I hope our councillors are aware and have made representation to Cambs Highways of the extremely poor state of parts of Broad Street
I know exactly what the next complains will be – Leaves – Leaves and more Leaves.
Well good to see today ‘Lilly S’ sweeping like crazy whilst his mate with the Vac hovered up a vast amount of leaves.
Of course if you have problems with leaves then report either to Fenland District Council or Whittlesey Town Council or better still your elected representative….
A Happy birthday to our good friend Nancy Goude, no telling of here age ? – a special occasion. Nancy like my wife Connie is originally from Malaysia, she met her late husband ‘Reg’ whilst he was in the army in Malaya. She and Reg were married for 60 years, Reg unfortunately passed away in June.
Nancy was well known in Whittlesey, she is a trained tailoress, and ran her business from home and Broad Street for an incredible 44 years.
Yesterday we treated her to a fantastic ‘Malaysian Dinner’ at the ‘Wonderful Patisserie in North London – a wonderful time we had.
Connie G with birthday girl Nancy G…
A605 going into Eastrea – from Whittlesey – Known to us as Eastrea ‘Dip’?
My correspondent has found ‘another’ important road sign on its back.
It is a good job members of the public are vigilant in finding and reporting issues.
Yesterday afternoon some vehicle could not get around the turn off the A605/Eastrea Road onto Whype Road, they demolished the 7.5 tonne toad sign and chopped the Street Pride – Flower barrel in half, naturally they didn’t stop?
My correspondent informs me that after he reported to several ‘agencies’ – Cambs Highways have removed the damaged signage.
Did anyone in Eastrea see anything ?
(Click on picture to enlarge) Thanks to RB
The Whittlesey branch of Rotary held their 19th Annual Quiz – last night at the Ivy Leaf.
A fantastic turn out by many regular teams.
We had (2) Street Pride teams and not only supporting Rotary but had a load of fun at the same time. We never expect to come anywhere near winning, but our team ‘B’ beat the ‘A’ team this year.
Last year Rotary raised in excess of £2,000 from the Quiz night, the proceeds go towards mobile classrooms to educate ‘local’ children about health, drugs etc.
Look forward to next year….
Received this evening, from Martin Whitwell Chairman Whittlesey Country Park.
Dear Country Park Friends,
I would like to thank all of you for your continued support through all the planning process, there`s no doubt that we would not be in a position where all the plans have been passed by FDC without your support, but where do we go from here?
I take it that by now you all will have received a mail from David Mills of Sainsburys saying that the Whittlesey store will not be built next year, although not the news we all wanted at least we have not been crossed off altogether, and with this in mind I would like to ask you all to email the MD and CEO of Sainsburys to remind them that Whittlesey has not gone away and would still like to have a new Sainsburys Store and Country Park, in doing this the message goes to the top instead of being filtered out by people lower down the management structure.
Your help is very much appreciated let`s all make some noise to show Sainsbury`s how positive we all are in Whittlesey.
Email addresses of MD & CEO
David.tyler@sainsburys.co.uk
Mike.coupe@sainsburys.co.uk
If any of you have not got the time to pen your own letter you can down load the attachment provided by us and just add your own name to it.
Regards
Martin Whitwell
Chairman WCP
If you would like to support Friends of Whittlesey Country Park.
friendsofwhittleseycountrypark@yahoo.co.uk
First – At long last Whittlesey Town Council will have their own website to inform everyone of meetings, agendas and minutes. There is to be other information, and as with all websites takes time to develop. 1st of January 2016 is the launch date I am told.
Second – The offices at Vinpenta House (High Street) are being taken over by a company called ‘Lawgistics’ – they are a consultancy providing specialist Motor Trade Law advice.
I am informed they are bringing 12-14 employees.
Tonights meeting at WTC offices, was attended by 3 Councillors, 5 Business interests and 1 (myself) member of the public. A very useful debate on many aspects, including the setting up of a website and what ongoing work/costs might be involved. The promotion to get more local businesses interested in joining the business forum.
Whittlesey is an expanding town, with more housing a people living in the area.
Businesses have to promote themselves and have a voice within the town and I am very pleased to be invited to their meetings (They are open to anyone to attend).
The next meeting will be the AGM held on 20th January 2016 – more nearer the date.
Out of interest, brought up was the ‘Tesco’ grant money – which WTC are administering, here is the flyer below…. If your group has a project they think fits – then please get your application in…. Forms available from Whittlesey Town Council.
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Today and many other days, emergency vehicles wait at the closed crossing. This of course this has been happening ever since there was a crossing. But with the number of trains and their increasing in length, the barriers remain ‘Down’ for longer. Today another example, one day those vital minutes could mean the difference between life and death – this could affect us all.
At last weeks WTC meeting (again) only brief note was given to any update on the ‘proposed Bridge’ – Cllr Butcher informed the plans are being submitted early 2016 – although there has been some ‘slippage’.
I am not commenting whether or not the Bridge will happen/go ahead, I can only report what I have heard to been told.
We continue to wait….
Read within the document what the ‘New’ Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Alec Wood had to say when he delivered a key note speech to the AGM of Cambs NHW 23rd Oct.
There was a Q & A session afterwards.
(File is in pdf format/10 pages 494.5 KB)
At last some facts and sense re – bus service – Thanks I hope this puts an end to the rumours….
