MK Dons midfielder Paul Mitchell has announced his retirement from professional football. The 27-year-old has called time on his career on medical advice following a multiple leg-and-ankle-break sustained almost two years ago.
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New affordable warmth helpline launched. A new free phone helpline has been launched in Milton Keynes to give advice on cutting fuel bills. The new service that is being launched in partnership with Milton Keynes Council is designed specifically for those struggling to meet the spiralling cost of domestic fuel bills ...
Milton Keynes freephone warmth helpline launched

Newton Longville man encounters UFO while walking his dog, strange orange orb monitors incident. The time was 9.pm when the witness was walking his dogs by fields next to the railway line, fog was starting to roll in, and as he was walking he saw a number of lights in a field in front of him.
Milton Keynes UFO sighting

The Milton Keynes Theatre of Comedy is inviting local actors to attend an audition evening for an exciting new production planned for next Summer.
The company is currently working on a stage version of the popular 1970's TV hit series "Ripping Yarns" originall written by Monty Python stars Michael Palin and Terry Jones.
Milton Keynes Theatre of Comedy

Hospital Heart Specialist Urges Local People to Set Goals for a Healthy Heart in 2009 Have you thought about making your New Year resolutions yet, or are you still searching for some ideas? Why not make a resolution this year that will benefit your heart health.
Set your goals for a healthy heart in 2009

Milton Keynes Partnership and the East-West Rail Consortium have commissioned work to complete the design for the western section of the proposed Varsity Line reinstatement from Cambridge to Oxford. The GRIP 4 studies will include developing a full operating and business case and will be completed by December 2009.
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Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is moving towards more flexible, midwife-led maternity services, based around the needs of women. The provision of midwives to attend home births varies across the country, but in Milton Keynes the home birth rate is 4%, whereas the national average is 2.8%.
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Milton Keynes Hospital undertakes all precautions necessary to help contain this unpleasant stomach bug and would like to remind visitors to stay away if they have any symptoms or feel unwell.
A number of cases of the Norovirus have been identified in the community and anyone with symptoms of viral gastroenteritis, which causes sickness and diarrhoea, must not visit any part of the hospital until they have been symptom-free for 72 hours.
Norovirus information

NHS Education South Central has awarded Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £220,000 to develop clinical simulation skills training for doctors, nurses and other health professionals. The funding is set to be used to remodel part of the Post Graduate Centre and purchase state-of-the-art interactive manikins (mannequins that offer high quality realism for training purposes) and other life-like anatomical training models.
Boost for Patient Safety in Milton Keynes

Connie Fisher will return to star as 'Maria' in the National UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and The Really Useful Group's smash hit production of the legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound Of Music at Milton Keynes Theatre Tuesday 27th October - Saturday 14th November 2009.
Theatre Milton keynes

Since the start of term, the Tennis Works juniors have been busy competing in tournaments and events all across north Bucks and beyond. In the Mini Tennis events, Tennis Works have been delivering some strong results with Krishna Chintamreddy winning the Stony Stratford Mini Tennis
Tennis Milton Keynes

Over 100 young local boys have auditioned for the opportunity to take to the stage with two of the UK's most eminent performers, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the theatre event of the year... more...

Milton Keynes Theatre is celebrating the news of a £30,000 boost to get more young theatre goers through their door. The news comes from Arts Council England, as part of an announcement of successful applications to the Free Theatre Initiative, which will see 618,000 free theatre tickets given to under 26 year olds across England over the next two years in an attempt to increase young audiences. Milton Keynes Theatre