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Voters in one Fenland ward are going to have to wait longer than most to find out who will be representing them.

Lib Dem, Labour, and Independent coalition to run Cambridgeshire County Council after Conservatives lose control The Conservatives are the largest individual party, but the cross-party coalition will take control. Updated Cllr Lucy Nethsingha signing the agreement to run the council in a joint administration involving Liberal Democrat, Labour and Independent Group. Watched by Cllr Tom Sanderson, Cllr Lorna Dupre, Cllr Richard Howitt and Cllr Elisa Meschini (Image: Cambridge News) Sign up to our...

Labour councillor Jocelynne Scutt put forward the motion, and said: “We must adopt this motion if we are to treat all of our workers fairly”. “There will be Cambridgeshire County Council workers who are visitors to food banks. Some of our employees are food insecure. "That it is our obligation to acknowledge,” she said, adding “all workers should be paid a wage that meets everyone’s everyday needs”. Conservative councillor Josh Schumann was one of a number of councillors who argu...

“Excuse me, what was that?” she replied. “Somebody just called you thick,” another councillor chimed in, “perhaps because they had forgotten to mute themselves”. The chair of the meeting said he was not aware of who made the remark, but that it was “obviously not appropriate”.   It was suggested that whoever it was should apologise, which drew no response from Cllr Sharp, who was safely back on mute.  In April, Lib Dem county councillor Ian Manning apologised after beginning ...

6 of the biggest things to have happened in Cambs in 2020 Our local democracy reporter takes a look back at some of the stand-out moments of 2020 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or servic...