Milton Village

This Saturday evening at 7:30pm Gareth Davis Jones, a singer-songwriter performing contemporary Christian folk music, is playing at All Saints’ church. Free entry. Refreshments will be provided.

Yesterday’s “Food, Farming and Countryside Day” event in the Country Park was a great success, helped by excellent weather. In the Visitor Centre the Milton Country Park Produce Show saw a wide variety of entries in all the categories. Clarke Brunt won the Cook Cup as the overall winner. Meanwhile outside a variety of stalls […]

Your parish council maintenance committee meets on Monday night at 7:30pm in the Bowls Pavilion. The full agenda is online here (Adobe/PDF, 78KB). Issues being discussed include the cemetery, allotments, Tomkins Mead, tree works elsewhere in the village, play equipment, and the village grass cutting contract. The issue of the proliferation of posters on lamp […]

Milton Country Park is hosting an event this Saturday (26/9) as part of a national Bandstand Marathon day of events. The event at the Park will focus more on making ‘music’ than on professional bands performing. Performances start at 1pm and will include brass bands, samba, swing jazz, acappella singing and woodwind, with the chance […]

Milton surgery are holding drop in Flu vaccination clinics at the following times: Monday 5th October 8:30am – 12:noon and 2pm – 5pm Tuesday 6th October 8:30am – 12:noon and 2pm – 5pm No appointment needed. They are for everyone over 65 and those with certain chronic conditions (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Disease etc.). Please see […]

This Sunday (27/9) from 11am to 4pm the Park are holding their “Food, Farming and Countryside Day” event, one of a series of keynote events this summer. The event will include sheep dog demonstration, locally reared meat, advice of keeping hens and ducks, and a variety of other stalls, as well as the Milton Country […]

The parish council has received a request from an Associate Producer at Available Light Productions who is researching a three part documentary series for BBC4 on the British village. This follows their series “Mud, Sweat & Tractors” also for BBC4. The idea is to look at the changes to the village in the last hundred […]

The level crossing on Fen Road will be closed this Tuesday night (29/9) from 11pm until 5:30am on Wednesday morning. For more information contact the Network Rail Helpline on 0845 711 4141.

Milton surgery would like to remind you to not stop using tissues and washing your hands because, as predicted, when schools re-opened after the summer there has been an increase in Swine Flu cases. The latest Health Protection Agency weekly pandemic flu update reports that: The rates of flu-like illness and related activity have started […]

You may remember that Chris Thomas of Hall End was planning to be on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square from 2-3am last Wednesday morning as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other artwork. He’s now written a report of it in his blog which includes images from his microscope which he recorded on the […]