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Our Headway Big Lottery grant
It's incredibly difficult to succeed in a Lottery grant bid - but we managed it at Headway Cambridgeshire, thanks to our brilliant Chief Executive Andrew Gardner. It has just been announced that we have secured £372,579 from the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching...
Our future digital world
I called into the Apple Store in Cambridge today where the staff are very excited about the new iPhone which will be launched in the UK on Friday. It has voice control and a compass and I am lusting after one - surely every Rambler like me should have one! And, at...
Sir Alan’s first task should be ….
Sir Alan Sugar's first task as the government's new enterprise tsar should be to help secure jobs for our newly unemployed graduates with large debts around their necks. They are not alone as the former Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower has warned that 1...
Have your say on the EP’s agenda
The European Parliament is seeking views about what you would like your newly elected MEPs to concentrate on. It has published an agenda of some of the issues it will shortly be dealing with, from working hours and food labelling, to immigration and a European...
My boys
I would like to say a big thank you to the superb medical staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge who treated David's broken bone in his thumb. He tripped up on some steps in Hull last week at 2.30am after a night out with his uni friends and returned to his...
Getting back to normal
There is no such thing as a routine day in my house. After the whirl of the last few weeks working with Conservative candidates on the Euro election, I was looking forward to catching my breath again. However, I shall be spending the next two days with David at...
A terrific night for Conservatives
It was a terrific night for Conservative Euro candidates in the Eastern Region - as well as the United Kingdom - as voters gave Labour the bashing they were expecting. The result in our region remained unchanged with 3 Conservative, 2 UKIP, 1 Liberal Democrat and 1...
Labour fourth after Loony Party
I think I have now heard it all. The election result just published for St Ives in Huntingdonshire has Labour coming a humiliating fourth after the Official Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Lord Toby Jug. Lord Jug clearly impressed the electorate in ways which the...
Vicky’s Election Day
By the time I caught up with our inspirational candidate Vicky Ford this morning, she had already visited two villages near her home to encourage as many voters as possible to get to the polls. Among the people she met was an elderly lady in her village who was very...