{"id":2990,"date":"2011-05-09T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2018-04-15T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T13:49:47","slug":"the-bbc-department-of-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/the-bbc-department-of-coincidences\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC Department of Coincidences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday 9th May 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-incidence Part One<\/strong>: Just last week, Marco Cereste, Leader of Peterborough City Council, gained re-election to Stanground Central in a closely fought contest, after the surprise collapse of the Labour candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/stanground-central-peterborough-local-election-2011-debate\/\" target=\"new\">in this debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-incidence Part Two<\/strong>: Today BBC Cambridgeshire is awash with stories about how Peterborough is failing to cope with the terrible problems it&#8217;s having with litter, waste and recycling. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/network-rail-action-call-peterborough-station-quarter\/\" target=\"new\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/peterborough-litter-human-behaviour-councilfalse-economies\/\" target=\"new\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-incidence Part Three<\/strong>: Marco Cereste Leader of Peterborough City Council, of his many accomplishments,  is Chairman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prel-online.co.uk\" target=\"new\">PREL<\/a>, which has controversial plans to build a giant incinerator on land in Fengate, and another giant incinerator at Sutton Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>PS folks: Don&#8217;t forget to renew that licence fee.<\/p>\n<p>===================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 9th May 2011 Co-incidence Part One: Just last week, Marco Cereste, Leader of Peterborough City Council, gained re-election to Stanground Central in a closely fought contest, after the surprise collapse of the Labour candidate in this debate. Co-incidence Part Two: Today BBC Cambridgeshire is awash with stories about how Peterborough is failing to cope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/the-bbc-department-of-coincidences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The BBC Department of Coincidences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,62,34],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc-radio-peterborough","tag-marco-cereste","tag-peterborough-city-council","tag-prel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9944,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}