Milton Village

Council meets on Monday night and there’s a long agenda. Items of note include Mereham, a proposal to invest £2,500 in preparing a Parish Plan, and deciding what to ask of Cambridge Sport Lakes if they are going to take on Tomkin’s Mead along with the rest of the Country Park.

The South Cambs District Council’s Climate Change Working Group are holding an informal public meeting this Monday (10th December) to discuss how villages across South Cambridgeshire can tackle climate change. If anyone is interested in going please contact our district councillor Hazel Smith by email as hazel.smith@miltonvillage.org.uk or phone her on 860752. The full text […]

Our old friend the Union of South Africa, LNER A4 Class 4-6-2 no 60009, will be passing through Milton this Sunday on its way to Ely. You may remember a previous visit in February 2006. You can find timing online here and it looks to me like it’s due to pass the Fen Road crossing […]

It looks like within a year we may be able to recycle our plastic bottles just by putting them out with the rest of the rubbish. At their meeting on 13th December, SCDC’s cabinet are considering a recommendation to add the collection of plastic bottles to its kerbside recycling scheme from October 2008. It would […]

The next meeting of the club is being held tonight at 7:45 pm in the Church Hall in Church Lane. This will be a “Show and Tell” meeting with the subject being “your holiday pictures”. All welcome. £1 each. Apologies for the extremely late notice on this one.

Tickets for the Panto – which is definitely “Frosty the Snowman” – are nearly sold out and tomorrow is the last day for buying them at the Community Centre, before 10am!

Help the Country Park to celebrate trees! You can collect a paper leaf from the rangers to colour in, write a poem on or decorate in any way you want, to express how important trees are to you. Bring your leaf back before 2nd December, or on the day, for the rangers to hang them […]

Try your hand at a range of Christmas crafts, enjoy mulled wine & mince pies and meet new friends from your village on Monday 26 November from 7:30pm to 9:30pm in All Saints’ Church Hall in Church Lane. A festive evening for adults and accompanied young people aged 11+. Cost £4. To book your place […]

In the last mailing I commented that I wasn’t clear what had changed with the Mereham proposal which had resulted in it coming back to our parish council on Monday night. I’ve since had more documents from Jim the parish council clerk and I’ve had a briefing from Hazel Smith, one of our district councillors. […]