BBC Look East February 19, 2020
Both BBC Look East and BBC South Today reports on 19th February top story was a report on the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway. Here is the BBC Look East report.
There report includes
an interview with Greg Smith MP for Buckingham who thinks the Government are close to cancelling the Oxford to Expressway
a clip of Daniel Zeichner MP for Cambridge challenging the Prime Minister at PMQs on 12th February to announce that the Ox-Cam Expressway is cancelled. The PM says Mr Zeichner will have to wait for the Budget to hear the National Infrastructure Plan.
a brief interview with Alex Poppleton who leads the NEG Woburn Sands team
footage of an NEG Woburn Sands meeting on 18th Feb and an area around Woburn Sands at risk from the Ox - Cam Expressway.
The very real risk in the Woburn Sands area is of devastating “community severance”.
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