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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 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.

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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 27th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Monday 27th September 2010.

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Council announces plans to dispense with the services of a number of longserving agency street cleaning staff. A councillor says his ward is strewn with litter and another points out that Council awarded an extra £78.000 to themselves in allowances. Council say fly-tipping is no worse now despite having recently raised the charge for bulky waste collection to £23.
Police ran a large stop operation called Operation Utah with some success on Friday at Serpentine Green using automatic number plate recognition cameras.
Firemen attended a fire at a thatched cottage in Orton Longueville in the early hours of this morning.
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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 7th September 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Tuesday 7th September 2010.

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Local dignitary John Bridge has taken it upon himself to form a Greater Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership to replace the East of England Development Agency which is due to be scrapped.
Work continues in St Johns Square with the installation of two subterranean transformers to deliver electricity to the city centre.
Posh Chairman Darragh MacAnthony is funding an adult education centre in Padholme Road for 31 people with special needs in association with Helping Hands.
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Peterborough News 25th August 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Wednesday 25th August 2010.

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GCSE results locally are better than last year but below the national average.
The NHS Quit Smoking service in Peterborough is struggling with low success rates although it has reached its target.
Posh come back from 0-1 down at half time to defeat Cardiff City 2-1 in the Carling Cup.
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