Ken Follett in Ely

BRAKESPEARE: ‘Tastefully designed’ pet coffins, Ken Follett in Ely and the new Fenland typeface

FORMER Ely man Reg Kemp’s plan to complain to the standards board over the appointment of March’s town crier is also featured by our diarist this week.

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Brakespeare pictures for 24/02/12. Paul Medd, FDC chief executive

BRAKESPEARE: Top earners, top jobs, top movers and shakers - you could say I’m a bit over the top this week

THOSE waiting to see whether a rescue plan has been successful to keep an extra public loo in Wisbech will, I hope, not be inconvenienced by having to wait a bit longer.

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Brakespeare picture, Debby Bunn and Mick Gipp (in the window)

BRAKESPEARE: Who kept a watching eye when our snapper took this picture of Roddons’ new MD?

THE postponement of Wisbech Town Toilets Working Party’s first meeting, Cambs County Council leader’s stance on prayers before meetings and romantic breaks for three are all discussed by our diarist this week.

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Private car park in Somers Road Car park.

BRAKESPEARE: Cambridgeshire County Council’s Cabinet begins its roadshow in Wisbech

A GENUINE scoop for this column with the news that county council leader Nick Clarke is to emulate Tory Prime Minister David Cameron and take his Cabinet on the road.

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Jon McGregor has identified all the places in the Lincolnshire Fens where his stories are set.

BRAKESPEARE: No more Fenland First Independence Alliance, local radio spared and council allowances

OUR Diarist also highlights references to Dave ‘Boy’ Green in Sugar Ray Leonard’s autobiography which is released in paperback next month.

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