I AM not surprised that Councillor Ravilious has an almost impossible problem to solve with a deficit of over £100m in the road repairs budget.

I held the same position until the Conservatives were ejected in 2019 but the roads were in a much better state then and the subsequent LibDem/Green administration did little to keep up with maintenance.

However, the deterioration in the roads has been dramatic since then; I doubt if anyone took account of the fact that the new electric buses are much heavier that the diesels they replaced and this hasn’t helped.

Our house now shakes when a bus passes over (or into) the potholes; I made a report seven weeks ago and some patching was done but the other holes have continued to grow.

Quite simply, many roads require complete resurfacing, not patching but that £100m has to come from somewhere.

Peter Dew,

Rivelin Way,

York

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Counting every pound

Just choked with laughter on my cornflakes. I have just read the list of proposed carriageway (road?) repairs where every one is detailed to the nearest £.

Do they include provision for every KitKat to be consumed?

Surely to the nearest £1,000 should be good enough unless the figures quoted are fixed prices.

R Shenton,

Connaught Way,

York

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Get shops to reopen

THANKS to Trump’s actions, the price of fuel is skyrocketing.

Maybe now is the time to curb online shopping and keep delivery vans off the road for a bit.

Maybe even get a few shops to re open?

Joanne Ellis,

Charlton Street,

York

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What are today’s health hazards?

RE: the article about how after many years off ill health brought on by the addiction to heavy smoking, Gillian Cunningham had successfully quit.

Growing up in the 1950s you were surrounded by smokers, most of the men having done their war service had returned home with the smoking habit.

Unfortunately most children/ young adults thought it the thing to do to appear more mature than their actual age.

I quickly realised that my father’s shortness of breath was down to his smoking habits and shied away from cigs.

Lots of people now of my age suffer after years of puffing away from (COPD ), emphysema and chronic shortness of breath .

I wonder in 50 years’ time and looking back what people will think of the hallucinogenic drugs and the social implications of the internet and mobile phone use?

People have become more singular and many lack face to face communication skills.

I wonder what the future will make of the gigantic mistakes we are presently now making – only time will tell the harm and damage we are inflicting on our bodies.

D M Deamer,

Penleys Grove Street,

Monkgate,

York

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Why not sack him?

IS Starmer, like Miliband, an eco maniac?

If not, why does he not dismiss his colleague from government? This refusal should suggest he is either weak or incompetent and totally agrees that we should all be paying higher bills when cheaper supplies are on tap.

Peter Rickaby,

Moat Way,

Brayton

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. military announced it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday, tempering President Donald Trump ‘s earlier vow to entirely block the strategic Strait of Hormuz as early reports indicated that ships had stopped crossing the waterway.

The move came after marathon U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement, and it set the stage for a showdown. Iranian leaders vowed to counter the blockade.

U.S. Central Command announced the blockade would begin on Monday at 10 a.m. EDT, or 5:30 p.m. in Iran, and would be “enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.” CENTCOM said it would still allow ships traveling between non-Iranian ports to transit the strait, a step down from the president’s earlier threat to blockade the entire strait.

Trump later confirmed the timing in a post on his Truth Social website.

The announcement of the blockade halted the limited ship traffic that resumed in the strait since the ceasefire, said an early report from Lloyd’s List intelligence. Marine trackers say over 40 commercial ships have crossed since the start of the ceasefire, down from roughly 100 to 135 vessel passages per day before the war.

Later Sunday, Trump extended his feud over the war with Pope Leo XIV, lashing out in a Truth Social post that called the Catholic leader “terrible on foreign policy.” The extraordinary broadside came after Leo denounced the war and demanded that political leaders stop and negotiate peace.

The blockade could have far-reaching effects

The blockage is likely intended to add pressure on Iran, which has exported millions of barrels of oil since the war began, much of it likely carried by so-called “dark” transits that evade Western government sanctions and oversight.

Trump also hopes to undercut Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz after demanding that it reopen the waterway where 20% of global oil transited before fighting began. A U.S. blockade could further rattle global energy markets.

Oil prices rose in early market trading after the blockade announcement. The price of U.S. crude rose 8% to $104.24 a barrel, and Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose 7% to $102.29. Brent crude cost roughly $70 per barrel before the war in late February.

Iran says ‘if you fight, we will fight’

A chorus of top-ranking Iranian officials threatened retaliation. Mohsen Rezaei, a military adviser and a former Revolutionary Guard Commander, wrote on X that the country’s armed forces had “major untouched levers” to counter a Hormuz blockade. He said Iran would not be coerced by “tweets and imaginary plans.”

Iranian parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, who led Iran’s side in the talks, addressed Trump in a statement on his return to Iran: “If you fight, we will fight.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard later said the strait remained under Iran’s “full control” and was open for non-military vessels, but military ones would get a “forceful response,” two semi-official Iranian news agencies reported.

During the 21-hour talks this weekend in Pakistan, the U.S. military said two destroyers had transited the strait ahead of mine-clearing work, a first since the war began. Iran denied it.

No word on what happens after ceasefire expires

The face-to-face talks that ended early Sunday were the highest-level negotiations between the longtime rivals since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Trump said Tehran’s nuclear ambitions were the core reason for the talks’ failure. In comments to Fox News, he again threatened to strike civilian infrastructure if it didn’t give up its nuclear program.

“In one half of a day they wouldn’t have one bridge standing, they wouldn’t have one electric generating plant standing, and they’re back in the stone ages,” Trump said.

Tehran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons but insists on its right to a civilian nuclear program. The landmark 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump later pulled the U.S. out of, took well over a year of negotiations. Experts say Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, though not weapons-grade, is only a short technical step away.

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Metz reported from Ramallah, West Bank, Boak from Miami and Magdy from Cairo. Associated Press writers E. Eduardo Castillo in Beijing; Collin Binkley and Ben Finley in Washington; Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut; Brian Melley in London; Ghaya Ben MBarek in Tunis; Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City and Julia Frankel and Mae Anderson in New York contributed to this report.

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Producer Eliza Lumley acknowledged Bond’s daughter Karen Jankel in her speech, saying: “Karen, your father wrote a character who not only reminds us to be kind, but also reminds us to have empathy for stories that are other than our own – which, after all, is the superpower of theatre itself.”

Voters will once again vote in local elections when the polls open on Thursday, May 7. Several Cambridgeshire councils have now announced lists of candidates standing in the May 2026 elections.

This year, elections are taking place in Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridge City, and Peterborough. However, they will not be taking place in East Cambridgeshire and Fenland, as these will take place in 2027.

This year’s elections will take place on Thursday, May 7. People have until midnight on Monday, April 20, to register to vote. For postal vote, the deadline is by 5pm on April 21. The deadline for a proxy vote is by 5pm on April 28.

Here is all you need to know about this year’s elections and who is elected in different wards.

South Cambridgeshire District Council

Elections will be held for all seats across South Cambridgeshire, including the district council, as well as town and parish councils. For the district council, the following candidates are nominated:

Balsham

• John Richard Biggs – Conservative
• David Burrell – Reform UK
• Bob Ensch – Green
• Geoff Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• Martin Parker Dixon – Labour

Bar Hill

• Graeme Hodgson – Labour
• Paul Pallan – Reform UK
• William George Scantlebury – Liberal Democrats
• Rebecca Seabrook-Tedd – Green
• Bunty Elizabeth Waters – Conservative

Barrington

• Colin Graham French – Conservative
• Jim Huntington – Reform UK
• Clare Rogers – Green
• Clare Sinclair – Labour
• Aidan Thomas Van De Weyer – Liberal Democrats

Bassingbourn

• Adam Bostanci – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Fiona Livingstone – Labour
• Christopher Rolf Meakin – Conservative
• Joseph Price – Green
• Stephanie Wright – Reform UK

Caldecote

• Terence John Cross – Reform UK
• John Robert Jefferies – Liberal Democrats
• Guy Lachlan – Independent
• Tom Postlethwaite – Green
• Chiranjeevi Sandi – Conservative
• Judith Louise Tustian – Labour

Cambourne

• Donavan Michael Bangs – Reform UK
• Shrobona Bhattacharya – Conservative
• Michael Allan Booth – Liberal Democrats
• Gavin Clayton – Green
• Rob Denison – Green
• Timothy Frances Lagé Hayes – Labour
• Dalia Heggo – Independent
• Trevor Jarman – Reform UK
• Paul Alexander Jobling – Reform UK
• Helene Elizabeth Leeming – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Rana-Beadle – Conservative
• Amber Thomas – Liberal Democrats
• Daniel John White – Conservative
• David Allan Williams – Labour

Caxton and Papworth

• Charles Barclay – Reform UK
• Leslie Charles Edwards – Conservative
• Andy Perkins – Labour
• James Earl Pickford – Reform UK
• Chris Poulton – Liberal Democrats
• Peter David Sandford – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Smith – Conservative
• Tagl – Green
• Jane Turner – Green

Cottenham

• Nigel Charles Francis Bolitho – Conservative
• Laura Cain – Green
• James Ronald Cochrane – Reform UK
• Colin Coe – Green
• Yasmin Dexter – Liberal Democrats
• Frederick Thomas Hargreaves – Reform UK
• Thomas Mark Hingston – Labour
• Linda Mary Morris – Conservative
• Gethin James Sanger – Labour
• Eileen Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Duxford

• Samuel Alexander Betz – Conservative
• David Horace Dobson – Labour
• Peter John McDonald – Liberal Democrats
• Tim Pavelin – Green
• Peter Young – Reform UK

Fen Ditton and Fulbourn

• Tim Andrews – Labour
• Chris Bailey – Labour
• Colin Barker – Reform UK
• Steve Bradshaw – Green
• Ian Paul Crowson – Conservative
• Vince Farrar – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Elizabeth French – Conservative
• Jacob Gray – Green
• Carla Hofman – Liberal Democrats
• Lukaz Lakomy – Reform UK
• Lee Andrew Martin – Conservative
• Angela Belinda Platt – Labour
• Ciprian Sandu – Reform UK
• Elisabeth Whitbread – Green
• Chloe Wills-Eve – Liberal Democrats

Foxton

• Donald Fisher Douglas – Conservative
• Luca Raffaello Ercole – Green
• James Hobro – Liberal Democrats
• Liz Miller – Reform UK
• Lavinia Anne Marie Pugh – Labour

Gamlingay

• Derek Graham Hill – Reform UK
• Rosanna Mahmood Bishop – Green
• Diane Audrey Myers – Conservative
• Giordy Salvi – Labour
• Dorrington Bridget Zoe Smith – Liberal Democrats

Girton

• Paula Brown – Reform UK
• Corinne Garvie – Liberal Democrats
• Stephen William George – Conservative
• Matthew Henden Gilbey – Green
• Clare Rachel Gray – Green
• Sarah Antonia Johnson – Labour
• Timothy Scott – Reform UK
• Richard Keith Stobart – Liberal Democrats
• Jennifer Margaret Stuart – Conservative

Hardwick

• Joe Beastall – Labour
• Hugh Clough – Green
• Catherine Stella Ffolliot Hubbard – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Manson – Reform UK
• Lina Maria Nieto – Conservative

Harston and Comberton

• Duncan Bullivant – Reform UK
• Henry Bullivant – Reform UK
• Ariel Martin Cahn – Liberal Democrats
• Laurence Peter Damary-Homan – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Haugh – Labour
• Aled Wynne Jones – Green
• Pauline Barbara Joslin – Conservative
• Lorraine Wendy Mooney – Conservative
• Emily Morris-Lower – Reform UK
• Lisa Sarah Redrup – Liberal Democrats
• Joseph Shortmoor – Labour
• Peter Andrew Slavny – Labour
• Michelle Taylor – Green
• Joshua Charles Vanneck – Conservative
• Lucy Young – Green

Histon and Impington

• John Brian Abbott – Reform UK
• Jayasimha Reddy Berumgudem – Conservative
• Chris Boulton – Reform UK
• Martin Gabriel Chahn – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Kawalko – Reform UK
• Adam Morgan – Green
• Simon Charles Patenall – Labour
• Isaac Harry Rawlings – Labour
• James Rixton – Liberal Democrats
• Geo Sebastian – Liberal Democrats
• Edd Stonham – Green
• Mark Spencer Stuart – Conservative
• Paul Tarita – Green
• Joshua Michael Willis – Conservative

Linton

• Nathan Banks – Green
• Henry Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• John Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• Katy Ensch – Green
• Sarah Jane Hucum – Reform UK
• Merrie Mannassi – Reform UK
• Mike Murray – Labour
• Yorsh Naidoo – Conservative
• Ernie Turkington – Labour
• Sean Williams – Conservative

Longstanton

• Dominic George Brigstocke – Labour
• Tom Bygott – Conservative
• Alison Paula Elcox – Reform UK
• Sunita Hansraj – Liberal Democrats
• Lucy Ann Mance – Green
• Tristan Luke Pithers – Conservative
• Silke Scott-Mance – Green
• Liam Donovan Varnam – Reform UK
• Natalie Warren-Green – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Rosemary Wilson – Labour

Melbourn

• Mark Edward Arnold – Conservative
• Lee John Bovington – Reform UK
• James Phillip Bull – Labour
• Simon James Copley – Green
• Bobby Ford – Labour
• Jose Hales – Liberal Democrats
• Sally Ann Hart – Liberal Democrats
• Thomas Julian Charles Leigh – Conservative
• Max Henry Schwiening – Green
• Phyllis Smith – Reform UK

Milton and Waterbeach

• Gail Denise Arnold – Conservative
• Paul Joseph Bearpark – Liberal Democrats
• Anna Elizabeth Bradnam – Liberal Democrats
• Ellie Crane – Green
• Oli Fisher – Green
• Natania Goldrich – Reform UK
• Ann Hodson – Reform UK
• Ge Huang – Conservative
• Laura Macleod – Liberal Democrats
• Elizabeth Anne McWilliams – Labour
• Frank Morris – Conservative
• Mary Judith Perkins – Labour
• Ron Sharp – Reform UK
• Joe Welford – Green
• Gareth Mark Wright – Labour

Over and Willingham

• Jason Denison – Green
• Robert Fairbrother – Reform UK
• Ian Hunter – Labour
• James Hutchcraft – Liberal Democrats
• Mark Macdonald – Conservative
• Aisha Rashid – Liberal Democrats
• Colin Reynolds – Green
• Michael Paul Smith – Reform UK
• Graham William Waters – Conservative

Sawston

• Chloe Balhatchet – Green
• Mark Chater – Reform UK
• Daniel Clark – Green
• Gifford Frances Pamela Douglas – Conservative
• Graham Harrison – Reform UK
• Brian Milnes – Liberal Democrats
• Anand Pillai – Labour
• Ed Sanders – Liberal Democrats
• Ben Shelton – Conservative

Shelford

• Lee Denison – Green
• Miranda Fyfe – Green
• Nick Gay – Labour
• Farhan Hussain – Liberal Democrats
• John William Lamble – Reform UK
• Mark Andrew Lunn – Liberal Democrats
• Brigitta Naunton – Reform UK
• Angela Dorothy Niblett – Conservative
• Yvonne Nobis – Labour
• Rebecca Louis Shiret – Conservative

Swavesey

• Vivien Caroline Biggs – Liberal Democrats
• Phil Cohen – Green
• Sue Mary Ellington – Conservative
• Karl Lattion – Reform UK
• Barbara Joanna Mills – Labour

The Mordens

• Frankie Brook – Green
• Daniel James Greef – Labour
• Josh Johnson – Reform UK
• James Leopold Stuart – Liberal Democrats
• Heather Rose Williams – Conservative

Whittlesford

• Sophi Berridge – Green
• Clare Elizabeth Downie – Labour
• Claire Hill – Reform UK
• Sarah Louise Vowler – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lynn Williams – Conservative

Cambridge City Council

In Cambridge, there will be one councillor elected to 13 wards. There will then be two councillors elected in Trumpington following the resignation of Nadya Lokhmotova.

Abbey

• Anne Roe Rosemary Ansell – Liberal Democrats
• Tommy Brace – ReforM UK
• Simon Brignell – Communist Party of Britain
• Margaret Maria Cleminson – Green
• Ruaidhri O’Donnell – Labour
• David Philip Smith – Conservative

Arbury

• Robert Boorman – Conservative
• Will Burrows – Reform UK
• Carmen Sefira Davison – Green
• Jocelynne Scutt – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Fionna Tod – Liberal Democrats

Castle

• Khalid Abu-Tayyem – Independent
• Carol Bedson – Reform UK
• Luke Patterson – Liberal Democrats
• Dace Ruklisa – Conservative
• Alex Sage – Green
• Simon Smith – Labour

Cherry Hinton

• Eric William Barrett-Payton – Conservative
• Anusha Iyer – Green
• Russ McPherson – Labour
• Mike Nicolson – Reform UK
• Ahmad Rushdhi – Liberal Democrats

Coleridge

• Tim Brunton – Liberal Democrats
• Steve Burdett – Reform UK
• Louise Sarah Nicmanis – Green
• Anna Smith – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mitchell Sam Worthington – Conservative

East Chesterton

• Jean-Ann Bartlett – Conservative
• Ania Bobrowska – Liberal Democrats
• William James Dry – Communist Party of Britain
• Isaac Groves – Green
• Sarah Haithcock – Labour
• Godfrey Orr – Reform UK
• Mark Wells – Reform UK

King’s Hedges

• Mahfuj Ahmed – Conservative
• Zarina Anwar – Independent
• Eleanor Cooke – Independent
• David Michael Creek – Liberal Democrats
• John McKay – Reform UK
• Daniel Quinn – Green
• Martin Andrew Smart – Labour

Market

• Edwin Kwaku Addo – Labour
• Katie Porrer – Liberal Democrats
• Alex Sefton-Tromans – Green
• Mark Wells – Reform UK
• Panda Xiong – Conservative

Newnham

• Katie Barron – Liberal Democrats
• David Carmona – Independent
• Sabina Harris-Hercules – Labour
• Lui Murton – Reform UK
• Poppy Simister-Thomas – Conservative
• Frances Eleanor Toye Scott – Green

Petersfield

• Luke Burrows – Reform UK
• Kathryn Fisher – Green
• Myfyr Cameron Holloway – Labour
• Sam Oliver – Liberal Democrats
• Paul Roper – Conservative

Queen Edith’s

• Maruf Ahmed – Labour
• Colin Bedson – Reform UK
• Alexander Magnus Burt – Conservative
• Mary Shayne Mitchell – Green
• Amanda Joan Taylor – Liberal Democrats

Romsey

• Rosy Greenless – Labour
• Rob Nelson – Conservative
• Charles John Walmsley – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Watson – Reform UK
• Jacqui Whitmore – Green

Trumpington

• Michael Steven George – Conservative
• Edward Ekin Gokmen – Green
• Guy Greenway – Reform UK
• William John Grimwood – Liberal Democrats
• Olaf Hauk – Liberal Democrats
• John Michael Ionides – Conservative
• Samuel Lloyd – Reform UK
• Chloe Eva Mosonyi – Green
• Henry Shailer – Labour
• Carlos Toranzos – Labour and Co-operative Party

West Chesterton

• Charlotte Hannah Copley – Green
• Mike Harford – Conservative
• Geoff Leach – Reform UK
• Guy Mills – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Picton – Independent
• Richard Swift – Labour

Huntingdonshire District Council

Elections will take place in all wards across Huntingdonshire.

Alconbury

• Sarah Caine – Liberal Democrats
• Chip Colquhoun – Green
• Ian Derek Gardener – Conservative
• Joy Isaacs – Labour
• Roger Lane – Reform UK

Brampton

• Damilola Ademiniyi – Labour
• Hannah Charlotte Copley – Green
• Liam Paul Dewey-Beckett – Liberal Democrats
• Philip Makwana – Conservative
• Leslie Alex John Parren – Reform UK
• Malcolm Philip Ryman – Reform UK
• Fardous Siddique – Labour
• Bill Sinclair – Conservative
• Warren Smith – Liberal Democrats

Buckden

• Christopher John Bulow – Green
• Sean Calvin – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine Frances Grigg – Conservative
• Martin Andrew Hassall – Independent
• James McGregor Kerr – Labour
• Ian Richard Simmonds – Reform UK

Fenstanton

• Martin Paul Hewitt – Conservative
• Hayley Elizabeth Howatt – Reform UK
• Nick Sarkies – Liberal Democrats
• Danny Raymond Scott – Green

Godmanchester and Hemingford Abbots

• Rosemary Ann Armstrong – Conservative
• Kevin Anthony Barr – Conservative
• Sarah Joanne Conboy – Liberal Democrats
• Kieron Marriner – Reform UK
• Daniel Mayhew – Labour
• Brett Alistair Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Debbie Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Ambrose Ntuk – Labour
• Francis William Reid – Green
• Paula Jane Sparling – Conservative
• Stephen Ronald Spencer – Reform UK
• Mark Joseph Turley – Reform UK

Great Paxton

• Stephen Claffey – Liberal Democrats
• Malcolm John Gaylor – Reform UK
• Amanda Laurene Lower – Conservative
• Hollie-Ann Topliffe – Green

Great Staughton

• Stephen Cawley – Conservative
• Ann Christine Fryer – Reform UK
• Tony Hulme – Liberal Democrats
• Yavin Michael Owens – Labour
• Paul James Westerman – Green

Hemingford Grey and Houghton

• Kevin Ronald Bryant – Labour
• Graham Paul Bundy – Reform UK
• Jacqui Cook – Animal Welfare Party – People, Animals, Environment
• Adrian Hyde – Reform UK
• David Norman Keane – Conservative
• Anne Mary Meredith – Liberal Democrats
• Tamara Jasmine Page – green
• David John Priestman – Liberal Democrats
• Raymond Paul Andrew Simpson – Conservative

Holywell-cum-Needingworth

• John Colin Bleazard – Reform UK
• Laura Blows – Liberal Democrats
• Robin Carter – Liberal Democrats
• Paul James Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Bob Marsh – Reform UK
• Jon Neish – Conservative
• Phoebe Elizabeth Watts – Green
• Matthew Wetherfield – Labour

Huntingdon east

• Sergiu Ardelean – Reform UK
• Zara Louise Bobby Dolan-Ansary – Labour
• Tomin Geo – Conservative
• Seona Gunn-Kelly – Green
• Jo Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• David George Howard – Reform UK
• Nathan Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• George Frederick Michael Joyce – Conservative
• Rashid Mahmood – Labour

Huntingdon north

• Sophie Rose Feary – Conservative
• Leedo George – Conservative
• Ryan Grange – Green
• Michael Stuart Grice – Liberal Democrats
• David Henly – Reform UK
• Mike Humphrey – Liberal Democrats
• Georgie Hunt – Green
• Phillip Jones – Liberal Democrats
• Marion Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Patrick Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Steven Lancaster – Reform UK
• Keith Ivan Prentice – Conservative
• Lianne SImpson – Independent
• Mike Simpson – Reform UK
• Sam Wakeford – Labour

Kimbolton

• David Jonathan Blake – Reform UK
• James Roger Catmur – Liberal Democrats
• Jonathan Alexander Gray – Conservative
• Kelly Sophia Ramsbottom – Labour
• Julie Stark – Green

Ramsey

• Ash Austin – Independent
• Janet Boston – Labour
• Jeff Clarke – Conservative
• Ryan Coogan – Reform UK
• Steve Corney – Independent
• Adela Eva Costello – Conservative
• Gerard Augustin Crean – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Delderfield – Liberal Democrats
• Val Fendley – Independent
• Karan Maheshwari – Reform UK
• Zak Alex Martin – Conservative
• Anna Lisa Clenachan Pritchard – Green
• Howard Julian Tobias – Reform UK
• Graham Martin Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Sawtry

• Simon Bywater – Conservative
• Ross Ben Martin – Conservative
• Rick Rambridge – Reform UK
• Ian David Scales – Green
• Robin Neil Simpson – Labour
• Haydn Stevens – Reform UK
• Sarah Rose Wilson – Liberal Democrats
• Kerry York – Liberal Democrats

Somersham

• Edwards Charles Binns – Reform UK
• Keith James Brown – Liberal Democrats
• Kevin Hawkins – Labour
• Sarah Louise Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Jamie Troup – Green

St Neots east

• Lara Charlene Davenport-Ray – Green
• Stephen William Ferguson – Green
• Sally Patricia Guinee – Liberal Democrats
• Keith Harrison – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Ronald Hilton – Reform UK
• Gary Hyams – Conservative
• Rob Moores – Reform UK
• Angela Joyce Robertson – Conservative

St Neots Eatons

• Barry Sidney Banks – Independent
• Val Dajchin – Green
• Nigel Philip Eaton – Conservative
• Michael Peter Gilks – Labour
• Alan James Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Jacquieline Priscilla Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Rayner Jennings – Conservative
• Colin John Maslen – Reform UK
• Geoff Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Nicholas Sharp – Green
• David John Smith – Reform UK
• Stewart Thornton – Reform UK
• Harry Phillip Vallance – Conservative
• Ellisa Westerman – Green
• Bev White – Party of Women

St Neots Priory park and Little Paxton

• Robert Edward Bralee – Green
• Barry Stephen Chapman – Independent
• Harriet Dolby – Conservative
• Pascal Christopher Darren Ferguson – Green
• John Keith Holmes – Green
• Carole Ann Innes – Liberal Democrats
• Randall Neil McDonald – Reform UK
• Steve O’Hara – Reform UK
• Tony Osborne – Reform UK
• Ganesh Sittampalam – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lewis Tomlonson – Conservative
• Alfie Yorke – Conservative
• Mark David Young – Liberal Democrats

St Ives east

• Paul Bullen – Conservative
• Michael John Burke – Liberal Democrats
• Martin James Gill – Conservative
• Mandy Harrington – Reform UK
• Simon John Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Shariqa Mokbul – Independent
• Louise Maria Newberry – Green
• Noah Sanderson – Reform UK
• Luke Viner – Labour and Co-operative Party

St Ives south

• Peter Andrew Brasher – Green
• Alex Bulat – Labour and Co-operative Party
• William Deacon – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Paul Kenneth Dickinson – Reform UK
• Natasha Fatio – Reform UK
• Cath Gleadow – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew William Riddell – Conservative
• Craig Thomas Smith – Conservative
• Nic Wells – Liberal Democrats

St Ives west

• Cheryl May Cannon – Conservative
• Patricia Ann Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Julie Elizabeth Kerr – Independent
• Max Mulcrone – Reform UK
• Rose Sarah Williams – Green

St Neots Eynesbury

• Kenneth Billington – Conservative
• Camille Violet Etchart – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine James Goodman – Green
• Ricky James Ioannides – Reform UK
• Pavlos Kasdovasilis – Reform UK
• Julie Martin – Conservative
• Antonie McGowan – Liberal Democrats
• Tony Nelson – Reform UK
• Alexander Pushkarev – Conservative
• Deanna Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Smith – Independent
• Been Streeter-Strong – Independent
• Ian Pele Taylor – Independent
• Doug Terry – Independent

Stilton, Folksworth and Washingley

• Tim Alban – Conservative
• Marge Beuttell – Conservative
• Robert Bowden – Labour
• Sharon Elizabeth Brennan – Reform UK
• Eric Mark Darling – Reform UK
• Padrica Valerie Kennington – Liberal Democrats
• Amanda Charmaine Norton – Liberal Democrats
• Stasi Revel – Green

The Stukeleys

• Louise Ascroft – Liberal Democrats
• Ann Blackwell – Liberal Democrats
• Alan John Brugnoli – Conservative
• Val Cody – Reform UK
• Freya Cushman – Labour
• Judy Samantha Moore – Green
• Sikho Ndebele – Labour
• Phil Pearce – Conservative
• Tom Sanderson – Liberal Democrats
• Many Simmonds – Reform UK
• Sally Smith – Conservative
• Suzanna Williams – Reform UK

Warboys

• Anthony Thomas Bailly – Green
• Sharon Anne Docherty – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Garford – Reform UK
• Helen Mary Victoria Kewley – Liberal Democrats
• Charlotte Ann Lowe – Conservative
• Douglas Haig McIlwain – Conservative
• Iain Ramsbottom – Labour
• Sarah Smith – Reform UK
• John Nigel Wills – Green

Yaxley

• Justin Andrews – Conservative
• Michelle Britton – Labour
• Eric Richard Butler – Conservative
• Kieran James Edwards – Liberal Democrats
• James Thomas Francis – Reform UK
• Peter John Gammons – Reform UK
• Kev Gulson – Conservative
• Sally Howell – Liberal Democrats
• Max Jephtha – Green
• Christopher George Reeve – Reform UK
• Andrew Wood – Liberal Democrats

Peterborough City Council

Elections will take place for 18 wards in the Peterborough area. Here are the candidates running in each ward:

Bretton

• John Robert Bolton – Reform UK
• Susan Jane Glasgow – Labour
• David Kerry Narrainen – Green
• Scott Warren – Conservative
• Rohan Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Central

• Steve Cawley – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Shaz Choudhary – Green
• Khurram Iqbal – Labour
• Jason Kerridge – Liberal Democrats
• Shahzadi Khan – Conservative
• Jeff Pitt – Reform UK

Dogsthorpe

• Pip Gardner – Green
• Mohammad Haseeb – Labour
• Ishfaq Hussain – Conservative
• Sandra Ringler – Liberal Democrats
• Petr Torak – Independent
• Bryan Andrew Tyler – Reform UK

East

• Ian Hardman – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Hemraj – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Aleem Miran – Conservative
• Nassim Rhaiem – Green
• Dave West – Reform UK

Eye, Thorney and Newborough

• Anthony Church – Liberal Democrats
• Sue Farr – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Layton Mark Mills – Reform UK
• John Peach – Conservative
• Adam Warr – Green

Fletton and Stanground

• Christian Hogg – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Johnson – Labour
• Jon Lloyd – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Maria Pinotes – Reform UK
• Neil Seekings – Conservative

Fletton and Woodston

• Andy Coles – Conservative
• Steve Harknett – Independent
• Ed Murphy – Green
• Yvonne Claire Scarrott – Reform UK
• Harvey Woodhouse – Labour

Gunthorpe

• Muhammad Ahmed – Labour
• Andrew Bond – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Macfarlaine – Conservative
• Tom Rogers – Reform UK

Hampton Vale

• Marco Cereste – Conservative
• Steve Newson – Reform UK
• Toqeer Ahmed Sethi – Green
• Simon Turp – Labour
• Paul Wiggin – Liberal Democrats

Hargate and Hempsted

• Hamza Jarral – Labour
• Simon Christopher Jones – Reform UK
• Katherine Sharp – Green
• Vishal Vichare – Conservative
• Neil Walton – Liberal Democrats

North

• Javed Akhtar – Conservative
• Noreen Bi – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mohammed Munir – Green
• Keith Sharp – Reform UK

Orton Longueville

• Olu Akinyele – Labour
• Ruwan Madugalla – Conservative
• Jonathan Orchard – Green
• Nick Penniall – Independent
• Philip Anthony Whitworth – Reform UK

Orton Waterville

• Stephen James Arnott – Reform UK
• Steve Bailey – Labour
• Alex Bowerbanks – Green
• Sanjaya Dodamgoda – Conservative
• Ray Knight – Independent

Park

• Murtaza Ahmed-Munir – Conservative
• Reza Behravan – Reform UK
• Tassadaq Hussain – Green
• Fiona Radic – Independent
• Beki Sellick – Liberal Democrats
• Saif Ali Yasin – Labour

Paston and Walton

• Iva Banyalieva – Conservative
• Ryan Gallagher – Reform UK
• Rob Fetch – Your Party
• Adif Shaheed – Liberal Democrats
• Mohammed Yasin – Labour

Ravensthorpe

• Shokat Ali – Green
• Matthew Clements – Labour
• Gul Nawaz – Conservative
• Ashli Philip – Reform UK
• Nick Sandford – Liberal Democrats

Stanground South

• Julian Bray – Independent
• Janet Elizabeth Brown – Conservative
• June Mary Bull – Peterborough First Independent
• Charles Rhys Coster – Green
• Andrew Deacon – Labour
• Peter David Reeve – Reform UK
• Miriam Sellick – Liberal Democrats

Werrington

• Ruta Dalton – Conservative
• Bradley Dilloway – Labour
• Sarah Areatha – Peterborough First Werrington Independent
• Chris Watson – Reform UK

Wittering parish

• John William Bradshaw
• Susie Ellen Briers
• Brian Day
• Jo Gault
• Dave Hughes
• Kate Jackson
• Liz Putterhill
• Russell John Archer Pye
• Iain Wilkinson
• Emma Lindsey Wilson-Jones

Paul Merson has rated Manchester United’s chances of winning the Premier League next season following their impressive revival under Michael Carrick.

Sitting sixth at the time of Ruben Amorim’s sacking in January, United have climbed to third in the Premier League since Carrick’s appointment as caretaker manager.

Manchester United have been one of most in-form teams in Europe since Carrick took over, losing just one of their last ten games.

With the top-five Premier League teams qualifying for next season’s Champions League, United look set to return to Europe’s top club competition.

It has also been suggested that Manchester United could once again challenge for the Premier League title, a trophy they have not won since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013.

But Merson says United are still ‘not ready’ to ‘fight for the title’, insisting they need to bolster their squad this summer and prove they can be a more competitive force before being regarded as title contenders.

The ex-Arsenal and England winger does expect Manchester United to qualify for the Champions League but has predicted they will drop points against relegation-battlers Leeds United in their next outing on Monday night.

The Red Devils have had almost a whole month off since their last game, a 2-2 draw with Bournemouth back on March 20.

‘This is a big rivalry,’ Merson told Sportskeeda. ‘Leeds are playing well at the moment, but they can’t find a goal.

‘I thought they did well against Manchester City, couldn’t score. Same with the Sunderland game as well.

‘If you look at the fixtures, Manchester United should have enough to qualify for the Champions League next season. But this is still a difficult game.

‘If Chelsea beat Manchester City and United drew with Leeds, a win for the Blues in the match against them next weekend would mean they are just two points ahead of Rosenior’s team! That’s how tight it is.

‘I don’t think Manchester United are ready to fight for the title next season. They need a few more players to come in. I don’t see them being competitive over 38 games with the same team.

Former England captain Wayne Rooney says Manchester City “will have the edge” psychologically in the Premier League title race.

Leaders Arsenal, who are nine points clear having played two games more, travel to Etihad Stadium on Sunday (16:30 BST).

Speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show, he said City “know how to win the title” and “have a manger who knows how to do it”.

“I think City will have the edge on that, just purely the manager and players they’ve got. They will be able to stay a little calmer than the Arsenal players,” said Rooney.

“They will be worried because when you go on a run and lose a few games, you start thinking ‘where’s the next goal, the next win going to come from?’ That negative mindset really has an impact on your performance.”

Manchester City beat Chelsea 3-0 on Sunday to take advantage of Arsenal slipping up with a 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth on Saturday.

Rooney said that whoever wins Saturday’s “title decider” in Manchester will be favourites to win the league.

He added that he thinks a draw will be a “good point” for Arsenal, who may need to “play dirty”.

Rooney added Mikel Arteta’s side must “be tough to break down, make sure there’s no gaps between the lines and try to hit them on the break”.

He added: “Whether the fans like that type of football or not, they have to do anything to stop City winning. They need to be resilient enough to stop City from scoring.”

90-year-old Edith Milington was said to have been a ‘fairly independent lady’

A 90-year-old woman tragically died after falling and hitting her head outside a shop in Urmston – and a coroner has expressed concerns that it might happen again.

Edith Milington was a ‘fairly independent’ lady who had ‘some mobility issues’ but was able to ‘get out and about’ with the aid of a mobility scooter and walking stick, according to a Prevention of Future Deaths report issued on Tuesday (April 7).

She visited the PK Convenience Store (now a branch of Go Local newsagents) on Crofts Bank Road on September 9, 2025, and could be seen on CCTV alighting her scooter and attempting to enter the shop with the aid of her stick.

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In doing so, Ms Milington was seen to fall and strike her head. She was taken to Salford Royal Hospital but tragically died the same day of her injuries which included a bleed on the brain.

At the conclusion of the inquest into her death on March 24, assistant coroner for Manchester South, Andrew Bridgman, gave the conclusion of an accidental death. He has now written to the owners of the shop to urge them to make changes to prevent a similar accident happening again.

His report read that outside the shop is a metal ramp designed for wheelchair users. It was said to have ‘quite a slope’ – and not fixed to the ground as it is removed every night. It has a rubber mat on top which is not fixed either.

There are no handrails around the door frame but handrails ‘about six-nine inches inside the doorway’, it continued.

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“The CCTV shows Ms Milington stepping on to the ramp one foot at a time,” the report read. “As she attempts to move off the ramp into the store, she holds on to the door frame, it seems that the handrails are too far away.

“As she does this she appears to lose her balance and then the rubber mat moves, although it may be that the mat moves first. At this point she is unable to steady herself holding on to the door frame with one hand and falls to the ground.”

Continuing to address the shop owners, SAI SKN Ltd, he continued: “The evidence of your store supervisor was that the ramp remains exactly as it was on the day of the fatal accident.

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“It is my opinion that the structure/design of the ramp makes it unsafe. In particular that the ramp itself is not fixed or secured to the ground (not even semi-fixed so that it can be removed at the end of the day), that the rubber mat is not fixed and can easily move (as seen), there are no external easily accessible handrails, and the ramp is too short making the slope steeper.

“The issue of concern is that unless action is taken to render access to the store by way of a safer design of ramp then there is a high risk of a customer, particularly a customer with mobility issues, suffering a similar and fatal fall as Ms Milington.

“In my opinion action should be taken to prevent the risk of future deaths and I believe you have the power to take such action.”

Mr Bridgman gave the directors of SAI SKN 56 days to respond to the report, asking them to detail actions to be taken and a timetable for these; or an explanation as to why no action is proposed.

Copies of the report were also sent to Ms Milington’s family and Trafford Council. The M.E.N. has contacted the Go Local store for a comment.