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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...
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

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...
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...
Charity In Milton Keynes

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
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Local Man Raises Funds For Milton Keynes Hospital's Macmillan Unit

The Macmillan Unit at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is set to receive a cash boost of £520 thanks to the efforts of local man Mr Ronald Ramswell. Ronald with the help of son Raymond Ramswell and Sharon Shachar raised the funds for the Macmillan Unit in memory of his wife...
Milton Keynes Hospital

 

Bedfordia Goes Shopping

Milton Keynes Local News - Ladies Shopping at House of FraserElms Bedford BMW came to Milton Keynes this week and laid on a Personal Shopping Evening for some of their female clients courtesy of Image Consultant Elaine Boddy of Green and Brown.
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National Learner Panel

Milton Keynes Local News - Peter Kent Luke Arnold and Mark LewisA trainee chef from Milton Keynes College has been shortlisted from 3,000 students nationwide to be part of a panel that advises the Government on changes to further education. Luke Arnold of Great Linford aims to be a member of the National Learner Panel which gives a voice to students...
Milton Keynes College

Easycopiers Sign Three-Year Deal To Sponsor The Milton Keynes Dragon Boat Festival

Gable Events are extremely proud to announce that easycopiers have signed up as title sponsor of the Milton Keynes Dragon Boat Festival for the next three years! This eagerly anticipated annual event has built up a major following in the city and surrounding area and it is now the largest one-day charity dragon boat event in the country...
Milton Keynes Dragon Boat Festival

MK Metro Offers Students Free Travel For Work Experience

MK Metro is investing in excess of £50k to support local young people to travel around Milton Keynes, free of charge to get to/from their work experience placements. This unique initiative organised through the city's Work Based Learning providers Countec EBP...
The Education Business Partnership For Milton Keynes

The Living Room To Support Young, Homeless People Of Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes Local News - The Ark CharityThe Ark, a charity helping homeless and vulnerable young people in Milton Keynes, is to be the beneficiary of The Living Room's Christmas fundraising, Street Smart campaign. A discretionary donation of £1 will be added to every bill raised at The Living Room between now and 31st December...
Charity In Milton Keynes

MK NEWS Scoops Top Newspaper Award

MK News has been named the best free weekly newspaper in the country. MK News picked up the award at the Newspaper Society Awards last week. The awards are a showcase for the outstanding work performed by the weekly local press. To read more please visit The MK News Website - MK NEWS Scoops Top Newspaper Award

City Basketball Club Has Nowhere To Go

The fate of professional basketball in Milton Keynes will be decided in March. The current economic climate has really effected the business plan for the stadium:mk and MK Lions proposed new home at the neighbouring arena:mk is yet to be finished. The Lions' current home at Bletchley Leisure Centre is due to be demolished next year. To read more visit
The MK News Website - City basketball club has nowhere to go

Archaeology In The Library Is A Real Find

Experts at the British Museum are being called in to find out about a medieval silver gilt mount bought in by a member of the public to a recent Archaeology Day at Milton Keynes Central Library. Find out more

Milton Keynes Hospital Is Prepared For The Highly Contagious Norovirus

This is not a healthcare associated infection, but one that spreads very quickly in areas where people are present in large numbers - this can be anywhere from the local supermarket to a healthcare setting...
Milton Keynes Hospital

Milton Keynes Theatre and John Lewis - A Winning Combination

Milton Keynes Theatre are cutting a real dash, bringing glamour and style off centre stage with the help of John Lewis Fashion Advisors Hannah MacPhail and Theresa Martin who have helped the front of house team to select chic new uniforms...
Christmas In Milton Keynes

Bletchley Park Trust Launches Limited Edition Commemorative Prints As Part Of Its Regeneration Fundraising

As part of its fundraising initiative to regenerate Bletchley Park, the Bletchley Park Trust is making available a collection of limited edition, fine art prints signed by five of the original World War 2 Codebreakers...
Bletchley Park

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

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

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...
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