As of today 12th May we are pleased to inform you that Connie has now exceeded last years target and now stands at £371 – Hopefully there will be a few more last minute donations.
You can support The Sue Ryder Foundation by visiting Connie’s ‘Just Giving Page’
Connie Gerstner-Walk-To-Remember-Sue Ryder
She has 10 supporters on Just Giving and 23 other generous donors who have paid CASH
There is a meeting of the Patients Participation Group of The New Queen Street Surgery on Monday 13th May @ 18:30
190513 -PPG -Agenda
Besides my having this web-blog for 8+ years updating residents not only in and around Whittlesey, but I have for sometime a worldwide audience – maybe the people in Australia and New Zealand who pass by regularly are ex Whittlesey folk.
I have published an update in print form to some of the area of St Mary Ward South and attach it below.
I strongly believe that Councillors should keep in touch with their electorate, this has been promised previously by Councillors for it not to happen.
It may not be in print format as this is an expensive way in this day and age.
2019 Electors News Update -070519 Roy Gerstner
With reference to items contained in the Agenda – Members of the public in the area have received a letter from the Environment Agency Re – East Midlands Waste Ltd® informing them that the EA have withdrawn the enforcement notice placed upon then.
I can not publish the full contents of the letter as it my be prejudicial to do so.
We have concerns about a 14 year old Lithuanian female who has been missing from the Peterborough area since 3oth April 2019. Clothing described as Black Jacket and White Trainers. She is possibly in company of one or two Black Portuguese males.
Emilija Jurgalaite DOB 21-05-2004
Could any positive sightings be reported to Cambs Police quoting incident # 175 of the 9th May 2019
Male 1 (On the right) William Da Costa Fernandes
DOB 10-09-1995
Male 2 (On the left) Heraldo Alves Te
DOB 10-09-1995
Please, it takes less than 3 minutes to fill in the online survey.
The Community Safety Partnership (CSP) has designed a survey that allows the community to highlight any issues that affect them or their local area. Information from these will be used to inform the priorities and the work of the CSP.
The overall objective of the CSP is to work in partnership to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour.
Disclaimer: These observations are not the ‘official’ minutes of the meeting, these are supplied by Whittlesey Town Council, normally (1) month following the meeting and can be viewed on their website.
The agenda last nights meeting was published on this web-blog 07th May – see below.
8 members of the public present.
Once a year there is an Annual Parish Meeting – the agenda was published as above.
There is little detail to report.
I am pleased to report that all 14 Whittlesey Town Councillors were present at the meeting of the 14, there are 4 new councillors :-
Cllr Victoria Lang-Whiston.
Cllr Gary Munns.
Cllr Dave Davis.
Cllr Roy Gerstner (Ex Town Councillor 2011-15).
Election of Mayor & Leader of the Council – Cllr Mrs Julie Windle.
Election of Deputy Mayor and Deputy Leader of the Council – Cllr David Mason.
Police Matters – Some discussion took place about the content of the report – this report is a ‘snap-shot’ of what the Neighbourhood Police Team carry out on a monthly basis.
Members of the Council and Neighbourhood Watch get this report – it is not posted elswehere at the request of the Police. Cllr D Laws requested that a more in depth report be given, there were no Police present at this meeting.
Street Scene & Environmental – See previous post with reports.
Public Forum – 3 members of the Public spoke, LR asked whether there could be an update in the Kings Dyke crossing – (answer came later in the meeting).
Mr Robert Windle gave an update on events being held by The Whittlesey Sports Association (See end of report)
New Council Offices – (Ex Whittlesey Police Station) – Contract for the refurbishment and some building work has been signed and a provisional date for completion is 20th August.
Ward Matters – Kings Dyke Bridge/Crossing – Cllr Cris Boden informed on a personal basis that the first phase has been completed and contracts for the build phase are waiting to be signed between Cambs CC and Kier Construction (subject to negotiation).
To date some £4+ Million has been spent.
Kings Dyke – Portable Toilet – The initial trial of 6 months is now complete and it is understood that Cambs CC will no longer contribute to funding, I asked for the Council to contact Street Pride (the original request came from them) to get feedback as to how sucessful the toilet has been in respect of cleaning the area up.
Drug Issues and Dealing – There have been numberous reports of substance dealing ongoing within the area – The Police have been made aware. If any of the public see or witness this behaviour please report it to the Police either online or by phoning 101
https://www.cambs.police.uk/report/Report
If it is not reported – it will NOT be recorded – If it is NOT recorded – No action will take place.
The next full meeting will take place on Wednesday 12th June 2019
Entries are still be taken for the Its A Knockout fun afternoon on Sunday 16th June at the Field of Dreams, off Stonald Road Prior to the main event is a series of taster sessions organised by some of our members clubs . Please come along as all taster sessions are free to have a go , this will include football for all ages, Netball, Boxing, Bowling, Table Tennis, Archery and Martial arts, These events will start from 12.30pm for more details contact Robert Windle 07970228790.
We are grateful to the many sponsors for their support.
I am Roy Gerstner (Independent) – A Community Activist
for the Whittlesey Town Council Ward of St Marys South.
My contact details are on the top toolbar.
E&OE – on the rare occasion I may make an error/mistake – I am pleased to make corrections pointed out to me – thank you.
©Roy Gerstner.
Facebook Missing Child Scam
Cambridgeshire Facebook users are receiving posts about missing children from their local school and being lured into clicking on a link within the post. If you receive such a post, then please do not click on the link as it may take you to a web address that appears to be relevant to missing children and then ask you for an email and password.
It may install malicious software that allows the criminal to remote access your device.
DON’T!
Initial enquires by the Cyber Investigation Team, suggest that these posts and links may have originated in Poland. Because too many people use the same email and password combination for multiple logins to different online accounts, criminals know this and will then try and login to dozens of the mainstream websites/accounts without you knowing in the hope they gain access and steal the commodity of the internet, data.
This scam is being seen across the UK.
There is a constant risk of opening an attachment or clicking on links within text, email and social media. Be satisfied you know who the sender really is before taking action.
For cyber security advice www.cyberaware.gov.uk
Disclaimer: These observations are not the ‘official’ minutes of the meeting, these are supplied by Whittlesey Town Council, normally (1) month following the meeting and can be viewed on their website.
Reports from FDC Enviromental & Street Scene..
(click on the botton left hand corner to advance page -arrows)
2019-May WTC-FDC Enviro PDF
Rosie Cooke from Fenland District Council Safety Projects Officer attended with 4 members of NHW , 1 member of the public and 2 WTC Councillors.
Amongst the topics – were Rural and Farm Crime and how perhaps to minimise this type of problem.
This will be the first meeting for the newly elected councillors, a few ‘new’ faces.
The meeting starts at 7pm with a Parish Assembly and then the AGM of The Council.
With reference to my post on the 05th May (below) – I’ve now been informed that ‘someone’ in Whittlesey has been a recent victim of ‘Holiday Fraud’.
Since most people are embarrassed to admit to these scams – we don’t know the full picture.
I was caught a few years ago – when on a tour of Sri Lanka – I stupidly paid the tour operator by Bank Transfer – I got to the final hotel and on leaving found he had not paid for it and ended paying again. Luckily we were staying on at another resort and I got the ‘Tourist Police’ involved – my money was returned on the last day of the holiday.
Lesson learnt – Do not pay by Bank Transfer……and take precautions as in the article below.
This morning on the BBC Website is :-
More than 5,000 people were the victims of holiday booking fraud last year, with their total losses amounting to £7m, research suggests.
To read the article please follow link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48179984
