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“I was startled to discover at the last minute that I was not to be accorded a space in today’s county council meeting to explain.”  Roger Hickford, former deputy county council leader. And former tenant of Manor Farm, Girton, a county council farms estate tenancy - Credit: Archant Cllr Shellens said he asked two senior Conservative colleagues for support “but neither would help”.   He said: “It is as if they did not want the issue discussed any more, to forget about it.  “I am disappointed that members who did not attend the original meeting or had not availed themselves of...

While a councillor and deputy leader of the council, Mr Hickford was awarded a council commercial farm tenancy in April 2017. He lived at the property, and was attempting to set up a “dog well-being centre” there.  Today (March 5), six councillors on the audit and accounts committee voted not to release the vast majority of the report at this time. This is a timeline that you may find helpful for today's audit and accounts committee @CambsCC re #farmgatehttps://t.co/h7l9c9JTBj— john elworthy (@johnelworthy) March 5, 2021   He said: “As I see it, this has been a long and troubling pr...

She says that there was no other auditor within the service with the experience and expertise necessary to complete this complex piece of work.  At December’s special meeting of the audit and accounts committee on December 23 “it was agreed that I would take personal oversight of appointing an appropriately qualified external auditor following a swift procurement exercise – with a view to them starting work immediately”.  Her reasons were set out in a public statement which said she was under pressure from council leader Steve Count and audit committee chairman Mike Shellens to wrap...