A young man wearing a white polo shirt with what looked like the logo of St Bede’s school was in Church Lane on Thursday evening last week asking for sponsorship for a 15 mile run being organised by the school. The school have confirmed they running no such event. He had short very dark hair […]

The club is meeting this Wednesday night (15/10) at 7:45pm in the Church Hall in Church Lane. It’s a “Show & Tell” – essentially bringing your photos along and show them to everyone else. The theme is “Abstract”. All are welcome, just turn up. It costs just £1 and, if you’re so inclined, the meeting […]

There were several reports on the milton-chat mailing list of one of Google’s Street View cars in the village on Wednesday although sadly no one managed to get a photograph. However readers of The Register in Cambridge have succeeded in taking some shots which you can find here.

Cambridgeshire County Council has launched a six week public consultation on the future of waste management and mineral extraction in Cambridgeshire. Some 14 roadshows are being held across the county, including one in Milton at the Bowls Pavilion on Coles Road next Thursday (18/9) from 2pm to 8pm. The key issue for the village is, […]

The parish council youth committee meets next Monday night (15/9) at 7:30pm at the Bowls Pavilion in Coles Road. The full agenda is available online. The item likely to be of most interest is item 8 “To consider replacement youth shelter and skate ramps”.

All Saints’ church are organising a supper and ceilidh for the village on Saturday, 18th October at the community centre from 7:30pm until late. Music will be provided by the Great Eastern Ceilidh Company and there will be a licenced bar. Tickets, which include the price of supper, can be bought from the church office, […]

Cambridgeshire Bird Club are hosting a talk this Friday (12/9) at the Visitor Centre in the Country Park entitled “Bravo Brazil” by Stuart Elsom. Tour Leader, photographer, lifelong Cambs resident and Bird Club member Stuart takes us on a colourful journey to the toucans, tanagers and trogons of the wonderful Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. Check […]

Cambridgeshire Bird Club are hosting a talk this Friday (10/10) at the Visitor Centre in the Country Park entitled “From soil to satellites – the search for Jerdon’s courser in India” by Ken Norris. Jerdon’s courser is one of the most elusive and least understood birds in the world. It is known from only a […]

[The following was sent to the milton-news mailing list today] Those of you using an email client which shows you the HTML version of multipart emails will be surprised by this email as it’s using HTML for the formatting. This has advantages: it means hyperlinks are in line rather than at the bottom of each […]

There is another mailing list for Milton which I suspect a lot of subscribers to milton-news will also want to be on. That’s the ecops.milton list. E-cops is a service run by the local police that lets them keep in touch with the community. For example here in Milton the most recent emails were about […]