your local Labour team members: Newnham

William Redfern, Newnham

Gonville and Caius College

William Redfern is Labour's candidate for Cambridge City Council

William is a student at Gonville and Caius College where he is reading law. He has been a member of the Labour party since he was 15 and has been involved working with the Labour club in Cambridge for over a year and has recently been elected as Chair of the Labour Club. In addition to this he has served within many student organisations, including the Cambridge Union Society, and as such has a wide range of experience in working with others to achieve the goals and aims of the people he represents. In addition he has served as the Head Boy of his former comprehensive school in which capacity he was responsible for working closely with others to represent students and to make progress on the issues that really mattered to the students he represented.

Having worked representing students both at school and university level I would very much like the opportunity to go to fight for and represent the wider community here in Cambridge, to stand up for the issues which really affect you and to work to make Cambridge a better place for all who live here.

Rita Gaggs, Newnham

2 St Marks Court, Cambridge CB3 9LE Phone: 01223 565913

Local resident Rita Gaggs has lived in Newnham for 28 years. Rita worked as a secretary in a University department for 12 years before retiring in 2000, then working for three years as a volunteer in an Oxfam Shop. Rita and her husband Oliver have three children and four grandchildren.

Rita is especially concerned about the problem of dangerously sloping pavements along Grantchester Street. In icy weather these pavements are a danger to older people, wheelchair users and young families with pushchairs.