Terry Macalister Sam Davies Bonkers Busway Cambs Even the mature trees are struggling in this heat – veterans are cracking at a scary rate. We’re flat out watering saplings to keep them alive. Meanwhile, still wasting precious time and resources fighting our own council 🌳💧🐝

If you’ve got expertise to lend — or a few quid to spare — now’s the moment. The County Council’s blown millions of your money trying to bulldoze a 100-year-old orchard and steamroller anyone who dares defend nature. We’ve got till 16 August to get our case in. Help, in any form,

The Cambridgeshire County Council proposed busway won’t just destroy trees. It will gut farms. One fourth-generation farmer tells how their family land will be sliced in two — and why this might be their last harvest #NoFarmsNoFood ✏️ change.org/p/save-the-gre…

BBC News Coming up: Biodiversity Net Gain — what it is, and why the GCP’s CtoC off-road busway section Madingley Hill Preservation won’t deliver it 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ change.org/p/save-the-gre…

📺 𝗕𝗕𝗖 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗖𝗣 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿. As preparations continue for the Cambourne to Cambridge TWAO Public Inquiry, we take a closer look at the claims, counterclaims, and what the evidence actually says…

Someone told me the bonkers busway would “promote active travel” not knowing that cycle paths already line 3 sides of the orchard. Another through its heart won’t cause a modal shift, but will do irreparable harm to a County Wildlife Site. Clip filmed on our way back from town 🚲

Many congratulations to BlueBarrelCider & Coton Orchard for reaching the finals of the Great British Food Awards 2025 with their ‘Origins’ series cider. A dry sparkling — but for those following the Bonkers Busway saga, you’ll appreciate the extra sweetness, especially

As we head to the public inquiry, a reminder of the Cllr speeches that got us here: apples “aren’t British,” the orchard’s “unnatural” and “sprayed with pesticides” (it isn’t) — and bulldozing it will somehow stop a burning world. Sept 16 the public has a voice, please use it 🍎

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟭.𝟲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀: Today we joined Rob, whose family has farmed on Madingley Hill for generations, to see the most objected stretch of the GCP Cambourne to Cambridge busway 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard & Madingley Hill Preservation Farms YouTube 📺 youtu.be/FzSYWo6QlYM?si…

Naomi Bennett Sam Davies Mark Williamson But still Cambridge Labour are pursuing C2C environmental vandalism Bonkers Busway Cambs Hard to see what they've achieved in 11 years except, it seems likely, giving up the City Council governance after over 800 years, and giving in to the uni and big corporations.

What a day❗️Huge thanks to the organisers for all their hard work and to everyone who joined in the fun 🌻🐝

In Cambridge Independent we look at #Cambourne to #Cambridge busway evidence ahead of inquiry & feature Out of the Ordinary Festival pics, a 5-page GCSE special, latest on River Cam locks, city's new butterfly trail, update on market vision & MPs' alarm at rail fares

A little rain, the soil stirs… and up come the poppies, sudden and golden. By afternoon they’re alive with butterflies, as if the meadow had been waiting for this moment all along 🐝

Peter Cushing, one of the UK's leading light rail experts, is appointed as Light Rail Commissioner for Cambridge by Mayor Bristow of the Cambridge & Peterborough Combined Authority. We welcome this exciting news as an important step towards delivery: cambridge-connect.uk/light-rail-com…

Can the public stop Cambridgeshire County Council from cleaving Madingley Hill Preservation in two and wasting £200m on a busway that terminates at Grange Rd❓🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 📺 Watch the inquiry live Cambridge Independent cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/how-to-wa…

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐧𝐞 (𝐢𝐬𝐡) – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 🌳🚌❌ Well, we’ve made it. After nearly a decade of consultations, revisions, rebrands and rebuttals, the Cambourne to Cambridge busway public inquiry finally opened this morning – and not with a whisper. The

£200M for busway that ends at edge of Cambridge, has poor Benefit Cost Ratio, designed >10 years ago prior to East West Rail, causes irreparable & unnecessary harm to Green Belt & Madingley Hill, & following A428 alignment has been not even been assessed bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

On ITV News ITV News Anglia : The Cambridgeshire County Council say that the GCP route felling hundreds of trees and cleaving Coton Orchard in two offers a “cleaner greener route into the city” Bonkers❗️ 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard