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BBC News
19-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Councillor for 21-years to become new mayor of Peterborough
A councillor who has represented a ward for 21 years has been appointed as mayor of a Fox, a Peterborough First independent councillor at Peterborough City Council, will be the first female to become mayor of Peterborough since told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "It means a lot to me really because I'm representing the city of which I was born and bred in."She will take over the position from Marco Cereste, a Conservative councillor at the authority, during a meeting on Monday. Fox, who represents Werrington, will become the 138th mayor of Peterborough, and will follow in the footsteps of her husband, John Fox, who served as mayor from Fox said he was "really chuffed" for his said she felt "very honoured" to become the new mayor. "I'm looking forward to it because I'm Peterborian through and through."I feel really excited about the year and I've got a few invites already," she to the Local Democracy Reporting Service she said she was keen to work with all the communities in Peterborough. What does the mayor of Peterborough do? The mayor of Peterborough is a very different role to the mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined mayor of the combined authority, which is currently Paul Bristow, receives a salary and is responsible for areas such as transport, skills, business support and May of each year, a long-serving Peterborough councillor is appointed as the mayor of Peterborough, with their term of office lasting for one role acts as a politically impartial chair of the authority, making sure that proper conduct takes place during full-council are also invited to attend community and fundraising events held for the mayor's charities, which they choose at the start of the civic year. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
The Guardian
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Letter: John Fox obituary
I spent most of 1977 as an 'apprentice image maker', conceiving and producing figurative sculptures for the company Welfare State. It was led by John Fox, his wife, Sue Gill, and Boris and Maggy Howarth. Bob Frith guided the apprentices, and the Mexican printmaker José Posada was a huge influence. As stage hands we dressed as iconic figures. During shows I brought in large sculptures in drag as a Cosmic Midwife, and a fellow apprentice removed them as a Cosmic Undertaker. Everything was done on a viscerally impressionistic, generous and dramatic scale. We also learned to play instruments, carry massive sculptures in processions and work with fire. We lived in caravans on a former rubbish tip in Burnley. Foxy had a wild vision of celebratory communitas fuelled by the sort of fine anger from which love can be born. He was filled with anarchic glee and a 'yes' mentality – nothing was impossible.
BBC News
14-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Peterborough councillor calls for Werrington centre investment
A city councillor says a village centre has been "left behind" compared to other sites elsewhere in the First city councillor, John Fox, who has represented Werrington ward for 23 years, opposed two recent proposals for the Werrington Centre which were ultimately refused by planners in said he hoped the next applicant would meet with community representatives so they could "help to steer them in the right direction"."Most of the shops in the centre are run down, it's not what it used to be," he said. A company named Gujjar Investments Ltd submitted two separate plans to Peterborough City Council for the Werrington Centre - one for a taxi office next to the vacant Ploughman pub and the other to turn the pub itself into a sports bars and three were rejected on the grounds of noise and traffic concerns. Fox, deputy leader of the Independent group, said: "To me, none of it made sense and the taxi office would've caused little rat runs."I've been a councillor now for 23 years.. and if they just came and spoke to us and Werrington Neighbourhood Council we could've liaised with them and saved them time and effort."If you look at the centres in Orton and Bretton compared to Werrington, we were left behind."The Ploughman pub closed in early 2024 and has since been sold and added: "You've got to protect what you've got and improve with what you haven't got."Earlier this year, a former landlord of the pub, Andy Simmons, expressed serious concerns about the future of the Werrington Centre in the wake of the pub's Investments Ltd has been approached for comment. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
