Public Utilities
Gas
To report a gas or carbon monoxide emergency, or if a pipeline is struck (even if no gas leak has occurred) call the National Gas Emergency Service 24 hours a day on 0800 111 999 (calls are recorded and may be monitored).
0800 111999
0800 111999
General Recycling
Fortnightly service for newspapers, tins and bottles collected from roadside. For information:
01353 863864
Milton Recycling Centre, Butts Lane, Milton:
01223 860674
Bins for bottles (glass and plastic), cans, paper & clothes at Burwell: Village College & Ex-service Club Bins for plastic bottles at Tan House Lane Garden / vegetable / wood waste: Burwell Allotments Shredder Plastics / clothes / bottles: Tesco Supermarkets.
01353 863864
Milton Recycling Centre, Butts Lane, Milton:
01223 860674
Bins for bottles (glass and plastic), cans, paper & clothes at Burwell: Village College & Ex-service Club Bins for plastic bottles at Tan House Lane Garden / vegetable / wood waste: Burwell Allotments Shredder Plastics / clothes / bottles: Tesco Supermarkets.
Water & Sewerage
Electricity
Energy Conservation
Insulate your home to save money and reduce CO2 emmisions. Arrange a no obligation survey of your home.
Contact: HEAT Cambridgeshire Scheme:
08000930450
ECDC Energy Conservation Officer:
01353 616251
08000930450
ECDC Energy Conservation Officer:
01353 616251
Power cut?
Working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to keep your lights on but sometimes faults occur.
0800 3163105 (From Landline)
03333232105 (From Mobile)
Web
Text POWER and your postcode to 80876
0800 3163105 (From Landline)
03333232105 (From Mobile)
Web
Text POWER and your postcode to 80876
Refuse / Recycling
Check Dates by Postcode/Address
Normal weekly collection on Thursdays or Fridays Large articles can be collected free of charge (not bathroom or kitchen fittings):
01353863864
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Youth council begins garden work for communityDaniel, 12, says "it is a nice place" for people to "relax", see, "hear and smell".
Why are people flocking to our urban peregrines?Thousands of people are visiting watchpoints across the East to enjoy the flourishing falcon.
Cheese survives heatwave during rolling festivalFor the first time in 40 years, real cheese is used – and it holds up despite the soaring heat.
Rare 1934 Streamline car sells for £62,000Only two 1934 Crossley Streamlines are believed to exist, says an auctioneer.
When will struggling hospital actually be rebuilt?Building a new car park on the Raac-afflicted site is the next step in the process.
Stilton rolling festival to try real cheeseA quirky tradition returns with competitors rolling at least one round of real Stilton cheese.
Beatings, Bible and Latin: Life as a 17th Century grammar schoolboyBoys who had not learned their lessons were regularly hit with birch twigs, says a historian.
City's living costs drive workers to food banks It is so expensive to live in Cambridge a charity says people with jobs need subsidised food.
East of England news quiz of the week From excited football fans to AI satellite tracking, how many questions can you get right?
£36m-a-year waste deal a mess, says council leaderA council contract lasts another 10 years and it is paying an extra £100,000 a week on top of it.
The leaders now running Cambridgeshire's councilsTwo weeks after the local elections, councils across Cambridgeshire have been holding their annual meetings.