To say 3rd May 2018 was not a very good day for Conservatives in South Cambridgeshire is being realistic, for from having been in overall control of South Cambridgeshire District Council for 13 years, we are now in opposition to the Lib Dems.

The Home Office has given the go-ahead for Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Jason Ablewhite, to take on responsibility for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority.

Well, the Beast from the East certainly visited us in South Cambs at the end of February.  I’m ashamed to say I couldn’t actually get my car off the drive one particularly icy day…. no lady driver comments please!

The parliamentary constituency of South Cambridgeshire includes the Queen Edith's ward - which is part of Cambridge City.

Like South Cambridgeshire District Council, it is having elections on 3rd May – our candidate is Manas Deb who is having another crack at winning the seat for us.

On an island in Foxton Village Hall last night (23rd February) crowded with onlookers, Heidi Allen, MP for South Cambridgeshire chose the music, book and luxury she would take to her desert island, all the while being grilled by the Reverend Dr John Barrett.

Heidi is doing us proud!

We have a new e-mail address.

It is: scca@southcambsconservatives.co.uk.

Please update your address books.

Welcome to my second parish newsletter of the year – it’s been another busy month!

Some of the most productive local meetings I held this month have been with the Whippet bus company, Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke's hospitals, the County Council and Greater Cambridge Partnership.

This is my first newsletter of 2018 and I would like to begin by wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year.  It was an incredibly busy end to last year and is shaping up to be more of the same in 2018.

With the 2018 District Council election due on 3rd May, here's the tenth in our series about the Conservative candidates by the candidates.

In Cambourne we have three candidates: Ruth Betson, Shrobona Bhattacharya and Evelyne Spanner, who all live in the village.