Milton Village

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. […]

The rangers are running a ninety minute walk this Sunday (25th November) in the Country Park looking at trees in winter and learning how to identify them without their leaves, and maybe learn some interesting folklore on the way. Meet at the Visitor Centre for a 2pm start. Families welcome. £1.50 per person.

Donating sessions are being held at the Community Centre on Friday (23/11). Sessions are 1-3:30pm and 4:30-7:00pm.