Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Hope Springs, Sinister
There may be a lack of spark in the bedroom, but there’s dry wit in abundance in HOPE SPRINGS (12: Momentum), with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a couple trying to recapture that old...
View ArticleCrews called to blaze at aircraft parts factory
Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus had to tackle a blaze at a factory on Thursday night.They were called to GKN Aerospace in Percival Way, Luton, at 10.45pm, and spent an hour and a half putting...
View ArticleSo far so good as Ofsted impressed
Staff and students at Icknield High School are celebrating a ‘good’ rating by Ofsted, as the first secondary school in Luton to be scrutinised by the new government framework.The school in Riddy Lane,...
View ArticleTaxi driver injured in knife attack
A taxi driver was stabbed three times during an attempted robbery on Thursday (February 21).The attack took place at around 2am after the 41-year-old victim picked up a passenger from Woodcock Road....
View ArticleFears benefit cap migration will cost Luton
A former Luton mayor says he is worried families being moved out of London boroughs to Luton are going to become a financial burden on the council.A number of families have been moved from the capital...
View ArticleUnion is backing airport expansion
Unite, Britain’s largest union, says it is supporting the proposed expansion of Luton Airport.It says the promise of 5,000 jobs and a boost to the local economy means the views of campaigners opposed...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: Cloud Atlas
“Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?Everything is connected in this bonkers, beautiful and totally...
View ArticleShots heard in Marsh Farm
Gun shots were fired in Wauluds Bank Drive in Marsh Farm on Saturday afternoon (February 23).Witnesses reported seeing four youths being approached by two men on an off-road motorcycle before a chase...
View ArticleFind your next job at careers fair
Job seekers are invited to a free careers fair at Futures House, The Moakes, in Marsh Farm on Wednesday (February 27).Luton Borough Council is joining forces with Marsh Farm Futures, Job Centre Plus...
View ArticleAnger as cut in councillor pay is rejected
“We’re all in it together” - unless you’re a Luton councillor, it seems.A independent panel’s report recommending the basic allowance for councillors in Luton be cut from £7,500 to £7,000 has been...
View ArticleFire crews save man from house blazed
AN elderly man was rescued by firefighters after a blaze broke out in a terraced house on Thursday.The man, thought to be in his 70s or 80s, is understood to have collapsed next to the front door after...
View ArticleGerman bomb in shed was live
AN RAF bomb disposal squad say a device found in a Stopsley shed last week was a Second World War German incendiary bomb.The bomb, found in a shed in Stapleford Road, was designed to start an intense...
View ArticleKnifepoint sex attack: CCTV released
Police from across the region are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a ‘petrified’ woman at knifepoint in her own car in Dunstable last week.Detectives from Beds, Cambs and Herts Major Crime...
View ArticleFuzzy logic behind TV numberplates
Look, it doesn’t really matter but it’s been gnawing away at me for a little while, so I thought I would share just in case can someone tell me. So what exactly is going on with car numberplates on the...
View ArticleMPs say child poverty in Luton is “deeply worrying”
The number of children living in poverty in Luton is “deeply worrying”, MPs said after new figures were released. Research from the End Child Poverty campaign found 28 per cent of children live below...
View ArticleWhat does a horseburger taste like? We find out
Like everyone in Europe I was appalled to hear illegal, untraceable, and potentially unsafe horsemeat had entered the food chain.And like every editorial office around the country the Advertiser and...
View ArticleWeather woes mean summer opening for busway
The Luton Dunstable Busway is unlikely to open until the end of June, according to a new report.The busway, which Luton Borough Council says will “revolutionise” public transport in the town, had been...
View ArticleIllegal waste dumping man fined
The new owners of a former care home have moved to reassure neighbours who feared it would be turned into a ‘mega hostel’.The Mount, in Tennyson Road, was sold by Luton Borough Council for £936,000...
View ArticleTalented Tino’s an author at just 12
For many aspiring writers, having their work published is a lifelong goal, but for one special young author, it’s something to tick off even before she reaches her teenage years.Tino Makonise, 12,...
View ArticleNeil Fox’s films: Hansel and Gretel, Safe Haven
Hansel And Gretel: Witch HuntersIt hasn’t quite happened for Jeremy Renner has it? He broke through in scintillating fashion in the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.But since then his screen appearances...
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