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Emmaus campaign to protect homeless shelters from closure

By on Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 | No Comments

Emmaus, the homeless charity that works,  is launching a petition today to keep night shelters across the UK open.   Many night shelters are at risk of closure due to the loss of housing benefit income. This follows a legal ruling in Wales that denied housing benefit to an individual staying in a night shelter, [...]

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South Cambridgeshire District Council celebrates St Georges day

By on Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 | No Comments

Councillors and staff  marked St George’s Day by raising the national flag at its Cambourne headquarters on Tuesday 23 April 2013. A short ceremony took place outside South Cambridgeshire District Council’s business park offices to mark the occasion where the Council’s Chairman and Vice Chairman asked people to take a moment to reflect on the [...]

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Government plans to withdraw housing benefit from under-25s

By on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 | No Comments

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 [...]

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New Roadworks Alerts service launched

By on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 | No Comments

A new service to give local communities advance warning of 1.7 million local road works was launched on Thurday 16 February 2012. Roadworks Alerts is free to users and provides details of local road works direct to mobile phones or as automated feeds to websites. It is a new service from the ELGIN roadworks.org website [...]

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South Cambridgeshire broken up in Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries review

By on Monday, November 28th, 2011 | No Comments

Under new rules laid down by Parliament, there is a Parliamentary constituency boundaries review being undertaken by the Boundary Commission for England (BCE). The results of the review must be reported to Parliament by 2013, but the deadline for responding to the consultation is Monday 5th December 2011. The BCE has undertaken a study of [...]

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