Category: Peterborough

MP Rails Against Cost of Uncontrolled EU Migration

17:06 Thursday 26th April 2012
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NICK FAIRBAIRN: The interpretation and translation services provided by Peterborough Crown Court and Peterborough Magistrates Court has almost doubled in the past five years. The cost has risen from £36,447 in 2006/7 to more than £75,000 in the last financial year. MP for Peterborough Stewart Jackson told me earlier it is a big problem. (TAPE)
STEWART JACKSON: It shows that again Peterborough is suffering in terms of the impact without any Government assistance in terms of extra funding of uncontrolled European Union migration. Continue reading “MP Rails Against Cost of Uncontrolled EU Migration”

Socialists in Peterborough

08:20 Thursday 26th April 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridge

PAUL STAINTON: The local elections just a week away, and we’ve been talking to the various parties who have people standing in Peterborough. We’ve already heard from the Conservatives, the LibDems, Labour, UKIP. Earlier we had Fiona Radic of the Green Party on, suggesting a 20mph speed limit across the city. And there are also two socialist party candidates standing this time around.Stephen Woodbridge is one of them, and I spoke to him earlier. Continue reading “Socialists in Peterborough”

UKIP in Peterborough

08:29 Wednesday 25th April 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: The polls are suggesting that UKIP could overtake the LibDems as the 3rd biggest party, and the party could grow further as disillusioned Tories perhaps jump ship. But apart from leaving the EU, what else do they stand for, UKIP? Well let’s speak to Peter Reeve, who’s Cambridgeshire’s County Councillor for UKIP. Morning.
PETER REEVE: Good morning.
PAUL STAINTON: You are just a one-issue party, aren’t you? Continue reading “UKIP in Peterborough”

Lords Reform Means Westminster Will Cost More

07:35 Monday 23rd April 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: Should the House of Lords be abolished? If you went around the streets of Peterborough, people would like to do more than just abolish the House of Lords I would think. A Committee of MPs will be asking that question today though. The peers are calling for the second chamber to be replaced by a largely elected body, with members serving for a fifteen year term. Well the issue is threatening to split the Coalition right down the middle. Even talk of resignations Paul Rowley. Is that right? Resignations? That would be an outrage. Continue reading “Lords Reform Means Westminster Will Cost More”

Free Kicks In Scotland

17:55 Thursday 19th April 2012
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NICK FAIRBAIRN: Yesterday our Peterborough Breakfast team caught up with a group of Posh fans who are driving 939 miles to all of the Scottish football league clubs in just two days. Why, you ask. Well to raise money for the Peterborough charity the Free Kicks Foundation. And one of those intrepid travellers is on the line now. Chris Dowsett’s with us. Hi Chris.
CHRIS DOWSETT: Hi Nick.
NICK FAIRBAIRN: Chris, wher are you at the moment?
CHRIS DOWSETT: We have just left Aberdeen, and we are on our way to Peterhead, which is about 30 miles.
NICK FAIRBAIRN: A long old way. Are you on schedule? How are you looking? Continue reading “Free Kicks In Scotland”

Peterborough LibDems Absent From Crucial Vote on Housing Expansion

08:26 Thursday 19th May 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

PAUL STAINTON: Sounds like an interesting meeting last night. What was it like?
DARREN FOWER: Well I wasn’t there, so I’m afraid I can’t ..
PAUL STAINTON: You weren’t there?
DARREN FOWER: I wasn’t there. I was out in the ward I’m afraid. I was doing ward work.
PAUL STAINTON: Shouldn’t you be at Full Council meetings? Continue reading “Peterborough LibDems Absent From Crucial Vote on Housing Expansion”

Coming Up For Air

“The first question was, where WAS Lower Binfield?

I don’t mean that it had been demolished. It had merely been swallowed. The thing I was looking down at was a good-sized manufacturing town. I remember–Gosh, how I remember! and in this case I don’t think my memory is far out–what Lower Binfield used to look like from the top of Chamford Hill.

I suppose the High Street was about a quarter of a mile long, and except for a few outlying houses the town was roughly the shape of a cross. The chief landmarks were the church tower and the chimney of the brewery. At this moment I couldn’t distinguish either of them. All I could see was an enormous river of brand-new houses which flowed along the valley in both directions and half-way up the hills on either side. Over to the right there were what looked like several acres of bright red roofs all exactly alike. A big Council housing estate, by the look of it.

But where was Lower Binfield? Where was the town I used to know? It might have been anywhere. All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks.”

Peterborough Properties Selling in London

08:18 Tuesday 17th April 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

ANDY GALL: It wouldn’t be the first time Peterborough has appealed to Londoners. Just cast your mind back to Roy Kinnear, dressed as the centurion, singing the praises of the Peterborough Effect in an ’80s TV ad. But it seems that we’re the place to be for people in North London. In fact, Peterborough estate agent Comptons has seen so much activity on their website from that quarter that they’re setting up shop on Park Lane in Mayfair. We can speak to Steve Compton now. Good morning Steve.
STEVE COMPTON: Good morning.
ANDY GALL: A bit pricey, isn’t it, to set up shop there?
STEVE COMPTON: Well we’re part of the Guild of Professional Estate Agents, and they have got a shop in London, so they’re taking all of our properties down there in the middle of May. Continue reading “Peterborough Properties Selling in London”