Starting with the collection on 7th October SCDC are collecting plastics and in preparation for that you should be receiving your second green box sometime around now along with a leaflet explaining how to use it. If you haven’t done so by next Saturday (27/9) then you need to phone them on 08450 450 063. […]

Further to my long essay on places to take your surplus clothes and other items milton-news readers have come up with some more suggestions. Tony wrote to say that the Salvation Army have a shop in Histon at 11 High Street, CB24 9JD, which shares an entrance with Natwest bank and they have a car […]

Milton is plagued with people wanting to collect your cast off clothes, books and other bric-a-brac. Sometimes it’s genuine, like last week’s Scout jumble sale, most of the time it’s not. Long time readers to the milton-news list know that I used to try to alert you to every collection but they often only cover […]

Village allotment holders have suffered from theft of tools and even a wheelbarrow this week. Sheds were broken into and fences were damaged. It seems the perpetrators came in via the A10 layby.

An ipod and handbag were among the items stolen in a burglary in Milton just over a week ago on Saturday (13/09). The incident happened at around 4:30 am at a house in The Oaks. Two men were seen running from the house and the handbag was later recovered nearby. The men are described as […]

Cllr Hazel Smith attended a meeting of the Old Chesterton Residents Association last week. They’re having problems with someone using a catapult to put out street lights and punch holes through toughened glass windows in shops, phone boxes and bus shelters and recently some house windows too. A problem all too familiar to us in […]

A brief reminder that the Cambridgeshire County Council’s Minerals and Waste Plan roadshow is at the Bowls Pavilion today (18/09) from 2pm to 8pm. As discussed here previously this does affect Milton so you might want to go along and find out for yourself and make your feelings known to the planners.

It’s that time again and the scouts are holding another of their jumble sales on Saturday (20/9) at 2:30pm at the Community Centre. Admission 30p. They’re collecting jumble from houses tomorrow night so if you’ve had one of their leaflets don’t forget to put your jumble out with the leaflet attached before 6:30pm. Alternatively contact […]

If you’re a subscriber to the milton-chat you will already know that there is a problem at the moment with youths firing stones from catapults. This has been going on for some weeks now. Several houses in Milton have had windows broken and street lamps have been smashed. Stones have also been fired at rowers […]

As previously advertised here the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Plan roadshow was in Milton on Thursday afternoon. The key issues affecting Milton seem to be: They are assuming that the sewage works, which are now not to be moved, will need to expand on the current site so they are asking that any […]