Mark Williamson
@markrwilliamson
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Journalist based in Cambridge. Formerly news editor @BBCCambs, now freelance. Views here my own unless reposting. [email protected]
Cambridge UK
Joined June 2010
‘Our ambition is that patients will only need to attend the Biomedical Campus if they have an emergency that requires stabilisation, or their urgent needs cannot be met elsewhere’ - @CUH_NHS
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, which runs Addenbrooke’s Hospital says a new care model is needed due to “accelerated population growth” in order to meet the Government’s economic ambitions. https://t.co/unvUcBizwb
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Former leader of @camcitco Lewis on Beehive redevelopment decision by Housing Secretary. https://t.co/8sfEKNNAdK…
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Creating new supported modular home communities to tackle the housing crisis, then permanent homes. Past Labour Cambridge Council Leader & council home builder.
@markrwilliamson Had it been left to FEBRUARY'S @camcitco Planning Ctte... @railpen would've had excess bulk on edges trimmed, but likely proceeded quicker. Sad, bad day for democracy when Whitehall gazumps Planning Cttes, after developer pressure, excluding community. Risk now of even worse
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“The review will define how the University and its partners will collaborate with local communities to ensure innovation-led growth benefits everyone.” Thoughts on how this ‘inclusive growth’ could benefit local people beyond the university and biomedical campus? 4
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Roland Sinker will work with ‘key partners’ to ensure Cambridge Uni, ‘actively enhances the Government's strategy for the OxCam Corridor and supports the work of the Cambridge Growth Company.’ 3
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Announcement by the university VC Deborah Prentice: ‘I have therefore asked Roland Sinker convene partners across the Cambridge cluster to translate a fully inclusive growth strategy into concrete actions.’ 2 https://t.co/QGy6cFeuQp
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New: @CUH_NHS CEO Roland Sinker stepping down to take up a role with @Cambridge_Uni developing a ‘roadmap’ into the ‘delivery of inclusive innovation and growth.’ 1
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, which runs Addenbrooke’s Hospital says a new care model is needed due to “accelerated population growth” in order to meet the Government’s economic ambitions. https://t.co/unvUcBizwb
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10 years...and out. Roland Sinker leaves Addenbrooke's @CUH_NHS to take up a new role with the University, focusing on the super-growth the Government is banking on for Cambridge.. https://t.co/5S7Wqe08Nr
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Each week a little more scaffold is removed from OLEM Cambridge: this week the tower clock revealed #timepiecetuesday
#TowerTuesday
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I’ll personally withhold judgment until I read more about her but I can say for certain that appointing a Labour peer that’s deeply intwined with social care, even if she resigns the whip, won’t give survivors much confidence
Labour peer Anne Longfield has been selected to chair the grooming gangs national inquiry. She was not interviewed by the survivor panel before selection but will meet with them later this week. Baroness Casey has offered to stay involved in the process "as necessary."
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Big decision this. Many of the changes to Cambridge over the last few years haven't been immediately visible to residents going about their daily business - barring the main station. Huge housing blocks have gone up but you'd need to seek them out. But Bye Bye Beehive...is BIG
New: Cambridge’s Beehive Centre redevelopment plans approved by Housing Secretary Steve Reed.
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Labour peer Anne Longfield has been selected to chair the grooming gangs national inquiry. She was not interviewed by the survivor panel before selection but will meet with them later this week. Baroness Casey has offered to stay involved in the process "as necessary."
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‘Weighing in favour of the proposal are economic growth and productivity in the Greater Cambridge area. ‘Weighing against the proposal are harm to residential amenity.’ 3
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‘The SoS agrees that the scheme would create enhanced provision for an internationally important cluster of knowledge and high technology industries. He further agrees that it would promote economic growth in a sustainable and accessible location and facilitate innovation.’ 2
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New: Cambridge’s Beehive Centre redevelopment plans approved by Housing Secretary Steve Reed.
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The ‘radical’ proposals by CUH are for a community-based system centred on ‘neighbourhood health centres’ - a cross between conventional acute services currently offered in hospital and community services. 2
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CUH hope to develop a business case for a £ https://t.co/hEplMkBP4R new hospital. Their update for cllrs says a hospital with 2k beds - essentially double Addenbrooke’s now - would be “unaffordable” and they would not be able to recruit sufficient staff to run it. 1
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, which runs Addenbrooke’s Hospital says a new care model is needed due to “accelerated population growth” in order to meet the Government’s economic ambitions. https://t.co/unvUcBizwb
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Cambridge University Hospitals Trust, which runs Addenbrooke’s Hospital says a new care model is needed due to “accelerated population growth” in order to meet the Government’s economic ambitions. https://t.co/unvUcBizwb
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One of my earliest childhood memories is of being in the back of the car and passing a field, somewhere in rural Cambs, teeming with lapwings. Lapwings are birds of my childhood – finally they have returned - The Guardian https://t.co/bRXTEacQzc
theguardian.com
Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: I have memories of seeing them at night, on our pyjama-clad safaris round the farm, but they haven’t been here for a decade
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@markrwilliamson Yes they are back in Cambridgeshire & during winter at least good numbers can be seen. A couple of thousand at Burwell Fen 10 days ago. Breeding very patchy though, with pressure from crows & foxes, including at top sites like Burwell. Predator control needed at best waders sites
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‘Over several months, criminals have stripped the pavement bit by bit, leaving behind "huge, unsightly craters" - before profiting from the high prices the distinctive textured flags can fetch.’ https://t.co/9sTGhF9I8s
bbc.co.uk
Thieves have been ripping up centuries-old Yorkshire stone, leaving residents calling for help.
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