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17:54 Thursday 24th January 2013
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[C]HRIS MANN: The major sewer works in central Cambridge beneath Jesus Lane have had to be temporarily suspended, but Anglian Water still expect the project to be completed in the scheduled twelve weeks, as Anthony Innes explained to me earlier. (TAPE) Continue reading “Jesus Lane Dig Proves Tricky For Anglian Water”
10:53 Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Andy Harper Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
[A]NDY HARPER: Let’s talk to the Euro MEP Paul Nuttall, who is Deputy Leader of UKIP. Paul, good morning to you.
PAUL NUTTALL: Morning.
ANDY HARPER: So, I think most people are suggesting that Mr Cameron’s speech, and not necessarily a U-turn, but a slight change in direction, is down to the pressure being put on by your party. Continue reading “Paul Nuttall UKIP – Exit Now From A Corrupt And Undemocratic European Union”
07:19 Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Bigger Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
[P]AUL STAINTON: Two murders in the space of a week in a Fenland town, and residents in Wisbech say they’re living in a climate of fear.
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LOCAL ONE: I’m a little bit jittery, I must admit. You expect a lot of these things in Wisbech now unfortunately, but it is a bit of a worry. You lock your doors now, where you didn’t do before. You just watch out for each other, but beyond that, what can you do? You look over your back all the time now. That’s the way you feel. You’re always looking behind you.
LOCAL TWO: I think the murder situation in Wisbech is absolutely vile. And there is a lot of concern for the older people in Wisbech. Once you get to a certain age you want to feel secure in your own home, don’t you?
LOCAL THREE: Terrible. My relations all live down in London, and they’re always on about what happens in Wisbech. What a terrible place to live, all these murders and that, carrying on.
LOCAL FOUR: Frightened. And not only that, we’ve been here twelve years now, and the way of life here has changed so much, with all this immigration and that. There’s ten to every one of us with the sounds here. Every time you go shopping, or anywhere like that, there’s old ladies, English ladies crying because they can’t relate to it all. It’s too much for them. I’m not a racist or anything like that, but they’ve put too many in this one town. I don’t know why they’ve done this.
PAUL STAINTON: That gentleman touched on a bit of a taboo subject there, didn’t he, immigration? Is that something we need to be talking about?
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17:18 Tuesday 22nd January 2013
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[C]HRIS MANN: A rise in council tax, a loss of 99 jobs, and the opening of a council-run care home – these are just some of the things included in Cambridgeshire County Council’s budget proposals. £32 million worth of savings need to be made, and will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting next week. The Leader of Cambridgeshire County Council is Nick Clarke for the Conservative Party. He explains why the authority may build its own care home. (TAPE)
NICK CLARKE: The reality is that the private nursing homes can get more money for private individuals than they can from us. And we look after the most vulnerable. So we’re hoping to build a care home that will provide some additional capacity, which means that we can control our costs, which will then reinvested in .. in .. for .. for elderly people. (LIVE)
CHRIS MANN: That’s Nick Clarke, Leader of the County Council, talking on this programme at this time last night. Well Kilian Bourke is the Leader of the Liberal Democrats in Cambridgeshire, the official opposition. He joins me this evening. Kilian, hello to you.
KILIAN BOURKE: Evening Chris.
CHRIS MANN: Your reaction to the proposals in the budget made by the Conservatives? Continue reading “Kilian Bourke’s Response To The Cambridgeshire County Budget – Election Year 2013”
17:17 Monday 21st January 2013
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[C]HRIS MANN: Cambridgeshire County Council has unveiled its proposed new budget for the next financial year. If it’s approved, council tax will go up by 1.99%, 99 jobs will go, and there’ll be £32 million worth of savings. Here with the headlines, joining me in the studio, is our reporter Govinda Gill. Govinda, tell us about the money. Continue reading “Nick Clarke On The Cambridgeshire County Budget – Election Year 2013”
17:41 Friday 18th January 2013
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[C]HRIS MANN: According to the Peterborough Conservative MP Stewart Jackson, the Government isn’t doing enough to prepare for the arrival of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania next year. It’s after MigrationWatch released figures suggesting up to 50,000 people could come here next year, when they get the right of free movement across the EU. The Communities Secretary Eric Pickles admitted that more migrants would have an impact on social and affordable homes. So we thought we’d try and shed some light on this, and find out what effect migration has already had on housing in Cambridgeshire. (TAPE)
ERIC PICKLES: The truth is I don’t think anybody entirely knows the number that are going to come from Bulgaria and from Romania. Given that we’ve got a housing shortage, any influx is going to cause problems, not just in terms of the housing market, but also on social housing markets. Continue reading “Immigration And The Housing Shortage”
07:30 Friday 18th January 2013
Bigger Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
[P]AUL STAINTON: David Cameron is due to give that update on that Algerian situation. He’s cancelled an important speech on Europe he was about to deliver today, but not in time to see the pound drop hard against the euro. Is it because of that, Mike Miller? Because he’s cancelled the speech? Or is it because of what he was perhaps going to say
MIKE MILLER: Yes, well it’s a bit of a combination of both. Basically, to cut a long story short, the pound has hit a nine month low. It’s down below one twenty now, which, if nothing else, makes it more expensive to go on holiday on the Continent. Because that one twenty, that’s wholesale prices. So you’re going to get much less than that once the dealers have taken their cut. The key word is uncertainty. We’ve got things like the UK’s triple-A credit rating on the line. But The UK’s own position on the EU is unclear. It’s now even potentially even more unclear, because that speech didn’t go out. We do know that David Cameron said that there’s a danger that the British public will drift towards the exit. And all these uncertainties, people are saying that we just don’t want to be a part of this, and that means they’re getting out of sterling, and that’s pushing the value down.
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07:27 Thursday 17th January 2013
Bigger Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
[P]AUL STAINTON: Blockbuster has become the latest high street retailer to fall into the hands of the administrator, after 20 years on the high street,and before that they took over other DVD shops. The DVD rental firm’s 528 stores across the Uk are now threatened with closure, and I make it, Tony Bonsignore, I’m just doing a few calculations, with Jessops and HMV and Comet, that’s about 16,000 or 17.000 jobs under threat in two weeks. Is that right? Continue reading “Reflections On Changing Times”