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Motor Vehicle students from Milton Keynes College are set to benefit from a very special donation from Vauxhall Motors in partnership with the Business in the Community organisation. The donation sees the College’s Motor Vehicles department receive a full working Vauxhall Vivaro van from the motor production giant, which is based nearby in Luton. The Vivaro, which will be located at the College’s workshop environment at Bletchley campus, is one of a number of vehicles that the company uses for testing purposes. Once those tests had been completed, the vehicle then became available for donation for educational purposes via Business..

After a thorough and structured search for a new MK Dons manager, chairman Pete Winkelman finally has his man in the form of 36-year-old Robbie Neilson. Winkelman and his board spent just under six weeks whittling through the hundreds of applications, searching for the man to take the reins at Stadium MK and then, last Friday, it was Heart of Midlothian boss Neilson that was unveiled as the man take the Club forward, alongside his assistant Stevie Crawford. The chairman couldn’t be happier. “We aren’t just any old Football Club and I’m pleased we did it the way we did..

Established in 1966 by Kenneth Newton Wright, the parent of a disabled child, MacIntyre has grown to become a leading national charity, highly respected and committed to setting standards and increasing choice. MacIntyre provides learning, support and care for more than 1,200 children, young people and adults with learning disabilities, at more than 150 MacIntyre services across England and Wales. Its diverse range of services includes registered care homes, supported living, outreach, accredited training schemes and lifelong learning services, as well as a residential special school and further education provision. The MacIntyre Community Memory Café ran its first session in..

Preparation time:10 minutes Cooking time:15 minutes Total time:25 minutes Serves: 2 Ingredients 40g Président Unsalted Butter, plus extra for greasing 2 large white potatoes, peeled and cubed 75g frozen peas 4 sprigs fresh lemon thyme 1 small clove garlic, crushed 2 sea bream fillets 2 slices lemon 2 leeks, very thinly sliced Method 1. Preheat the oven to 220ºC, gas mark 7. Lightly butter a small ovenproof dish. Cook the potatoes in a large pan of boiling water for 10 minutes until almost tender. Add the peas to the potatoes and cook for 2-3 minutes until both are tender. Drain..

Milton Keynes City Orchestra (MKCO) will launch its MK50 Celebration concert series on Friday 6th January 2017 at The Venue MK, 7:30pm. This will be the first of seven MK50 Celebration concerts from MKCO in 2017, all featuring internationally renowned soloists under the baton of world-class Music Director, Damian Iorio. In January, leading Russian violinist Anna Liisa Bezrodny, will return to MKCO and perform the marvellous Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 written by the composer when he was just nineteen years old. The Orchestra will open the concert with the Beethoven Egmont Overture and the finale will be Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.3..

Parents with restless kids to entertain on cold and wet January weekends will be thankful for Gulliver's Land's January offer - the theme park's Splash and NERF Zones and The SFEAR are offering half price tickets all month long! To mark the 50th birthday of Milton Keynes - and as the perfect antidote to the post-Christmas blues - tickets to the indoor attractions are discounted by 50% during January. The three indoor attractions in Milton Keynes are open at weekends all year round, even when the main theme park is closed. The Splash Zone is a water play centre with..

Duke of Edinburgh Students at Slated Row School in Wolverton are going the extra mile for their Volunteering  strand by running a Meals on Wheels project for members of the local community. Each week, pupils cook and deliver hot meals to a group of elderly residents living near the Special Needs School. “More usually, it is our students who the beneficiaries of volunteer projects so this is a wonderful opportunity for them to make a valuable contribution to the local community” says Sarah Garratt, D of E manager at the school. As well as using their lunch break to deliver..

Cawleys, a local Luton-based waste management company, has recently become a sponsor of Olney RFC, through providing a waste management service for the club. Olney RFC is one of the leading community rugby clubs in Buckinghamshire, and one of the oldest; fielding teams since 1877. The club runs three senior sides plus ladies, colts, vets, girls, mini and junior rugby. With over 1,000 members, including over 450 mini and junior players, the club’s site generates waste from its popular bar area and weekly post-match lunches, and is keen to have the best environmental credentials. With Cawleys help it will be..

One of the ‘trends’ I am noticing with restaurants is towards really small sites opening up. These places, which can take a maximum of 20 people, are more intimate for customers and are much less unwieldy for owners and chefs to run. They require less staff and often feel more like eating in someone’s front room, rather than in a restaurant. I think one of the forerunners of this kind of restaurant was ‘Marianne’ in London, which was opened by Masterchef The Professionals runner-up Marianne Lumb three years ago. Within my patch of Beds, Herts and Bucks, Crockers in Potten..

MK50 Anniversary Exhibition - A New City comes to Life The year-long MK50 celebrations kick off with a major free exhibition in January 2017 that tells the exciting story of the UK’s most successful new city and showcases everything Milton Keynes. From dinosaur bones to driverless cars; from Stone Age nomads to the digital generation; from farms, sleepy villages and Victorian railway towns to a vibrant regional economic and cultural powerhouse of 260,000 people, and it is still growing. Follow the information and data trail and learn how Milton Keynes was born and built. What was here before, what is..

December delivered the 28th edition of Wolverton Lantern Festival, MK’s longest established lantern parade. Boasting giant lantern creations of a spaceman from Wyvern First School, an Egyptian Sarcophagus from Bushfield Middle School,  paraffin lit ‘Great Fire of London’ lantern flats by the children of Greenley’s First School, as well as hundreds of ‘horrible history themed’ lanterns created by visitors. Stony Stratford volunteers brought a huge Spike the Dragon lantern to the parade, after learning how to make the giant willow creations in Wolverton’s ‘train to build’ workshops.  Concrete Circus youth troupe wowed the crowds with stilt-walking knights and unicycling princesses, whilst Black..

It’s one of the glitziest awards of the year in the restaurant industry, the British Curry Awards, and Maaya Indian Kitchen & Bar proudly represented Milton Keynes at the internationally celebrated event. Broadcast live in over 200 countries, the event, held at the glamourous Battersea Evolution, was attended by over 1,600 restauranteurs and guests including, The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, Chef Heston Bulmenthal, Dancing on Ice star Frankie Poultney and Arsenal legend David Seaman. Compered by comedian Alistair McGowan, guests were also greeted by a video message from the Prime Minister, Theresa May. Maaya, which opened earlier this year..

CityFibre and its Milton Keynes launch partner dbfb has today announced that the first businesses are now connected to the Gigabit City networks and receiving some of the fastest internet services available. The partnership between CityFibre and dbfb has created a powerful alternative digital infrastructure for the city which can help businesses compete on a global scale. CityFibre launched the network and the state-of-the-art services with dbfb in early July, and the first of the city’s businesses are already enjoying internet speeds up to 100 times faster than the UK average with download and upload speeds of up to 1..

City Stay Apartments are delighted to announce their success at the prestigious 2016 ASAP Industry Awards, which were held at the Museum of London on 30th November. The glittering evening saw the executive serviced apartment provider take home the Serviced Apartment Business of the Year Award. City Stay Apartments were also recognised as a finalist for the Serviced Apartment Guest Experience Award. City Stay Apartments Managing Director, Mark Philips comments, “On behalf of the City Stay Apartments team, I would like to thank the ASAP for a fantastic evening. It truly was a night to remember! I’m so proud to..

Milton Keynes, UK – As small business owners in the UK prepare to commence their employee pension auto-enrolment schemes, one firm has the endorsement of a very British group of individuals: the country’s Federation of Fish Friers. Carey Corporate Pensions Ltd, based in Milton Keynes, is thrilled and honoured to be the pensions provider that the chippies trust most. Since 1913, the Federation of Fish Friers has provided training, quality control and camaraderie to the best chip shops across the United Kingdom, and they don’t stand for poor service. Choosing an official pensions provider meant that they had to find..