Burwell Village, Cambridge England

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

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.

Water & Sewerage

At all times:
0800 145145
Bill enquiries:
0800 919155

Electricity

At all times:
01223 440221
Supply problems:
0800 783838

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

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

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

Events

Events Calendar
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Action

• 12 Stops - Fund Raising Page For Little Miracles

• Aura Power, a renewable energy developer, is looking to develop a battery-based energy storage system (BESS) on land at Weirs Drove, Burwell

• View PDF File
• Proposed Battery Storage Facility - Parish Council Questions and Answers
• More information on RADE Web Site

Local Business

Area Photos

Village News

Proposed Plan for 350 New Homes (Newmarket Road) (PDF)

Newmarket Journal Cambridge Independent Cambs. Evening News

BBC News - Cambridgeshire

Huntingdon retirement flats evacuated after blaze
Police help evacuate 32 residents from their flats after a fire broke out in the top floor.

Abandoned seal pup rescued from Cambridgeshire river bank
The pup, only weeks old, had been abandoned and would have certainly died, rescuers say.

King's College racism row: Students support academic
Porters at King's College in Cambridge are accused of "hassling" non-white staff and students.

Cambourne child rapist jailed for crimes against girl
Police say the victim was 10 years old when the abuse started.

Rikki Neave death: No charges over schoolboy murder
Prosecutors say there is "insufficient evidence" to charge a man over the death of Rikki Neave, six.

Cambridge Museum of Zoology reopens after £4m facelift
Sir David Attenborough says the museum featuring Charles Darwin finds is "of the highest importance".

Mary Beard on big thinkers and 'sexist rants'
What's it like to be a public intellectual in age of echo chamber social media and fake news?

Oliver Cromwell's 'rare' funeral banner sells for £16k
It is one of only four survivors out of more than 2,000 banners used at the Lord Protector's funeral.

Addenbrooke's 'silly' cancer nurse Debbie Bye found after appeal
Liz Brown finds nurse Debbie Bye, who helped to make the 14-year-old girl's cancer "less painful".

Godwit birds released after WWT spring flood rescue
There are fewer than 50 breeding pairs of the endangered birds left in the UK.

Siriki Dembele: Peterborough sign Grimsby's promising forward
League One Peterborough United sign Grimsby Town forward Siriki Dembele on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.