serving the population of Willingham in Cambridgeshire
Attached is a copy of the Schedule for the Gardeners’ Fayre taking place on Saturday 23rd September at Willingham Primary School.
Registration is FREE!
Please register by sending an email to willinghamgardenersfayre2023@gmail.com or send a message to https://www.facebook.com/WillinghamFayre2023
Registration deadline is Saturday the 16th September.
NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough have asked us to share information on their new ‘It All Counts’ campaign which launched today and aims to raise awareness of the importance of hydration.
The ‘It All Counts’ campaign focuses on raising awareness of the importance of hydration, in particular in our over 65s local population. It reminds local people that staying hydrated helps you to stay healthy and prevents common effects of dehydration such as constipation, urine infections, headaches and other illnesses. Campaign activity reminds local people that staying hydrated isn’t just about drinking water – hot drinks, fruit juices, even bowls of soup and other fluid rich foods such as yoghurts, jelly and ice lollies can all help keep you hydrated – it all counts!
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough would welcome any support in helping to raise awareness locally within your local communities. A poster is attached and further images and resources including leaflets and posters are available to download from the campaign webpage www.cpics.org.uk/it-all-counts
Thank you for your support with this important campaign to help keep our local communities hydrated and healthy.
Shared on behalf of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System
Please see Co-Option notice below.
Cambridge University Hospital (CUH) know and appreciate how important volunteers are to improve our patients’ experience, whether guiding a patient or visitor to where they need to be, providing social interaction on wards or clinics, or broadcasting to patients on our very own radio station, Radio Addenbrooke’s. They are very keen to increase our volunteer numbers to pre-pandemic levels and beyond . Please see the attached poster for more information.
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| Dear Mandy Our cyber security advisor, Nigel Sutton, has this important warning ⚠️… “Are you clued up on OTPs? That’s right, one-time passcodes! Those annoying messages that pop up every now and again asking you to verify an online purchase. “As irritating as they can be when you’re trying to complete a transaction, these passcodes – which are usually sent to your mobile phone via text message – provide a vital defence in the fight against fraud to ensure thieves and scammers can’t make purchases with your card details. “However, fraudsters have discovered a workaround and are now calling customers pretending to be from the bank or a trusted organisation, such as the police, requesting OTPs, which they can then use to make a fraudulent transaction. “June saw the highest number of suspected OTP scams nationally and there have been just over 3,000 successful scams reported in the last six months, 57 of which were in Cambridgeshire. “Remember, your bank will never ask you to share an OTP, neither will we. Keep them to yourself!” For more on fraud, visit the dedicated pages of our website.  Message Sent By Larissa Chapman (Police, Communications officer , Corporate Communications) |
| Last week our officers visited construction sites in the county as part of ongoing efforts to combat modern slavery. The action follows a national increase in the number of modern slavery cases being identified within the construction industry. On this occasion no victims were identified, but officers were still able to offer advice to workers and site managers.  The vast majority of businesses are legitimate, but some exploit workers with poor working conditions and pay well below the minimum wage. If you’re employed in the industry, or you’re getting construction work completed on your home, please be aware of the signs and report any concerns. You can find more information about last week’s action and the signs to look out for on the news section of our website. Kind regards, Tim Goddard Communications officer |
Please find below summaries of the latest news from our courts over the last week – click on each headline to read the full story.
Cambridgeshire
Drink driver crashes car and claims he wasn’t driving
Teenage boy admits stabbing Jesse Nwokejiobi
Knife-wielding robber stole cash and whiskey
Man jailed for tampering with cash machine
Drink-driver jailed after causing fatal crash
Peterborough
Thief repeatedly rammed police car
Grandmother helped murderer grandson
Man jailed for Boxing Day stabbing
Burglar caught thanks to public appeal
Fenland
Public Consultation Event – Thursday 20th July at Memorial Hall High Street Swavesey
The Traffic Management Centre (TMC) monitors the county’s road network and reports any variations to the traffic flow, we refer to these as ‘incidents’. We use the term ‘incident’ to describe something that has happened on the County’s road network which has an impact (of varying degrees) on usual traffic flows. This could include, for example, a Road Traffic Collision, a burst water main or temporary traffic lights for road works.
We are using a new web-based system to log and display these incidents in both map and report formats.
This system can be viewed by visiting; https://cadence247-ccc.controller.cityscience.com/
The TMC responded to 109 incidents on the road network throughout Cambridgeshire in June covering 22 weekdays. This is an increase to May and that of June 2022. Please see the table below which illustrates the number of incidents over the last 6 months, compared to the same period last year;
Incidents by month/year
Our @Cambs_Traffic Twitter account is our quickest engagement tool with the public and the interaction gives a good indication of how effective the messages are getting out to people.
Throughout June we gained 7 new followers. The number of tweets sent, and number of tweet impressions increased compared to the previous month. The number of profile visits also increased giving us our biggest jump up in 6 months.
| Twitter Analytics | Jan-23 | Feb-23 | Mar-23 | Apr-23 | May-23 | June-23 |
| Number of Followers | 16,575 | 16,716 | 16,720 | 16,739 | 16,749 | 16,756 |
| Increase in followers from previous month | 75 | 103 | 4 | 19 | 10 | 7 |
| Number of Tweets sent | 208 | 412 | 442 | 253 | 127 | 341 |
| Number of profile visits | 7,695 | 15,749 | 12,336 | 9,525 | 4,068 | 10,700 |
| Number of Tweet impressions | 549,000 | 591,485 | 500,851 | 384,560 | 536,664 | 583,226 |
Note: The number of Tweets sent includes advance notice road works and event Tweets alongside live incident Tweets.
We have now completed uploading all the historic data from 2018 -2023 onto google maps which you can find via the links below. Not all of March’s has been uploaded yet, at the time of sending these we may not have entirely completed the previous months but please bear with us, they will be rolled out in the month following together with this email. If you have any queries or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us at Tmc@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Following on from the latest update of the City Science system where we record our incidents, please be aware that when first opening the application it will now default to only showing you the last 28 days of incidents. We found performance of the controller page was struggling when showing the full history. If you want to revert to the old view, you can use the Timespan dropdown at the top of the sidebar and clear the “From” date (the actual clearing procedure is browser dependent, but it should be along the lines of clicking the date input, clicking “Clear” and then “Apply”).
@Cambs_Traffic
The Care Together team would like to hear your views on our new approach to day opportunities for older adults (65+) in Cambridgeshire.
An approach has been developed from what people have already told us, but we need to make sure we have considered all the possible affects this might have on people.
Please give us your views via our formal consultation https://consultcambs.uk.engagementhq.com/a-new-approach-to-day-opportunities and please do share this information widely.
Printed copies will be accompanied by a prepaid return envelope.
| This week is Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week. Anti-social behaviour (ASB) is an issue that is a focus for our Neighbourhood Policing Teams, as reported by concerns from our communities across the county. What is Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)? Defined in the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, it is ‘behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to persons not of the same household as the person.’ There are three main types of ASB: · Personal ASB is when someone targets a specific individual or group · Nuisance ASB is when someone causes trouble, annoyance or suffering to a community · Environmental ASB is when someone’s actions affect the wider environment, such as public spaces or buildings There are many things that are categorised as ASB, including: · Rowdy or inconsiderate behaviour · Littering · Drug use and littering of paraphernalia · Dangerous, nuisance or inconsiderate driving/riding Have you heard of an ASB case review? An ASB case review can be launched when a victim of repeat ASB has reported it three times and is unsatisfied with the way the reports are being handled. The result of triggering this is a multi-agency case review where local authorities, the police, local health teams and registered providers of social housing come together to review the case. After the meeting, an action plan will be drafted and shared with the victim. For more information on how to launch an ASB case review, visit your local council’s website via the relevant link below. · Peterborough ASB case reviews · Fenland ASB case reviews · Huntingdonshire ASB case reviews · East Cambs ASB case reviews · South Cambs ASB case reviews · Cambridge City ASB care reviews For more information about ASB, as well as how to report concerns, please visit our website’s dedicated Antisocial behaviour page. Kind regards, |
 Message Sent ByLauren Alexander (Police, Senior Communications Officer, Peterborough and Fenland) |
