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Peterborough News 7th October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 7th October 2010.

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Councillors have joined the local MP in questioning the current outline plans for the old Peterborough District Hospital site on Thorpe Road as unimaginative, unsustainable, and not in the best interests of local ratepayers.
As runners finalise their preparations for the Great Eastern Run on Sunday, news emerges that the Chief Executive of Peterborough City Council Gillian Beasley has suffered a twinge, and could pull out of the charity event.
Entries are invited for the 2011 Peterborough Poet Laureate contest, on the theme of chemistry.
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Peterborough News 6th October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 6th October 2010.

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Brookfield Construction have handed over the keys to the new £350 million Peterborough City Hospital.
ING Real Estate puts in plans to develop the Royal Mail Sorting Office site near the railway station.
Newly privatised Hinchinbrooke Hospital is closing one of its mental health wards.
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John Peach on the Urgent Care Review and Alma Road Surgery

As a longtime opponent of the closure of the Alma Road Walk-In Centre, Conservative Cllr John Peach welcomes the news that NHS Peterborough will immediately review its entire urgent care provision, effectively putting the closure of the surgery on hold, and he calls for an inquiry into the decisions taken within the Primary Care Trust over the last few years, culminating in the enormous financial deficit that they now face. The BBC’s Paul Stainton talks to Cllr Peach at 08:23 on Wednesday 29th September 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
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Peterborough News 29th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 29th September 2010.

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An announcement from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme that they expect to pay out up to £48K to investors who lost money with Keydata will go some way towards reassuring Norwich & Peterborough customers who invested through the Society in the failed product. Claims surrounding negligent advice are a separate matter. N&P Statement.

NHS Peterborough have decided to launch a full review of all of its urgent care services, and this will mean that the fate of the Alma Road Surgery will be put on hold until the outcome of that review. Opponents of its closure are relieved.

In despair at their 3-2 home defeat against Notts County, some members of the staff at Peterborough United appeared to trade blows with their counterparts in a touchline melee at the end of the game.
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NHS Peterborough Statement

NHS Peterborough have announced a full-scale review of all urgent care services, which will imapct on the current review of the Alma Road Surgery. Here is statement from them read out by Paul Stainton just before the 08:30 news on Wednesday September 29th 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Verbatim

PS: We did invite NHS Peterborough on to discuss the review. Instead, Dr Paul Zollinger-Read Chief Executive of NHS Peterborough sent us this statement. I’ve been in post for just over a month and have heard the concerns about proposed changes and have taken these on board. This isn’t about making savings, but about making services more efficient and easier for people to access and navigate. We will now start to review all of our urgent care services and how we make the whole system more accessible, looking not just at Alma Road, but at all urgent care services such as GPs, A&E, and out-of-hours services. In regard to Parnwell, for our patients at Parnwell we will continue to listen to their views whilst we look at the longer term options we can put in place.

Peterborough News 28th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 28th September 2010.

Topics:
Marco Cereste Conservative Leader of Peterborough City Council says he has plans to make Peterborough self-sustaining in energy within five years. He also owns Peterborough Renewable Energy Limited.
Local LibDems say “Environment Capital” is a PR gimmick and no measurable standards have been set against which to judge the claim.
Plans are underway to get the new Peterborough City Hospital at Bretton Gate up and running from 15th November 2010.
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Peterborough News 17th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 17th September 2010.

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Eye locals are on a collision course with the Council over plans to build many more houses in Eye. They claim Council officers have misrepresented the level of opposition to the plans.
Cllr Mike Fletcher is considering resigning from the Conservative Group after attempts to voice his feelings on issues in two Scrutiny Committees were, he believes, deliberately suppressed.
United union are up in arms over the doubling of staff parking charges at Peterborough Hospital by the PFI owners Brookfield.
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Peterborough News 15th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 15th September 2010.

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Persistent delays on the St John’s Square works have put the completion date back another month to mid-October. Local shopkeepers complain bitterly that the destruction of their trade has not been acknowledged by Peterborough City Council.
The Maternity Unit at Peterborough District Hospital has been praised by the Care Quality Commission for improving its staffing levels.
Work has resumed on the Northey Gravel Bridge near the Dog and Doublet Pub after a protected moorhen’s nest was fortuitously washed away. The old bridge is being entirely replaced and drivers should notice the improvement when work is complete.
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