Super Fast Broadband in slow going
Infinity Cabinet in Coton
Yesterday, the Madingley Exchange Race To Infinity Team received the latest update from BT, relating to the progress of the target dates for super fast broad band (SFBB).
The statement reads, “Thank you for forwarding the comments from your campaign team, I understand their frustration and I am happy to confirm that we have not reduced our commitment to achieving the roll-out in Madingley (100% of premises will see an increase in speed, 99.9% of premises will receive SFBB speeds of >15Mb, 0.1% of premises will receive between 2Mb &15 Mb). Read More…
Government plans to withdraw housing benefit from under-25s
Housing charities and campaign groups have been outraged by an idea floated by Downing Street to strip housing benefits from under-25s and make them move in with “mum and dad” as a way to “make work pay” and save the UK from growing welfare expenditure.
The proposal – which was floated by No 10 earlier this week but is yet to be developed into a concrete proposal – was announced just before a speech on Thursday in which David Cameron praised recent changes to the benefits system as “the most radical, long-term reform” in the UK for a generation. A Downing Street source said: “We are always looking at ways to change the welfare system to reward hard work and make work pay.”
The source said that there were many young people who are “low paid are living with their parents and can’t afford to move out” and questioned if it was fair to allow unemployed young people to be able to live independently supported by housing benefits. Read More…
Call for Candidates for South Cambs Youth Council
The Young People of South Cambridgeshire now have an opportunity to have a bigger say in how their neighbourhood is run by becoming “youth councillors” in the South Cambs Youth Council.
This follows on from the development of the South Cambridgeshire Young People’s Plan (YPP) which was put together with the help of young people in 2010. The YPP explains how important it is to the Council to make sure that children and young people have a say in the decisions and plans that affect them. Read More…
Cambridge Airport Opens New Route to Burgundy France
Flyers from Cambridge Airport have been handed a new service to the Burgundy region of France, starting this summer.
Cambridge Airport says that European regional airline, Danube Wings, will launch its first ever UK scheduled services from the Cambridge region with twice-weekly non-stop flights to the Dole-Jura Airport starting in June.
The regional airport of the Franche-Comté province is the first international scheduled service destination to be offered from Cambridge Airport under its new leadership team. Read More…
Bus Subsidies – What Cambridgeshire County Want You To Know
Recently, we received the brief below from the Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) Passenger Transport Service, to inform about what CCC is doing with bus subsidies and the so called Cambridgeshire Future Transport (CFT) Project. Enjoy …..
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Around 80 per cent of public transport in Cambridgeshire is run commercially with the remaining 20 per cent being subsidised by the County Council, at a cost of around £2.7 million per year. Work is already underway with operators to see if changes to routes and timetables could make some marginal subsidised journeys commercially viable and therefore reduce this financial commitment. Read More…
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