From the Cambridge Evening News of June 15th. On June 3rd, Cambridge Evening News reported that district councillor Richard Summerfield pursuaded the council to use 'new legal powers' to move travellers off a small patch of ground enclosed by the A14 and the road leading from the Milton roundabout on the A14 to Tesco's and Milton. On June 5th, the Cambridge Evening News relayed the information from the chief of personnel of the education authority that 12 teachers face compulsory redundancy at the end of this term. 95 other jobs would be lost by voluntary redundancy, non renewal of contracts and non replacement of people leaving for other reasons. One in five LEA schools and one in 10 opt-out schools in the county will be affected .
Primary schools are to be affected by the cuts more than secondary schools.
Nine of the first 12 job losses are women and three men. On June 7th, CEN announced that Bottisham village college is to receive 140,000 from the National Lottery to go towards improving leisure facilities at the school. This means that the library, which until recently was faced with closure in order to meet cut-backs is about to have the most advanced facilities available in any library in the region. In last night's Cambridge Evening News, Fulton Gillespie reported that improving efforts to involve the public in debate about rationing NHS services had been the dominant issue at a meeting of Cambridge and Huntingdon Health Commission and the Cambridge Community Health Council. Last night's Cambridge Evening News said that the government want to make a decision as to whether or not to grant Blue Circle Cement a permanent license to burn toxic waste at their cement kilns in Barrington within a month.