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The Cereste Shuffle

08:22 Thursday 23rd May 2013
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PAUL STAINTON: Well the Leader of Peterborough City Council has reshuffled his Cabinet team, following an extraordinary two weeks at the Town Hall. Marco Cereste will work without a Deputy, following a failed Leadership challenge earlier this month by his then Deputy Matthew Lee. Cllr Lee has been dropped from the Cabinet, along with disgraced Cllr Peter Hiller, who was recently convicted of causing criminal damage. Elsewhere, Cllr Gavin Elsey has been moved to the position of Culture, Recreation and Waste Management, and Cllr Nigel North moves to Environment Capital and Neighbourhoods, while Cllr Irene Walsh adds responsibility for Public Health and Communications to her Community Cohesion and Safety brief, and Cllr Matthew Dalton has left the Cabinet for family reasons. Well we can now speak to the man himself, Marco Cereste. Morning Marco.
MARCO CERESTE: Good morning Paul. You OK?
PAUL STAINTON: Yes I’m good, thank you. Very very good. memories of wrestling flooding through my mind this morning.
MARCO CERESTE: Oh well you see I’m old enough to remember all of that. It used to be great. You should have seen my grandma when they were wrestling. (HE LAUGHS)
PAUL STAINTON: Was she the one with the handbag?
MARCO CERESTE: She was in the ring with them. You should have seen it. It was great fun.
PAUL STAINTON: Anyway, you’ve had a bit of a wrestle with your new Cabinet, haven’t you? Two falls and a submission for Matthew Lee. Continue reading “The Cereste Shuffle”

Peterborough News 10th December 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 06:00 to 09:00 on Friday 10th December 2010.

Topics:
A group of anti-Muslim protestors are expected to visit Peterborough on Saturday hence the Peterborough United game v Rochdale has been rescheduled to tonight at 7:45pm.
Jazz bands, facepainting and a candleit vigil will all feature as part of One Voice One Community in town this Sunday.
Peterborough City Council has doubled its grit order in light of the inclement weather. The UK’s largest saltmine is in Winsford.
Continue reading “Peterborough News 10th December 2010”

Darren Fower LibDem on the Peterborough Cabinet Reshuffle

Darren Fower LibDem Leader talks to the BBC’s Paul Stainton about the new Peterborough Cabinet posts and other political topics from the Liberal Democrat viewpoint. Broadcast at 08:35 on Wednesday 19th May 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Shgow on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

Darren Fower LibDem Leader talks to the BBC’s Paul Stainton about the new Peterborough Cabinet posts and other political topics from a Liberal Democrat viewpoint. Broadcast at 08:35 on Wednesday 19th May 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

STAINTON: Now on yesterday’s show we heard from Peterborough City Council Leader Marco Cereste, many times, as he announced his Cabinet for the next term in office. We’ve already heard from the Cabinet Member for the Environment this morning, Samantha Dalton. There was also a new role for former Mayor Irene Walsh as Marco explained.
CERESTE: (TAPE) We’ve had two new Cabinet Members. One is Councillor Samantha Dalton who will look after the Environment and the Environment Capital portfolio and the other is Councillor Irene Walsh and she will look after Women’s Enterprise, Community Cohesion, HR, Health and Safety and so on.
STAINTON: (STUDIO) The other big change of course is that Marco Cereste will now look after the portfolio for Growth and Strategic Development for the city. Councillor Darren Fower is the Leader of Peterborough’s Liberal Democrats and joins us now. Good morning Darren.
FOWER: Good morning Paul.
STAINTON: You must be disappointed in this new era of collegiate politics, of coalition politics, that not one Liberal Democrat was invited in to this Peterborough Cabinet.
FOWER: Well it was disappointing, and again this year we stood up, and we made the point that as one of the smallest local authorities in the country we thought it made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and didn’t consider it fair to the local taxpayer, that we had the maximum number of Cabinet posts, which in essence means a handful of Conservative councillors get a significant amount of dosh on top of their basic salary. Continue reading “Darren Fower LibDem on the Peterborough Cabinet Reshuffle”

Peterborough News May 17th 2010

A summary of the Peterborough Breakfast Show from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire broadcast from 07:00 to 09:00 on Monday 17th May 2010. News travel weather and interviews.

Topics:
Once again volcanic ash becomes an issue for airlines and passengers.
Peterborough Council for Voluntary Services organises a litter-picking exercise.
Cllr. Keith Sharp will take over the role of Peterborough Mayor from Cllr. Irene Walsh.
BBC Cambridgeshire teams up with Wimpole Hall to save the bee.
A Ramsey cllr. offers to transfer a longstanding rubbish heap from Canberra Court to Hunts District Council offices.
A Deeping Diamonds Girls Football Team is unbeaten for almost three years.
Gary Johnson Peterborough United manager talks about the future in Division One.

Interviewees:
Naomi Jones Peterborough Council for Voluntary Services.
Keith Rounsley Deeping Diamonds Girls Football Team.
Cllr Irene Walsh Retiring Mayoress.
Richard Morris Farm Manager Wimpole Hall.
Paul Haslam Beekeeper.
Richard Davis Bee Rescuer.
Pete Reeve Ramsey Cllr.
Gary Johnson Manager Peterborough United Football Club.
Toby Earl TV Easy Magazine.

Team:
Presenter: Paul Stainton
Producer: Heather Noble
Sport: Peter Swann
News: Suzi Roberts
Travel: Justin Peterson
Weather: Steve Weston
Phones: Kerry Devine
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