A council has been accused of “playing lip service to the biodiversity emergency” after Midsummer Common and Christ’s Pieces were mowed during ‘no-mow May’. Opposition councillors were shocked to learn that essential pollinator plants in some of Cambridge’s open spaces and commons had been mown in the middle of May. It comes just a year after the Lib Dems slammed the Labour-run Cambridge City Council for doing the same in May 2023. Cllr Cheney Payne (Lib Dem, Castle), spokesperson for open spaces, pictured, said this week: “May is the most important time for our insects to gather pollen, which…