Recent Updates

Explorer Trail Competition !

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Want to design a trail to show the best parts of Comberton, Barton, Toft and Hardwick?

Do you want to show the best historic parts or maybe the funkiest modern details of our village?  Maybe you want people to learn about the fauna or the animals that we have resident nearby. Whatever excites you, or makes you proud of our villages, we want you to share these details with those around us. We are looking to create fantastic walks, trails, and routes around the villages that are informative, fun and help our residents enjoy the beautiful countryside that we live within.

We currently have one wonderful historic trail, the ‘Comberton Jubilee Walk’, and we would like to complement and expand by having a set of ‘Explorer trails’ so that people of all ages, different interests and diverse walks of life, will be inspired to enjoy being outside in a safe and healthy manner in Comberton and the surrounding villages.

All entries have to be submitted to Comberton Parish Council by the 15th December 2020. They will be considered by the Parish Council and the three winning entries will then be put into action in 2021, both virtually on our website and with appropriate wayfinding around the village.

see the attached Explorer Trail Competition for more details …

Stay safe with your email and website logins !

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Comberton takes your security seriously
and we’d like to provide you with some tips to protect your online security.

Top tips for password safety:

  1. Use a different but memorable password for each website that you use like: 
      1. Fred.Bl0ggs-AMAZ
      2. Fred.Bl0ggs!EBAY
      3. Fred.Bl0gs!FACE
      4. Fred-Bl0gs!NATWESTwhere a letter O  is a number 0, and preferably you have an all capitals sequence and some punctuation marks (!,-) in your passwords.
  2. Keep your password very secret
    (although you should pass them on to your family in a secure sealed envelope in case of an accident or severe illness)
  3. Ensure any password is at least 8 characters in length and uses at least one capital letter and one number,
    and if they allow it intersperse punctuation marks like – and !
  4. Every legitimate website (banks, shopping, social media ) will never ask you to share your password with them
    even in an email or text message which might ap[pear from a friend, family, colleague or the organisation.!!!

If you have used the same password that you use on any account on any other sites or may have shared your password with someone else, we recommend that you change your password, to stay safe.

You can normally do this on your account settings page.

Top tips for email safety:

  • Normally safe sites will never ask you to respond to any email with personal data such as your bank details, date of birth or phone number
    .
  • From time to time safe sites may ask you to check or update your address details. They would do this by directing you to their main website (like www.morrisons.com or www.tsb.co.uk or www.diy.com or…)   and ask you to log on to update your details.TYPE THE ADDRESS IN YOUR WEB BROWSER – don’t click on a link since the hackers might have hidden their hacking site underneath what appears to be a ‘real’ link !

With most email service providers you can inform them when you receive a spam email through a ‘mark this as spam’ button. Doing this when you receive a spam email helps to track spam email senders and stop them getting into your inbox the next time.