A few of the many enjoyable and hopeful things that happened in our community this year: Meldreth School Junior Travel Ambassador Iris Bostanci, aged 8, makes a passionate case for cycling to the Greater Cambridge Partnership Citizens Assembly. Bassingbourn Barracks mums get an overwhelming public response for bits and pieces to start up their new […]

Zero Carbon Communities Grant: Local Winners We’re delighted to report on two successful local applications for the first South Cambs District Council Zero Carbon Communities Grant. Melbourn Village College students spearheaded the ‘Melbourn Community Refill Project’ that will see the installation of personal water bottle refill stations in public areas of the College, in an […]

ODE TO JOY TOPS THE CHARTS! Celebrating decades of building peace, prosperity and collaboration across Europe. I’ve been a proud citizen of the European Union for 16 years, since the day I became a proud Brit. I moved to Cambridge in 1988, as a US citizen married to a Dutch citizen and able to live […]

Plans for digitizing many aspects of our health services have been set out by our local NHS ‘Sustainable Transformation Partnership’, a management group tasked with overseeing coordination of the many NHS partners that combine to provide our health care.  These plans are aspirational and not set out in any practical detail, and yet the intention […]

Road surface issues: Highways has put Beechwood Avenue on the list for surface dressing treatment in 2020. This work usually takes place in the summer due to optimal weather conditions. Treatment does not involve digging up and relaying the road surface, but rather adding a protective layer over it which generally extends the life of […]

I was very sad to receive this report from Cambs Police on the discovery of a modern slavery operation at Kneesworth. The link at the bottom leads on to more general information about modern slavery in Cambridgeshire and how to become better informed. Modern slavery operation finds five men at Cambridgeshire nursery: A nursery business […]

It’s for the next generation that it all matters most. They’ve been out there doing their best, in the wake of disastrous decisions by much older people before they even had a chance to vote. They care deeply about the issues, but now have a prime minister who couldn’t be bothered to turn up for […]

Jeremy Bridle writes on Facebook: I don’t usually make political statements on here but this is really important. If you’re in South Cambs and are thinking of voting Labour or Lib Dem please read this. I know a lot of people have been unsure between Labour and Lib Dems for the South Cambs anti-Tory tactical […]

Gotta gloat about my friend Sarah Decent of Shepreth, who features in this video – the Lib Dem Party Political Broadcast. It’s about the localized impact of Brexit on people, businesses, hospitals and community, and it features Sarah’s shoe shop, Modish, in Green Street Cambridge. As you might know I’m not someone to get excited […]

Walking Bus to School? Recently I was contacted by Alix Valentine and School Crossing Patrol Officer Sarah Dixon about the idea of starting up a walking bus to Bassingbourn Primary School – something that will always be in the realm of possibility when so many parents already walk with their children to school every day. […]