Volunteering days to create new path
Groundwork Luton and Bedfordshire is running four volunteering days in January to create a new pathway along the edge of the source of the River Lea. The days are Wednesday, 21, Thursday, 22, Saturday,...
View ArticleUniversity opens the Law Clinic
The University of Bedfordshire is launching the new Law Clinic on Thursday, January 8, It will provide free legal advice to the community in the areas of housing, consumer and employment law.The Law...
View Article‘We need to protect the elderly from their own vulnerability”
Octogenarian Janett Scott is committed to helping Luton’s elderly.As chair of Luton Senior People’s Forum she heads a committee of what she calls the council’s ‘critical friends.’“We’re not politically...
View ArticleRaising money in Leigha’s memory
Friends of Leigha Edwards, who passed away in December 2013, are holding a fundraiser at Lewsey Football Club on Saturday, January 10, in her memory.The event is to celebrate her life and raise money...
View ArticleCharity to help children create natural spaces
Groundwork has been working with Luton schools to create better working environments.The community charity with a green heart has been working with Chantry Primary Academy, Wenlock Church of England...
View ArticleMotorists advised of overnight road closures
There will be three overnight road closures as part of the M1 Junction 10a improvements scheme during January.The M1 Spur Road will be closed in both directions between J10 and J10a from 8pm till 6am...
View ArticleAir ambulance has big plans for year
East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) will be celebrating a milestone year in 2015, by marking 15 years since the charity began.EAAA will be marking the anniversary with commemorative events throughout the...
View ArticleDamning report plunges Barnfield College into crisis
Barnfield College has been told that it needs to ‘urgently’ improve after Ofsted inspectors issued grave concerns over its current performance.In a report published today the college was branded...
View ArticleCentral Beds Council: ‘We will listen to Luton’s congestion concerns’
Central Beds Council has maintained that it will listen to the concerns of Luton councillors when making a final decision on a plan for 3,200 homes near Sundon.Last week the News revealed that Luton...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVD reviews: The Giver, Think Like A Man Too, Obvious Child
Teen film fans have come to expect things to be more intense than in sci-fi adventure THE GIVER (12: Entertainment In Video).Derived from a 20-year-old teen bestseller, it’s certainly not the most...
View ArticleAcademy celebrates success
Barnfield South Academy celebrated its annual Certificate Presentation Evening on Wednesday to reward students for their GCSE and A level Achievements. Guest of honour was Helen Mayhew, former Chief...
View ArticlePolice join forces for tribute for colleagues killed in Paris massacre
Hundreds of Bedfordshire Police paid tribute to their fallen colleagues in Paris byholding a one minute’s silence at 10.30am on Thursday.The minute’s silence took place 24 hours after the tragic...
View ArticleCampaigners set for ‘justice’ protest outside Luton Police Station
Campaign groups will join forces on Sunday as they march from Bury Park to Luton Police Station to call for ‘justice’.The event has been organised in the aftermath of the Faruk Ali court case, in which...
View ArticleUPDATED: Woman and children rushed to hospital following blaze
A woman and two children have been rushed to hospital following a severe house fire.Beds Fire and Rescue Service received the call at 1.40pm this afternoon of a fire in a semi-detached house in...
View ArticleRoad closures and delays as work continues on A5 by-pass
Further work to prepare for main construction of the A5-M1 Link Dunstable Northern Bypass will start on Monday.The new two-lane dual carriageway running east from the A5 north of Dunstable to join the...
View ArticleHunt continues for hit and run driver who left OAP cancer sufferer with...
The identity of a hit and run driver who left an OAP cancer sufferer lying in the road outside his Luton home is still unknown, Beds Police has admitted.Former soldier and cancer sufferer Dave...
View ArticleLuton loses court battle with Central Beds over Houghton Regis development
Central Bedfordshire Council emerged the winner today in a legal battle at London’s High Court with neighbouring authority, Luton Borough Council.Mr Justice Holgate rejected a challenge by Luton to...
View ArticlePCC plans to push police council tax share up by 16%
Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner Olly Martins has announced plans to hike the amount taxpayers give to the force by 16%The move, which would see Beds Police’s council tax precept increased by...
View ArticleNetwork to help students access higher education
The Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes Network for Collaborative Outreach will receive almost £300,000 in funding over the next two years from the Department for Business, Innovation and SkillsThe Network...
View ArticleMatt Adcock at the cinema: Into The Woods review
Once upon a time there was a poor Baker (James Corden) and his Wife (Emily Blunt) who wished for a child but find out that they have been cursed by a wicked Witch (Meryl Streep) and will never have...
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