A few of the many enjoyable and hopeful things that happened in our community this year:

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• 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 Community Garden.

• Duckie gets her picture published in official County Council papers with a question on pot hole repairs.

• Melbourn Village College students brainstorm ideas for a Melbourn Community Refill project – water fountains for refilling reusable water bottles – in response to the new South Cambs Zero Carbon Communities fund.

• Herts and Cambs County bus officers propose amalgamating slim resources to benefit users of the 127 and 90/91 services – with an eye to linking passengers from Bassingbourn to Letchworth Station.

• The plucky parish of Whaddon, population 489 (2011 census) puts its carefully managed resources behind an ambitious Local Highways Initiative bid to lower the speed limit on the A1198.

• Meldreth, Shepreth and Foxton Community Rail Partnership celebrates a new era with a train cake draped across the bar at The Plough, Shepreth.

• South Cambs Greens and South Cambs Lib Dems join forces on the General Election Campaign (and nearly get there).

• First Orwell Scouts litter pick the A10 cycle path in the rain and say they want to do it again next year.

• Melbourn Hub starts a Dementia Friends Café.

• Alix Valentine gets started on a Bassingbourn Walking Bus to School.

• Meldreth Station Cambridge Platform finally gets a proper shelter – David Piggott wouldn’t believe his eyes!

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