OK that’s quite funny www.reddit.com/r/cambridge/...

Queueing traffic right across the Catholic church junction at the top of Hills Road having problems getting out of the way of an ambulance on blue lights. Surely a yellow box on this junction like the one at the top of Mill Road would be an improvement.

The GCP welcomes visitors to Cambridge from Australia. www.reddit.com/r/cambridge/...

Cambridge Lib Dems announce John Walmsley as their Romsey candidate. www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/john-walmsley

Enjoying a politics geek’s day out at the absolutely packed Bennett School of Public Policy Annual Conference.

More on this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parts of Newmarket Road completely closed, even to pedestrians, due to a police incident.

It seems that Norfolk (population 940k) and Suffolk (population 786k) are each getting three unitary councils, so they'll be quite a lot smaller than the government's original target of 500k per council. (Norfolk: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Suffolk: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

Huntingdon MP Ben Obese-Jecty's latest update includes the news that he has been readopted as the Conservative candidate for Huntingdon at the next general election.

Report on Reddit of trouble at Cambridge station. www.reddit.com/r/cambridge/...

This is what that low bridge in Ely needs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EvT...

If the Iranians really do have missiles with the range to reach Diego Garcia, then they could also target the US airbases in East Anglia, which are about 100 miles closer to Iran. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here's a Lib Dem leaflet promoting Cheney Payne, their candidate for Cambridge MP.

Here's the newspaper that the Greens are delivering around Cambridge today.

The Cambridge Greens have lost no time in adding their new Trumpington councillor Ingrid Flaubert to their website.

I now have a full list of Green candidates for the city council elections. I understand the Greens are expecting to have a full slate of candidates in South Cambs as well.

Announcement that Lib Dem councillor for Trumpington Ingrid Flaubert is defecting to the Green Party. She becomes the sixth Green councillor on the city council, and the Lib Dem group is reduced to eleven.

A "big announcement" from Zack Polanski at 1:30pm today during his visit to Cambridge. What could it be? I'll be there to find out.

In my column in today's Cambridge Independent I take a look at the prospects for South Cambs in the local elections.

Here's another ward projection for the Cambridge local elections, this time from @poll_checker. While it doesn't exactly match my predictions, I don't think it's that far off from the likely outcome. www.pollcheck.co.uk/locals-2026#...

Back at the Glasshouse for my second AI-related event in five days www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/events/from-...

Here's a diagram of possible city council election outcomes. 15 of the 42 seats are up (including a by-election); each hexagon represents a different possible split between Lab, Green and LD. The star is where we are now; Lab->LD gains move it east, Lab->Green gains move it northeast.

Hearing from David Carmona that he will again be standing as an Independent candidate in Newnham in the city council elections.

Two fighters are representing the Cambridge Medieval Fighters' Guild at Saturday Knight Fights in Rochdale this evening. In the 5th fight starting shortly Will Evans takes on Dom Spens of Birmingham Medieval Combat and the UK national team. www.youtube.com/live/ZSug3TW...

The Greens have announced their candidate for Romsey - Jacqui Whitmore. cambridge.greenparty.org.uk/your-local-a...

I had a look -> cambridgetownowl.com/2026/03/11/c...

Agenda for next week's City Council meeting to debate the proposed Cambridge Development Corporation. This would last for 25 years, cover the whole of Cambridge and South Cambs, and be completely under central government control. democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

Daniel Zeichner contributes to a Westminster Hall debate on technology sovereignty. www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=20...

Brr. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Article by councillor Katie Thornburrow on the proposed development corporation for greater Cambridge. katiethornburrow.com/2026/03/lets...

I've added some more election predictions to my spreadsheet - I'm expecting Labour to hold Arbury, Cherry Hinton, and King's Hedges, the Lib Dems to gain Castle and West Chesterton, and the Greens to gain Coleridge as well as Newnham. More to follow.

Leaflet from Arbury Green Party promoting their candidate Sefira Davison.

Apparently tiring of Advance UK, councillor Watt is now listed on the county council website as a Non-Aligned Independent. cambridgeshire.cmis.uk.com/ccc_live/Cou...

Some chewy acronym soup on offer as the Cambridge Growth Company (CGC) and Cambs & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) embark on preparing a Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) for a potential Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system for Greater Cambridge. thecgc.org.uk/index.php?ti...

Demolition work will soon begin at the former Cuba Libre restaurant (previously Pizza Hut) near the University Arms Hotel. Here are some illustrations of the buildings being removed, and what will be built in their place - student accommodation and retail.

More Lib Dem candidate announcements for the Cambridge elections - their candidate in East Chesterton, where they have hopes of taking the seat from Labour, is newcomer Ania Bobrowska. www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/in-your-area...

Ward-level projections for May's local elections in Cambridge from Britain Votes Now. They rate Labour as most likely winners in 8 wards, the Lib Dems and Greens in 3 each. Personally I don't think Labour are likely to do anything like as well as this. britain.votes.now/local-electi...

It seems that someone who doesn't like Wisbech very much has been editing its page on Wikivoyage. en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wisbech

City council candidate announcements from @CambridgeLibDems: Market: Katie Porrer confirmed as restanding Petersfield: Sam Oliver Queen Edith's: Amanda Taylor Trumpington: Olaf Hauk (restanding) and John Grimwood W Chesterton: Guy Mills www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/in-your-area

Green party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social is visiting Cambridge for a campaign event later this month.

Even in a time of startling polls, this one from YouGov is pretty dramatic, giving the Greens their highest-ever score with the pollster, and pointing to wildly unpredictable results in terms of number of seats.

A new candidate for Cambridge City Council's Castle ward - Dr Khalid Abu-Tayyem is standing as an Independent. Dr Abu-Tayyem was also a candidate for Cambridge MP at the last general election.

It will soon be time for the March March march. www.marchmarchmarch.org.uk

Graph comparing the council tax charged by local district councils; this doesn't include the larger amount charged by the county council or the amounts charged by other bodies. Data from www.gov.uk/government/s...

Summary of planned changes to election law. The biggest change is votes at 16, but there are many other changes. Automated registration could eventually have quite an impact in Cambridge. www.aea-elections.co.uk/aea-represen...

Applying the Gorton & Denton swing nationwide - which of course is not at all what would happen in a general election - then in Cambridgeshire the Greens still only gain Cambridge; the Lib Dems hold South Cambs; and Reform UK take the other six.

Independent Huntingdonshire councillors Tom Sanderson and Ann Blackwell have joined the Lib Dems. Tom Sanderson is also a county councillor, so this will increase the Lib Dem majority on Cambridgeshire County Council from one to three. www.huntslibdems.org.uk/news/article...

Users of the Vote UK Forum, an election discussion bulletin board, correctly predicted the outcome of the Gorton and Denton by-election. vote-2012.proboards.com/thread/19858...

Fancy being Chief Executive of the Cambridge Growth Company? You have until 6 April to apply. thecgc.org.uk/index.php?ti...

Following Stephen Ferguson, another former Independent councillor joins the Greens, Edd Stonham of Histon & Impington.