History It is said that Ely derives its name from ‘eel’ and ‘-y’ or ‘-ey’ meaning island, i.e. an island where there were a lot of eels. This may be true due to the position of Ely, an island in low lying fens, which were historically very marshy and rich in eels. The city’s origins lay in the foundation of an abbey in 673, a mile to the north of the village of Cratendune on the Isle of Ely, under the protection of Saint Ethelreda, daughter of King Anna. The abbey was destroyed in 870 by Danish invaders and not rebuilt for over a hundred years. The site was one of the last holdouts in England to the rule of William I: Hereward the Wake did not surrender until 1071. The magnificent cathedral of Ely, the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is known as the “Ship of the Fens” for the distant views of its towers that dominate the low-lying wetlands called the Fens. The diocese of Ely was created in 1108, out of the see of Lincoln. The cathedral was started by William I in 1083 and completed in 1351, despite the collapse of the main tower in 1322, which was rebuilt as an octagonal tower. The bishopric of Ely was founded in 1109. The city took part in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Oliver Cromwell lived in Ely for several years after inheriting the position of local tax collector in 1636. His former home dates to the 16th century and is now used by the Tourist Information Office as well as being a museum with rooms displayed as they would have been in Cromwell’s time. Article Sourced from Wikipedia Ely

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
4:00 PM

THE partnership of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk glow services could take place within dual years – with brigade kinship officials claiming it could assistance save front-line jobs.

Senior Suffolk county councillors met yesterday (Tuesday) and concluded to ask for a full business box on a cost-cutting proposal, that could see a new super-brigade of some-more than 1,000 full-time and defended firefighters formed.

The examination of services will also demeanour during operative some-more closely with Cambridgeshire, interlude brief of a full merger.

Cambridgeshire Fire Authority will be deliberation a same offer during a assembly subsequent Thursday (May 24)

The intensity assets are still not transparent since there would need to be poignant revolution alongside any partnership – generally in Suffolk. But during a usually other partnership of a kind in a nation – of Devon and Somerset glow services in 2007 – around 150 non-uniformed posts were cut, nonetheless about 60 were after reinstated.

Suffolk’s FBU management Andy Vingoe pronounced his members still felt that merging a administrations could be a best approach to safety frontline glow cover. But he felt differences would sojourn between a dual counties.

“The members do not seem to be that endangered about a due partnership since they feel it competence be a best approach to guarantee a frontline service.

There have been cuts over a years and we know budgets are underneath vigour so many feel this could assistance keep a stream turn of service.

“From what we have seen with a control room it does demeanour as if Cambridgeshire would be in a pushing seat. It is a incomparable management (it includes Peterborough), though we consider a dual counties would have to be run as apart districts underneath one authority.”

Meanwhile, emissary county glow officer Mark Hardingham pronounced that, if a county opted for full merger, there would need to be substantial changes to a administration.

There are now 67 non-uniformed executive staff employed by a glow service.

But it relies on other county legislature or Customer Service Direct staff for many of a functions – including tellurian resources and IT. Cambridgeshire Fire Authority now has 122 executive staff doing all back-office functions.

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The buses are being saved by a county legislature amid fears villagers would be left private by a cuts, that will occur subsequent month following a withdrawal of legislature subsidies.

One use will stop during Hinxton, Heathfield and Whittlesford, after these were private from a routes of many Citi 7 buses, providing a couple to Sawston, where connectors can be done to Cambridge.

This use will run roughly any dual hours, and will be run by private association NCS.

Another will follow a track of a dropped 19 service, using by Burrough Green, Balsham, Linton and Haverhill, again permitting connectors to Cambridge.

This will run approximately any dual hours and will be operated by a village ride organisation, utilising a minibus that was formerly used for a commander intrigue in Whittlesford.

For both of these services, a legislature has negotiated an agreement with Stagecoach underneath that passengers creation leading journeys can squeeze a sheet for a same cost as a Dayrider Plus that will be stream on a joining outing to Cambridge during no additional cost.

There will also be a Whippet use replacing a series 14, providing one rise tour in any instruction between Caldecote, Hardwick, Madingley, Coton and Cambridge.

In a morning a use will reinstate a initial tour on track 8 to yield a approach tour into Cambridge, and in a afternoon it will be total with a stream use 2.

All of a services will start using in Jun and will sojourn in place until permanent replacements are introduced.

The legislature has set aside £1.5 million for new village ride schemes, after it motionless to proviso out £2.7 million of subsidies for normal services over 5 years.

Cllr Tony Orgee, a cupboard member for village infrastructure, said: “We have been operative tough to make certain there are links in place from a stops that are to be influenced in Jun and we are unequivocally gratified with Stagecoach’s offer to make certain ticketing stays a same price.”

A potato organisation executive from Cambridgeshire has been found guilty of profitable bribes to a customer during supermarket hulk Sainsbury’s.

Andrew Behagg, 60, from food retailer Greenvale, certified payments in lapse for contracts value millions.

Thousands of pounds of income was handed to customer John Maylam, who splashed out on intemperate dishes and stays during tip London hotels, Croydon Crown Court heard.

Behagg, of Chatteris, was convicted of one assign of corruption.

Judge Nicholas Ainley warned him: “For any box of this bulk a judgment of seizure is roughly fundamentally passed, and a poignant one during that.”

Behagg is approaching to be condemned on 22 Jun during a same justice alongside Maylam, 44, of Bearstead in Maidstone, Kent, and Greenvale’s comment manager David Baxter, 50, of Hinstock, Market Drayton, Shropshire, who have both certified corruption.

Employee’s suspicions

The prosecution’s box was that Sainsbury’s was overcharged by a sum of £3.8m by Greenvale.

The additional income went into an account, afterwards some of it was channelled to a buyer.

Maylam would catch losses of £20,000 a month, spending a income on costly restaurants and disdainful hotels including Claridge’s and The Dorchester, a justice heard.

The crime was unclosed when a Greenvale worker grew questionable when he was asked to repel £5,000 bundles of £50 records from a tiny internal bank.

Jurors listened Simon Forster, a organisation financial accountant, found payments were being entered into their financial complement as “entertaining” losses and afterwards created off as “raw materials” or storage costs for potatoes during fictitious firms in Spain and a UK.

Mr Forster pronounced when he lifted a payments with Behagg he was told they were “rebates” and partial of a “scheme”.

‘Abuse’

Behagg told a justice Greenvale had a two-year contract, value £40m, to supply 45% of Sainsbury’s UK potatoes during a time of a purported corruption.

Describing a distance of Greenvale, Behagg pronounced it handles 10% of a UK potato crop, amounting to 600,000 tonnes a year.

Following a verdict, Produce Investments, a owners of Greenvale, pronounced it had introduced new procedures to “make certain that such abuse can never occur again”.

“Our attribute with Sainsbury’s is now on a balance as before and we continue to be one of a largest suppliers of potatoes to shoppers all over a country.”

By Paul Geater, internal supervision correspondent
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
5:58 PM

THE partnership of a glow services in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire could take a vital step brazen now – with brigade kinship officials claiming it could assistance save front-line jobs.

Senior Suffolk county councillors will accommodate this morning and are approaching to ask for a full business box on a cost-cutting proposal, that could see a new super-brigade of some-more than 1,000 full-time and defended firefighters shaped within dual years.

The intensity assets are still not transparent since there would need to be poignant revolution alongside any partnership – generally in Suffolk.

But during a usually other partnership of a kind in a nation – of Devon and Somerset fires services in 2007 – around 150 non-uniformed posts were cut, nonetheless around 60 were after reinstated.

Suffolk’s FBU management Andy Vingoe pronounced his members still felt that merging a administrations could be a best approach to safety frontline glow cover. But he felt differences would sojourn between a dual counties.

He said: “The members do not seem to be that endangered about a due partnership since they feel it competence be a best approach to guarantee a frontline service.

“There have been cuts over a years and we know budgets are underneath vigour so many feel this could assistance keep a stream turn of service.”

“From what we have seen with a control room it does demeanour as if Cambridgeshire would be in a pushing seat. It is a incomparable management (it includes Peterborough), though we consider a dual counties would have to be run as apart districts underneath one authority.”

Meanwhile, emissary county glow officer Mark Hardingham pronounced if a county opted for full partnership there would need to be substantial changes to a administration. There are now 67 non-uniformed executive staff employed by a glow service.

But it relies on other county legislature or Customer Service Direct staff for many of a functions – including Human Resources and IT.

Cambridgeshire Fire Authority now has 122 executive staff doing all back-office functions. That management is not partial of a county legislature since it includes a Peterborough area, that is a unitary authority.

Mr Hardingham said: “There are similarities in that Devon was a stand-alone glow management and Somerset was a county legislature dialect – though that partnership came 5 years ago in a opposite climate. Also, in that case, dual control centres were defended until only this year. We have already joined a control centre with that in Cambridgeshire.”

The Devon and Somerset management covers an area that stretches from a hinterland of Bristol to Plymouth. However while a services became a singular authority, a Fire Brigades Union pronounced that in a unsentimental clarity they defended apart identities.

Trevor French, a brigade FBU secretary, said: “The dual counties use opposite respirating apparatus apparatus and there are opposite policies for how fires are dealt with.”

The arch glow officer in a total Devon and Somerset Authority is Lee Howell, who had been conduct of Suffolk’s glow management for 5 years.

Suffolk County Council’s cupboard will accommodate now to plead a series of options for a destiny of a service, with a lucky choice being to pursue a full business box for full merger. An choice choice is increasing partnership but merger.

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By Paul Geater, internal supervision correspondent
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
9:04 AM

THE partnership of a glow services in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire could take a vital step brazen now – with brigade kinship officials claiming it could assistance save front-line jobs.

Senior Suffolk county councillors will accommodate this morning and are approaching to ask for a full business box on a cost-cutting proposal, that could see a new super-brigade of some-more than 1,000 full-time and defended firefighters shaped within dual years.

The intensity assets are still not transparent since there would need to be poignant revolution alongside any partnership – generally in Suffolk.

But during a usually other partnership of a kind in a nation – of Devon and Somerset fires services in 2007 – around 150 non-uniformed posts were cut, nonetheless around 60 were after reinstated.

Suffolk’s FBU management Andy Vingoe pronounced his members still felt that merging a administrations could be a best approach to safety frontline glow cover. But he felt differences would sojourn between a dual counties.

He said: “The members do not seem to be that endangered about a due partnership since they feel it competence be a best approach to guarantee a frontline service.

“There have been cuts over a years and we know budgets are underneath vigour so many feel this could assistance keep a stream turn of service.”

“From what we have seen with a control room it does demeanour as if Cambridgeshire would be in a pushing seat. It is a incomparable management (it includes Peterborough), though we consider a dual counties would have to be run as apart districts underneath one authority.”

Meanwhile, emissary county glow officer Mark Hardingham pronounced if a county opted for full partnership there would need to be substantial changes to a administration. There are now 67 non-uniformed executive staff employed by a glow service.

But it relies on other county legislature or Customer Service Direct staff for many of a functions – including Human Resources and IT.

Cambridgeshire Fire Authority now has 122 executive staff doing all back-office functions. That management is not partial of a county legislature since it includes a Peterborough area, that is a unitary authority.

Mr Hardingham said: “There are similarities in that Devon was a stand-alone glow management and Somerset was a county legislature dialect – though that partnership came 5 years ago in a opposite climate. Also, in that case, dual control centres were defended until only this year. We have already joined a control centre with that in Cambridgeshire.”

The Devon and Somerset management covers an area that stretches from a hinterland of Bristol to Plymouth. However while a services became a singular authority, a Fire Brigades Union pronounced that in a unsentimental clarity they defended apart identities.

Trevor French, a brigade FBU secretary, said: “The dual counties use opposite respirating apparatus apparatus and there are opposite policies for how fires are dealt with.”

The arch glow officer in a total Devon and Somerset Authority is Lee Howell, who had been conduct of Suffolk’s glow management for 5 years.

Suffolk County Council’s cupboard will accommodate now to plead a series of options for a destiny of a service, with a lucky choice being to pursue a full business box for full merger. An choice choice is increasing partnership but merger.

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• The normal proprietor earns £100 a week some-more than a inhabitant average

• Region also enjoys a many fever a year

• And residents live longest on average

By
Becky Barrow

PUBLISHED:

18:03 EST, 29 Mar 2012

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UPDATED:

18:03 EST, 29 Mar 2012

For city dwellers forgetful of evading for a softened life in a country, a good news is we won’t have to pierce far.

East Cambridgeshire, that encompasses Ely and Haddenham, offers a best peculiarity of life in Britain, a investigate reveals. 

Ely is usually a 90-minute invert from executive London.

Residents in Ely are famous for their palace homes

Other tip 10 farming districts in a Halifax investigate embody Wychavon in Worcestershire, adjacent a city of Worcester, and Waverley in Surrey, that is usually over an hour’s expostulate from London.

The investigate looked during 119 farming internal management districts, deliberation factors such as income and life expectancy.

It found a 80,300 residents of East Cambridgeshire acquire some-more money, have bigger houses, live longer and suffer some-more sunshine. A standard baby innate in East Cambridgeshire will live for 82 years, compared to 78 opposite a UK.

The normal proprietor earns around £100 a
week some-more than a inhabitant average, with a standard domicile enjoying a
gross income of £707 a week.

Ely that has a series of attractions like a Cathedral enjoys some-more fever than any other segment in a UK

THE TOP 10

1. East Cambridgeshire 

2. Wychavon, Worcestershire 

3. South Cambridgeshire

4. East Hertfordshire 

5. Waverley, Surrey 

6. Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire 

7. Rushcliffe, Nottingham  

8. Uttlesford, Essex 

9. Rutland  

10. Chiltern, Buckinghamshire

Homeowners are expected to have bigger houses, enjoying an normal of scarcely 7 rooms, compared to a inhabitant normal of five.

However, soundness comes during a price. A standard home costs £214,031, compared to a normal cost of a skill in farming Britain of £195,461.

And locals bask in 30 hours of fever a week, that is usually over a inhabitant average.

Martin Ellis, of a Halifax, said: ‘In new years, East Cambridgeshire has achieved consistently good to denote that a residents have among a best peculiarity of life in farming Britain.’

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