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Peterborough News 22nd June 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 22nd June 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
Peterborough could miss out on a predicted relief package on National Insurance contributions for business start-ups if the East of England is considered too prosperous.
Stewart Jackson MP has been appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Owen Paterson Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Peterborough Environment City Trust are launching a mobile phone app. designed to accompany instruct and inform people as they take walks around the region.
Spokespersons from business and the local Chamber of Commerce and a retired Huntingdon Mayor speculate on what today’s Budget might hold today and how it might affect all of us.
There could be trouble ahead for the new Cathedral Square fountains as maintenance costs rise and repair costs are an unknown quantity.
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Lottery Inquiry into PECT Sculpture Commission

The debate continues between Hugh Cripps from Peterborough Environment City Trust and Robert Erskine creator of the Power Rhythm Sculpture over the commission and subsequent handling of the sculpture as unconfirmed reports claim that the National Lottery will inquire into the facts. It is widely reported that PECT received £100,000 for the scupture and paid the sculptor £11,000 for the work which cost £35,000 in total. The following interview with Robert Erskine was broadcast at 07:20 on 2nd June 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show hosted by Andy Gall on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and includes a statement from PECT.

The debate continues between Hugh Cripps from Peterborough Environment City Trust and Robert Erskine creator of the Power Rhythm Sculpture over the commission and subsequent handling of the sculpture as unconfirmed reports claim that the National Lottery will inquire into the facts. It is reported that PECT received £100,000 for the sculpture and paid the artist £11,000 for the work which cost £35,000 in total. The following interview with Robert Erskine was broadcast at 07:20 on 2nd June 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show hosted by Andy Gall on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and includes a statement from PECT.
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Peterborough News 10th June 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 10th June 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
Roadworks on the Frank Perkins parkway supply rich pickings for the speed camera there.
Peterborough City Council continues to delay answering questions on cash for consultants.
A longstanding Conservative councillor targeted for asking questions may decline the whip.
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Peterborough News 7th June 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Monday 7th June 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
The Norwich and Peterborough Building Society is offering interest-free loans to investors adversely affected by the Keydata losses.
Plans to close down Millfield GP Surgery have met with strong opposition.
Government has told councils to be more transparent over their spending and a Peterborough Council spokesman describes ways in which they are complying with this request.
The PECT Green Festival finale went off successfully at the weekend although no records were broken.
City centre Sports Lounge has been granted permission to have a road closed and an open air bar and viewing screens erected for World Cup football matches excluding the Slovenia game.
According to the CBI sick leave is at a 23 year low.
Staff at the Wheatsheaf Pub Eastfield Road have elected to change their names by deed poll to Wayne Rooney during the World Cup.
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Peterborough News 4th June 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 4th June 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
A Catholic charity accepts that migrant workers homeless as a result of exploitation will need repatriation.
A local MP hopes to get extra cash from Government towards the cost of immigration into Peterborough.
The pros and cons of Neighbourhood Councils continue to be debated.
A local man cycles and paddles some distance for the Marie Curie charity.
Various environmental events will take place over the weekend to close the Green Festival.
An environmentally correct comedy evening will be held at the Key Theatre tonight. Tickets £15.
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Peterborough News 3rd June 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 3rd June 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
The redevelopment of Peterborough City Centre is likely to continue for another four months.
Peterborough’s Neighbourhood Councils do not do what they claim to do according to one councillor. The Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood, Housing and Community Development responds.
Peterborough United FC will be selling Shaun Batt to Millwall FC.
Peterborough’s Free Kicks Foundation have been and will continue to auction off players’ shirts on behalf of their charity.
Peterborough Environment City Trust will be holding a catwalk show today featuring second hand and recycled clothes as part of their Green Festival.
Hearing Dogs for the Deaf are appealing for people to takon and train dogs which will eventually be assigned to deaf people to help them with general mobility and safety issues.
Londis off-license on the Welland Estate in Peterborough has applied for an alcohol license to sell alcohol 22 hours a day, until 4am in the morning. Locals are incensed as the are has been subject to major improvement efforts by Cross Key Homes and Peterborough City Council.
Sue Stevens f rom Waterstones suggests some Bank Holiday reading for the children.
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Peterborough News 2nd June 2010

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

Topics:
The Office of National Statistics predicts a substantial rise in the population of Peterborough, but opinions differ on how best to provide the housing and other services that would be required.
Cambridgeshire Police have a scheme to teach 30 young miscreants the art of fishing as an alternative ocupation to crime. Cambridgeshire Police have also just completed a recruitment drive, doubling their intake over the last two years. A BBC reporter samples the training scheme.
A Peterborough woman is unhappy that she has been fined and cautioned for fly-tipping after leaving items for recycling beside a full recycling bin in Hampton Court Westwood.
An ongoing row between artist Robert Erskine and the Peterborough Environment City Trust about the ownership and maintenance of the Power Rhythm Sculpture appears to have been resolved, but not to the full satisfaction of the artist.
The Leader of Peterborough City Council offers his dream for the city.
Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson outlines his and the coalition government’s poition on a wide range of topics raised by listeners.
Jeff Stebbings Gardening Guru gives advice on plant propagation.
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Peterborough News 26th May 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 26th May 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 26th May 2010. News travel weather and interviews.
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