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ofWisbechRailwereyesterdayoutlinedtotheGovernmentamid“overestimated
costsandunderestimated
benefits”ofthescheme.
Fenland MP Steve Barclay
wrote afour-pageletterto the
Secretary of State forTransport,
Chris Grayling, in abid
tospurfundingbodiesbehind
theproject to finally “stepup
and deliver”.
By Amy Collett
amy.collett@iliffepublishing.co.uk
01553817322
The North East CambridgeshireMPsaidthereis
moneyready to spend on the
next phase of Wisbech Rail–
with£10.5 million already allocated
byGovernment for
Wisbech TransportImprovementsfromwhichseveralmillionsofpoundscanbeusedfor
thenextroundofengineering
studies.
Yet for the last year he
says there has been “little
action from theLocal EnterprisePartnershipand
Cambridgeshire
County Council”
because Network Rail has
overestimatedthe cost of the
schemebyatleast£50million.
The rail infrastructure
firm has estimatedthe total
cost of theproject to be £150
million, but rail consultant
Michael Byng believes it can
be delivered atacost of between
£85 to £95 million.
Mr Barclay said: “Network
Rail’shigh costsfor the
schemehavebeenleftunchal-
STEAMING
OVERLACK
OF RAIL
WORK
My lettersets
outwhatcan be
done to speed
up thebuilding”
MPSteveBarclaysaysthecostsofWisbechRailhavebeen“overestimated”,whilethebenefits“underestimated”.
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thebuilding of Wisbech Rail.
“Itsetsout howcosts can
be reduced and benefits enhanced,
and how this work
canfitwithotherrailschemes
planned in ourregion.”
In his letter toMrGrayling,
Mr Barclay said there
areanumber of opportunities
to reduce costs and enhance
benefitsthatwerenot
includedinNetwork Rail’sassessmentofthe
project completedlast
June.
And is he asking the Department
for Transport to
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he told Mr Grayling that the
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Couldthis unlock
medievalmystery?
GaryFoxonworksbelowWinsoverRoad,Spalding,wheretunnelswererumouredtohavebeenusedbymonks.
DoesSpaldinghaveamedieval
secretlyingbelowoneofits
busiestroads?
Engineers repairing acollapsed
sewer inWinsover
Road areopen-minded about
thethoughtthatawaterculvert
runningfromSpaldingtoPode
Holecouldholdcluestoalongrunning
mystery.
Legend has it that monks at
an11thcenturyprioryinSpaldingwouldsecretlymovearound
thetownthroughunderground
tunnelslinkingMonksHouse
and the Prior’s Oven pub in
Sheep Market.
Anglian Water has been
working at theWinsoverRoad
sitesince thesewer collapsed
twomonthsago and sitemanager
Dave Holmes said: “Anold
manhole lidhad dropped down
so ateam came and put anew
one on.
“Butthenewlidstartedgoing
down even more, so we thought
‘there’salittlebit of aproblem
here’. Could it have been one
of the Prior’s Oven tunnels? I
don’t knowbut it’s certainly big
enough.
“Itcouldbeanythingbutyou’d
havetotakeabrickawayandfind
outhow old it is first.”
However, Spalding historian
Michael Elsden, author of the
Aspects of Spalding series, said:
“I wouldn’t take anynoticeofrumours
abouttunnels as Idon’t
thinkitwould have beenpossibletohavebuilttheminthisarea.
“The tunnels are animaginary
thing and there’sprobably
nothing in these rumours at all
because there’snothingtosubstantiate
them.”
By WinstonBrown
winston.brown@iliffepublishing.co.uk
Twitter:@LFP_Winston
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Street.
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powerto
caravans
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powerfornearlythreehours
after acar ploughed into a
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‘Iwillmissthis
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MP TAKESUPNEW
A16 SAFETY DRIVE
By WinstonBrown
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Twitter:@LFP_Winston
SouthHollandandtheDeepingsMPJohnHayesistomeet
withGovernmenttransport
officialsnextweekfortalks
aboutafatalcrashinCrowland.
Awoman inher 70s and a
man,bothfromSpalding,died
whenasilverPeugeot206they
were in collided withaHGV
near aroundabout on theA16
Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire
border on Mondaymorning.
The crash brings toten the
number of people killed on
the 13.7 mile (22km) bypass
linking Spalding and Eye,
near Peterborough, since it
wasopened in October 2011.
Formal identification of
the two victims has not yet
beencompletedbut,speaking
to theSpalding Guardian on
Tuesday, MrHayessaid:“This
accidentisindeed tragicand
Imustsay howsorry Iamfor
allthosewhohavesufferedaccordingly.
“I’ve been pushing theissue
of safetyonthe A16 very
hardsince Iwentbacktothe
Department for Transport
(DfT) (as aMinister in July
2016).
“I’ve also met with the
chairman ofLincolnshire
HighwaysAuthoritytodiscuss
some of thesafetyissues.
“ButI’llhappilytakethisup
again at theDfT next week.”
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Retiredjockeytakes on Cambridge half-marathon to help godson recoverfrombonemarrow transplant
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special
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keephisspiritsupandprovide
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transplantlast year.
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14-year-old sister Katie in
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Afterayear’sintensivechemotherapy,
thecancer went into
remissionbut,despitecontinuing
treatment, in Marchlast
alised that it’s all aboutJacob
and what he needs.
“Ifwecandosomethingreally
specialfor him, and give
himsomethingtolookforward
towhenhestartstofeelbetter,
hopefully it will give him areal
boost. He says that what he
wouldliketodomostistogoto
London to see The Lion King.”
“Jacob has been ill for so
long that itiseasy for usto
thinkhehasbeenforgottenbut
when we see that people have
been donating we knowthat
he hasnot –and that’s almost
moreimportanttousthanthe
money.
Meanwhile Derek, whoretired
from race riding in 2007,
is putting inabout 25 miles a
week in preparation for the
Cambridgehalf-marathon on
March 5.
“He’s really excited about
it,”saidwifeHelen. “Weare
both sopleased that we can do
something forJacob.”
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threeyears and he is still having
on-going issuesconnected
withthe transplant,”said
Lorna.
“It is very, very slow
progress and he gets very
down. We arestill having frequentvisits
to Addenbrooke’s
whichislikeasecond home to
him and he still has to take so
muchmedication–10syringes
of medicine in themornings,
eightintheeveningsandmore
in-between.”
When Derek and hiswife
Helen, wholiveatStudlands
Park,came up withthe idea
of thehalf-marathon and the
fundraising,Lornaadmitstoa
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Does landfill
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Policearetosearchalandfill
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airmanCorrieMcKeague.
Thesearchofanareaofthesite
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could take six to 10 weeks to
complete and is likely to start
around Wednesday, February
22.
Suffolk Police say the site
has been a consideration
throughout the investigation
as they have worked through
the possible options of what
may have happened to Corrie,
who vanished following a
night out with friends in Bury
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and her pyjama bottoms had
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Thehearsebearsa
tributetoJuggling
Jimwhile(insetleft)
SallyBeadleleads
theprocession.
Mournersturnedoutintheir
hundredsonWednesday
forthefuneralofAnthony
Bowen,betterknownas
JugglingJim,whodiedlast
month.
ThepewsofKing’sLynnMinsterwerepackedwithpeople
wearingSantahatsintribute
to thestreetperformer,who
passedawayaged62onJanuary
23 after aheart attack.
CanonChristopherIvory,
rectoroftheMinster,saidMr
Bowen was “first and foremost
an entertainer” whose
life should becelebrated,
but who also
should be rememberedforthehuman
being underneath all
of that.
Before the funeral,
aprocession
led by fellow
entertainer Sally
Beadle made its
wayalongtheHigh
Street tothe Minster,passingthe
spot
whereMrBowenregularly
stood.
Ms Beadle said: “It was
amazingtosee so manypeople
come to to the funeral
who knew him. Adistant
relative and some former
neighbours were heretoday
to remember him.”
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By RebekahChilvers
rebekah.chilvers@iliffepublishing.co.uk
Twitter:@TheLynnNews
Town bids last
farewell to Jim
Mantook
his ownlife
in burning
car in Eye
AnEyemantookhisownlife
in aflamingcar because he
couldnotfacegoingonwithouthis
late wife, an inquest
heardthis week.
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other’
Diss RFChead coachDave
Smithinsists he is treating
this weekend’s table-toppingclashwithSouthWoodham
Ferrers likeany other
game.
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Cardused dayafterwoman
went missing, court hears
SylviaandPeterStuart,picturedin2013.
Acreditcardbelongingto a
womanwhoSuffolkpolicesay
wasmurderedwasusedto
withdraw cashthedayafter
shewaslastseenalive, ajury
hasheard.
Althoughthe body of Sylvia
Stuart, 69, from Weybread,
hasnever been found,aman
–who claims he is avictim of
mistaken identity–is on trial
at Ipswich Crown Court for
her murder.
AliQazimaj,fromsouthEssex,
is also accused of killing
Mrs Stuart’shusband Peter,
75,whose bodywas found by
police in astreamatthe rear
oftheirhomeinMaylastyear.
Qazimaj, aformer asylum
seeker,haspleadednotguilty
to both offences and is claiming
that he is notwho police
thinkheisandhadneverbeen
to theUKuntil he wasarrested
at ahostel in Luxembourg
and extradited at therequest
of theBritishauthorities.
Thisweek,thecourtheard
that Mrs Stuart’sBarclaycard
wasusedat acashmachinein
ThurrockonMay30lastyear,
thedayaftershewaslastseen,
to withdraw £200.
The jury heard that one
minute later afurther £100
was withdrawn using the
same machine and ashort
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timelateranunsuccessfulattemptwas
made at Chafford
Hundred to obtain £500.
Prosecuting, Andrew
Jackson told the court that
another minute later afurther
attempttoget £100 was
made and earlythe next day
an attemptwas made to use
thecardtoobtain £300 from
amachineinGrays.
AliQazimajisontrial.
Twomoreattempts were
made using cashmachinesin
Graysthe same daybut withoutsuccess,
thecourt heard.
Despitedenying being Ali
Qazimaj, thedefendanthas
beenlinkedusingDNAtesting
to blood found on acar abandonedinastreetinDoverand
throughfingerprints, mobile
phone records and police
roadside cameras, theprosecution
claim.
It is allegedthatQazimaj
knew ofMrand Mrs Stuart
through aconnection with
theirson-in-lawwhile working
as acarer forhis father.
Qazimaj is allegedtohave
been afrequentgambler and
amassed debts and to have
committedthemurdersafter
gaining theimpression that
Mr and Mrs Stuartweremillionaires.
Mr Jackson told the jury
that bank records showed
that between2013andMarch
last year, Qazimaj had paid
from his bank accountmore
than £15,000 to online gambling
sites.
The jury wastold that details
gathered by automatic
number plate recognition
camerashadshownthat Qazimaj’s
Citroen car had been
trackedonanumberofoccasions
heading from his home
in EssextoWeybread,sometimes
in thedeadofnight,in
themonthsbeforethealleged
murders.
The trial continues.
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beauticians and nail
technicians ar encouraged to
enter the Create the Look
contest run by SMEi.
Last year, two Cambridge
firms made the top 10. Visit
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Hair and beauty
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Watermi l A counting wi l host
a fr e workshop for
entrepreneurs on Wednesday,
February 2, from
9.45am-11.45am a the Future
Busine s Centre in Cambridge.
A tend es wi learn about six
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finance mistakes that start-ups
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Reminder to Government:
We’re No 1 for life sciences
A fresh drive to promote Cambridge
Biomedical Campus (CBC) as the
capital of UK life science has begun.
Cambridge University Health
Partners (CUHP) has agr ed to
co laborate with the campus
developers to promote and manage it,
marketing the fast-growing site
nationally and internationa ly.
It comes after the Government
a nounced its industrial strategy last
month, pledging su port for science
and i novation, with a £4.7bn funding
pot fo research an development.
Oxford has already lai down a
marker by a tracting Danish
pharmaceuticals firm Novo Nordisk,
which dismi sed lingering doubts
over Brexit by a nouncing that it was
to invest £ 15mi lion over the next
decade in a new research centre that
wi l employ 1 0 scientists, who wi l
focus on finding novel treatments for
type two diabetes.
Now Cambridge – where the
development of AstraZeneca’s global
R&D HQ alone represents an
investment of £ 30mi lion – is k en to
reinforce its role to the Government
as the leading light in the sector, able
to a tract new busine s, jobs
and investment.
Joint developers Liberty Property
Trust and Countryside have now
a nounced that CUHP – which brings
together the university and thr e
health trusts – wi l take on an interim
role of managing inquiries from those
joining th expanding campus
Malcolm Lowe-Lauri, executive
director at CUHP, said: “We believe
Cambridge is the capital of the UK’s
life science and is one of the key cities
ready to lead the country’s future
economic su ce s. The list of
companies and organisations based in
and around the city shows this is no
idle boast.
“On the campus alone we are home
to the University of Cambridge, the
new global researc headquarters for
AstraZeneca, the world famous
A d e nbr oke’s H o spital,
GlaxoSmithKline and the MRC
Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
“By working with Liberty Property
Trust and Countryside an developing
our strong links to the wider
bioscience and technology clusters in
Cambridge, we wi l ensure the
campus continues to deliver new jobs,
investment and o portunities to
Cambridge and the East of England.”
Jeane te Walker, who previously
marketed the campus for the
developers, has moved to a role on the
Science Park.
Andrew Blevins, managing director
of Liberty Property Trust, said: “It’s
important for people to know that we
are open for busine s to companies
wishing to benefit from locating at
CBC. CUHP are we l placed to talk to
potential o cupiers about
the co laboration and networking
o portunities that already exist
at CBC.”
Andrew Ca rington, managing
director of Countryside, a ded: “As
w enter the next phase of the
campus’s expansion we remain
focused on raising awarene s of the
o portunities available to work
alongside world cla s healthcare
companies in what is rapidly
becoming a global centre of
exce lence. We have agr ed an initial
short-term co laborative a proach
with CUHP to continue the promotion
of the campus and kick-star the
expansion, a lowing time for a more
comprehensive promotional strategy
to be developed and implemented.”
The campus has pla ning
permi sion for an a ditional 75, 0
square metres, th equivalent of 14
Wembley pitches, of new clinical and
science-related busine s during phase
tw of its development. Phase thr e
wi l expand the campus further.
Bidwe ls, Savi ls and Creative
Places are acting for the developers
over property inquiries.
Paul Brackley
paul.brackley@ili femedia.co.uk
How the Cambridge
Biomedical Campus wi l
l ok after phase one
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wouldbeforcedtomovetounsuitable
accommodation.
Almost700 people signed
apetition opposing funding
cuts whichwereputting the
Cangle’s 32 residentsatrisk.
On Monday those residents,
whoare allagedunder
25,werefinallyabletobreathe
asigh of relief after learning
theywouldallbeabletostayat
theWithersfieldRoadfacility.
Cllr Beccy Hopfensperger,
Suffolk’scabinetmember for
adult care, revealed thenew
contract for young people’s
servicesinWestSuffolk–takpeople
in St Edmundsbury
and Forest Heath.
“This will allow us to build
on our 17years of inspiring
work with young people at
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He added: “It’sbeen overwhelmingtohearthesupport
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Canglewillremainsuitablefor
young people older than 21.
ResidentVikkiHayes,22,
said: “We’ve all been really
stressed outbut nowwe’re all
really happy–none of us are
going to be made homeless.”
ing effect from April 1–had
been awardedtoaRiversideled
partnership.
She said: “Thiswillmean
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in West Suffolk.
“The council will continue
to work very closely withall
housing relatedsupportproviders
to ensure thesmooth
handoverofcontractsandare
taking aflexible approachto
this transition focused on the
bestinterestsofcustomers.”
SimonAllcock,Riverside’s
regional operationsmanager,
said: “We are absolutely
delightedtohearthatRiverside
have been awardedthe
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SomeofWestNorfolk’smost
promisingstudentshavebeen
settheirownUniversityChallengeinaschemeeducation
chiefshopewillhelptoraise
localaspirations.
Around 100 teenagers, representingmost
of thearea’s
secondary schools took part
in the inaugural University
Challengeconference held at
Lynn’s University Centreon
Friday.
The programme included
motivational speeches and a
series of team challengesdesignedtostretchthestudents
and encourage them to work
together.
Teachers from the participating
schools also metto
sharegoodpractice,aspartof
awider project that officials
hope willhelp to improve attainmentstandardsacrossthe
borough.
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