The SureStart Childrens Centre in Conniburrow is now open. It is housed in a new purpose built building. The centre can offer parental and child orientated support including parental support for parents of difficult children
Sure Start, Milton Keynes

A Milton Keynes College student has put the city on the map by gaining the top score WORLDWIDE in a professional marketing qualification. Nicholas Potter has been studying as a post graduate student with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) for the last year...
Milton Keynes College

The new University Centre Milton Keynes (UCMK) has opened its doors to students for the first time. A large cohort of excited new students arrived at the city's new higher education institution, which is based right in the heart of the business district at 200 Silbury Boulevard...
The University Centre Milton Keynes

Over a hundred people tucked into samosa's and other spicy delicacies to help raise vital funds for Macmillan Cancer Support as local firm New Citi Construction hosted a coffee morning with a twist...
Citi Construction In Milton Keynes

Jan Wilmot from Toddington, near Dunstable, has signed up for a charity trek in Spain, in aid of the Sidmouth-based Donkey Sanctuary. She has just over three weeks remaining to prepare for the 57km trek along the Genal Valley in Spain which involves 17 hours of walking over three days...
Charity Trek

On Friday 19 September Dr Fran Allen, the first and only woman ever to win the Association of Computing Machinery's prestigious AM Turing Award, came face to face with Mavis Batey, accomplished World War Two codebreaker...
Bletchley Park

Say cheese! Pupils at St. Andrew's Church of England school have plenty to smile about. Having been saved from closure and undergone major refurbishment, the Victorian village school is now receiving a host of new equipment - including digital hand held video/stills cameras...
St. Andrew's Church Of England School

A historic former railway works in Wolverton, three miles outside Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, which once housed the Royal Train and the building of both locomotives and carriages for the UK's railways, is undergoing a stunning transformation into a 21st Century mixed use community...
Wolverton Park

Surjit Kaur from John Lewis in thecentre:mk has been named as the third monthly winner of thecentre:mk's customer service scheme, the Serious Service awards. Surjit chose a Coca-Cola branded table football as her prize...
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Milton Keynes has been awarded the 'Large City' trophy by the Royal Horticultural Society in the annual Thames and Chiltern regional round of the Britain in Bloom competition. Over a hundred gardeners, landscapers and foresters attended the award ceremony in Campbell Park, hosted by The Parks Trust...
The Parks Trust, Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes based charity MK SNAP is celebrating success after the recent SNAP Up a Frock event. Hosted by The Swan at Salford on Saturday 13 September, SNAP Up a Frock witnessed hundreds of bargain hunters hoping to bag designer clothes at a fraction of the high street cost. The event was the fourth SNAP up a Frock and enormous success raising £5000...
MK SNAP

Regional shopping destination, thecentre:mk is celebrating the opening of two new art exhibitions on the 16 September. Milton Keynes Contemporary - WHITEWALL is hosting an exhibition of new work by emerging artist Paul Denton...
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Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is urging members of the public to have their say on the new proposed NHS Constitution. Published earlier this summer as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the National Health Service, a proposed constitution sets out for the first time the rights and responsibilities linked to entitlement to NHS care...
Milton Keynes Hospital

The British Liver Trust is proud to be a key charity in the Big Fun Run on the 17th of October in Milton Keynes. The Trust is urging people to sign up to race and raise funds to help tackle liver disease...
Charity In Milton Keynes

Bletchley Park Trust welcomes the latest announcement by The National Museum of Computing, which is situated at Bletchley Park, of its $100,000 donation by data protection expert PGP Corporation and IBM...
Bletchley Park

Know Your Nodes! That's the message the Lymphoma Association and Leukaemia CARE are spreading ahead of World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD), an event held annually on September 15th which aims to inform the public about lymphoma; the sixth most common cancer in the UK...
World Lymphoma Awareness Day

With just over 1400 days to go until London 2012 it's never too late to get fit. The Everyday Activity Project and regional shopping destination, thecentre:mk, have joined forces to put on an 'Everyday Activity Health Walk' to encourage people back into sport...
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