The next South Area meeting is next Monday at St John’s Church, Hills Road. The agenda has three main items: CRIME: Local policing priority setting and reports on what the police have been doing over the last period FIREWORKS: Live entertainment events in Cambridge, eg Midsummer Fireworks SMOKE: Environmental activity, including tackling wandering smokers Policing […]

Queen Edith’s had a high turnout in last week’s referendum, with 75% of eligible electors casting their vote on the UK’s membership of the EU. Queen Edith’s had a big majority for Remain — also approximately 75%. Cambridge City Council has released figures on its elections page showing turnout figures for every ward. They also […]

Cllr Tim Moore writes: A vote in referendum requires your family and friends to be registered. The last date to register is nearly here (next Tuesday); you can download the forms both for registering and postal votes on line on the Government’s elections website. I’ve been reminding my busy nephews and nieces, several of whom […]

THANK YOU to everybody who voted for Jennifer and the Liberal Democrats yesterday. At about half-past three this morning, Jennifer  was  declared the winner of the election for a new city councillor for Queen Edith’s. The result was as follows: Jennifer Page-Croft (Lib Dem)1189 John Beresford (Labour) 801 Manas Deb (Conservative) 544 Joel Chalfen (Green) […]

The Cambridge Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto for Cambridge City Council – click here to download.

The Local Government Boundary Commission has been reviewing the county council divisions, to reduce the number of councillors and partly to even out numbers. Subject to approval in Parliament, Queen Edith’s is to be merged with Trumpington for county council purposes. The new double ward will run from  Chaucer Road and Clifton Way in the […]

Cambridge City Council has unanimously passed a policy motion from Tim Moore, agreeing the City should not discriminate against citizens with disability of any form, and will actively seek to reduce such discrimination in all publicly accessible areas. A large number of residents become more disabled with age, and some have significant problems with their […]

Liberal Democrats on Cambridgeshire County Council continue to defend Cambridge Library against the Council’s proposals to let Regus subsidiary Kora open an Enterprise Centre on the third floor. The call-in of the Highways & Community Infrastructure Committee (HCI) decision succeeded and the LEC proposal went to the County Council’s General Purposes Committee (GPC) in March. Cllr Roger Hickford […]

The following county councillors requested that the Full Council review the decision to allow Kora to open an Enterprise Centre at Cambridge Central Library: 12 Liberal Democrats, 6 Labour, 4 Independents and 4 UKIP. 1. Cllr Scutt 2. Cllr Kavanagh 3. Cllr Sales 4. Cllr Taylor 5. Cllr Manning 6. Cllr Cearns 7. Cllr Mason […]

 On Friday, Cambridgeshire County Council‘s Highways & Community Infrastructure Committee rescinded its earlier decisions to allow Kora-Regus to set up an Enterprise Centre in Cambridge Central Library. Conservatives on the County Council, who had previously voted through the proposal en bloc (first in March and again in June), this time voted to rescind the decision […]