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News for November '95

[archive index] Warning over long term hospital care (27/11/95)

The headline in tonight's Cambridge Evening News 'No room - unless elderly patients die CASH CRISIS OVER BEDS' relates to the words of the chief executive of the Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority Barbara Stocking who said 'Social services in some parts of the region are facing very severe financial difficulties. Some cannot look too far ahead at filling places without somebody dying.'

Meanwhile the RHA has said that good progress has been made in ironing out problems in agreeing on the substance of the so-called 'eligibilty criteria' system for deciding who qualifies for what kind of care and the dinstinction of what should be covered by the free NHS and means-tested social services care.

[archive index] Research on melting ice cap threatened - now that region isn't needed for warfare (27/11/95)

The Cambridge Evening News of Friday 24th November has the story of how money is in short supply at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge now that interest in the Arctic by the MoD and the American Office of Naval Research has dried up.

Apparently the Institute has been recording a 15% thinning in the Arctic sea ice over the last twenty years. However, more work needs to be done to find out if this is proof of global warming.

Senior research associate Dr. Norman Davis said '...there is undoubtedly a real threat to our future work...'

Link: Scott Polar Research Institute

[archive index] Funds poured into Human Genome Sequencing Project (21/11/95)

The Sanger Centre of Hinxton has been given at least Ł50 million by the Wellcome Trust to map 95 per cent of the human genome to within 99 per cent accuracy.

- based on a story in the Cambridge Evening News of 20/11/95.

[archive index] Rugby Cement at Barrington get permission to burn dangerous waste - (9/11/95)

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP) has granted Rugby Cement a permanent licence to burn waste chemicals at its Barrington cement plant.

Protest group CamAir 95 are said to still be considering the possibilty of taking legal action and are ready to continue the fight to prevent more cement works being used to burn similar waste materials.

HMIP are insisting that trials had established that adding the waste to the fuel in the cement kilns was "unlikely to pose a greater risk to public health" than the conventional burning of coke and coal. However, the protestors say that the trials have not been rigerous enough - providing little reliable information on the variation of toxins such as heavy metals and dioxins.

Cambridge MP, Anne Campbell, is reported to be concerned that there was no period of consultation with the public and with the local authorities - as would have been mandatory if a purpose built incinerator had been proposed.

- based on a story from the Cambridge Evening News of 9/11/95.

[archive index] Cambridge pollution summit called - (6/11/95)

Cambridge City Council is calling for a summit meeting of local councils and health authorities to discuss ways to fight air pollution in the city.

Environmental spokesman for Labour, Tony Barnes, said,"I want to know if pollution levels are monitored throughout the county and if other people's pollution blows into the city."

- based on a story in the Cambridge Evening News of 4/11/95.

[archive index] Ely recycling continues - largely thanks to volunteers - (2/11/95)

At a meeting of the East Cambridgeshire District Council held last thursday, Cllr. Peter Bridge commented on information he had received to the effect that 11% of the material collected under the district council's bring-along policy was in fact collected by the Ely 'WASTE' volunteer group.

Cllr Eddie Woodbridge said that the council's lack of resources was restricting growth in recycling initiatives.

- based on a story in the Ely Standard of 2/11/95.

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