Tag: Werrington

• Less Trading Standards = More RISK to older people!

  

  According Age UK, trading standards budgets have been cut by some 50% over the last 7 years. The result? Millions of older people are at a greater risk of becoming victims of fraud. Did YOU see? In April 2018, local media reported that Directors of a Peterborough firm which pressure sold beds and chairs to elderly […]

  May 14, 2018

  Policing

  Age UK, City Council, Geoffrey Turner, Hall Lane, Jaqueline Turner, Life Comfort Products, Peterborough City Council, rogue traders, scammers, trading standards, Werrington

• Will new Lidl store be a benefit to the Werrington/Gunthorpe area?

  

  According to the Council, “No public / neighbour representations” were received from local residents?

  Darren Fower

  January 24, 2018

  Local News, Planning

  Lidl, Lincon Road, Mancetter Square, Morrisons, Supermarket, Werrington

• #FlyTipping persists at #StorringtonWay shops!

  

  The state of the car park behind the Storrington Way/Amberley Slope shops is not a new concern…!

  Darren Fower

  January 23, 2018

  Local News

  Amberley Slope, Amey, Cissbury Ring, Corfe Avenue, Fly-tipping, Gillian Beasley, Green Wheelie Bins, Storrington Way, Werrington

• What are the chances of a new train station for Werrington?

  

  Simply answer is “Very slim!” But that didn’t stop the issue being raised at a meeting of Full Council earlier this year. It was Liberal Councillor for Dogsthorpe, Cllr Chris Ash, who raised the issue, asking that given the proposals for a new junction at Werrington, whether a new station on the northern side of […]

  Darren Fower

  September 28, 2017

  Transport

  cable cars, congestion, Dogsthorpe, East Coast Mainline, Full Council, junction at Werrington, Liberal Councillor, Mexico City, pollution, train lines, Werrington

• Just 23% of pupils at The Voyager Academy scored A*-C grades in English and Maths!

  What’s this to do with? Well basically, it relates to the recent news that the Voyager Academy has been taken over by the Thomas Deacon Academy Education Trust. The academy had been run by the Cam Academy Trust. You may remember that the school had previously been placed in to special measures? It is currently rated as ‘Requires […]

  Darren Fower

  January 31, 2017

  Education

  bretton woods, Cam Academy Trust., English and Maths, Gunthorpe, Ofsted, Thomas Deacon Academy Education Trust, Voyager Academy, walton, Walton Comprehensive, Werrington

• #Werrington Children’s Centre de-designated after costing Council £87,362 a year! @Welbourneschool

  At the latest meeting of the City Council’s Creating Opportunities and Tackling Inequalities Scrutiny Committee, Liberal Democrat, city councillor, Darren Fower, was told Werrington Children’s Centre, would now come under the control of Welbourne School. The move, we understand must be finalised before September 2014. Council Officers said that at present the cost of services […]

  Darren Fower

  July 18, 2014

  Education

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