St Neots Town Council was today smiling all over its usual miserable face after the EU gave it a big pat on the back for the hundreds of eco-friendly Christmas light displays installed in the town centre. Despite popular belief that almost no lights [Click to read more...]
The EU has once again chosen Huntingdonshire as it’s testbed for a daft new rule. Under directive 09/447/EC, the terms “spitting distance” and “a stone’s throw” could soon be disappearing, particularly from [Click to read more...]
Under a new ruling by the Government, following a “brilliant idea” from Brussels, St Neots is to lose one of its three A1 junctions in an attempt to reduce traffic. Local councils, backed by the Government, have long been fans of [Click to read more...]
A delegation of councillors visiting twin town Faches-Thumesnil on a “fact-finding mission” have discovered a shocking fact – the very act of which has also shocked them. St Neots Twinning Association exists so that local [Click to read more...]
The EU has today announced, that under ruling 2008/604/EU, all twinned towns must translate road names into the local languages of towns they are twinned with. As St Neots is twinned with Faches Thumesnil all roads must be signposted in French as [Click to read more...]
St Neots is getting caught up in the new EU Directive 2008/23/EC on Quadrilaterals in Urban Centres which has been transposed into UK law. The new law states that market squares which are not perfect squares must be stripped of their “square” [Click to read more...]
A new ruling introduced by the EU, to take effect from January 1st, is set to create chaos on the roads of St Neots. Fifteen more roundabouts are to be erected on the Great North Road in order to obtain new European funding. Residents were said to [Click to read more...]
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