Aircraft graduates are flying high
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), celebrated the graduation of their aircraft engineer apprentices at an event at Monarch Aircraft Engineering’s Training Academy at London Luton Airport last...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: Smart and gritty Elysium is a mission with a message
The near future wants a word with you. In the year 2154, the wealthy will have mostly left earth to live in complete luxury on a man-made super space station while the rest of the population starve on...
View ArticleProtest highlights hospital ward threat
A Luton protest group has joined forces with a hospital campaign in a bid to save a children’s ward.Luton People’s Assembly will be taking to the streets on Saturday in a bid to show how far sick...
View ArticleAlan Dee: If you want to know the time, why do you need Tim?
You’ll have doubtless heard the huffing and puffing about the Ministry of Defence running up a £40,000 bill because staff kept dialling the speaking clock.Admittedly it may have been harder to make out...
View ArticleThree arrests as firearms seized in raids
Three people were arrested and 16 firearms found during searches in Luton and Dunstable on Thursday. A 52-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of bringing an imitation firearm into the UK after a...
View ArticleWhipsnade weigh-in for all animals
All of Whipsnade Zoo’s 2,500 residents were measured at their annual weigh-in yesterday (August 27).Data is monitored from all 200 species – from Asian elephants to Egyptian tortoises – allowing...
View ArticleParents’ fury as school sends out wrong results
Devastated students discovered they had been given the wrong GCSE results due to a “technical error” at Lea Manor High School on Thursday.The Northwell Drive school sent letters out on Friday informing...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s movie preview: Pain And Gain or gore galore are your options if...
One thing’s for sure in the never-ending merry-go-round that is Tinseltown – phone Mark Wahlberg’s people about a part and the answer is likely to be yes. Phone Dwayne Johnson’s people about a part...
View ArticleWhipsnade weigh-in for thousands
All of Whipsnade Zoo’s 2,500 animal residents were present and correct for their annual weigh-in this week.All 200 species – from tiny Egyptian tortoises to giant giraffes and Asian elephants – had...
View ArticleCheryl’s top 25
Cheryl Smart has seen the Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce change from an old boys’ network in her 25 years at the helm.When she joined the Kimpton Road, Luton-based organisation in 1988 female staff...
View ArticleBusway will be no help to those using hospital
This week the No.24 bus serving Luton and Dunstable Hospital, ceases to run after 7pm. The route is no longer commercially viable and Luton Borough Council has withdrawn its subsidy.On September 25...
View ArticleBedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, speaks ahead of vote for military action...
To stand back against Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons would “look extremely bad on our generation”, says South West Beds MP, Andrew Selous.Military action will be debated by MPs today in a...
View ArticleMid Bedfordshire MP, Nadine Dorries, says she won’t “vote in haste” ahead of...
Mid Beds MP Nadine Dorries has confirmed she will not vote in the Syria debate until further facts are known by the government.Announcing her views ahead of the House of Commons preliminary motion that...
View ArticleTaxi driver robbed by man with “deep sunken eyes”
A taxi driver was thretened with a knife during a robbery in Kelvin Close yesterday.The driver, 33, had picked up a passenger who is described as a black man with “deep sunken eyes” and a “protruding...
View ArticleDecision time looms for plan to build 5,150 home estate
The principle of building 5,150 homes north of Houghton Regis is due to be decided at a meeting on Wednesday afternoon (Sept 4).Councillors at a special gathering of Central Bedfordshire Council’s...
View ArticleTablets will help police get mobile, says Commissioner
Bedfordshire Police will invest in new mobile devices in a bid to increase productivity and the time officers can spend on the front line, it has been revealed.Police and Crime Commissioner Olly...
View ArticleA fast ticket to ride to economic growth?
Three bus companies will be offering four new routes and single ticketing on the £91million Luton Dunstable Busway.Together the Arriva, Centrebus and Grant Palmer GPS-tracked services will provide a...
View ArticleLecturer from Syria says Britain should intervene in his country
A University of Bedfordshire lecturer from Syria believes Britain should intervene in the country. Dr Abdulmaten Taroun, a Senior Lecturer in Business Systems, said intervention is essential if Britain...
View ArticleGarage owners in battle with council
Owners of a Luton garage are furious with the council after being evicted from their premises to make room for the new inner ring road. A Team Vehicle Services relocated from Midland Road to Flowers...
View ArticleUni hits back after low offers slated
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire has defended offers made to students with as little as two E-grades at A-level to study highly academic courses. An undercover reporter from The...
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