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One reason why I love Cambridge
Quentin's fabulous remote display photo Quentin Stafford-Fraser The fascinating thing about Cambridge is that you never know who the person you are standing next to on the market or in the cinema queue is. The academic city is awash with some of the biggest brains and...
I’ve taken the plunge
After weeks of putting it off, I've finally taken the plunge and joined Cambridge Speakers' Club. Their members are the most interesting eclectic mix you could imagine spanning the globe. Just spending the evening with them was one reason I had to go ahead. The club...
Our coastline is vanishing too…
A pic I took of coastal erosion in North Norfolk last summer It's not just immigrants who are vanishing, our unprotected coastline is too. Towns and villages could be at risk, warns Suffolk MP John Gummer. We will soon be Little Britain - literally! Today's East...
Brave Trudy set to get parking bay following blog report
Trudy Lapinskis Trudy's shocking illness Good news is in the pipeline for brave Trudy Lapinskis after I reported two weeks ago about the difficulties she was having in getting a disabled parking bay outside her home. Trudy has the worst case in the country of a rare...
Andrew Lansley warns of NHS “loss of control”
Why is it impossible to get a straight answer to a straight question? Surely our government has to be accountable for how it spends of our public money. The housewives favourite Andrew Lansley is quoted in today's Cambridge Evening News as saying that an inquiry into...
On the campaign trail
Richard Bailey hoping to turn Buckden blue What difference will Labour's black week make at the local ballot boxes next week? I personally think the recent headlines has turned people off politics even more. But what does the man or woman on the street think? I joined...
My cover girl Marie
Marie Munro Max Clifford couldn't have done better. One of my new clients Marie Munro is a cover girl in today's Cambridge Evening News Living & Life supplement, as well as colour coverage on two inside pages. When we met at Cambridge Toastmasters and she told me...
Should our ministers hug more?
Why not make today World Hug Day? It must be a fairly remote existence for those at the top. Maybe our beleaguered ministers need to take some take out for a bonding hug from time to time - and not with any floozy! They could get some practise this weekend at the...
Don’t bungle bird flu, my MEP warns government
Tony Blair's mind must have been firmly fixed on his Black Wednesday. Things couldn't possibly get worse, he probably thought. Then along came bird flu. And right on my doorstep too, right in the heart of my MEP Robert Sturdy's constituency in Norfolk. Being an early...