Watching the Mayor put up the first Fairtrade Cambridge sticker

Yesterday, the Mayor of Cambridge, Councillor Ian Nimmo-Smith, put up the first Cambridge Fairtrade sticker in the Green Coffee Company and gave out stickers to Fairtrade retailers, including the Co-op, Harriet Kelsall Jewellery Design and One World Is Enough.

The stickers are sponsored by the Co-operative, which was the first big supermarket to stock Fairtrade goods back in 1992.

Cambridge shoppers are being asked to keep an eye out for Fairtrade goods when they go shopping – and pass on their findings to the Cambridge Fairtrade Steering Group by email (fairtrade.cambridge@hotmail.co.uk) or via their blog http://fairtradecambridge.wordpress.com. Having a good list will help us when we come to renew our Fairtrade City status, and we would like to know about anywhere that sells a range of Fairtrade products. Look out for the green and blue Fairtrade mark.

Cambridge has been a Fairtrade City since  1994.

Real Time Information is the technical term for the lighted panels at bus stops that tell you how long your bus will take to arrive. Quite handy when you are trying to work out whether to get the bus that doesn’t take you quite where you want to go, or wait for the next direct one; or even to decide whether or not you’d be quicker just walking.

We’ve been asked for views on which of the following stops benefit, or would benefit most from RTI displays. If you use buses from these stops, please give us your views:

• Mowbray Road opposite Mander Way (inbound)
• Mowbray Road near Mander Way (outbound)
• Mowbray Road near Glebe Road (inbound)
• Mowbray Road opposite Glebe Road (outbound)
• Mowbray Road near Holbrook Road (inbound)
• Mowbray Road opposite Holbrook Road (outbound)
• Wulfstan Way opposite no 13 (outbound)
• Wulfstan Way outside no 13 (inbound)
• Wulfstan Way opposite Queen Edith Chapel (outbound)
• Wulfstan Way outside Queen Edith Chapel (inbound)