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Friends of the Cam protested outside a Cambridge hotel during a hearing involving Anglian Water. The water campaigners have demanded Cambridge city councillors do due diligence on whether to work in partnership with the water company, given its debt level and record of polluting the River Cam. A spokesperson for the environmental group said Anglian Water was an unsuitable company to be handed £227m of public funds, in reference to money allocated for the move of the sewage works from north Cambridge to Honey Hill make way for the development of 8,000 homes. Friends of the Cam founding memb