Andrew Edwards is asked to explain why work on St Johns Square is falling further behind. The LibDem Leader Darren Fower raised the issue, and local retailers have joined him to complain bitterly at the way Council have responded to the evidence that the interminable refurbishments have effectively destroyed their businesses. Continue reading “More Time for Centre Works”
Category: Conversations
The Pope Debate
A local priest and a spokesman for a Catholic group of speakers set up explicitly for the papal visit outline their attitudes to some controversial issues that have been raised surrounding the visit to the UK by Benedict XVI this week.
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PECT Funding Under Review
As Peterborough continues in its aspirations to become the UK’s Environment Capital, the Chief Executive of Peterborough Environment City Trust makes the case for retaining their funding from Peterborough City Council, in the face of widespread cuts under consideration to all sectors of the Council budget. Continue reading “PECT Funding Under Review”
Orchestrated Industrial Action
Kay Carberry from the TUC responds to inflammatory newspaper headlines which claim that “orchestrated industrial action” is on the agenda at the TUC Conference, and she argues for an investment-led policy to put young people into work. Broadcast at 08:35 on Monday 13th September 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show hosted by Paul Stainton on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Citizen Power Peterborough
Graeme Clark works for Peterborough City Council on the Citizen Power Initiative. Here is his outline of the progress so far. Continue reading “Citizen Power Peterborough”
Chris Moncrieff on Jonathan Djanogly and the Private Investigator
Minister and Huntingdon Conservative MP Jonathan Djanogly has said he paid private detectives to investigate his colleagues because he was upset about “malicious” newspaper stories. Chrie Moncrieff political commentator gives his opinion to Paul Stainton in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Continue reading “Chris Moncrieff on Jonathan Djanogly and the Private Investigator”
Nick Sandford and Samantha Dalton on the new Environment Capital Slogan
Nick Sandford (LibDem Cllr.) and Samantha Dalton (Conservative Cabinet Member) talk to Paul Stainton about Council’s plans to rebrand Peterborough with a new slogan, Home of Environmental Capital. Continue reading “Nick Sandford and Samantha Dalton on the new Environment Capital Slogan”
Bridging the Gap
In an interview broadcast at 08:25 on Tuesday 7th September 2010. Radio Cambridgeshire’s Paul Stainton talks to local committee man John Bridge about an anonymous group of business people who plan to replace EEDA with a new Local Enterprise Partnership headed up in the interim by the interviewee.
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