As we’ve mentioned here before last September was proposing to bring in parking charges at all P&R sites, including ours in Butt Lane on the other side of the A10. There were obvious concerns that this was likely to increase parking on Butt Lane, Coulson Close and other roads in that area and also about […]
Parish Council
Your parish council meets on Monday night (3/3) at the Bowls Pavilion starting at 7pm (note early start). The full agenda can be found on their web site. The meeting is starting early so that council can listen to a presentation by pupils and staff from Milton Primary School: short-term and long-term ideas how to […]
Aurora Borealis over Milton
On Thursday night the UK had the best show of aurora in a decade and Dawn Eagle caught a glimpse of it and took this photo from Fen Road just beyond the level crossing at about 10:30pm. The red glow is just sky glow from Waterbeach street lighting, but to the left of that is […]
Overnight A14 Closure
The A14 will be closed westbound from the A10 junction (J33) to the Histon junction (J32) between 8:00pm and 6:00am from this Thursday (6/3) to next Friday (21/3) so that repairs can be undertaken to the carriageway. The obvious diversions are via Kings Hedges Road or Butt Lane, depending on your final destination. The letter […]
Changes to the Milton Surgery appointment system
In response to patient comments and requests Milton Surgery are trialling a new appointment system from 1st April, 2014. This will remove the need for you to queue outside to get an appointment for that day. The new system allows you to book next day routine GP appointment slots online, by phone or in person […]
Milton Photographic Club
The next meeting of the club will be on Wednesday (19/2) at 7:45pm in the church hall. There will be an external speaker, Lesley Maw, who will give a presentation on underwater photography. It would be good to have a large turnout for this event, so please try to come along if you can. The […]
Cambridgeshire Libraries eBook Service now Free
The latest newsletter from Cambridgeshire Libraries brings news that eBooks, which had previously been charged for at a fairly reasonable 59p per book for three weeks’ loan, are now free. Books are available in EPUB or PDF format so are compatible with PCs, MACs and all eBook readers except Kindle. You can find more details […]
Green Bin Survey at SCDC Cabinet
You will remember that we ran a survey of villagers views ‘s proposed changes to winter green bin collections. We had a total of 147 full responses and the results were passed on to SCDC. At their cabinet meeting on 13th February this issue was discussed and the minutes are now online. Under the minutes […]
Overnight A14 Closure
The A14 will be closed eastbound from the A10 junction (J33) to the Fen Ditton junction (J34) between 8:00pm and 6:00am from this Wednesday (26/2) to next Wednesday (5/3) so that repairs can be undertaken to the carriageway. The letter detailing this and related closures at other times can be found here on the parish […]
Village Litter Pick
If you’d rather live in a clean and tidy village, ideally we’d have to ban food wrappings, or persuade everyone to take their litter home … until that happens – we’d really appreciate your help on the next village litter pick next Saturday (22/2). Starting from the parish council office next to the bowls pavilion […]

