Duchy's Piece is a small nature reserve near Aldbury which features rare butterflies and downland flora. It was opened about 10 years ago by the Queen Mother on land owned by the National Trust. Running just below this, separated by a small area of scrub and undergrowth is a field that runs down to Northfield Road and which changed hands about 3 years ago.
Now that the irritating flood at the corner of Park Street and Hastoe Lane has gone - there's nothing to put you off using the Museum's new car park round the corner and a little way up Hastoe Lane.
Cambridge North station is one of the infrastructure projects initiated by the Coalition Government to stimulate the economy. It is to be constructed at the Chesterton sidings on the Fen Line from Cambridge to Kings Lynn near the Cambridge Science Park, but the project has been subjected to several delays. Early warnings appeared in April 2010 when Conservative election literature meekly remarked that the station would never be built. This negative political stance might explain the subsequent handling of planning by the Conservative controlled Cambridge County Council (CCC).
Well, you can't take risks with something as important as this!
Well of course it's safe to go to the Greyhound in Wigginton!
News that the UK Conservative Government confirmed it was blocking EU proposals to tackle Chinese steel dumping was reported in the Guardian last week (01/04/16), prompting comments that David Cameron and Sajid Javid were failing the British steel industry.