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Competition Urges Teenagers To Think About The Future


Teenagers are being urged to get creative as Cranfield University's Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D) launches its Technology Futures Competition next month.The first competition of its kind...
Cranfield University

Wolverton Town Band Is Looking For A New Musical Director


Our current Musical Director has gained promotion and will be leaving the band shortly to take up a new post; this has created an exciting opportunity for a new MD...
Music in Milton Keynes

thecentre:mk Implements Biodiesel For Company Vehicles


Regional shopping destination thecentre:mk has recently installed a Biodiesel plant in order to produce diesel for all its company vehicles. The plant will take discarded oil form thecentre:mk's food outlets...
thecentre:mk

Local Mums Learn How To Beat The Credit Crunch


Mums attending local Children's Centres are benefiting from a tailor made course to improve their prospects and well being. The free Life Skills courses are being funded by the Routes to Success programme...
Free Life Skills Courses In Milton Keyens

Charity Day At The Millbrook Golf Club


Over £6,400 has been raised through a charity golf day at The Millbrook Golf Club, for the Little Lives Appeal to support the Neonatal Unit at Milton Keynes Hospital...
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Sir Roger Moore Gives His Support To Campaign To Preserve Bletchley Park


Sir Roger Moore added his voice to the campaign to attract funding to restore and preserve Bletchley Park on his visit to the World War Two codebreaking centre...
Bletchley Park
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Hospital Announces Further Improvements Made to Hygiene And Cleanliness

On the 24 November 2008 the Healthcare Commission (HCC) will publish a report reviewing the results of 51 unannounced inspections of cleanliness and infection control that were conducted between January and July 2008...
Milton Keynes Hospital

 

MK Hosts Its First Higher Education Open Day

The impressive new University Centre Milton Keynes (UCMK) is holding its first open day. It runs from 10am-2pm on Saturday 29th November, providing information about higher education courses on offer for the 2009/10 academic year...
University Centre Milton Keynes




Milton Keynes Park & Ride - Christmas 2008

With Christmas fast approaching, finding an empty parking space is never easy - but there is another option. The Christmas Park & Ride service is frequent and inexpensive so why not give it a try?
Park And Ride In Milton Keynes

National Consumer Week

This week is National Consumer week. The theme for this year is 'be a savvy shopper this Christmas' Milton Keynes Trading Standards Service has worked with local theatre company Tread the Boards to get the message across
Consumer Week in Milton Keynes

Volunteers Restore Alfresco Art

Milton Keynes Local News - Furzton Lake - VolunteersVolunteers from The Parks Trust have been helping to restore wooden sculptures on an island in Furzton Lake. The wooden sculptures, called Silhouetted Portals and created by Wendy Hitchings, were placed on the Island in the 1980s. Standing between one and two metres high, the sculptures have proved popular...
The Parks Trust

Rail Lines To Shut For At Least Four Days At Christmas

Resignalling work will be taking place over the Christmas period in Milton Keynes. This will result in no Virgin Trains services running to and from Euston via Milton Keynes and sections of the tube being close. Network Rail is racing to finish the £9.2billion upgrade in time for Virgin's new timetable to come into force on 14 December.

Milton Keynes Hospital Consultant Pioneers Safer Childbirth World Wide

A Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Consultant who is helping to save the lives of thousands of women throughout the world who would otherwise die following childbirth is set to help launch a new website designed to provide expert support...
Milton Keynes Hospital

Un/protected - Raising Awareness Of Good Sexual Health

Milton Keynes Local News - Brook Advisory With World Aids Day taking Place at the beginning of December young performers in MK will be helping to raise awareness of good sexual health. The performances will take place on Saturday 29th November between 9pm and midnight at the theatre district in CMK...
Health Event In Milton Keynes

Christmas Shoppers Park & Walk

Milton Keynes Council is running a new scheme which begins on Monday 24th November to encourage Christmas shoppers to 'park & walk'. Why not combine getting some exercise with parking your car easily without having to spend time searching for a space? For more information please visit The MK Council Parking Area

Touch-Screen-Tastic: Real-Time Offers And Promotions At thecentre:mk

thecentre:mk and local software company launch the next generation of technology for shoppers. thecentre:mk has teamed up with local software specialist, Interdirect, to roll out a £3million technology project across the centre that will bring shoppers information...
thecentre:mk

English Heritage Initiates Major Regeneration Project For Bletchley Park

English Heritage has "laid down the gauntlet" to other funding bodies by pledging a further £100,000 a year to Bletchley Park over the next three years, on condition that the funding is matched by outside partners...
Bletchley Park

Search Launched For Milton Keynes PC Users To Appear In Major New Ad

Microsoft is calling on the people of Milton Keynes to overturn the stereotype of the traditional PC user and celebrate the diverse range of individual and talented people using PCs across the UK...
Milton Keynes PC Users

Spring Season At Milton Keynes Theatre

Guaranteed to put a spring in your step, Milton Keynes Theatre's exciting, jam-packed Spring season! Kicking off celebrations for a 10th anniversary year, there's something for everyone to cast away those winter blues...
Milton Keynes Theatre

Young People Score With Street Football

16 young volunteers gave the Friday of their half term to provide a Street Football tournament at Tattenhoe Pavilion for over 200 young people in Milton Keynes. The event provided a day of positive activity for 8 to 19 year olds...
Young People In Milton Keynes

Pantomime Characters Take Centre Stage On Royal Mail's Christmas Stamps

Snow White, Peter Pan and Cinderella are all big Bucks pantos this year and the pantomime characters of The Wicked Queen, Captain Hook and the Ugly Sisters are featured on Royal Mail's Christmas stamps issued on 4 November...
Royal Mail

Yes, MK Has Got Talent!

Milton Keynes Local News -  Rhea, Steve and TJMilton Keynes rapper is hoping to win over TV judges on Britain's Got Talent with a unique song he has composed - entitled Has Britain Got Talent! TJ Oates, 20, and his singing partner Rhea Murray, 17, aka Versatile, auditioned for the show in London...
Talent In Milton Keynes

Standing Still Not An Option For The Future Of Transport In Milton Keynes

MKC Cabinet has welcomed potentially far-reaching proposals to deal with traffic issues in Milton Keynes stretching far into the future. Randomly chosen local people from all backgrounds were asked to form the Milton Keynes Citizens' Advisory Group on Transport (MKCAGoT)...
Milton Keynes Council

Children's Nurse Funded For Milton Keynes - Thanks To City Companies

A nurse dedicated to helping terminally ill children in Milton Keynes has been funded for at least a year - thanks to 40 city companies. More than £26,000 was raised through an Accumulator Challenge organised by the children's hospice...
Charity In Milton Keynes






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