Tag: Nene Park Trust

Drive In Cinema at Ferry Meadows Country Park

07:55 Wednesday 4th April 2012
Peterborough Breakfast Show
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

(MUSIC – THE DRIFTERS)

PAUL STAINTON: Talking about it all morning. Ferry Meadows is being turned into a cinema for a weekend in May. And you won’t even have to get out of your car. A giant inflatable screen is being put up. Susan Evans is from the Nene Park Trust. Good morning Susan.
SUSAN EVANS: Morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: How are you?
SUSAN EVANS: Very well thank you.
PAUL STAINTON: So tell us what’s going to happen exactly. Continue reading “Drive In Cinema at Ferry Meadows Country Park”

Peterborough Firework Display Banned

17:15 Thursday 29th September 2011
Drive BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

ANDY BURROWS: One big event that’s not going to happen is the annual Fireworks Fiesta in Peterborough. It was announced a couple of weeks ago that the Nene Park Trust which manages Ferry Meadows where the event traditionally takes place was no longer going to play host to the display, because of traffic problems connected with dealing with the expected 15,000 visitors. It had been hoped an alternative venue could be found, but today it was announced the event had been called off altogether. The Mayor of Peterborough, Paula Thacker, spoke to Paul Stainton on our Peterborough Breakfast Show this morning. (TAPE)
PAULA THACKER: I’m very very disappointed, deeply upset, shocked, angry with James McCullogh and his Trustees, and I suggest that people do look at his Trustees, because unfortunately, I’m going to say this, a lot of people won’t know that we have two councillors on that Trustee board, which I’m really really disappointed as well. (LIVE)
ANDY BURROWS: That was the Mayor of Peterborough, Paula Thacker, wading into that row over the future of the Firework Fiesta. Well one of those Trustees that she named there is Councillor Samantha Dalton, who’s the Cabinet Member for the Environment in Peterborough, and earlier on I asked her if she was as disappointed as the Mayor. Continue reading “Peterborough Firework Display Banned”