March 2007 Archive
This Spring Huntingdonshire District Council has come up with a novel way of keeping the streets safer by dealing with concerns about young people playing football and ball games and encouraging communities to come together harmoniously.
During the Easter Holidays the rangers at Barford Road Pocket Park, St Neots are running a fun Easter event for accompanied children aged 4-9 years old.
Not sure what to do on Easter Monday, well why not visit Coneygear Park, Huntingdon between 11.00am – 1.00pm for an Egg-citing Easter egg hunt for all the family.
At the grand old age of 90 Mrs Joan Wilding has successfully completed a level two training course in food safety for caterers. She is the oldest successful candidate in Cambridgeshire.
If you don’t know Holt Island Nature Reserve, you are missing out on one of the St Ives most attractive delights.
Residents of Huntingdonshire are being offered a free personalised home energy report to help them take a step towards saving energy and reducing climate changing carbon dioxide emissions.
Impressions Fitness Suites got in the spirit of things and showed their support for Comic Relief last Friday.
Walkers on the Huntingdonshire Health Walks Scheme have achieved over 10,000 attendances, with an average of 9 people on each walk, covering approximately 25,000 miles in total, which is the equivalent of walking the circumference of the earth!
The landlord of a three-storey house in multiple occupation in Hartford Road, Huntingdon, was fined £3,000 by Huntingdon magistrates last week for failing to carry out fire precaution works --- a fire detection system and fire doors.
Councillors in Huntingdonshire are supporting a recommendation that 30 miles per hour should be the ‘normal’ speed limit through villages.
An order giving police and police community support officers the power to stop and confiscate alcohol from people that are believed to be likely to act in an anti-social manner, is being sought through Huntingdonshire Community Safety Partnership.
St Ivo Leisure Centre in conjunction with JPS Sound and Light in St Ives is running an exciting new DJ mixing and sampling workshop during the Easter school holidays.
For children’s holiday activities that do not cost a fortune, look no further than you local leisure centre.
Local residents are being asked to give their views on a sub-regional Choice Based Lettings Scheme (CBL).
On Wednesday 28 February 2007, Huntingdon Magistrates dealt with two cases of benefit fraud following investigations conducted by Huntingdonshire District Council’s fraud team and investigators from the Department for Work and Pensions.
As part of the BBC RaW Family Story Festival for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Huntingdonshire District Council’s Community Information Centre in Ramsey, in partnership with Abbey College, launched a ‘family short-story writing competition’ in five schools within the area.
Councillors will later this week receive the initial findings of consultants commissioned to look at car parking requirements in Huntingdonshire’s market towns.
Huntingdonshire’s ‘Planning for the Future’ core strategy, which sets out how development in the district will be managed over the next 15 years will need to be withdrawn on the recommendation of the Secretary of State because of further advice on amended procedures.
This Easter will offer plenty of fun sporting activities, organised by Huntingdonshire District Council’s leisure development team to try and engage young people in leisure provision during their school holidays.
New for Yaxley, a free and accessible activity for everyone to be involved in.