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Peterborough News 29th July 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 29th July 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
Arthur Mellows Village College and Kings School Peterborough are lined up for academy status in September and January 2011 respectively.
The number of retail outlets in Millfield selling alcohol is causing problems for locals, but there seems to be no easy answer, according to a reporter from Hastings, where a blanket ban on street drinking has failed to work.
Peterborough is one of a number of areas planning to apply for funding to install electric car charging points.
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Peterborough Migrant Worker Data Debate

The Office for National Statistics have released data specifying the percentage of Peterborough jobs currently held by foreign workers. Ed Murphy from the Peterborough Labour Party offers an alternative analysis to the current popular theory that English people are lazy scroungers. Broadcast at 08:23 on Friday 2nd July 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show hosted by Paul Stainton on BBC Radio Peterborough.
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Peterborough News 2nd July 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 2nd July 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
Plans by Huntingdon District Council to site a travellers’ encampment on the popular Great Drove site near Yaxley have enraged residents, 1000 of whom attended a public meeting last night.
Cambridgeshire Police appeal for more Specials to compensate for budget cuts. Local security companies feel they could benefit from the situation with private patrols and alarm response contracts.
An ONS report that 22% of jobs in Peterborough are held by foreign workers has prompted a lively debate around subsidising cheap labour with benefits.
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Peterborough News 21st May 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 21st May 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
A local councillor wants the District Auditor to examine the value gained from investment in housing associations.
A local pensioner has lost £130,000 from investments made through the Norwich and Peterborough.
Local Conservative MP Shailesh Vara is now a Government Whip.
Four are held in Peterborough icw sham marriage allegations.
The Peterborough Dragon Boat Festival is still inviting competitors to form teams for charity.
Vivacity Peterborough regret the Peterborough Lido will not be open in time to benefit from current hot weather.
A Peterborough Labour councillor comments on the Labour leadership contest.

Interviewees:
Charles Swift Independent Councillor Peterborough City Council.
Ed Murphy Labour Councillor Peterborough City Council.
Robert Hidderley Norwich and Peterborough Investor.
Matthew Bullock Chief Executive Norwich and Peterborough BS.
Lee Jackson Freddy Mercury Lookalike.
Mohammed Jamil Councillor for Lido Location.
Kevin Tighe Chief Executive Vivacity Peterborough.
Ben Falk Film Critic.

Team:
Presenter: Paul Stainton
Producer: Heather Noble
Sport: Nick Fairburn
News: Suzi Roberts
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: John Gray
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BBC Peterborough April 28th 2010

A summary of the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Peterborough broadcast Wednesday 28th 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
Goldhay Arts charity for people with learning difficulties may close after sudden news of a £44,000 deficit.
An ownership and maintenance dispute breaks out over the controversial Perkins Eye roundabout sculpture.
The election debate is dominated by an alarming Institute of Fiscal Studies prognosis on the economy.
The Peterborough Festival line-up is announced and features Stavros Flatley , Terry Jones and Nicole Lawrence.
The Great Eastern Run puts out a call for live bands to volunteer to play along the route.
A Whittlesea Park Lane Primary School teacher finally returns from her Gambian exchange after ash-cloud delays.

Interviewees:
Robert Erskine Sculptor.
Stuart Hamilton Peterborough City Council Great Eastern Run.
Alex Kitch Primary Whittlesea Park Lane School Teacher.
Ed Murphy Labour Parliamentary Candidate.
Dave King Peterborough Festival Organiser
Hugh Cripps Peterborough Environment City Trust.
Sarah Burckitt Goldhay Arts.
Jeff Stebbings Gardening Answers Magazine.

Mentioned:
Perkins Engines.

Team:
Guest Presenter: Andy Gall
Producer: Ben Stevenson
Sport: Peter Swann
News: Suzi Roberts
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: Chris Bell
Phones: Kerry Devine

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The Big Election Debate

A one hour debate between the three main candidates for the Peterborough seat in the 2010 general Election. Broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday 20th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

A one hour debate between the three main candidates for the Peterborough seat in the 2010 General Election. Broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday 20th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

STAINTON: Good morning. It’s nine o’clock. Welcome to a specially extended Peterborough Breakfast Show, the big election debate for Peterborough between now and ten for the Peterborough Parliamentary seat, between the three main parties. For Conservatives Stewart Jackson, Ed Murphy for Labour, and also Nick Sandford for the Liberal Democrats. Good morning gentlemen. How are you? Are you alright?
ALL: Good morning.
STAINTON: We’ll start with Stewart, the former Peterborough MP, of course, no longer. He’s got to bid for it again. Stewart MP for Peterborough since two thousand and five, winning with a majority of two thousand seven hundred and forty votes, a former Lloyds Bank manager before becoming an MP. Worked with Business Link in London, also a councillor in Ealing for eight years. Stewart is currently Chairman of the All England Party Group on Pakistan. He was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government, and had front bench responsibility. In his spare time he enjoys reading biographies, travel, architecture, history, swimming and bungee jumping. He’s married to Sarah, and has a daughter Isabel. Good morning Stewart Jackson.
JACKSON: Good morning Paul.
STAINTON: You’ve got your chance to sell yourself for a minute to the electorate. They’re listening. Continue reading “The Big Election Debate”

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”

Nick Sandford LibDem Parliamentary Candidate

An interview with Nick Sandford LibDem Party Candidate for Peterborough broadcast on 14th April 2010 at 07:35 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

STAINTON: Susie Roberts out yesterday in the Bretton Centre recording a few questions for this big debate which we’ve got on the 20th April. It’s between nine and ten in the morning, an especially extended Peterborough Breakfast Show, and we’ll have the three main Parliamentary candidates in Peterborough on. For the LibDems it’s Nick Sandford who’s with us this morning.
SANDFORD: Good morning Paul.
STAINTON: Ed Murphy for Labour will be on that, and Stewart Jackson for Conservative will be on there. The reason Nick’s here is because the LibDems set out their stall today. Their election manifesto will be launched. With talk of a hung parliament of course, even more focus on the LibDems. their leader Nick Clegg says this vote isn’t a two-horse race. (TAPE)
CLEGG: This is a choice now between the old politics of the two old parties, and something new, something different which the Liberal Democrats offer. It’s not a two-horse race between the two old parties Labour and the Conservatives. People have got a real choice this time, and I think that’s why this election is wide-open. All bets are off. (LIVE)
STAINTON: Well, Nick, you’ve got some interesting policies, fair tax, a fresh start for children, a greener economy, clean up politics in Peterborough, and seven hundred pounds in everybody’s pockets. Thank you very much. Cough it up. Continue reading “Nick Sandford LibDem Parliamentary Candidate”