Five Peterborough stories you might have missed

A city centre car park will be closed to allow for demolition work, butterflies will be the theme of this year's Peterborough Celebrates festival and dozens of volunteers helped a scout group with a litter pick.

Here are five stories from Peterborough you might have missed this week.

Business owners and customers said they felt unsafe at Peterborough's Ortongate Shopping Centre and concerned about its future.

Lloyd McPherson, who runs a sports bar claimed it suffered from poor security and lighting.

Centre owners Cassco Holdings Ltd said an "extensive site maintenance plan" was in place, including a new CCTV system.

Collars with electric pulses have been placed on cows' necks to help create wetland habitats in the fens near Peterborough.

The 'Nofence' collars are part of a conservation grazing project at the Great Fen in Cambridgeshire.

Work to demolish a swimming pool where reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was found is due to begin on Monday.

Peterborough City Council said a city centre car park near the Regional Pool would need to be closed for 16 weeks.

About 100 people joined a local Muslim Scouts group for a community litter pick, to clean up a city hotspot.

The 5th Peterborough Central Scouts, which puts on activities for children within an Islamic setting, were accompanied by parents and volunteers from Peterborough Litter Wombles and the city council.

A festival of culture and diversity will return this year with the theme "flutter of butterflies", in support of nature.

Peterborough Celebrates, a free two-day event, will be held at Ferry Meadows on 17 and 18 May, organised by the Nene Park Trust (NPT).

This year, festival organisers have invited schools, community groups and individuals to take part in a special display to be showcased at the venue.

The saga over Werrington Fields continues. An extraordinary meeting of Peterborough City Council was held to vote on whether to allow a fence to be built around the playing fields of Ken Stimpson Academy.

In the end councillors voted on an amendment, which proposed the council leasing a section of the fields to be fenced off for the school.

The decision can be challenged by the school, so it's another waiting game for now.

Meanwhile, residents in Barnack will have an extra ballot paper when they go to the polls on 1 May 2025 because councillor Irene Walsh has decided to step down for personal reasons.

The whole of Peterborough and Cambridgeshire is due to vote for the next mayor on the same day.

The redevelopment of the Station Quarter is a step closer after the city council authorised the submission of a full business case to the government.

If approved by the Department for Transport, the council would be able to access £47.9m of Levelling Up funding.

And the city's new draft local plan has been published and proposes around 1,000 new homes a year for the next 2 decades.

The plans have upset councillors in Castor and Ailsworth who are worried about development in rural areas.

Peterborough United conceded a stoppage time equaliser against Wycombe Wanderers at London Road.

Posh took the lead in the 16th minute with a penalty from Malik Mothersille. Richard Kone struck with just moments remaining to grab a point for the Chairboys.

Darren Ferguson's side are still unbeaten in their last five games in League One.

Peterborough Sports suffered their first defeat in seven games as they lost 2-0 against South Shields.

The Turbines remain 11th in the National League North.

Peterborough Phantoms enjoyed a double win weekend as they beat MK Lightning and Sheffield Steeldogs.

Phantoms were without head coach Slava Koulikov who was serving a two game suspension.

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