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Always good to see more local cafes and tea rooms - this weekend visited Houghton Tea Rooms 🫖 🍰 What’s your favourite tea room in Cambridgeshire?

Goodbye to the flat - and especially this living room corner - where all the general election leaflets got organised 😂 Really excited to set up the new local elections campaign “office” in my new house in Huntingdon. Also realised I managed to be below the national average of

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Do you have experience working on national policy in the UK, for an MP or a campaign and want to see residence-based voting rights? We're recruiting a Campaign Organiser! ⏰ Rolling basis - interviews 9 October 2024 in London. ➡️ Application Form: forms.gle/6gQgGuUtGnWnjZ…

"A typical day would involve using my lunch break to join a council meeting on my phone and then after work, picking up a sandwich for dinner on the way to a three-hour evening meeting that would often overrun." Interesting - and relatable- article highlighting some of the

Lovely to attend the Huntingdonshire DC Green Recovery Day Group 6 celebration award and see the participant’s work in Stukeley Meadows. The pond already had dragonflies adding to the biodiversity of the space 🌱 Well done to the Groundwork East team, Cambridgeshire Skills and everyone involved!

Ready for my living room to turn into campaign HQ again 🌹

Last shift of canvassing in Stevenage for the by Bedwell County by-election. Good luck Ellie Plater 🌹

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Back on the doorstep in Peterborough today with the North West Cambridgeshire Labour MP Sam Carling MP🌹 🌹 Canvassing all year round not only at election time.

Night buses return to GM from today after a long absence. In truth, we should be bringing them back all over the UK. If our cities are to lead the way to the growth the Government wants to see, much better public transport is needed everywhere. #BeeNetwork

Councillor highlight of the day when you’re out canvassing and you see a recently resurfaced footpath

All aboard! Today we will take a significant step towards public ownership of our railways as our Rail Public Ownership Bill becomes the first major piece of legislation of this Government to reach the final Commons stages 🚂

How can community insights help us to develop better policies for local people?  For the past two years, we’ve been working with the Greater London Authority’s Community Engagement Team on the Civic Data Innovation Challenge to understand just that. 🧵

Join us on 3rd October for a Showcase event at the Barbican Centre to celebrate our projects and kick off a broader conversation about the use of community insights in policymaking.  👉 Register on the Civic Data Innovation Showcase Eventbrite page: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-civic…

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Everyone can see potholes - but have you reported them? Here’s a quick explanation on how to report a highways fault in Cambridgeshire. ➡️ cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/trav…

GB Energy Bill passed by 348 to 95, govt majority 253

Good news from Cambridgeshire County Council that more car parking spaces are opening soon at the St Ives Park & Ride following works to install a Smart Energy Grid. You can read the update on the project here: cambridgeshire.gov.uk/news/car-parki…