Politics

Cambridgeshire County Council has been shortlisted as a finalist in four categories of the Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Awards.

MP Steve Barclay is demanding answers from NHS bosses over a missing MRI scanner from a Fenland hospital.

Grants totalling £55,000 have been awarded from the second round of the Fenland Culture Fund to a variety of groups to improve cultural opportunities.

Labour have become the third political party to announce their candidate for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoral election.

Fenland District Council is working with the Flag Institute to decide whether or not to hold a public consultation on a flag for the Fens.

An out-of-date support plan was used for a whole academic year for a boy with “significant educational needs”.

A Cambridgeshire farming leader said the family farm tax poses a major threat to national food security and the rural economy.

Former Health Secretary Steve Barclay has blasted local NHS bosses over what he describes as a £2million health scandal in Fenland.

Councillors are being asked to consider investment in the area’s leisure centres at a “significant and unprecedented scale” not previously undertaken.

A million-pound project has been successfully delivered and is to be marked with the official opening of refurbished Council Chambers in Chatteris.

Cambridgeshire County Council has hit back at claims by MP Steve Barclay that cash given by the Wisbech incinerator developer will not go locally.

Fenland residents can now make their homes warmer and save on energy bills with grant funding.

A town council is writing to the local highways authority demanding action over a footpath along a busy road.

A town council has offered its support to a neighbouring village following a weekend of “appalling criminality” that wreaked havoc across Fenland.

Councillors have objected to two applications to install disabled parking bays outside a residents’ home on road safety grounds.

Cambridgeshire’s Labour mayor Dr Nik Johnson has announced he will not be standing for re-election in May.

In a landmark move by the Mayor of Cambridgeshire, the county’s buses will be under greater public control.

Fenland Council is considering “all avenues” in a bid to pressure owners of an eye-sore building in Wisbech to act.

Town councillors were dismayed to learn there was nothing they could do to help residents of a housing estate blighted by car sales.

A former town mayor who has recently died is to have a special memorial – ‘Bill’s Hill’.