Jackson Conservative Party Candidate

An interview with Stewart Jackson Conservative Party Candidate for Peterborough broadcast on Friday 9th April 2010 at 08:10 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

STAINTON: Now, four days of election talk, has it been enough to persuade you to go out and cast your ballot on May 6th yet? If not, don’t worry. We’ve got four more weeks. Yesterday, Dr Ken Ritchie from the Electoral Reform Society said that under the current voting system, there’s no way the Conservatives would lose their majority in Peterborough.
RITCHIE (TAPE) What are the chances that the Conservatives are not going to hold Peterborough? Look, they won it with a little margin way back in 2005. Back in 2005 the Conservatives were trailing Labour by a mile in the opinion polls. Now it’s the Conservatives that are way ahead. There’s no way, you go down to the bookies, and see what odds they’ll give, on Labour taking back Peterborough.
STAINTON: (LIVE) Well Liberal Democrat candidate in Peterborough, Nick Sandford, said the system was the reason seats were staying the same.
SANDFORD: (TAPE) Across the whole of Cambridgeshire, certainly four out of the six seats in Cambridgeshire do hardly ever change hands, and that is a feature of the corrupt and undemocratic electoral systrem. That’s a system that enabled Tony Blair to be elected in 2005, only getting just over a third of the people supporting him. More people in the City of Peterborough vote against the Conservatives, but we end up with two Members of Parliament.
STAINTON: (LIVE) So could the election in Peterborough be a bit dull? Well Labour candidate Ed Murphy didn’t think so.
MURPHY: (TAPE) I know I’m from Peterborough. Most people know. When the personalities come through, one of the things is true, in Cambridgeshire we’ve got very boring Members of Parliament. Let’s talk to people about the issues, about how we need decent jobs for hard-working folk in Peterborough. There is a change in this election. We’ve got several right-wing parties standing. And it is going to be a very tense time in Peterborough, and very interesting.
STAINTON: (LIVE) Well Peterborough’s Conservative MP Stewart Jackson is in the studios this morning. Good morning Stewart.
JACKSON:Morning Paul.
STAINTON: So um .. no point really. You’re going to walk it, according to the Electoral Reform Society. Continue reading “Stewart Jackson Conservative Party Candidate”

BBC Peterborough April 16th 2010

A summary of the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Peterborough broadcast Friday 16th April 2010.

Topics:
Volcanic ash from the Iceland eruption continues to disrupt UK air traffic.
Taxi drivers will protest tonight over Bettacars poaching customers inside Liquid Nightclub.
There will be a service tonight at All Souls Church Geneva Street for victims of the Polish air crash.
Fletton man Mark Hurley from Shaws Coaches aims to win Coach Driver of the Year.
There is little local interest in the LibLabCon televised debates.
Government decides to make methadrone illegal.
There is a dearth of decent films released this week.
Oxfam sell a rare book for a record price.

Interviewees:
Chris Moncrieff Political Commentator.
Amran Masood Peterborough Hackney Carriage Federation.
Mark Hurley Coach Driver.
Paul Rodgers Temporary Chief Inspector Cambridgeshire Police.
Ben Faulks Film Reviewer.
Father David Jennings All Souls Church Geneva Street.

Companies mentioned:
Flybe.
YouGov.
Liquid Nightclub.
Oxfam.
Bettacars.
Shaws Coaches.
East of England Showground.
William Hill.

Staff:
Presenter: Paul Stainton
Producer: Benoit Stevenson
Sport: Nick Fairburn
News: Suzi Roberts
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: Steve Weston
Phones: Kerry Devine
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Fiona Radic Green Party Candidate

An interview with Fiona Radic Green Party Candidate for Peterborough broadcast on Thursday 15th April 2010 at 08:10 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

STAINTON: Today the Green Party launched their manifesto in Brighton. We already know they are very passionate about the environment. But what else are they going to be fighting for? Well Fiona Radic is the Green Parliamentary Candidate for Peterborough. She’s here now. Morning.
RADIC: Good morning Paul.
STAINTON: Is it just green policies that you’ll be offering the people of Peterborough?
RADIC: Well when you say green policies, do you mean the environment?
STAINTON: Yes I do. Green jobs. I mean are you going to try and get us out of this massive economic hole with green policies?
RADIC: Well exactly. We have a massive set of problems to deal with. The biggest one at the moment has got to be the economy. And the Green Party has tackled this by producing policies to bring down the amount of money that we need to borrow. We’re actually proposing to borrow less than the Labour Government is intending to borrow, but also to increase the number of jobs in the public sector.
STAINTON: How are you going to do that? Continue reading “Fiona Radic Green Party Candidate”

BBC Peterborough April 15th 2010

A summary of the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Peterborough broadcast Thursday 15th April 2010.

Topics:
Three party leaders will take part in a televised debate this evening: an image consultant comments.
The Green Party launch their manifesto.
The English Democrats launch their election campaign locally.
Eye locals are told the council will visit to discuss their concerns about plans for more houses in the village.
Peterborough Environment City Trust launch an Investors in the Environment scheme for businesses.
An ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano is disrupting flights from UK airports.
Hoax calls to police: the statistics are published and attract condemnation.
The Titanic sunk ninety eight years ago.
An elderly woman was injured by the door of a moving taxi outside Westgate House in Peterborough.
Anna Elmore from Waterstones recommends some topical reading.

Interviewees:
Dale McKean Eye Campaign Chairman.
Virginia Lovelace American Granddaughter of Peterborough Sailor.
Jackie Perkins Image Consultant House of Colour.
Fiona Radic Green Party Parliamentary Candidate.
Rachel Huxley and Kim Coley Peterborough Environment City Trust.
Anna Elmore Waterstones.

Companies mentioned:
House of Colour.
Business Watch.
Queensgate.
Waterstones.

Staff:
Presenter: Paul Stainton
Producer: Benoit Stevenson
Sport: Steve Fakes
News: Suzi Roberts
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: Steve Weston
Phones: Kerry Devine
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John Bridge on Immigration

John Bridge, Chairman of Opportunity Peterborough, comments on recent media stories about immigration issues in Peterborough. Broadcast at 07:10 on Wednesday 14th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

STAINTON: The Chairman of Opportunity Peterborough has criticised two city councillors for expressing their concern about the effect of immigration in Peterborough. You may have seen the stories in the newspapers at the weekend. Independent councillors Charlie Swift and Keith Sharp wrote to the leaders of the three main parties to tell them about the effect of EU migration in the North Ward. We covered the story way back in January, but it’s just featured in a range of national newspapers in recent days. Councillor Swift spoke to Radio Cambridgeshire yesterday. (TAPE)
SWIFT: Well I told them in no uncertain manner how my ward .. I’ve represented this ward for fifty six years, I’m very proud of the fact .. but I’ve seen it, not only this area but the areas adjacent to us, deteriorate. We’re waiting now, we’ve got about forty or fifty vacancies at the school round the corner, no places for children to go. We’re having to reopen schools that were closed only a few years ago because they said we haven’t got enough pupils. And I don’t think they realise that at the same time they’re talking about making drastic cuts in public expenditure, that it’s just not on. Because we’ve got all these extra pressures that are coming in. And there’s nothing racialist about it, they do not realise the effect at this present time, that all these extra bodies that we’ve got, on the health service, is creating. (LIVE) Continue reading “John Bridge on Immigration”