It’s being billed as ‘St Ives on Water’ and is gauranteed to be the premier St Ives waterway event of the year. The organisers have already arranged a number of exciting events including a “Wild West” show and falconory displays. For the very little ones there will be Rosie & Jim readings in the bandstand and the more daring will be able to try their hand at circus skills. They also plan to run a programme of free waterway related activities for children and are currently looking for someone to run a “dry rowing” or “dry canoeing” activity. If your organisation can offer this please contact Gillian Bolt on 0151 678 9300. Over 200 boats have already registered for the event which means it should live up to up it’s promise of being one of the biggest water based events of the year. More links on the St Ives Waterway event will be posted as and when they become available. Follow the link below to find accommodation in or near St Ives St Ives Waterway Event

In the city centre itself you will find restaurants representing culinary delights from every corner of the globe. The foreign themed restaurants in Peterborough include Thai, Chinese, Indian, Italian and Mexican as well as many others. If it’s fine dining you are after you might want to check out the Cherry House restaurant on Church Street. They offer superb English/French cuisine with an intimate atmosphere and generous portions. To find more places to eat in Peterborough follow the link below: Restaurants in Peterborough

By John Elworthy
Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012
11:35 AM

COUNCIL personality Nick Clarke discharged Government claims that Cambridgeshire had a “moral duty” to solidify legislature taxation and pronounced lifting it by 2.95 per cent “is simply a right thing to do for a communities.”

Leader of Cambs County Council, Nick Clarke

He told a bill environment assembly of a county legislature currently that “this is not a time to be held in a headlights. This is not a time for gesticulate politics. This is a time for leadership, a time to deposit for mercantile success, a time to deposit in a communities’ future.”

A new rail hire during Chesterton – upheld by a Government- together with superfast broadband and a new by pass for Ely showed “this administration is about action, not rhetoric.”

Cllr Clarke claimed a county legislature was “being confidant and we are holding large decisions. We will not lay behind and manage a decrease of a highway network, we will not idly watch over as a immature people see their opportunities for training and practice dry adult before their eyes.

“We will not teeter helplessly as a amicable caring services are stretched to violation point.”

Leader of Cambs County Council, Nick Clarke

He added: “That is not what a people of Cambridgeshire merit from us. They merit much, most some-more and that is what they are saying from us today.”

He pronounced a county was creation £540 million value of assets over 5 years though notwithstanding this “we have not lifted a bar for a eligibility to a amicable caring services, we have not sealed libraries, we have stable lollipop ladies and we are creation collateral investments to kindle a economy.”

Taking a Government’s one off offer on legislature taxation would leave Cambridgeshire with a £30 million black hole “and we only can’t means that though requesting some large cuts to a services.”

He pronounced he indispensable to demeanour people in a eye “and tell them they will be means to entrance support and insurance when they need it we have to be means to demeanour a immature chairman in a eye and tell them we can keep we safe.

“I have to demeanour a aged in a eye and tell them that will we will give a support they need to lift on.”

Cambridgeshire, he said, had a ability to flog start a mercantile liberation of a whole nation and a county legislature would be during a forefront of investment.

But he pronounced a council’s other priorities remained to renovate amicable caring given “the universe around us is changing, and we need to keep pace.”

A ‘working with families’ indication was a confidant beginning embracing 44 amicable work units to offer a best service, best support to staff and best outcomes for exposed children and families.

And he betrothed initiatives “to aim apparatus during rebellious child misery opposite a county” and to mislay health inequalities.

Cllr Clarke was assured of support from Cambridgeshire’s legislature taxation payers claiming people had told them “loud and transparent that if it protects a essential services afterwards we are peaceful to compensate a small more.

“That’s a tough call for households to make in formidable times, though it is a right one.”

And a reason, he argued, was that “people recognize a pain that even some-more extreme cuts to frontline services in destiny years would bring.”

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New investigate says 28 per cent of feverishness and electricity will have to come from renewable sources by 2030 if a county is to minister to Government targets by slicing a CO footprint by 43 per cent, and concludes breeze will have to play an “important” role.

The report, drawn adult for internal authorities underneath a plan called a Cambridgeshire Renewables Infrastructure Framework, presents several options for augmenting renewable appetite generation, though a usually unfolding that hits a aim envisages a construction of 455 turbines over a subsequent 20 years.

This would see 47 per cent of Cambridgeshire’s appetite entrance from renewable sources but, if new turbines were ruled out, a figure drops to only 19 per cent.

A third unfolding underneath that 212 turbines would be built falls only short, during 26 per cent.

The news says a south and easterly of a county, and Huntingdonshire, have a biggest intensity for additional turbines.

Cllr Ray Manning, personality of South Cambridgeshire District Council, pronounced he elite to concentration on improving insulation and installing energy-efficient boilers.

He said: “Although we are committed to renewable energy, we do not trust large-scale breeze farms are indispensably right for this area, or excusable to a residents, and full legislature has already pronounced dual or some-more turbines should not be lucky within 1.5 miles of any building.”

Cllr James Palmer, emissary personality of East Cambridgeshire District Council, pronounced he was privately “highly dubious” about meridian change and suspicion it was expected to be a healthy phenomenon.

He said: “I worry about a advantages breeze farms yield deliberation a cost to a taxpayer and to a landscape, quite in a Cambridgeshire countryside, that has a really prosaic topography.”

Community groups have fought many campaigns opposite breeze farms in Cambridgeshire, including during Cotton Farm, nearby Graveley.

Bev Gray, authority of Cotton Farm Action Group, said: “Wind plantation appetite is simply not practicable and to build all those turbines is not efficient. It’s my faith there is nowhere in Huntingdonshire suitable for any such projects.”

The news says Cambridgeshire already has one of a top renewable appetite outputs in a UK and adds there is also an critical purpose for solar panels, feverishness pumps, and era of appetite from biomass or waste.

Tony Juniper, a former executive executive of Friends of a Earth and a Cambridge resident, pronounced manmade meridian change was genuine and would have “huge ramifications” for tellurian civilisation, so there indispensable to be a “substantial increase” in appetite era from wind.

He said: “Wind farms have to be in a right place – there is no indicate putting breeze farms where it’s not windy, and we don’t wish them in places where they will means avoidable repairs to wildlife or ancestral landscapes.

“If we take those 3 criteria and put them on a map of a UK, we have still got a lot of opportunities and we consider Cambridgeshire, with good clever and solid winds in a Fens, would be a good place to do it.”

Taxis aren’t advised for travelling between the major cities such as Cambridge and Peterborough as this could get expensive. It’s also unnecessary as there is a good rail network between all the cities. All taxis in Cambridgeshire operate on a meter system where you pay a set price per mile you travel. Some taxi companies will offer you a fixed fare, for example to an airport where the distance is known beforehand but this usually needs to be agreed in advance. Most taxis also add on a supplement for extra passengers, and for travelling at certain times of the day so if you wonder why the meter is on a fee before you have gone anywhere that is probably the reason. The final thing to note is that as in most countries, Cambridgeshire county council operate a licensing scheme for their drivers. This should be clearly displayed on the back of the taxi and there should also be a picture ID badge with the driver. If these are not displayed clearly , or the driver will not show them to you our advice is to get out of the taxi and wait for the next one. To find taxi companies in Cambridgeshire follow the link below: Taxis in Cambridgeshire

The Cambridge Lakes golf course off Trumpington Road prides itself on it’s ‘turn up and play’ philosophy. There is no membership required and inexperienced players can simply turn up for a hack at the green and improve their swing. Likewise, because 75% of the holes are 150yds or less it’s perfect for more experienced golfers to put in a quick 9 holes and improve their short game. Outside of Cambridge you have the Orton Meadows and Thorpe wood courses in Peterborough and Brampton Park near Huntingdon, all of which offer superb golfing all year round. To find more golf courses in Cambridgeshire please follow the link below: Golf Courses in Cambridgeshire

Hundreds of new jobs combined by relocating companies could be combined by a new landmark blurb growth in Peterborough, Cambridge skill representative Bidwells has revealed.

Bidwells Cambridge has only started selling Gateway Peterborough – a 240-acre placement and production park located during connection 17 of a A1(M).

The greenfield site has formulation agree for 5 million sq ft of blurb use primarily targeting a production and placement sectors – though there is a probability of offices and associated activities.

Patrick Stanton of Bidwells suggested that a representative was already in talks with a series of internal and inhabitant occupiers and hoped to interpretation negotiations in a entrance months.

Milton Estates and Roxhill – a dilettante in industrial and placement growth opposite a UK – are building Gateway.

Stanton pronounced that Peterborough had been carnivorous of good peculiarity growth during a past 5 years so it was hoped a plan would attract new businesses to a city, formulating a poignant series of new jobs in a process.

The developer is means of delivering buildings from 95,000 sq ft adult to a limit of 1.3m sq ft in a singular building; Roxhill is means to work with occupiers from a initial pattern theatre and broach peculiarity buildings generally within a six-month timescale following receipt of planning.

There are skeleton to speculatively put in a initial proviso of infrastructure that will open adult a site to speed adult smoothness time of buildings to meddlesome occupiers. The partnership is happy to cruise both leasehold and freehold transactions.

Patrick Stanton, associate partner during Bidwells, said: “Peterborough is an determined and abounding placement and production bottom for many general businesses and it is hoped this new growth by Roxhill will attract many more.

“It will also concede existent Peterborough companies to immigrate and enhance into some-more complicated buildings as existent batch in Peterborough becomes dated.

“The site is ideally situated geographically only off a A1(M) permitting easy entrance to a north and south and only north of a A14 that provides entrance to a easterly seashore ports and also and west to a Midlands.

“We are already in discussions with a series of internal and inhabitant occupiers who we wish will interpretation negotiations with during a entrance months.”

• For some-more information about opportunities during Gateway Peterborough pronounce to Patrick Stanton during Bidwells (01223 841841) or corner representative Burbage Realty and North Rae Sanders.