Milton Village

LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60019 Bittern will be steaming past Milton at about 12:35 tomorrow (04/05) heading north and will pass the other way at about 19:30. Full timetable is online available online. Bittern is a streamline loco in the same class as our old friend the Union of South Africa, which we’ve seen […]

The College of West Anglia are holding an open day on Saturday (17/5) from 10am to 2pm. Your chance to wander around and look at what they’re up to. Lots of things too look at including horses, ferrets, other small animals, sheep and pigs. This year they also claimed to be having “Family Fun, fun […]

Milton Bowls Club are holding an open day this Sunday (4/5) from 2-4pm at the bowls green on Coles Road Rec. If you’ve not played before then come and try your hand. The club will provide the balls, all you need to do is turn up in flat bottomed shoes or trainers. For more information […]

The meeting took place on Monday night and fifteen villagers attended (which doesn’t sound a lot but one year we had four). The minutes are already online and include the reports from the village charities, parish council and our district and county councillors so are worth a read.

Many villagers use the river towpath (the “Haling Way”) both for recreation and to get into the City. There’s been some issues on the towpath lately. There was a meeting organised last Friday for member of the public to meet the River Manager and the County Council Cycling Officer to discuss problems with the interaction […]

All parishes, whether or not they have a parish council hold a meeting once a year called the Annual Parish Meeting to discuss the affairs of the parish. It is an opportunity for the parish council to report on what it’s been up to during the year, for other village organisations make presentations, and for […]

PC Phil Shulver says that there have been several reports recently of foreign males going door to door asking for money for a son’s operation or selling pictures. To do this legally they must have a pedlar’s certificate, which will have their photograph, who they are, and the area issuing it (which will quite often […]

Meets on Monday night at 7:30pm in the Bowls Pavilion on Coles Road. The following applications are being considered: S/0051/08/CW Waste Recycling Group Ltd – variation of Condition 3 of pp S/0289/91 to extend the time for reinstatement of the site to a condition suitable for the resumption of agricultural use to 31 December 2020. […]

Residents are invited to South Cambridgeshire District Council’s (SCDC) scrutiny and overview committee meeting in Swavesey on Thursday (17/4). SCDC will be holding the meeting at Swavesey Memorial Hall at 5.30pm and is issuing an open invitation to residents. There will be two main topics covered in the meeting: a report from Arbury Park Task […]

In a move that will come to little surprise to you after my previous mention of this possibility the County Council has announced that the Cambridge Waste Water Treatment Works is not to move to Honey Hill. However with great timing, given our recent problems with the works, they say they are “keen to see […]