Conmen pretending to be South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) officers are working their way around the district asking local residents for cash and encouraging them to disclose personal information. In two cases young men with clipboards approached dog walkers in Bar Hill and Haslingfield and tried to falsely fine them £1,000 for dog fouling. In […]

Waterbeach Station car park will be closed from 10pm tonight, Tuesday, on advice from the Environment Agency over concerns it may become flooded (as happened in 2001, writing off at least one car). The decision to close the car park follows flood warnings from the Environment Agency and signs as well as flyers will be […]

PCSO Claire Whiteman is holding a surgery at the Milton Community Centre next Friday (27/2) from 11am to noon. Please feel free to come a long and have a chat regarding any neighbourhood concerns or priorities.

This Sunday (15/2), the Friends of Milton Country Park, have an annual event for children to make bird nesting boxes. The children are guided through making a wooden bird box, with a basic hinged roof. They can then take the box away to put up in their own garden. No need to pre-book, just come […]

The club meets this Wednesday (18/2) at 7:45pm, at Milton Church Hall in Church Lane. All are welcome, just turn up. The main item is a talk entitled “If only you had…” by Gerry Metcalfe. Gerry is well known to regular attendees. In his own words he has “been an East Anglian Federation judge for […]

As you’ll have seen from the banners adorning the Tesco roundabout the Tony Raymond Boutique, the bridal gowns and accessories shop on Coles Road, closed this weekend. But it’s not all bad news: it’s being replaced by Claudette Couture which describes itself as a designer bridal boutique.

Your parish council meets on Monday night. The full agenda is on the village web site here. The only planning application being considered in the village itself is for a two storey front extension and first floor extension over garage at 136 The Rowans. This is the meeting where the council will agree its budget […]

Once again we appear to have young men in the village in orange jackets intent on getting you to switch to a different power supplier. Claiming to be from Scottish Power who “are responsible for supply in your area” (they’re not) they ask to see your bill as they have been getting reports of “people […]

New directories are coming through our letterboxes at the moment so a reminder that your old one goes in the green box. (There’s also been a change in policy on Yellow Pages – they used to be green bin but now they’re green box too.)

The level crossing on Fen Road will be closed this Saturday night (31/1) and next (7/2) from 11pm until 8am on Sunday morning.