If Cambridgeshire County Council had accepted the Lib Dem budget proposals and had raised council tax by 4 per cent rather than 2 per cent for the past two years, it would have an additional £10 million in the revenue budget this year. This is more than enough to save our children’s centres and improve […]

Yesterday I went to Cambridgeshire County Council’s HQ at Shire Hall Cambridge to hand in the Lib Dem petition opposing the closure of our Children Centres. At over 3,800 signatures its one of the biggest petitions received by the County Council and ensures the proposed closures will be debated by all county councillors at the […]

The reduction in Guided Busway services serving Cambridge North railway station should come as no surprise because you cannot expect bus companies there to make a profit for their shareholders to fund non-commercial routes that if required for the public good should be funded from the public purse. If we want to avoid people driving […]

The bus company Whippet now owned by Australian transport multinational Tower Transit has told Cambridgeshire County Council and the Traffic Commissioner that it no longer wants to run the subsidised route 18 which runs between Cambridge City and Newmarket via Teversham, Fulbourn, the Wilbrahams and Six Mile Bottom and will stop at the end of […]

Conservative county councillors have torn up the recommendations of an independent pay panel and voted themselves a massive pay rise instead while residents face cuts to front line services. The independent panel had been asked to advise on the allowances paid to county councillors for doing their duties. The panel interviewed a range of councillors, […]

Cambridgeshire County Council is threatening to close 19 of the 40 Children’s Centres in Cambridgeshire in order to cut £1 million pounds from their budget. The Conservative run council is consulting on this over the summer holidays when most families have other things on their mind. Some of the things Children’s Centres offer families include: […]

The Health Service Journal has reported that the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has the biggest deficit of all CCGs in the country and so far the CCG is refusing to detail what its Sustainability and Transformation Plan to reduce this deficit  has in store for NHS patients and staff. But we do know […]

  Here in South Cambridgeshire we are facing a melt-down in our public services due partly to year upon year of Conservative cuts but also because the cost of living here matches that of London but the pay of our public sector workers doesn’t. The amount of money workers are taking home continues to fall […]

Today South Cambridgeshire District Council failed to empty the green bins in seven streets in Fulbourn village. Since the Conservatives introduced new kerbside collection rounds for our black, green and blue bins jointly with the City Council every week someone in Fulbourn has failed to have their bin emptied. This time the council says it […]

South Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats held back the Conservative tide by retaining their existing five Cambridgeshire  County Council seats and gaining one from the Conservatives.  We also got within two votes of taking a second Conservative seat. In the Fulbourn Division I received 1,217 votes, with my Conservative opponent polling 899, Labour 548 and the Greens […]