Milton Keynes top stories has many diffrent articles and news regarding current and past events happening in the local milton keynes area and middleton hall events at the milton keynes centre.
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A campaign to highlight the poor quality of newly built UK homes has been launched by House Beautiful magazine. "20% of new homes built in the UK in the last five years were of such bad quality"
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Eleven projects across the Milton Keynes area have been offered funding totalling £652,911 from the Landfill Communities Fund of Waste Recycling Group Ltd, distributed by Environmental Body WREN. |
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Am I the only one who is sick of having nowhere good to go for a night out? I don't think so. It seems, like many I have spoken to, are very disappointed in the lack of choice when it comes to going out somewhere in Milton Keynes for a drink and general good time.
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We're all familiar with the two things that Milton Keynes is well known (and generally mocked) for. The 400 million (estimation) roundabouts, and the Concrete Cows. I put it to you that we get rid of them...
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Channel Four TV today broadcast a short programme looking for the heart of Milton Keynes. The programme featured publishers of the Misguide to British towns series. The team were taken, at night, blindfolded to where Milton Keynes city met the countryside. The object was to test their methods for finding places when lost. Their target, when they left the taxi, was to find the heart of the city. One of them noted that Milton Keynes was not a British landscape. The last scene showed them wandering under cocncrete walkways, still looking for the city’s heart. Please tell us where you think it is. |
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A female motorist stopped to check out a binge bag of baby rabbits at Wavendon, on the Cranfield Road. She saw two men in camouflage jackets and took pictures of a mysterious Range Rover, which was traced, to Donaldson'’ gun smiths in Fenny Stratford. Armed response officers visited the crime scene. Gunsmith Colin Donaldson admitted he had been out shooting foxes for farmers in the area. He said he wouldn’t shoot rabbits and waste the meat by leaving it on the road. |
 In an a age when one fifth of council tax goes to pay council officers pensions and even more on inflated staff salaries, some might be cross to learn of the latest council tax rise. Labour’s Kevin Wilson said it would be irresponsible to vote down last Tuesday’s Liberal budget. Cllr Wilson said that the council was wasting millions and ignoring the city’s most deprived people.
MK council has made a particular mess of the school build budget, wasting thousands of hard-earned taxpayer’s money. Tory Andrew Geary said that the budget did nothing to control council costs, which were rising out of control while important services were being cut.
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.jpg) Milton Keynes North East MP Mark Lancaster told Citizen readers this week just how concerned he is with binge drinking, affecting all ages in our city streets. He called for more responsible retailing. That’s what they did in the US prohibition years, banning it from the retail trade all together. The result was bootlegging and dangerous liqueur. |
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An inquiry report by Richard Penn has crticised the way Milton Keynes Council has managed the school building programme. It said that managers could have been more active and taken appropriate action. The crisis came to a head over dangerous and sub standard work at Giles Brook Primary School and delays to building projects at Oakgrove and Hazeley secondary schools. To some of us these problems may have a good deal more to do with the rush to expand the city, and the dubious way that the building industry sometimes responds to pressure of demand- we saw that big time when scaffolding collapsed at the site of a new city centre hotel.
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Ignore the spin, Milton Keynes Hospital is a dirty place and can’t cope with demands placed upon it by the ever expanding city. Meanwhile Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust is spending £12.1 million yearly on the privately run Blakelands Treatment Centre.
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A group of Asian men attacked a 42-year-old man who was walking his dog past the Territorial Army Centre in Buckingham Road, Bletchley. The five men were aged between 18 and 20. The victim was badly hurt with cuts to his back, stomach and chest. There is no obvious motive for the attack and it is not being treated as racially motivated.
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Woodhill Prison officer Adam Seamark, 25, admitted to Reading Crown Court that he had smuggled drugs and steroids into the jail for prisoners use. The judge Christopher Tryer told Seamark that he would now become a prisoner himself.
Mr Seamark, who was arrested last December, will be sentenced at Aylesbury Crown Court on April 2nd.
Woodhill is the notorious prison, allegedly having a special cage for prisoners like Charles Bronson, and hit the news over allegations that an MP’s conversations with a prisoner were bugged.
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 A gang of three knife carrying black men has carried out a series of street robberies in Milton Keynes, between the hours of 6 and 8pm. On Thursday February 14, at 6pm, a man was mugged while walking through the Fishermead underpass into Springfield. The knife was wielded and £65 was stolen.
Two hours later a couple walking through the underpass between Avebury Boulevard and Secklow Gate were attacked and the woman lost her handbag and a DVD.
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There was outrage in Aylesbury yesterday as BNP leader Nick Griffin was booked to speak. Local MP David Liddington said that most people would see through Griffin’s lies. However, the BNP website is the most visited political website in Britain and this has caused concern.
Cambridge educated Nick, told the Bucks Herald that his party’s membership is growing in Aylesbury and that the party was planning to stand in elections there next year. David Liddington said that the BNP latch on to subjects like housing, poverty and community relations. Maybe they do, but there are real problems and mainstream parties are opening the door to the BNP by largely ignoring these problems or trying to spin them out of existence.
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In May 2007 Gordon Brown announced plans for a series of eco towns as part of his government’s strategy to house the immigration driven rise in population. Greenway Land LLP had previously submitted plans to build on what they call a disused airfield. This description has outraged protestors from neighbouring Little Horwood. Opposition is less evident in Great Horwood where some of those associated with Greenway are believed to live stand to benefit. Secrecy has surrounded the identities of those associated with the project, with the company being registered off shore at its inception.
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 National Express coach driver Leslie Weinberg, 35, was found- by Milton Keynes Magistrates-to be drunk in charge of his bus when it rolled over near Newport Pagnell services, en route from the M1 to Milton Keynes Coachway.
Mr Weinberg’s blood sample level was 14mgs over the legal limit of 80mg per 100ml of blood. He has an invalid wife and has been given bail until his case is heard at Aylesbury Crown Court in March. He did not enter a plea.
The crash happened around 4pm on September 3rd last year. The vehicle was travelling at 57mph with 33 passengers were hurt- six of them seriously.
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With Milton Keynes having a Somalian population of over 4000 (mainly Sunni Muslims) and rising, it is not surprising the city already has a hint of Sharia Law operating behind the scenes.
Hussain Hassan, the Somalian Forum’s secretary played down concerns that Sharia Law is the issue. He said the Muslim Community courts, called gars, have nothing to do with what the Archbishop of Canterbury was talking about last week. |
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People need to think very carefully before paying for petrol with credit or debit cards. East European immigrants have brought, among other things, a variety of interesting new crimes to Britain. Cloning credit and debit cards is just one of them.
Steve Smith of Newport Panel was surprised to find nearly £1000 had been stolen from his account. . Steve’s bank refunded the money and issued a new card, only to have another £1000 was stolen. The bogus transactions had been via ATMs machines in Eastern Europe.
Police linked this case to 16 others and a now closed Shell station in Newport Pagnell. A BP garage in Tickford Street has also come under suspicion. Cash rich BP’s spokesman said that there was no evidence to implicate the Tickford St garage.
East European workers are a popular choice of employee for petrol station giants because they will work the long hours required at low wages. A police source told us that this is by no means a local problem and people should be on their guard.
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by R J Cook
Our much-praised economy is based on the natural instinct of greed. Banking makes up a third of its activities, and with related commercial services, it accounts for nearly half of all economic activity. We have little indigenous manufacturing industry left and the Tories wiped out mining and heavy industry years ago. The only other part of our economy of much interest is the world of entertainment
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Milton Keynes hospital has struggled to cope with demands for its services, ever since it opened in 1977. Now it is struggling to cope with demands from pregnant immigrants. The hospital’s maternity unit struggled to defend itself over allegations that its poor care caused the death of baby Ronny Feast. The baby’s mother described the hospital’s maternity unit as shambolic.
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