“This Mayor has been through 3 chief executives - 2 receiving massive pay offs - and a big report into his own conduct. I think he...
When Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald used his veto – unexpectedly – to scupper the LTCP (outside of the meeting and in a Facebook video citing the spurious...
Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald lashed out saying “it is time for Nik Johnson to go. The clock is running Mayor, and you’ll be out before you know...
An expected promise of £200,000 to move forward plans on creating an electric bus depot in Peterborough was withdrawn today – much to the dismay of...
The bulk of the estimated £6.3m cost of building a pedestrian bridge linking the Embankment in Peterborough with Fletton Quays will come from the Government and...
Options for a safe crossing for pedestrians and cyclists at the BP roundabout on the A10 at Ely have been shortlisted, and a single preferred option...
Rochelle Tapping, recognised as one of the country’s top lawyers employed in local government, has lost her £110,000 year role as chief legal officer of Peterborough...
Used for the first time this year, a mayoral precept across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough remains in the ‘armoury’ for the Combined Authority to raise funds. A...
An emergency meeting of Peterborough City Council has been called for August 31 to decide what should be done about its £110,000 a year director of...
A Monday to Friday minibus service will replace the existing 36 bus route between Thorney and Eye from Monday (July 31). The service, until now run...
A bus service that Stagecoach says will be withdrawn on July 30 “due to low passenger usage” has provoked a political storm. The operator says route...
The latest summit to tackle the ‘Ely Solution’ took place on Friday as industry leaders and politicians headed by Mayor Dr Nik Johnson met to discuss...
A training provider funded by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) has been left facing potential ruin after a payments dispute. Sheffield based GNR Training has...
Work has begun on a £28m second teaching block – incorporating an interactive science lab – at the Anglia Ruskin University Peterborough campus with space for...
Most define community as “a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society” but in a Cambridgeshire village that...
The career trajectory of Eileen Milner, the short lived former £200,000-year chief executive of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) has taken a new turn with...
It may not be quite on the scale of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon – ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for...
In the past three months, a third of a million passengers used bus services saved by an emergency cash injection from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined...
In 2016 Ann Sylvester, a Labour city councillor at the time in Peterborough, described the prospect of an elected mayor for the region as being “about...
A Cambridgeshire building company has been forced to extend repayment of a multi-million-pound loan from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) to build 27 homes...
Good morning and welcome to this morning’s Annual General Meeting of the Combined Authority Board. This time last year I described the Combined Authority as being...
Cambridgeshire could host a stage of the Tour of Britain if a £100,000 grant bid is approved by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA). The...
So, to be clear I am looking at today’s election results with my Labour party hat on and with an unsurprising expectation to look for and...
Two years ago, I was proud to win election to Cambridgeshire County Council. I had wanted that seat at the top table of local politics so...
Rob Bridge, until 2017 finance director of Fenland District Council and since then chief executive of Welwyn Borough Council and latterly of North Northamptonshire Council, is...
A controversial decision by former Mayor James Palmer to agree huge loans to private developers is to be subject to “an initial internal review” by Cambridgeshire...
A new mayoralty precept of £12 a year is to be introduced by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA). The money raised will help to subsidise...
The Government has issued a ‘red flag’ warning to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CAPCA) with inherited concerns over former Mayor James Palmer high on...
A £12 year charge for Band D Council Taxpayers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is to be introduced by Mayor Dr Nik Johnson to save threatened bus...
Red faced officials in the PR department of Peterborough City Council have been forced to pull a promotional video that prominently featured a Conservative Party logo....