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The RFU welcomes the stance being taken by the Fire Minister, Brandon Lewis MP, regarding the employment of Armed Forces personnel as Retained/On-Call firefighters across the country.  Currently Cambridgeshire FRS have a policy not to employ Armed Forces personnel as Retained/On-Call firefighters and recently dismissed such an employee for this very reason. After research it [...]

Following the Cambridgeshire Fire Authority meeting on 24 May 2012 elected members discussed the Service’s recommendations to find the £4.2 – £6 million it needs to over the next four years. While we are disappointed that all of the recommendations presented by senior management were agreed to by the Fire Authority, there is still a strong [...]

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The campaign to challenge the closure of Manea fire station is set to move to the House of Commons. NE Cambs MP Stephen Barclay revealed today he and Cambridge MP Julian Huppert have called for a top level summit of fellow MPs, councillors, bosses and union officials to discuss the massive cuts facing the county’s [...]

Cambs Chief Officer, Mr Stagg visited Fenland District Council yesterday for a special meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee. Committee chairman Councillor Pop Jolley, who is also a Manea parish councillor, said members wanted the station kept open “to prevent future loss of life due to increased response times to incidents”. Cllr Jolley said [...]

There has been an interesting development in the campaign to keep Manea Fire Station in Cambridgeshire open. 18 months ago the Service placed a recruitment ban at Manea even though the station only had 7 operational personnel (1 on long term sick), however, the Officer in Charge of the station has recently been informed by [...]

North East Cambridgeshire MP, Stephen Barclay has questioned claims made by Cambridgeshire FRS Senior Officers that the Service is 'the cheapest fire service in the country per head of population'. Cambridgeshire FRS has used details contained within an Audit Commission report to justify its claim, however, another source of information has identified that the Service [...]

North East Cambridgeshire MP, Stephen Barclay is supporting the RFU's campaign to oppose the closure of Manea Fire Station as contained in plans produced by Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service. On his personal website, Mr Barclay has questioned the reasoning for the proposal and gone onto raise some very pertinent questions about how the Service [...]