Cambridge Breakfast

Julian hears about a study into the concept of Pay What You Want from co-author Vincent Mak, Professor of Marketing & Decision Sciences at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Children’s Mental Health Week is underway today (Tuesday) and Anita Gatt from Blue Smile is in the Cambridge Breakfast studio with Julian Clover.

Burwell’s Pimp My Fish have been named finalists in the Best Mobile Operator at the National Fish and Chip Awards 2023. John Hudgell is on the line.

Around 100-thousand teachers are on picket lines and at rallies and demos across England and Wales as they strike over pay. Julian hears from maths teacher Tom Finch who was on the picket line in South Cambridgeshire.

The Friends of Cherry Hinton Brook are working with Sainsbury’s on Brooks Road and Rowan, the Cambridge arts centre and forest school for adults with learning disabilities, to create a large mural to celebrate wildlife in Cambridge. Caroline Murray from the Friends is in the studio alongside Julian Clover.

A Cambridge City Councillor has been left with a £34,000 legal bill after intervening on behalf of residents to stop alcohol from being sold in a Mill Road Supermarket. Labour's  Richard Robertson was trying to prevent street drinking after the Council’s Licensing Sub Committee granted an alcohol licence to the new Mill Road Co-op.

The developer of a new office scheme on Hills Road is promising to preserve and upgrade The Flying Pig. The pub closed its doors in October 2021 with the railway pension fund RailPen purchasing the Botanic Place site from Pace Investments last summer. Mixed-use developer Socius has planning consent for a 500 thousand square foot scheme, that it says will become the most sustainable and intelligent workspace in Cambridge. Julian Clover speaks to Olaide Oboh from Socius and says there is a desire for a music venue on the site.

Segeri Savytskyi from the Rotary Club of Kharkiv tells Julian about how they're working with their Cambridge counterparts.

Cambridge Festival manager David Cain is here with a first look at this year’s event.

A new Playpark has opened in Haddenham named in memory of Rachel Watts who was housing manager for the Haddenham Community Land Trust until her tragic death in 2022, aged 46. Clerk of Haddenham Parish Council Tor Taylor spoke to Julian.