Information day on fostering and adoption
Luton Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire County Councils have joined forces to encourage residents to consider adopting or fostering a child. They will be hosting an information day on...
View ArticleTurn old clothes into art
The council’s GreenUp team are working with Ragged Life, a local craft organisation, to help residents turn unwanted fabric and clothes into handmade home ware, fashion and art. Ragged Life will hold a...
View ArticleShopping centre crowns Prom King and Queen
Young shoppers headed to The Mall Luton on Saturday to celebrate its prom event and to see who would be crowned the Prom King and Queen.Finalists in the Prom King and Queen search modelled a variety of...
View ArticleDentist urges action over down and outs plaguing surgery
A dentist has issued a plea to police after seeing the road outside his practice beseiged by people boozing, urinating and abusing passers-by on a daily basis.Over the last 18 months Sab Bhandal has...
View ArticlePM tears into Luton Borough Council during Vauxhall visit
Claims from Luton councillors that the town is underfunded by the government do not “stack up”, according to the Prime Minister.During a visit to the Vauxhall plant in Kimpton Road last Wednesday,...
View ArticleSchool pupils taken to hospital with mystery illness
Alarms were raised this morning after six Luton school pupils were taken to Luton & Dunstable hospital after showing signs of illness.At first it was though just one students was affected at...
View ArticleUPDATE: Sick pupils may have taken “legal high”
The headteacher of a Luton school where six pupils were taken to hospital has said they may have taken a “legal high”.Ambulance were called shortly after 8.30am this morning to Lealands High School,...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVDs: Nightcrawler, The Imitation Game, The Hundred-Foot Journey
A cynical petty crook is inspired when he sees a freelance camera crew and decides to go into business filming crime scenes and accidents in NIGHTCRAWLER (15: Entertainment One).He sells the footage to...
View ArticleToddington OAP foils would-be distraction burglars
A Toddington OAP has been congratulated by police after warding off would-be distraction burglars.On Wednesday two men knocked on the rear fence of a home in Grange Gardens.They told the resident, a...
View ArticleDebris scatters as on call ambulance collides with car
A woman has been taken to hospital after an on call emergency vehicle collided with a car in Luton this afternoon.The ambulance emergency response vehicle was responding to a call when the incident...
View ArticleStudents let their imaginations run riot
Year 10 pupils from Putteridge High School attended an activity day at North Hertfordshire College (NHC) to take part in workshops based around some of the college’s creative departments.The pupils had...
View ArticleDrug drivers will be caught say Beds police
New drug driving legislation that comes into force from Monday (2 March) will make it easier to catch and convict drug drivers of illegal drugs, say Beds police. Low levels have been set for eight well...
View ArticleDemolition of Power Court set to go ahead
A Luton town centre site will be demolished to pave the way for a large scale development by the end of the year, according to its owner.Power Court, off St Mary’s Road, has been an eyesore for years...
View ArticleConmen tried to talk their way into Toddington pensioner’s home
Beds Police is warning residents in Grange Gardens, Toddington, to beware of distraction burglars following an attempt by two men to get into an elderly woman’s home on Wednesday 25 February. Between...
View ArticleCertificate will help raise home care standards says company boss
A home care provider in Luton and Central Bedfordshire is welcoming the introduction of the National Care Certificate as a significant step towards increasing standards.Maria Collins, the owner of Home...
View ArticleLooking to generate lots of ‘funny’ money
by Sue Palmer from the Volunteer Centre at Bossard House, West Street, Leighton BuzzardSo what is a red nose’s favourite sweet? A-chew! Yes its back; Comic Relief brings us Red Nose Day once again on...
View ArticleFarmers seek assurances from PCC on rural policing
Farmers are urging Beds Police and Crime Commissioner Olly Martins to make rural policing a higher priority.At a meeting organised by the NFU’s Leighton Buzzard branch, members set out their concerns...
View ArticleMatt Adcock at the cinema: It Follows review
Meet lovely young 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe). She’s scared for her life and for good reason, writes Matt Adcock. Jay has been ‘marked’ after having sex with her new boyfriend Hugh (Jake Weary) and...
View ArticleImproving the carbon footprint
The Mall will be carrying out work on two car parks for 12 weeks to improve their carbon footprint on the environment. Both Central and Market multi-storey car parks will be closed to the public from...
View ArticleLuton man jailed for £1million money laundering
A Luton man has been convicted of laundering more than £1 million.Akram Ul-Haq, 37, of Emerald Road, was convicted of several counts of money laundering and laundered £1.3 million of money from a firm...
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