The result of the local election for one of our two councillors at is as follows: Surname Forename Party Votes Smith Hazel Marion Liberal Democrats 1243 Smith Christine Linda The Conservative Party Candidate 601 Wood Alison Labour Party 345 Wilson John James UK Independence Party (UKIP) 168 So Hazel Smith is re-elected for another four […]
Author: Paul Oldham
The Bus Campaign needs Your Help
As you know by now the free school bus to Impington Village College is being withdrawn from September by . A very vigorous campaign has been underway in the days since and the organizers now need your help in two ways: They have written this letter to everyone asking you to have your say. Please […]
Milton Photographic Club
This month’s meeting of Milton Photographic Club is on Wednesday (20/5) at 7:45pm in the church hall. It will be a show and tell with an open theme. This will be the last show and tell before the club exhibition in July. Please bring along up to four images on the night on a memory […]
Friends of Milton Country Park AGM
The Friends of Milton Country Park are holding their AGM Talk at the Park Visitor’s Centre on Saturday 9th May from 2:00pm. The talk is “in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible…” given by Joanna Crosby. The title is taken from an old Welsh proverb, which sums up the spirit that inspires […]
The Photo Op
As planned on Monday evening a group of parents and children gathered at Coulson Close, the start of the cycle bridge, for a photo, with bikes. A photographer from Cambridge News was there as was a reporter from ITV with a camera which produced this story on ITV News on Thursday. Assembling to be photographed […]
milton-bus Mailing List
There was a meeting in Tuesday night of the core people running the campaign to fight to save the free bus to Impington Village college and one of their conclusions was that the campaign needed a separate list to milton-chat as discussion of the issue was starting to dominate the latter list. With this in […]
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
As promised the withdrawal of the free bus for IVC students was featured on {url:www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p67w6#auto>The Dotty McLeod Breakfast Show} on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this morning (Tuesday, 28/4). As well as interviewing parents in the village Dotty also interviewed Hazel Belchamber, who’s Head of Schools, Organization and Planning at . You can listen to the segment […]
Free School Bus to Impington VC Withdrawn
This morning parents of villagers with children at Impington Village College (IVC) received a letter from announcing their intention to withdraw the free school bus from September. This is a consequence, which the village has worried about for some time, of the completion of the cycle lane along Butt Lane beyond the A10 to Impington. […]
IVC Bus Free Bus Withdrawal and the BBC
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire are coming to the Lion and Lamb at 06:40 tomorrow morning (Tuesday 28/4) and are intending to go live into the breakfast show for the first time at 07:10. Sally Champion, landlady of the pub and mother of a child at IVC, has organized this. They are hoping that as many parents […]
IVC Bus Free Bus Withdrawal – Photo Op
This evening (Monday 27/4) at 5pm a group of parents are meeting at Coulson Close, the start of the cycle bridge, for a photo, with bikes. They would like loads of IVC students (and Year 6 from Milton Primary School) to come along just to show the numbers involved in this. They’ll take photos on […]