Cllr Holdich tells Andy Gall from the BBC why some schools in Peterborough cannot cope with the number of pupils who will be starting in September. Interview broadcast at 07:18 on Monday 16th August 2010 in the Peterborough Broakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 16th August 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Monday 16th August 2010.
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Cambridgeshire Police have been invited to cut their spending by £9 million by next April. Police officers cannot be made redundant. Staff will be consulted.
There is a shortage of primary school places in Hampton and in the PE1 postcode. Housebuilding and immigration are the two causes.
A dispersal order has been made against street drinkers and rowdies in Manor House Street outside St Theresas Shelter for the homeless.
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Peterborough Migrant Funding Cut
Despite the widespread problems being experienced by Peterborough as a result of the large influx of migrant workers into the city, many of whom have become unemployed and homeless, Government has cut funding designed to address the issue. Broadcast at 08:11 on Wednesday 11th August 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show hosted by Paul Stainton on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 11th August 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 11th August 2010.
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A Peterborough woman sent away from the Walk In Centre with a diagnosis of allergic reaction died the following day from a flesh-eating bug.
The final scrapping of the migrant impact fund will cost Peterborough £168,000 this year and twice that amount overall. Peterborough continues to target rough sleeping by migrants with the appointment of two extra staff to that task but English teaching places will be cut back.
St Anthony Catholic Church in Fletton has suddenly been declared unsafe to the disappointment of the Italian congregation who may have to travel up to Geneva Street where All Souls have offered an Italian Mass.
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Peterborough Recruits More Midwives
Following a critical report from the Care Quality Commission on their use of temporary and agency midwives and to cope with a rising demand for the service NHS Peterborough has embarked on a recruitment campaign to employ more permanent midwifery staff. Chris Wilkinson Director of Nursing at NHS Peterborough talks to the BBC’s Paul Stainton at 07:35 on Tuesday 13th July 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
Following a critical report from the Care Quality Commission on their use of temporary and agency midwives and to cope with a rising demand for the service NHS Peterborough has embarked on a recruitment campaign to employ more permanent midwifery staff. Chris Wilkinson Director of Nursing at NHS Peterborough talks to the BBC’s Paul Stainton at 07:35 on Tuesday 13th July 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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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 9th June 2010
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 9th June 2010. News travel weather and interviews.
A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 9th June 2010. News travel weather and interviews.
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Chamber Chairman John Bridge welcomes another station car park for the vacant Royal Mail Sorting Office site.
Peterborough City Council set out their plans to put housing on the old hospital site on Thorpe Road.
A football fan voices his tourist safety concerns before travelling to the World Cup in South Africa.
Ministers bring forward plans to language test imported brides and bridegrooms.
Councils are given more powers to prevent garden grabbing.
An Edge survey for VQ day reports widepread worker dissatisfaction.
(Updated) In the Labour leadership contest five hopefuls are now in the frame.
In the LibDem Deputy contest Simon Hughes is expected to prevail.
A city centre sandwich bar is putting on a special effort for the World Cup.
Toby Earl from TV Easy Magazine looks forward to the final series of Big Brother.
Jeff Stebbings from Gardening Answers Magazine talks bees, plant health, pests and blight.
Stewart Jackson MP on Funding for Immigration in Peterborough
Stewart Jackson MP talks to the BBC’s Andy Gall about the economic impact that recent high levels of EU immigration have had in Peterborough, and how he intends to lobby Government for extra funding to cope with the true extent of the problem. Broadcast at 08:05 on Friday 4th June 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
Stewart Jackson MP talks to the BBC’s Andy Gall about the economic impact that recent high levels of EU immigration have had in Peterborough, and how he intends to lobby Government for extra funding to cope with the true extent of the problem. Broadcast at 08:05 on Friday 4th June 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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