In summary the results across the county in yesterday’s election were as follows: Party Seats +/- Conservative 32 -7 Liberal Democrat 14 -7 UK I P 12 +10 Labour 7 +4 Independent 4 +1 Green 0 -1 Total 69 Note that the “+/-” column is relative to the make up of the council immediately before […]
Farm College Open Day
This Sunday (9/6) the College of West Anglia’s Cambridge campus, better known to us as Milton farm college will be throwing open its doors for an open day that promises something for everyone. The event links with National Open Farm Sunday. Visitors will be able to explore the college’s Woodside farm to meet the animals. […]
Together for Short Lives
The Duchess of Cambridge, Royal Patron of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices ( ) which has a hospice in Church Lane in Milton, has celebrated Children’s Hospice Week with this video on behalf of Together for Short Lives the national group of children’s hospices. This post includes a video, if it’s not visible then click here.
Discover Medieval Landbeach
Slightly outside Milton but the Cambridgeshire Archaeology and the County Farms Estate will be holding a free guided walk around historic Landbeach on Wednesday (1/5) from 7pm. The village of Landbeach has a rich heritage stretching back as far as the Iron Age. This includes the remains of two medieval manors, whose earthworks can still […]
Annual Parish Meeting
The Annual Parish Meeting will take place on Monday (22/4) in the Lounge at Milton Community Centre, Coles Road commencing at 7:30pm. Representatives from and will give a brief talk on the new Cambridge Science Park station. Please come along – it’s your opportunity to ask any questions about the new station, or anything else.
Milton Photographic Club
The next meeting of the club will be on Wednesday (17/4) at 7:45pm in the church hall. The topic will be the use of High Dynamic Range aka HDR. It will be a practical and tutorial session, so please bring along cameras and tripods, as well as laptops with HDR software installed if you have […]
Milton Photographic Club
The next meeting of the club will be on Wednesday (21/11) at 7:45pm in the church hall. It will be a practical session, so please bring your cameras, tripods and flashes. All welcome. Please bring £2 as a contribution for use of the hall.
Litter Picking along the Cam
If anyone feels moved to do some litter picking along the Cam, the Milton Environmental Group will be setting off from Baits Bite lock at about 10:15am on Saturday (13/4). Do let Hazel know in advance, and they will bring some gloves and litter grabber sticks for you. Due to the water being close by […]
More Photo Archive Photos
Following on from last weekend’s launch of the Milton Photo Archive the Waggon & Horses contacted us via the milton-chat mailing list and offered us access to some photos they had inherited. You can find the new photos here. They pose all sorts of interesting questions including this photo of the pub’s “Outings Club” from […]
Police Neighbourhood Panel
We mentioned last week that the next meeting of the Histon Ward Neighbourhood Panel was on Tuesday (9/4) at Histon. You can find the papers for the meeting here. Although action on and drug use near Milton Country Park and Milton Community Centre was recommended to the meeting for priority action disappointingly the meeting actually […]

