Politics

I have read Councillor John Holdich’s column in the Peterborough Telegraph every week for months, and although you can tell he has genuine love for the city I do believe he needs to wake up and smell the coffee.

Peterborough City Council have confirmed a multi-storey car park will be demolished over safety fears.

Residents are being urged to make sure they don’t lose their vote ahead of council elections next year.

Plans for a new retail and business park in Ramsey have been given the go-ahead.

The search to find an academic partner for the University of Peterborough has begun.

The Brexit Party have announced their candidate for North West Cambridgeshire for the next General Election.

Unlike certain Prime Ministers, I remember 2010. I recall that we were told that we couldn’t live beyond our means, and that a programme of austerity was absolutely necessary, writes cllr Shaz Nawaz, leader of the Labour Party on Peterborough City Council.

I was really encouraged to see a Public Health England report this week which praised our efforts in reducing alcohol related hospital admissions, writes leader of Peterborough City Council, cllr John Holdich.

City Council leader John Holdich shook hands with the three owners of Peterborough United to agree the sale of the London Road Stadium back to the club before today’s (August) home match.

I was saddened to read in this year’s report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) that school pupils in Peterborough from lower-income households are, on average, around two years behind their peers in educational attainment by the time they leave secondary school, writes Peterborough MP Lisa Forbes.

The King’s Dyke crossing will go ahead on the same route but with a new contractor after Kier’s costs spiralled.

Hundreds of people filled Cathedral Square to make their voice heard about the political situation thousands of miles away in Kashmir.

The 17 th century French statesman, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, once described the art of taxation as “plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing”.

I can’t start off this column without sharing sympathy with the victims of the two mass murders in the USA. Our hearts go out to those families affected, writes Chris Ash, Liberal Party member of Peterborough City Council.

This week, diplomats in Brussels have been told that a No Deal Brexit is currently Boris Johnson’s ‘central scenario.’

Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds in Peterborough are two years behind their peers by the time they finish their GCSEs - the widest gap in England.

O ver the past year we have seen a 56 per cent rise in the number of families who present themselves to the council as homeless, writes cllr John Holdich, leader of Peterborough City Council.

Peterborough is one of the fastest councils in Britain at processing new housing benefit claims, figures have revealed.

A Green Party councillor has apologised after saying claims of antisemitism in the Labour Party are ‘right-wing press smears’.