Tag: Stewart Jackson

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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Peterborough News 1st October 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 1st October 2010.

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Accent Nene have submitted revised plans for the Thurston House site on Lincoln Road which retain the facade of the old building and the view from Lincoln Road. Council originally approved demolition, but a campaign by Stewart Jackson MP, Cllr. John Peach and the Civic Society has saved the building from demolition.
The GP Consortia scheme launched in Cambridgeshire gives control of budgets to groups of GPs who will effectively choose services from competing providers. Some within the BMA and elsewhere view it as a step towards privatisation of the NHS.
The recordings from an inquest into the death of a local man treated by a locum GP and which are required by the family for further legal proceedings have been inexplicably lost.
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Peterborough News 30th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Thursday 30th September 2010.

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Unison supporters gathered outside the Town Hall yesterday, to protest against planned cuts to the public sector.
NHS Cambridgeshire has launched its pilot scheme to hand budgets over to GPs and scrap Strategic Health Authorities. A new NHS Commissioning Board will oversee the regime.
Peterborough raises £60,000 for the victims of the Pakistan floods.
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Peterborough News 14th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 14th September 2010.

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The CWU Union has called a meeting of Peterborough postal workers for tonight at the John Clare Theatre to oppose Government plans to privatise the service.
According to the Campaign for Better Transport Peterborough is the 2nd most car dependent city in the country. Council blames it’s design.
Peterborough Regional College has been handed £250K Government cash as part of its Train for Gain programme.
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Peterborough News 8th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 8th September 2010.

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NHS Peterborough’s new Chief Executive is struggling to find the cuts necessary to balance the books and pay off the deficit left to them from the previous management. Waiting lists could rise as a result of targets being scrapped.
Peterborough City Council wants to install a new slogan “Home of Environment Capital” as part of its ongoing branding exercise for the city. They deny paying a consultancy for this slogan. Their previous offering “The Future is You” came in at £70,000.
Stewart Jackson MP is one of the people chosen to meet the Pope when he visits House of Commons on September 17th 2010.
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Stewart Jackson on Police Budget Cuts

Cambridgeshire’s outgoing police chief predicts Armageddon if savage budget cuts are imposed. Stewart Jackson MP offers a perspective on Government’s thinking, to Paul Stainton in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Interview broadcast at 07:10 on Friday 3rd September 2010.
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Peterborough News 3rd September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Friday 3rd September 2010.

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The outgoing Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Police predicts dire consequences if a suggested budget cut of 40% is implemented. Stewart Jackson MP and Ruth Rodgers Chair of the Police Authority add comments.
Three men were arrested after a dramatic police chase and multi-vehicle crash ending in Eastfield Road.
Peterborough City Council is looking to shed 60 jobs from its Neighbourhoods Department as part of a restructuring process.
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