Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

Maybe not a common occurrence however there are times when we do use our own transport ..

Dear Mr Gerstner, (Not a problem for you – You are going Hybrid!)

The T-Charge (Toxicity Charge) starts next week on Monday 23 October 2017. This is part of the commitment by the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and TfL to help clean up London’s dangerously polluted air, which contributes to thousands of early deaths each year in London, and impacts our health over the course of our lives – leading to smaller lungs in our children, and greater risk of dementia and stroke when we get older. As of Monday 23 October, older cars, vans, minibuses, buses, coaches and heavy goods vehicles driven in the central London Congestion Charge Zone will need to meet new minimum emission standards, or pay a £10 daily T-Charge.
This will be in addition to the Congestion Charge and will operate from 07:00 to 18:00, Monday to Friday.

You can check if your vehicle meets the required standard with our vehicle compliance checker https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/emissions-surcharge/emissions-surcharge-checker

If your vehicle does not meet the emission standards and it is registered for a discount or exemption, you will automatically be registered for a T-Charge discount or exemption.
If you are registered for Auto Pay, you will automatically be charged for the T-Charge. Alternatively, you can avoid the charge by taking an alternative means of transport.
To help plan your journey,

visit tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey or to pay the charge from Monday 23 October,
visit tfl.gov.uk/t-charge

Between 15/10/2017 18:00 – 16/10/2017 07:30 on Briggate West , Whittlesey.
A Black Mitsubishi L200 vehicle has had a part stolen from under the vehicle whilst it was parked.

If anyone has any information please email March.NPT@cambs.pnn.police.uk or call 101 and quote CF0594161017.
Kind Regards PCSO Shane Green

WHITTLESEY & DISTRICT BUSINESS FORUM

Falcon Hotel, London Street, Whittlesey, Peterborough, PE7 1BH.

General meeting Wednesday: 18^th October, 2017.

At Falcon Hotel 6.00 for 6.30pm

The very unfortunate death at Whittlesey railway station made the national press, a great pity for this to have happened.
Unfortunately I was unable to attend the WTC council meeting on Wednesday so no report.
My campaign regarding a deposit scheme for cans, bottles, plastics etc is gathering momentum without any help from our MP Steven Barclay who is someone very quiet on the issue. Many other MP’s from differing parties have taken a very positive stance on the implementation of such a scheme.
Unfortunately some of the more ‘dimmer’ MP’s do not understand technology along with their ‘dim’ civil servants. They believe you can only recycle cans in an automated system – wrong – wrong  and wrong again – here is a photo which I took recently in a ‘Walmart’ (American Superstore who owns Asda) the Machine took glass bottles, plastic bottles and aluminium cans – and gave out tokens to exchange at the counter – and items sorted themselves within the machine.

Is this just too difficult for our ‘advanced’ country to come to terms with – the Germans and Scandinavians have similar systems.

Another major environmental issue is that of disposal of coffee cup

In the UK, we throw away an estimated 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups every year. In theory, they are “recyclable”, but in practice, only a tiny percentage is dealt with sustainably.
Yet so far, there’s no agreed way forward.

Parliament’s environmental audit committee has been hearing the latest thoughts from campaigners and industry on how we can improve on our record in this area.
The Government has been gathering ‘information for years now and are still unable to make any firm commitment on these issues

Read more on this BBC News/Business

Then there are the ‘promises’

• Theresa May’s election manifesto promised to ‘do more to reduce litter’ 
• The current maximum fine stands at £80 but town halls have demanded a rise
• A large majority of councils now want the power to levy fines of £150 for littering 

  Litter louts face on-the-spot fines of £150 under plans being drawn up by ministers.
  Town halls have been asking for the penalty to increase sharply from £80 and to rise to £300 for those who pay late.

  They would be able to use the proceeds as they wish – raising fears that councils will use litter patrols as a cash cow.
  Councils have had the power to hand out spot fines for littering, and other offences including dog fouling and fly-posting, for more than 25 years.

  Theresa May’s election manifesto promised to ‘do more to reduce litter’, and a review of the level of fines has been launched.

  Officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs believe existing fines raise only ‘relatively small’ amounts.
  Originally litter fines were set at a flat rate of £10, and for the past 11 years the maximum fine has been £80, which can be reduced to £50 for those who pay promptly.

  I and many of my friends will be very happy if any of these promises and initiatives come to being in the future (or near future) I dare say the country has more important issues to contend with – maybe the word multi-tasking is something new to Ministers.

Talks and negotiations have been going on for some time, but this week it looks like The Co-Op Group has been successful in mounting a takeover of the countries NISA Stores.

Britain’s Nisa Retail said on Saturday its chief executive had left the convenience retailer, which is in talks with the Co-operative Group to be taken over.
Nisa, which is owned by its independent retail members, said Nick Read had left with immediate effect but did not give a reason.

A source close to the negotiations with the Co-op said Read’s sudden departure “was not expected to impact the deal and exclusive talks are ongoing.”

Last month Britain’s second largest supermarket group Sainsbury’s suspended bid talks with Nisa, saying it needed a clearer idea of whether the competition regulator will approve takeovers in the fast-growing convenience sector. That opened the door for the Co-op.

How this is going to effect the (2) NISA Stores here in Whittlesey I am not sure, but at present our town does sustain the 1 small Co-Op + 1 Medium NISA + 1 Convenience NISA @ Victory Avenue….we wait and see….

Amazing that Sainsbury’s are ‘looking’ at take-overs at present – but pulled out of the chance to build a Supermarket here in Whittlesey – somewhat ironic I say…..

Jason Ablewhite, Police and Crime Commissioner News Letter can be found from clicking on this link:

PCC’s October News Letter

Message sent by : Julie Bailey (Police, Community Safety Officer, Fenland)

The following has been passed to us from Fenland District Council (FDC) although FDC message is for Wisbech residents I would like to pre-empt and reassure Fenland residents…

RESIDENTS ARE BEING WARNED ABOUT POTENTIAL SCAM RELATING TO DOUBLE GLAZED WINDOWS.

FDC have been made aware that some residents in Wisbech are receiving leaflets through their doors stating that unless they upgrade their double glazing windows to ‘A’ rating before April 2018, they will be penalised in their Council Tax bills next year. These leaflets are nothing to do with FDC and having double glazing (or not) has no bearing on Council Tax bills. If you receive or have received a letter through your door please contact trading standards and provide the details to them! Alternatively you can post it to Wisbech Police Station for my attention if possible with your details enclosed and I will pass it to FDC and Trading Standards. Please could I ask if you can forward this message to anybody in your community you feel might benefit from knowing about this scam. Kind regards Julie Bailey Crime Reduction and Community Safety Officer.

RG – If anyone gets this scam in Whittlesey – please let me know and I’ll pass it on.

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After some initial concerns about ticket sales – all went off pretty well I am told.

Although not quite the sell out of other events put on by The Friends of Whittlesey Library – The event was enjoyed by those who attended.

The FOWL AGM unfortunately did not produce any great ‘new’ interest from the public at large to help keep and possibly enhance our Library Services in Whittlesey.

Where has 50 years gone – I ask – today 50 years ago, on my 16th birthday, saved up all my ‘paper money’ paid for, insured and taxed myself as a schoolboy, my 1961 Royal Enfield Crusader Sports – how independent I felt then – as I still do ?

There has been a robbery at the Peterborough Rd petrol station in the late hours of yesterday evening. It was a group that made off from the location in a vehicle. Please contact if you know anything about this.
Call 101
36-42 Peterborough Rd, Whittlesey, Peterborough PE7 1PA, UK Instant Street View_09p,1z