After last night’s closure Milton Country Park is now in the process of being re-opened, starting with the front gate. All gates should be re-opened by 11:30am.
Workshops on Starting or Running a Business
The latest series of fully-funded business workshops and webinars from ‘s Business Support Service is launching in early February and places are available to book now. The half-day workshops and webinars have been designed to help those running or thinking of starting a business in South Cambridgeshire. They cover a range of subjects focusing on […]
Unusual Trains over the Level Crossing
From this weekend until 1st February, Saturday night/Sunday morning East Coast and Great Central passenger services plus engineers’ trains to and from Whitemoor (March) will be diverted past Milton. This will bring some HSTs and class 180s through Milton and unknown freight workings (probably 66s on engineering trains). The Sunday morning ones might offer some […]
Milton Country Park Closed
Due to forecast high winds have taken the decision to put the park closure policy in place and the Park is now closed. The Met Office are forecasting gusts in the early hours through to 10am Saturday morning that exceed the written high wind threshold in their park closure policy so they can’t ignore that. […]
Coping with Excess Blue and Green Bin Waste
Tuesday’s bin collection will be blue and green bins, the first blue bin collection for three weeks and the first green bin collection for five! ‘s stated policy is that they will not take away excess green waste, they expect you to compost it, take it to your nearest recycling centre (so Butt Lane in […]
Milton Primary School Quiz
The Milton School Association organises a fun quiz night at the school every year. All funds raised will go towards the school to buy much needed resources and they would like to invite you to join them. Why not get a team together from your village group? Will the Women’s Institute beat the Photography Club? […]
Parish Council
Your parish council meets this Monday night (12/1) at the Bowls Pavilion starting at 7pm (note early start time). The agenda can be found on their web site. The meeting is starting early because they have a guest speaker: John Stanley, Cambridgeshire County Council Cycling Projects Team Officer who will speak about cycle path and […]
Consultation on Pub Closures
Here in Milton until very recently we had four pubs, which is unusual for a village of our size, but that has now been reduced to three with the being converted to being a restaurant. Now pub lovers are being urged to take part in a consultation to see whether their locals could be better […]
News from the Community Orchard
Sarah Harris writes: Dear All, With last month’s grant application approved we’re starting to put plans in place for the community orchard at Milton Country Park next year. Fencing should be taking place over February – if any of you have experience in fencing it would be great to hear from you (likewise if you […]
Village Diary Back in Service
The village diary is now back in a new format. We have now dropped support for Google Calendar after they left us in the lurch with no notice at all and have instead adopted our own, home grown, solution which we can have working exactly as we want it. This is very much a first […]