Labour

The Regional Pool needs a new roof, a survey has revealed

New roof needed on Regional Pool as council consider future of swimming in city

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Robbing Peter(borough) to pay Paul

The new Cabinet at Peterborough City Council: Ray Bisby, Gavin Elsey, Mohammed Farooq, Peter Hiller, John Howard, Chris Harper and John Fox

New council administration 'still in honeymoon phase'

Members of Peterborough's Labour Party and Peterborough First group meet with veterans

Labour calls on government to apologise to nuclear testing veterans

From left, Peterborough City Council leader Cllr Mohammed Farooq and Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald, leader of Peterborough City Council's Conservative group

New council leader secures release of £200k bus station fund

Peterborough City Council

Ofsted to inspect children's services at council next week

Peterborough City Council's children and education scrutiny committee

Oversight of council children's services begins

Labour Group leader Dennis Jones (Dogsthorpe)

Opinion: Hit-list assets are community lifelines

Paul Bristow MP signing the petition to save the Eye Youth Centre.

Opinion: Youth centre is a vital village hub

Cllr Mohammed Farooq (Peterborough First, Hargate and Hempsted) is now leader of Peterborough City Council

New council leader says his group can run council 'better' than Conservatives

Wayne Fitzgerald issues a defiant "I'll Be Back" message

Opinion: Call it a hiatus…. I’ll Be Back!

Wayne Fitzgerald with Paul Bristow.

MP says council 'coup would be travesty'

Andy McDonald, the MP for Middlesbrough, has been suspended by the Labour Party after he used the phrase “between the river and the sea” during a speech at a pro-Palestine rally at the weekend.

Labour MP suspended over speech at pro-Palestine rally

The Bondholder Dinner

Opinion: We're delivering on our pledges

Peterborough’s Great Northern Hotel

Opinion: Glad to see my campaign pay off

Peterborough council leader Wayne Fitzgerald faces a vote of no confidence brought on by opposition parties

Council leader 'doesn't accept fault' as he faces vote of no confidence
Wayne Fitzgerald says the vote of no confidence is a ‘hiatus and a blip’ – and that the real issues lie within the opposition

Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald has accepted that he's likely to be ousted as leader of Peterborough City Council

All the events that have led to bid to oust council leader

Group leaders Chris Harper (Peterborough First), Nicola Day (Greens), Dennis Jones (Labour) and Christian Hogg (Liberal Democrats) support the motion of no confidence in Conservative council leader Wayne Fitzgerald

Opposition explain why they're trying to oust council leader

Replacement wheelie bins will cost almost £30 from this week in Peterborough

New charge for wheelie bins comes into effect

Andrew Pakes, Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Peterborough

Opinion: We are better than this

Alistair Strathern gives his victory speech in Mid Bedfordshire. Credit: Getty

By-election latest: Labour wins Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire

Paul Bristow at the opening of a local business - The Beeches Independent School at Thorpe Road, Peterborough

Opinion: Being local makes this the best job

Labour party leader, Sir Keir Starmer delivers the leader's speech
(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Opinion: Let’s get Peterborough’s future back

Sir Keir Starmer giving his speech in Liverpool. Credit: Getty

Keir Starmer promises to build 1.5m houses in five years

Keir Starmer is interrupted by a heckler. Credit: Getty

Keir Starmer Labour conference speech crashed by protester

Members of Peterborough City Council's Labour, Liberal Democrat and Peterborough First groups signal their opposition to the introduction of congestion charging in the city

Council opposition groups say no to congestion charging

Cllr Katy Cole reading to children at Newark Hill Academy

Labour councillor donates £600 worth of books to schools
Councillors also read to children and donated Labour-branded pom poms

An angry exchange of letters between Combined Authority Mayor Nik Johnson, left, and Peterborough MP Paul Bristow, right, above, and Peterborough City Council leader Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald, right, below.

War of words in row over Peterborough’s new bus depot

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (centre), with shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (left) and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy (right), speak during a breakfast meeting ahead of their bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Picture: Kiran Ridley/Getty Images

Opinion: We can’t let UK become an EU puppet

Cllr Wayne Fitzgerald (left) and Dr Nik Johnson (right)

Council leader addresses brewing leadership challenge

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Ken Livingstone suffering from Alzheimer’s, family announces

Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery

Council leader defends heritage and culture plans

Liz Truss has been claiming from fund for ex-prime ministers despite only 49 days in office (Getty Images)

Liz Truss claims from fund for ex-PMs despite only 49 days in office

Peterborough City Hospital

More than 1,800 patients died while on Peterborough hospital trust waiting list

"Just this week we have seen what happens when Labour controls the purse strings. They have bankrupted the second biggest city in the UK and the largest local authority in Europe. "

Opinion: Labour has failed again

Cllr Nick Thulbourn has said publicity is needed to make the council's new volunteering scheme worthwhile

Council volunteering scheme approved

Vehicles pass by a sign indicating the new boundary of the LEZ and ULEZ expansion on August 29. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images.

Opinion: I will continue my campaign against Labour’s war on motorists

The Labour Party has confirmed that Alan Haworth died on holiday in Iceland on Monday morning - Credit: Gov/Wiki

Labour politician Lord Alan Haworth dead at 75

A general view of the deserted Bibby Stockholm immigration barge at Portland Port, on August 12, 2023 in Portland, England. More than three dozen migrants who arrived on the Bibby Stockholm barge were temporarily relocated after traces of legionella bacteria were found in the barge's water supply. The Home Office has leased the barge to provide accommodation for asylum seekers and reduce its use of hotels. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

'Labour would crackdown on criminal smuggler gangs through new police unit'

The Peterborough Cycle Forum have called for changes to the city's road network to make it greener and safer for bike users and pedestrians

Peterborough Cycle Forum call for changes to city roads as ULEZ row continues

Peterborough City Hospital

MP welcomes 72 new beds for city hospital - but Labour say more needs to be done

I think it is part of my job to stand up for Peterborough and warn residents about what could be coming.
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Opinion: Rising above personal fallouts

Peterborough city centre traffic on Bourges Boulevard

Opinion: A bad tax that hurts the poorest the most.

A row over congestion charging has broken out among Peterborough politicians and residents

Will there be congestion charging in Peterborough?

City College Peterborough made the decision to end free parking for its students a Brook Street Car Park - but new interim management is now reviewing this decision

City College Peterborough reviewing decision to end free parking

Peterborough City Council passed a motion supporting bus franchising

Council supports bus franchising but refuses to rule out congestion charging

Peterborough MP Paul Bristow, lower right,. is urging Peterborough City Council, based at Sand Martin House, not to waste cash by experimenting with a four day working week.

MP warns council chiefs not to waste cash on four day working week trial

A call has been made for Peterborough to be part of plans to create the UK's answer to the Silicon Valley, top; Peterborough MP Paul Bristow, lower right; and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Mayor Dr Nik Johnson, lower left.

Plea for Peterborough to be part of UK Silicon Valley

Amjad and Labour parliamentary candidate Andrew Pakes visiting a local business

Opinion: Do you feel better off?

Keir Mather. Credit: Getty

Johnny Mercer launches attack on Keir Mather - what was said

Councillor John Fox has said plans for Peterborough's new station quarter must be accessible for people with disabilities

Disability groups to be consulted on station plans

A dressmaker has previously run a business from the building

'Half-baked’ plans for dressmakers shop rejected

Councillors delay approval of vaping trial

MP Paul Bristow has called for more to be done to save the route

MP says 'minibus is not good enough' in plea to save number 36 service

Cllr Iqbal, Andrew Pakes and Shadow Health Minister Andrew Gwynne MP in Peterborough

Opinion: Let’s thank NHS staff and fight for a better NHS for all of us