Milton Village

Cambridgeshire Bird Club are hosting a talk this Friday (12/9) at the Visitor Centre in the Country Park entitled “Bravo Brazil” by Stuart Elsom. Tour Leader, photographer, lifelong Cambs resident and Bird Club member Stuart takes us on a colourful journey to the toucans, tanagers and trogons of the wonderful Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. Check […]

All Saints’ church are organising a supper and ceilidh for the village on Saturday, 18th October at the community centre from 7:30pm until late. Music will be provided by the Great Eastern Ceilidh Company and there will be a licenced bar. Tickets, which include the price of supper, can be bought from the church office, […]

The parish council youth committee meets next Monday night (15/9) at 7:30pm at the Bowls Pavilion in Coles Road. The full agenda is available online. The item likely to be of most interest is item 8 “To consider replacement youth shelter and skate ramps”.

[The following was sent to the milton-news mailing list today] Those of you using an email client which shows you the HTML version of multipart emails will be surprised by this email as it’s using HTML for the formatting. This has advantages: it means hyperlinks are in line rather than at the bottom of each […]

There is another mailing list for Milton which I suspect a lot of subscribers to milton-news will also want to be on. That’s the ecops.milton list. E-cops is a service run by the local police that lets them keep in touch with the community. For example here in Milton the most recent emails were about […]

A Charity Tribute Dance to Maggie is being held at the Community Centre on Saturday 11th October from 7:45pm to 11:45pm in aid of the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. It will feature the band the 6T’s who play “swinging sounds from the sixties”. Tickets are £10 (in advance only and price includes raffle and nibbles) […]

As you will have seen if you read the milton-chat list we seem to be having a bit of a crime wave in Milton at the moment with reports of an unlocked car being ransacked on Humphries Way last weekend and house windows being broken on Fen Road (one last Tuesday night, two last night). […]

The Government announced yesterday that it had rejected plans by Australian development company Multiplex to create the town of Mereham, a 5,000 home “sustainable community” just off the A10 between Stretham and Wilburton. The plans have now been rejected at every level of the planning process. This is good news for Milton as Multiplex’s plans […]

Our old friend the Cathedrals Express is back this Sunday (31/8) hauled by a train we’ve not seen coming through Milton before: LMS Coronation Class 4-6-2 46233 Duchess of Sutherland. Full timing are available online but by my reckoning you want to be at the level crossing at Fen Road at about 12:30 if you […]

The Post Office on Coles Road has put in a planning application for installation of an ATM so we will soon be able to withdraw cash from there outside their normal opening hours, using any bank’s card and for free.