Don’t forget to book that Christmas Tree collection  .. Cambridge City Council has also teamed up with the Arthur Rank Hospice and Just Helping for the second time to collect Christmas trees from homes while raising money for the hospice. Trees will be collected for a donation on 6 and 7 January. This service needs […]

Residents are being urged not to let Christmas waste go to landfill this festive season as a cardboard motorway stretching from Cambridge to Lapland and back could be made with all the card packaging consumed in Cambridgeshire at Christmas. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils have one of the best and easiest kerbside recycling […]

Residents in Cambridge are being urged to check their bin collection dates this festive season as the regular collection days are changing due to the extended bank holidays. The revised collection dates in Cambridge City are: Regular Monday to Thursday collections from  Christmas and into the first week of the New Year will be two […]

A welcome news release from the City Council: PUBLIC toilets at Coleridge Recreation Ground are set to stay open across the winter season, following requests from park users. Last year £289,000 of S106 funding from developers’ contributions was invested  by Cambridge City Council in upgrading and adding to the park’s facilities, including the installation of […]

A Conservative decision to cut funding for cold-weather gritting across Cambridgeshire will affect several roads in the area. Two important criteria used to determine which roads need gritting have been removed – bus routes and schools. As a consequence, Coleridge, Birdwood and Radegund Roads will not be gritted, along with many other roads around Cambridgeshire. […]

Your LibDem team have been going door-to-door to find out how you feel about local issues here in Romsey. See the preliminary results here …

The City Council has just opened a consultation on the corner of Mill Road and Cavendish Road. The proposals include new raised beds, new cycle racks, benches from reclaimed wood, and a specially commissioned piece of art created by Romsey-based artist Harry Gray (who recently created the new “Poppy Gates” for Twickenham Rugby Stadium). The […]

A message from Richard Wood, Mill Road News Distribution Co-ordinator, Mill Road Bridges Committee The independent Mill Road News is needing to find more volunteer distributors, for side streets in Romsey and Petersfield. This involves taking on a ‘round’ of one or two streets and sliding the Mill Road News through letterboxes. Your bundle of […]

Wednesday 9th November, a talk by Jo Costin on the Cambridge Kitcheners. In the opening months of the First World War 1,500 men from Cambridgeshire came forward to serve their country as a battalion in Kitchener’s New Army, many from the Mill Road area. Whether farm labourers, shop assistants, bricklayers, chauffeurs, university scholars or college porters, […]

… and that includes Romsey! THE LATEST funding round, offering grants of up to £15,000 for small-scale public art projects, has been launched by Cambridge City Council. Based on a particular type of S106 developer contributions, this grant funding is aimed at local organisations, working with professional artists and crafts people. It could help to […]