I am delighted and honoured to have been elected as your local MP. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. But whether you voted for me or not I am here to help everyone in the constituency. I am already working hard on my key priorities for Cambridgeshire: improving funding for our education, infrastructure, […]
Author: Paul Oldham
Book now for Parklife
The countdown to South Cambridgeshire’s biggest free family fun day has begun with water sport advance booking opening this Monday (22/6). Anyone keen to take to the water and try their hand at canoeing, kayaking and paddleboarding at the event at on Sunday, 19th July is being urged to contact from 11am on Monday. Activities […]
Milton Community Café
Milton Community Café is opening its doors again this Tuesday (23/6) in the Community Centre Lounge from 2:30pm to 4:30pm for more afternoon tea, cake and conversation. There’s conversation, games and cake. £2 per person. For more information get in touch with either Chris Thomas or Sue Nunn.
SouthCambs Magazine
Yet again seem to have had troubles with the distribution of their magazine. The Summer 2015 edition should have reached you by now but a straw poll on the milton-chat mailing list quickly revealed that many people hadn’t seen it at all. If you want to read it then you have two options: you can […]
Milton Facebook Pages
We’ve previously mentioned here that there are a number of Milton related Facebook Groups. We also know of quite a lot of Milton related Facebook Pages you may want to ‘Like’ if you are on Facebook, both not-for-profit: All Saints’ Milton All Saints’ Milton M U Group Cambridge parkrun Cambridge junior parkrun Impington Village College […]
New Historic Maps
We have just updated our A History of Milton in Maps to add two new maps: a 6″ to 1 mile map from the turn of the last century and a 1:25K map from just post World War 2. Both of these are based on screen shots of the rather excellent National Library of Scotland […]
Police Neighbourhood Panel
The next meeting of the Histon (Covering the villages of Bar Hill, Girton, Knapwell, Connington, Elsworth, Dry Drayton, Graveley, Lolworth, Boxworth, Papworth, Papworth St Agnes, Fen Drayton, Swavesey, Over, Histon, Willingham, Longstanton, Impington, Orchard Park, Milton, Waterbeach, Landbeach, Chittering, Rampton, Cottenham, Oakington and Histon) Neighbourhood Panel is on Thursday (18/6) at Swavesey Village College, where […]
Lancaster Visit This Saturday?
This isn’t entirely certain but in previous years at around this time the village has been “buzzed” by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster and we now think we know why: it was doing a fly past for the re-union of 514 Squadron who were based at RAF Waterbeach in the Second World War […]
Dakota Visit
Further to our previous story about a possible Lancaster Visit This Saturday we’ve had several people email us (thanks to Tony and the Johnson family who were the first) to point out that the BBMF Lancaster is currently still unable to fly after an engine fire but the good news is that “weather and aircraft […]
School Governor with Business and Community Links Needed
The governing body at Milton CE Primary wants to appoint a governor to support the Governing Body in its drive for closer liaison with local businesses and groups. Milton currently has a small number of well-established relationships with business where the businesses fulfil some of their aims around corporate social responsibility and the children benefit […]