Opportunity Peterborough and Smarter Cities

This interview with Trevor Gibson from Opportunity Peterborough talks about their pilot project to map local environmental data to Google Earth as part of the IBM Smarter Cities project . Broadcast at 08:35 on Wednesday 17th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.

This interview with Trevor Gibson from Opportunity Peterborough talks about their pilot project to map local environmental data to Google Earth as part of the IBM Smarter Cities project . Broadcast at 08:35 on Wednesday 17th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.

PS: A new project which will monitor the carbon footprint of residents and businesses like you, me, him and her across the city has been launched. Opportunity Peterborough has teamed up with IBM to produce a website which will show energy and water usage along with recycling rates for wards across the city. It looks pretty impresive actually. There’s a picture in a local magazine this morning. It’s a first for the UK, and the dream is that it will turn Peterborough into the country’s leading sustainable city. Trevor Gibson is from Opportunity Peterborough. Good morning Trevor.
TG: Good morning.
PS: I like the look of this. It looks pretty good. It’s very pretty indeed. Does it cost us anything, first of all.
TG: Well it’s initially a partnership between Peterborough City Council and Opportunity Peterborough, paid for, a relatively small pilot actually, and IBM and Green Ventures, and Royal Haskoning have come on board and formed a sort of an association of consultancies, if you like, to work on something that we think will be really dramatic for the city, and is already being taken an interest in by many organisations outside of the UK.
PS: Yes. Can you explain what it is exactly, in layman’s terms?
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BBC Peterborough March 17th 2010

BBC Radio Peterborough Breakfast Show summary for Wednesday 17th March 2010

BBC Radio Peterborough Breakfast Show summary for Wednesday 17th March 2010

Topics:
Kingscliffe protestors celebrate as Augean’s plans to dump radioactive waste nearby are rejected.
Peterborough’s Greeniversity holds it’s first awards celebration.
Southfields Nursery may be under threat as the Infant and Junior Schools merge.
Thinktank REFORM say thousands of hospital beds should be axed.
An Opportunity Peterborough consortium launches a Google Earth project mapping local green assets.
The Association of Head Teachers calls for methadrone to be banned.
Writing in the Lancet a GP calls for a lifting of the ban on ward flowers and on sitting on hospital beds.
Peterborough United await Jim Gannon’s decision on his contract offer.
Tesco are promoting black lager on St Patricks Day.

Interviewees:
Ben Smith Northamptonshire County Cllr.
Nyree Ambarchian and Karen Lawrence PECT.
Sarah Rourke Southfields Nursery.
Trevor Gibson Director of Environment Capital Opportunity Peterborough.
Jonathan Lewis Assistant Director for Resources Peterborough City Council.
Mick McGiven Guinness Store House Dublin.
Michael Murray Parkway Club Lincoln Road
James Wigham Tesco.
Matthew Kirk Kingscliffe WasteWatchers.
Ady Mowles PISA.
Steve Thorpe PUFC fan.
Jeff Stebbings Gardening Guru.

Companies mentioned:
Guinness.
Tesco.
Augean.
Opportunity Peterborough.
Green Ventures.
IBM.
Royal Haskoning.
EDF.
Anglian Water.
Environment Agency.

Team:
Presenter: Paul Stainton
Producer: Steve Titman
Sport: Peter Swann
News: Susie Roberts
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: Steve Weston
Phones: Kerry Devine
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Interview with Buttercross Tearooms

Spring in Central Park Peterborough, at the Buttercross Tearooms (prop. Vincent Terranova)

An interview with Vincent Terranova proprietor of the Buttercross Tearooms Central Park Peterborough, broadcast on the Peterborough Breakfast Show at 07:30 am on Tuesday 16th March 2010. Interviewer is Paul Stainton.

PS: Where better place to start our Springwatch campaign – where better to sit down and enjoy the signs of Spring, than the Buttercross Tearooms in central Park. Vincent Terranova works there and joins us now. Morning Vincent.
VT: Good morning, good morning.
PS: Are you feeling springlike this morning?
VT: Fantastic.
PS: Have you had a lolly?
VT: Definitely spring.
PS: Have you had a lolly? You’ve had a lolly.
VT: I’ve had my lolly this morning.
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Peterborough City Council and Consultants Update – for research purposes only

The relationship between Peterborough City Council and consultants is becoming a cause for concern for some councillors. This is an update on events up until 16th March 2010.

Continued from Part One

USE OF CONSULTANTS – SCRUTINY REVIEW
1. PURPOSE & BACKGROUND
1.1 This report has been prepared following a series of scrutiny meetings.
At a meeting of the Environment Capital Scrutiny Committee on 14th January 2010, to discuss the proposed council budget, the subject of use of consultants arose. The minutes of this meeting are attached at
Appendix 1.
It was agreed that the Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee be recommended to undertake an in-depth scrutiny review into the cost and effectiveness of the Council’s use of consultants and to make recommendations on the future use of consultants by the council to inform the development of budgets in future years.
Although not referred to in the minutes, the Executive Director – Strategic Resources, offered to meet with the Chair of the Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee to prepare the terms of reference for the review. That meeting did not take place and at its meeting held on 18th January 2010 the Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee produced a list of questions which it asked to be answered,
Quoted from this document: Use of Consultants – Scrutiny Review

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Interview with Mike Fletcher March 16th 2010

Interview with Cllr Mike Fletcher Chairman Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee Peterborough City Council following the meeting on Monday 15th March 2010 where Council was invited to account for it’s spending on consultants. Broadcast at 07:45 on 16th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.

Interview with Cllr Mike Fletcher Chairman Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee Peterborough City Council following the meeting on Monday 15th March 2010 where Council was invited to account for it’s spending on consultants. Broadcast at 07:45 on 16th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.

PS: Now a review has begun into the amount of money the City Council spends on consultants. You may remember last week we broke the news that we’d spent something like .. was it nine million or something like that I don’t know? It was a million pounds a month, wasn’t it? Something like that. Five councillors will now spend six months looking at the cost of experts, and the amount of money they save the Council. It was twelve million, wasn’t it? We revealed on the Breakfast Show that it was twelve million for this financial year and Cllr. Mike Fletcher is Chairman of the Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee. Morning Mike.
MF: Good morning.
PS: The purpose of the meeting?
MF: Well to enquire into the use of consultants, and see just how effective they are. I can assure you that if I have anything to do with it, it’s not going to take six months, more like six weeks.
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BBC Peterborough March 16th 2010

BBC Radio Peterborough Breakfast Show summary for Tuesday 16th March 2010

BBC Radio Peterborough Breakfast Show summary for Tuesday 16th March 2010

Topics:
Council leaders answer Members’ questions about their spending on consultants.
Scheme launched to provide needle bins for drug users around the town after churchyard problems.
Central Park Tea Rooms are open for business.
Health guru cautions against vitamins.
Orton Wistow Rocker releases album for charity.
Peterborough United big news day. Chairman will speak following talks with manager..
Kidnapped Oldham boy found safe and well in Pakistan.
National Gamete Donation Trust targets sports fans in donation drive.
The Cheltenham Festival is underway.

Interviewees:
Mike Fletcher Cllr. and Chairman Sustainable Growth Scrutiny Committee.
Karen Kibblewhite Safer Peterborough Partnership.
Vincent Terranova Buttercross Tea Rooms.
Michael van Straten Health Guru.
Father David Jennings All Souls Geneva Street.
Paddy Power Bookmaker.
Paul Johnson Sheffield-based Peterborough United Fan and owner of Brian the Pig.
Pip Morris National Gamete Donation Trust.
Mick Fry (aka Mich Cochrane) Orton Wistow Rocker.

Companies mentioned: Boss Micro.

Team:
Presenter: Paul Stainton
Producer: Steve Titman
Sport: Chris Osborne
News: Susie Roberts
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: John Gray
Phones: Kerry Devine
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Interview with Adam Barker March 15th 2010

Interview with Adam Barker selected Conservative candidate for the Walton ward replacing ousted candidate Charles Day. 07:20am 15th March 2010 on the Peterborough Breakfast Show.

Interview with Adam Barker selected Conservative candidate for the Walton ward, replacing ousted candidate Charles Day.  Broadcast at 07:20am on the 15th March 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show.

PS: Last week on the show we revealed that Charles Day had been deselected as the Tory councillor in Walton. And next we are going to speak to a man who’s hoping to take his place.
(Sport Relief Promo)
PS: So as I mentioned, Charles Day deselected as the Tory councillor in Walton last week. We mentioned on the show that he will be replaced as Conservative candidate at the next election by Adam Barker. Charles Day not very happy about being deselected. This is what he had to say about it.
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Posh Talk: Bob Burrows and Peter Lloyd

Posh Talk: A live three-way chat between Paul Stainton BBC, Bob Burrows, Commentator, and Peter Lloyd Chairman Posh Supporters Trust, following the win at Watford – broadcast at 08:25am Monday 15th March 2010.

A three-way conversation between The BBC’s Paul Stainton,  Commentator Bob Burrows and Posh Supporters’ Trust Chairman Peter Lloyd following the away win at Watford, broadcast at 08:25 am on Monday 15th March 2010.

Paul: Bob Burrows is here, Posh legend. I think I might have said Posh are still ten points from safety, eight, I meant to say. Speedy in Market Deeping has pulled me up on text Bob. They don’t mess about.
Bob: Oh, well done Speedy. He’s on the ball.
Paul: For a bloke from Market Deeping, he’s pretty quick.
Bob: Well, people hang on every word. And there’s nobody makes more mistakes than myself.
Paul: But it sounded like Posh played well on Saturday.
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