A consortium of Cambridgeshire councils including and have secured almost £5.7m by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to help residents install insulation improvements to older and non-standard properties in the owner occupied and rental sectors. The funding will provide grants to householders to significantly reduce the cost of insulating solid wall and steel […]
Author: Paul Oldham
Scouts Mammoth Jumble Sale
It’s that time again and the scouts are holding another of their jumble sales this Saturday (15/3) at 2:30pm at the Community Centre. Admission 30p. They’re collecting jumble from houses on Friday 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 […]
More Businesses in Milton
We have recently added three more businesses to our Business in Milton page: No27 Therapy Room – Tracy Wesson, Holistic Therapist Phoenix Trading – Louise Shane – independent trader selling a wide range of greetings cards, gift wrap, stationery and seasonal items – pub on the high street serving food lunchtime and evening If you […]
Hung Kuen Shaolin Kung Fu
Hung Kuen Shaolin Kung Fu is coming to Milton. The first session is free and has been booked for 25th March, 5:45-7:00pm at Milton Community Centre. Get strong, fit, flexible and learn how to protect yourself The style is based around five animals: tiger, leopard, snake, crane and dragon. Tiger and leopard are ‘hard’ styles, […]
Parking Charges at Milton P&R
As we’ve mentioned here before last September was proposing to bring in parking charges at all P&R sites, including ours in Butt Lane on the other side of the A10. There were obvious concerns that this was likely to increase parking on Butt Lane, Coulson Close and other roads in that area and also about […]
Overnight A14 Closure
The A14 will be closed westbound from the A10 junction (J33) to the Histon junction (J32) between 8:00pm and 6:00am from this Thursday (6/3) to next Friday (21/3) so that repairs can be undertaken to the carriageway. The obvious diversions are via Kings Hedges Road or Butt Lane, depending on your final destination. The letter […]
Aurora Borealis over Milton
On Thursday night the UK had the best show of aurora in a decade and Dawn Eagle caught a glimpse of it and took this photo from Fen Road just beyond the level crossing at about 10:30pm. The red glow is just sky glow from Waterbeach street lighting, but to the left of that is […]
Parish Council
Your parish council meets on Monday night (3/3) at the Bowls Pavilion starting at 7pm (note early start). The full agenda can be found on their web site. The meeting is starting early so that council can listen to a presentation by pupils and staff from Milton Primary School: short-term and long-term ideas how to […]
Cambridgeshire Libraries eBook Service now Free
The latest newsletter from Cambridgeshire Libraries brings news that eBooks, which had previously been charged for at a fairly reasonable 59p per book for three weeks’ loan, are now free. Books are available in EPUB or PDF format so are compatible with PCs, MACs and all eBook readers except Kindle. You can find more details […]
Milton Photographic Club
The next meeting of the club will be on Wednesday (19/2) at 7:45pm in the church hall. There will be an external speaker, Lesley Maw, who will give a presentation on underwater photography. It would be good to have a large turnout for this event, so please try to come along if you can. The […]