Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

The Grinch will be arriving 12pm on the square outside Wetherspoons.

Whittlesey Cinema @ Queen St Church!

Next screening – Saturday 30^th Nov – doors 6.30pm for 7pm start.

“21” – cert 12A – stars Kevin Spacey and Jim Sturgess

(True story crime drama)

All free with refreshments served at interval (donations welcomed)

(Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa in the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intrigued by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter Jill Taylor predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.)

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Police and Crime Commissioner has announced an investment plan which supports the tackling of anti-social behaviour.

Darryl Preston has offered his support to Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week 2024, which ran from November 18-24.

A host of activities took place to signpost victims to support services and raise awareness of how to report problems.

The investment plan will also help to tackle other local issues including road safety and fly-tipping in every district across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Funding for problem-solving co-ordinators has been extended in each of the county’s six Community Safety Partnerships until March 2026.

The commissioner has also reopened his Safer Communities Fund, giving the Community Safety Partnerships the opportunity to bid for vital funding to target prevention efforts on the issues that impact communities the most.
Mr Preston said: “I wholeheartedly support weeks such as Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week. ASB is distressing. It can erode quality of life and will not be tolerated in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Our CSPs are working hard to prevent these issues and have achieved fantastic results.

“The continuation of my funding demonstrates how seriously we treat ASB and my confidence in the community work underway to make our county safer, stronger and more resilient to nuisance behaviour.”

During Anti-social Behaviour Awareness Week, neighbourhood officers visited Littleport Youth and Community Centre to speak to young people.

A community safety stall was also held in Ely Market Place.

In Huntingdon, patrols were out in the Ramsey PSPO area and Cambridgeshire Police officers visited youth sessions in St Neots.

A youth focus event was hosted at the Manor Leisure Skate Park in Fenland to engage with young people.
In Peterborough, the local policing team met with the community to talk about their concerns. Partners also met to discuss a Peterborough City Centre Public Space Protection Order.
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Whittlesey was well represented today at the Citizens Advice AGM held in Chatteris.
Cllr Alex Miscandlon represented FDC, Myself and Cllr Barry Wainwright representing WTC and Ex Cllr David Mason who is ‘An Ambassador’ for the CAB present at the meeting.


The CAB carry out fantastic work within Rural Cambridgeshire.
WTC funded face-to-face sessions at WTC Offices on Friday mornings (appointments necessary) are very well attended.

Our CAB support ‘Una’ has recovered Tens of Thousands of £££ for many local residents who were unaware of their entitlements.

There is a vast amount of resources available on the CAB Website.

https://www.citizensadviceruralcambs.org.uk/

A couple of months ago, the Police asked for any information regarding a Toyoya Pick-Up Truck, |Neighbourhood Watch| reported to the Police at the time that it had been seen in the Whittlesey area and that ‘they’ The Police had the vehicle removed to a compound.
It has since been seen driving around in an anti-social way.

No Big Deal sentence but hopefully the Toyota has been to the crusher.

Amazing how ‘blame culture’ has reared its head over the Kings Dyke Bridge.

Nearly everyone now has the ‘opinion’ that it was built in the wrong place – that may be proven, however at the public consultation 90+% went for the current option including myself – yes be honest.
Read the latest to hit the BBC News feed.

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Quote by William Blake

North Bank was due to be closed last night, however there are reports this morning 08:00 that traffic is using the road.

I have been a member of the Rural Citizens Advice for over 12 years.

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A robust question and answer session took place with developer Persimmon Homes today at FDC’s planning committee meeting, this can be viewed on FDC’s YouTube Channel.

After some 3 hours, the application for up to 1,200 new housing in March was approved, subject to access to the site – the building of a round-about to take place before any housing construction.

Reserved matters need to be agreed and this is a 10 year project in various stages.

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