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A New Chapter for City Council’s Labour Leadership

Cllr Anna Smith was elected by Labour City Councillors tonight to succeed Cllr Lewis Herbert as leader of their group on Cambridge City Council. Cllr Smith will take over at the end of November, after Cllr Herbert’s seven and a half years in the role. She will be formally proposed as the new Leader of…

Cambridge Celebrates Tree Charter Day

Today (Saturday 28th November) is Tree Charter Day, which marks the start of National Tree Week. To celebrate, local residents have been taking part in the Forests of Imagination Gallery of People, Trees and Stories project coordinated by local community artist, Hilary Cox, for Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. Last month,…

Cambridge Labour councillors reaffirm pledge to extend Refugee Resettlement Scheme ahead of full council meeting

Labour councillors have today reaffirmed their existing commitments to extend the city’s refugee resettlement scheme ahead of this evening’s full council meeting. Under the proposed plans, which have been in discussion for the majority of this year, the city would aim to resettle a further 200 refugees in 5 years…

Cambridge partnership effort to beat coronavirus must continue

It is hard to conceive that the Coronavirus epidemic has been with us locally less than five short months. For most of us it feels a lot, lot longer. You? Local teamwork of Cambridge City Council, the County Council and hundreds of organisations has provided answers to challenges that none…

Executive Councillor for Housing, Richard Johnson, on homelessness in Cambridge

I, like all of you, was shocked to learn that a woman gave birth on the cold street at Christmas near one of the wealthiest academic institutions in the country – Trinity College. Comment on social media and elsewhere have viewed this as an example of the stark inequality of…

Cambridge Labour urges colleges to pay a Living Wage

Labour Councillors have responded to a recently published league table of low pay levels at Cambridge colleges by urging them to commit to paying their employees a real living wage. The Taylor Table, compiled by student campaigners and published to mark Living Wage Week, found that just 8 out of…