Meldreth-Melbourn A10 Underpass

Spring Clean & Artistic Magic on the Way!

Thank you so much to the 375 people who responded to the consultation on the A10 underpass that many of you use on a regular basis for walking to and from Meldreth to Melbourn. This was a fantastic response and we’re especially grateful to all those Melbourn Village College students who took a moment out of their morning commute to let us know their thoughts about how to improve an increasingly forlorn and neglected space.

The key results from the survey are as follows:

 59% of respondents were from Melbourn and 25% were from Meldreth

 36% of respondents would avoid using the underpass in the evening and 69% of respondents would avoid using the underpass at night

 62% feel the underpass is not well enough lit at dusk and 81% feel it is not well enough lit at night

 49% of respondents would like new artwork in the underpass, designed by the community

 38% would like the vegetation to be trimmed and kept neat. Change is now on the way and over the course of the next few months you will notice more light, a comprehensive spring clean and new art murals fit for 2023! All based on thoughts and ideas from the consultation response.

Lots of you said that you’d like to help out in future on a voluntary basis, to help keep this space smart and tidy – a bit like Meldreth Station where the platforms are kept clean and cheery thanks to Meldreth Station gardeners.

If you provided your contact details with your consultation response, we’ll be in touch directly – or please let us know that you’d like to be involved. Thanks again!

Sarah Grove, Susan van de Ven, Sally Ann Hart, Jose Hales and the Underpass Partnership Team

Little Hands Nursery School

The Moor, Melbourn

A Private Nursery School specialising in quality care & preschool education for the under fives

High staff to child ratio, individual child centred planning & learning, Flexible booking system for the 08.00am –5.30pm nursery day. Optional holiday clubs available, dedicated baby room for children under two

We accept nursery funding giving 15 & 30 hours/week of free funded nursery for all 3 and 4 year olds & eligible 2 year olds

For further information contact Sharon Tutty,nursery manager on 01763 260964 lh-melbourn@btconnect.com

Little Hands is also at Bourn, Linton and Newton visit the website at www.littlehands.co.uk

N J Chapman

Garden Services

Handyman

Mobile: 07592 725 169

Email: nigeljchapman3@gmail.com

Keeping Online Accounts Secure

Your most important online account is your email account, because it may contain details of other online accounts and personal information, and can also be used to access your other online accounts using the 'forgot password' feature (which often sends you an email).

Personal details such as date of birth can be used by scammers to convince you that they are calling from your bank, or to try and access your bank accounts directly. For this reason, the password for your email account should be unique and strong.

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advise using three random words to create a strong password. The three words should mean something to you so that the password will be easy to remember, but should not contain any personal information e.g. children's or pets’ names, which can be found from your social media profile. To make the password even stronger, add in some numbers and/or symbols and a mix of upper and lower case letters. You could also consider enabling two-step verification (also known as two factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA) on your email account, so that even with the correct password, the account can only accessed by entering a one-time code which is sent to your mobile phone.

As much as is possible, the passwords to your other online accounts should also be unique. In order to remember all the different passwords, you can use a password manager. Browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Edge have a password manager built in.

The password to access your password manager should be unique, otherwise a criminal may gain access to all your passwords. Your password manager may be able to automatically fill in passwords when logging into accounts, making access much quicker and easier, and even warn you if a password has been compromised.

If you think you have fallen victim to a scam, report the scam to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or visit https://www.actionfraud.police.uk.

If you're not sure whether something is a scam, you can talk to one of the trusted contacts in Meldreth: Graham on (01763) 260358, Linda on (01763) 261405, Peter on (01763) 260323 or Tim on (01763) 262801.

You can contact Neighbourhood Watch by telephoning Graham on the above number, or by emailing nhw.meldreth@btinternet.com.

Meldreth Neighbourhood Watch