Milton Bus Campaign had their day at Shire Hall today to appeal the decision to remove the school bus to Impington Village College. We do not yet have the full reasons for the councillors decision to stop the process after only hearing the Local Authority case, but are very happy that they agreed to uphold […]
Tag: IVC Bus Withdrawal
IVC Bus Free Bus Withdrawal – Appeal Hearing
The Appeal Hearing against the decision to withdraw the Milton to IVC school bus is being held on Tuesday (30/6) at 10am at Shire Hall Council Chambers and the Appeal Group has this message for the village: In case anyone is not aware (and those entitled to attend SHOULD have received the details already..) the […]
Latest Update from the Campaign to Save the Bus
The Save the Milton School Bus campaign shows no sign of slowing up. Last Wednesday, 27th May around 50 parents and children took their appeal directly to Shire Hall. As well as handing in our comprehensive appeal document we handed in over 1500 petition signatures, 130 letters from IVC students and further letters from Milton […]
A Message from the Campaign to Save the Bus
As you may already have heard has arranged a meeting for this Wednesday, 20th May, at 5:30pm at Milton CofE Primary school. This meeting is a ‘parents advisory meeting’ to enable us to understand the appeals process. From their letter it is solely to discuss the appeal process and is is not intended to discuss […]
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As you know by now the free school bus to Impington Village College is being withdrawn from September by .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 […]
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 […]