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The Aqua Parcs Easter Bunny puts smiles on patient and staff faces on the Children’s Ward at the Milton Keynes Hospital. To celebrate their return to Milton Keynes this summer and to spread some much-needed Easter joy, the Aqua Parcs team, along with the Easter bunny of course, headed to the Milton Keynes Hospital last week to hand out 75 Easter eggs to both patients and staff on the hospitals' Children’s Ward. Entrepreneur and one of the brains behind Aqua Parcs MK, Kieron Murty said, “Spring is one of my favourite times of the year and I thought it was..

Taking place on Saturday 13th July at Willen Lake, the Legion is calling on friends and family members to accept the muddy mission and work together to walk, jog and crawl round its two-mile course packed with muddy obstacles. Kicking off at 10.00am on the day, the Mission Mud recruits will take on mud slides and mud pits with music, food and exciting activities waiting at the finish line. Claire Rowcliffe, Director of Fundraising at The Royal British Legion, comments: “This is our second Mission Mud event in Milton Keynes and we challenge families across the region to step up..

The hunt will be on at Milton Keynes Museum this Easter, as youngsters search for hidden eggs which lead the way to yummy chocolate rewards! The museum's egg hunt, a modern twist on the traditional search, is an egg-cellent way to celebrate the festive period – and ensures everyone wins something. It's good traditional family fun suitable for little chicks and older bunnies alike! The egg hunt will run 11am daily from Good Friday to Easter Monday (April 19-22), but the Easter weekend is also choc-full of hands-on interaction too. There will be drop in sessions for little folks to..

A coffee-ground-breaking initiative is being launched at intu Milton Keynes this week that will see coffee shop waste turned into compost. Green-fingered gardeners are in luck as the centre starts offering free bags of coffee ‘waste’ for use as a natural garden fertiliser. From this week, shoppers will be able to pick up bags of used coffee grounds from the Coffee Cart on the mall and take them home to boost plant growth in their garden. intu Milton Keynes has introduced the initiative as part of its ongoing commitment to recycling within the centre and reducing its carbon footprint. Coffee..

The Parks Trust, the self-financing charity that looks after over 6,000 acres of green space across Milton Keynes, has launched its 2019 Photography Competition, for all keen amateur photographers. The competition is open to people of all ages, with youth and adult sections for each of the two categories; Wildlife and Landscape. The Parks Trust’s 2019 competition aims to highlight the beautiful and diverse landscapes, features and people of Milton Keynes. Images must be taken in the green space that is managed and maintained by The Parks Trust. The competition closes on Thursday 5th September 2019. The winners will be announced..

Amy, the robot who has become a Milton Keynes sensation for waitressing at MK Central Library’s Robot Café this year, has officially launched a passport initiative to get people visiting the city’s libraries and cultural venues this April! Through Pedalling Culture, the Arts Council England funded initiative created to encourage people to explore the city sustainably whether on foot, bike or electric car, while visiting cultural venues, the Cultural Passport is a simple campaign that anyone can participate in. Plus – there is a host of prizes to be won including £100 intu voucher! Simply pick up a Cultural Passport..

Willen Hospice is calling on Tesco shoppers to support its involvement in the ‘Bags of Help’ community grant scheme, running across stores until the end of April 2019. The Hospice applied for the funding to provide transport for its patients to and from the Wellbeing Centre each week. Tesco customers now have the opportunity to vote for Willen Hospice to receive funding, by placing a blue token into the voting box each time they shop. Bags of Help is run in partnership with the environmental charity Groundwork, and sees grants awarded to thousands of local community projects every year. Sarah..

Milton Keynes Theatre have announced that stage, screen, comedy and pantomime legend, the one-and-only Joe Pasquale and West End and television leading man Lee Mead will star in this year’s magical carpet ride pantomime adventure, Aladdin, from Saturday 7 December. Comedian and actor Joe Pasqualewill lead the cast in the role of Aladdin’s hapless brother, Wishee Washee. Well-known and best-loved for being one of the hardest-working and top-selling live comedians in British comedy today, Joe has been delighting audiences for more than 20 years with his live stand-up tours and infectious sense of fun. Along the way he’s voiced characters for Hollywood..

MARY BANHAM-HALL and KESHINI RAJENDRA, Heald Solicitors ABBIE: “This is about the clash between keeping vulnerable elderly people safe – and their human right to freedom isn’t it?” MARY: “Yes, because so many elderly cannot realistically be free to do what they want, as they’d be a danger to themselves. If you live in 24/7 care, described as ‘Supported Independent Living’, the reality is that many residents are or become incapable of living independently.” ABBIE: “I expect many have Dementia and can’t go out alone. Some need cot sides on their beds to stop them falling out of bed and..

Milton Keynes Residents Invited to Participate and Examine Findings The Parks Trust, the self-financing charity which looks after over 6,000 acres of green space across Milton Keynes, is holding an archaeology dig at historical site Great Linford Manor Park. The dig is being held between Monday 8th and Saturday 13th April 2019, with seven trenches being dug in front of the Manor House, near the ponds and in the Wilderness garden. Great Linford Manor Park has received funding from The National Lottery, jointly awarded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund, to Reveal, Revive and Restore this..

CityFibre puts gigabit-speed connectivity within reach of thousands of MK homes  Over 20,000 homes across Milton Keynes are now able to access full fibre broadband – one year on from the start of the city-wide expansion of the digital network. As part of CityFibre’s ‘fibre to the premises’ project, the network has doubled to over 350km since March 2018. Through a strategic partnership with Vodafone, CityFibre has built in Bancroft, Blue Bridge, Bradville, Great Linford, Willen, Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, and will be accelerating across the city to build to almost every home and business. CityFibre has made the build..

Willen Hospice has teamed up with Milton Keynes Rugby Football Club (MKRUFC) to launch the Men’s MK Midday Moo walk; a brand new event exclusively for men. It takes place on Saturday 22 June 2019 at 12 noon and follows a seven-mile route from the Hospice to the Rugby Club in Emerson Valley. The introduction of the Men’s Moo follows the success of the Hospice’s longstanding MK Midnight Moo, held for ladies each summer. The men’s event comes in response to requests from dads, husbands and boyfriends for a similar fundraiser. Sarah Sweet-Rowley, Associate Director of Community Development said: “Move..

It wasn’t long for pupils at Middleton School to wait before they witnessed the unforgettable sight of hatching chicks in their classroom. As part of their topic on life cycles, hatching kits were delivered to the school, which contained eggs and all the equipment needed for successful hatching and for the care of the baby birds, once free from their shells.  The 10 day ‘Incredible Eggs’ programme brought wildlife into the heart of the classroom and enabled the children to experience nature in action for themselves. Middleton School’s Headteacher Rachel Roberts said that the look of delight on each of..

Mark Lancaster, MP for Milton Keynes North, has welcomed news the Government has provided Milton Keynes Council with an extra £360,000 to help end homelessness in the city. The new investment announced by Communities Minister James Brokenshire is aimed at getting rough sleepers into safe accommodation, including night shelters and hostel spaces. This funding includes £34 million for the 83 Rough Sleeping Areas and an additional £12 million for other areas of the country as part of the government’s commitment to tackling the issue and ending homelessness. The investment, totalling £46 million, will go towards over 1,400 new emergency bed..

intu Milton Keynes is launching a new partnership with the MK Food Bank, which begins during the charity’s Big Little Give campaign that starts from Monday 25 March. The shopping centre will help raise money through ongoing initiatives throughout the year and has set an astonishing target of £42,000 and 3,000 food items. At any time, shoppers will be able to donate their spare change by spinning coins down the shoots of the vortex machine, located near the much-loved ‘Frog Clock’. Shoppers are also being encouraged to bring non-perishable food donations to the customer information desk next to Debenhams and..