Milton Village

Milton is plagued with people wanting to collect your cast off clothes, books and other bric-a-brac. Sometimes it’s genuine, like last week’s Scout jumble sale, most of the time it’s not. Long time readers to the milton-news list know that I used to try to alert you to every collection but they often only cover […]

Cllr Hazel Smith attended a meeting of the Old Chesterton Residents Association last week. They’re having problems with someone using a catapult to put out street lights and punch holes through toughened glass windows in shops, phone boxes and bus shelters and recently some house windows too. A problem all too familiar to us in […]

An ipod and handbag were among the items stolen in a burglary in Milton just over a week ago on Saturday (13/09). The incident happened at around 4:30 am at a house in The Oaks. Two men were seen running from the house and the handbag was later recovered nearby. The men are described as […]

Village allotment holders have suffered from theft of tools and even a wheelbarrow this week. Sheds were broken into and fences were damaged. It seems the perpetrators came in via the A10 layby.

As previously advertised here the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan roadshow was in Milton on Thursday afternoon. The key issues affecting Milton seem to be: They are assuming that the sewage works, which are now not to be moved, will need to expand on the current site so they are asking that any […]

If you’re a subscriber to the milton-chat you will already know that there is a problem at the moment with youths firing stones from catapults. This has been going on for some weeks now. Several houses in Milton have had windows broken and street lamps have been smashed. Stones have also been fired at rowers […]

It’s that time again and the scouts are holding another of their jumble sales on Saturday (20/9) at 2:30pm at the Community Centre. Admission 30p. They’re collecting jumble from houses tomorrow night so if you’ve had one of their leaflets don’t forget to put your jumble out with the leaflet attached before 6:30pm. Alternatively contact […]

A brief reminder that the Cambridgeshire County Council’s Minerals and Waste Plan roadshow is at the Bowls Pavilion today (18/09) from 2pm to 8pm. As discussed here previously this does affect Milton so you might want to go along and find out for yourself and make your feelings known to the planners.

A young man wearing a white polo shirt with what looked like the logo of St Bede’s school was in Church Lane on Thursday evening last week asking for sponsorship for a 15 mile run being organised by the school. The school have confirmed they running no such event. He had short very dark hair […]

The club is meeting this Wednesday night (15/10) at 7:45pm in the Church Hall in Church Lane. It’s a “Show & Tell” – essentially bringing your photos along and show them to everyone else. The theme is “Abstract”. All are welcome, just turn up. It costs just £1 and, if you’re so inclined, the meeting […]