Milton allotments’ Foodshare scheme had a record month in August and has now donated over 150kg of food worth over £450 in supermarket prices. If every allotment in the UK were to follow Milton’s example, over £25m of food would donated to charity each year. The scheme was filmed by the BBC for “Look East” […]

The Jolly Brewers pub in Fen Road re-opened for business today after a long closure offering a full selection of drinks including Fullers and Adnams beers. The new landlord, Gao, says he will be offering pub food in the bar and a more a la carte eating experience on the restaurant side from this Sunday.

The Milton Park & Ride site opened in November 2008 with 500 car parking spaces. Original plans for the site provided for an expansion to 1,000 spaces which would be constructed on a phased basis depending on when funding would become available. The second phase for an additional 250 spaces has now been given the […]

Chris Thomas of Hall End is taking part in Antony Gormley’s One & Other artwork (2,400 people get an hour each on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square over 100 days and nights). Chris’ slot is next Wednesday … from 2am to 3am! Chris will be doing a five minute introduction to East Anglia/Cambridgeshire, […]

Following the footsteps of Milton allotments and Milton Primary School, All Saints’ Church have joined the Foodshare scheme. Any produce can be dropped off the Foodshare box in the church on Sundays and will be delivered to the Children’s Hospice that evening. During the week any produce you would like to donate can be dropped […]

At Monday night’s parish council meeting many villagers attended to voice their concerns to such an extent that the “Public Participation” section of the meeting that normally takes just a few minutes lasted from 7:40pm to 9:00pm. Even then the chairman had to bring the discussion to a close. The parish council’s own response to […]

It appears that the Landbeach web site had the story of the large wind turbine we reported yesterday somewhat garbled. According to our county councillor, Michael Williamson, Landbeach Parochial Church Council sold the land some time ago with a covenant that it should only be used for agricultural purposes. They have now been approached by […]

BBC Look East are doing a feature on Foodshare and are planning to film at the Milton allotments from 3pm this Thursday. If you have any produce you would like to donate, it would be great if you can put it in the Foodshare donation station before 3pm on Thursday, so they will have an […]

The debate over this scheme rumbles on, not least on the milton-chat mailing list where is has been the subject of some discussion over the last few days. So a reminder that the County Council are coming back today (Wednesday 9/9) from 3pm to 6pm at the Community Centre on Coles Road, to give you […]

There are only a few weeks to go until the Produce Show, which is being held at as part of the Food, Farming and Countryside day. It is intended as a fun event and we’d love to get plenty of entries, so please don’t be shy about giving it a go. The general categories are: […]