Make LEO’s event a roaring success
A family day on Dunstable Downs is a chance to meet emergency services teams and volunteers who lend them a helping hand.Local Emergency Organisations Day runs from 10am-5pm on Sunday, May 12, and...
View ArticleCrafty fun and dog show
A dog show and craft fair will be held in Eaton Bray on Sunday, May 12, in aid of Appledown Rescue and Rehoming Kennels. The event runs from 11am-4pm at Appledown, in Harling Road.There are 12 classes...
View ArticleLast year’s winners speak out on excellence awards
Winners of business awards in Bedfordshire and Luton in 2012 have spoken out to encourage star firms to enter this year.Great reasons to go for glory in the Bedfordshire Business Excellence Awards 2013...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s movie preview: Star Trek - Into Darkness, The Reluctant...
The summer blockbusters are stacked overhead in a landing pattern to ensure maximum box office bang for buck, and touching down this week, hot on the heels of Iron Man 3, is Star Trek: Into...
View ArticlePaige’s crowning achievement
The sun shone for the Houghton Regis May Fayre on Saturday, May 4, where nine-year-old Paige Adams was crowned May Queen.Entertainment included maypole dancing.Houghton Regis Town Council would like to...
View ArticleSeconds still sweet for our Rachel in TV cookery final
Millions of TV viewers saw a Dunstable 20-year-old enjoy a serving of success by making it through to the finals of ITV’s Food Glorious Food.Rachel Janes, who has cerebral palsy, and fellow members of...
View ArticleVIDEO: High old time on the Downs
Up, up and away! Crowds flocked to local beauty spot Dunstable Downs to enjoy the scorching sunshine on Bank Holiday Monday.Picnickers basked in the sun and kite-flying was a popular pastime.
View ArticlePublic meeting on schools
Another public meeting on Dunstable’s changing schools system will be held on Monday, May 13, at the Dunstable Conference Centre, opposite Queensway. It has not been organised by a local authority but...
View ArticlePlan to curtail rise of measles
A vaccination ‘catch-up’ programme is being introduced in the Dunstable area after recorded cases of measles this year.There have been two cases of measles confirmed in Central Beds in the 12 months to...
View ArticleHuge tree branch falls on car
A large tree branch has fallen on a car in Luton Road, Caddington this afternoon (May 9).Police were called to the scene at 1.50pm, and fortunately no one was hurt.A witness said the branch “smashed...
View ArticleVIDEO: Sign language dog Lola needs a new family
Although playful Lola would be the perfect addition to many families, she was born deaf and has been without a permanent home for three years.Currently in the care of the staff at Appledown Kennels in...
View Article£20 computer man to talk at uni’s event
A SERIAL entrepreneur who co-founded a company that developed a credit card sized computer will share the secrets of his success .Jack Lang co-founded and chairs Raspberry Pi Foundation, which...
View Article‘Hamlets’ plan for empty storage site
Villagers in Caddington and Slip End have been shown artists’ impressions of how a new housing development on a former Vauxhall site could look.The company is looking at options for its redundant...
View ArticleMore than a third of crimes ‘screened out’
Beds Police bosses have denied they are ignoring crimes after criticism over offences being “screened out”.An investigation by the Sunday Times found the force abandoned investigations into 39 per cent...
View ArticleI ran Tough Mudder and lived to tell the tale
Battered, bruised, frozen and caked in sludge, I emerged triumphantly from the grizzly 12-mile gauntlet that was Tough Mudder, writes Richard Redman.I started and finished the challenge side-by-side...
View ArticleCourt Drive assault leaves teenager unconscious
A teenager was knocked unconscious and suffered a suspected fractured cheek after being kicked in the head during an assault in Dunstable town centre in the early hours of this morning (May 10).Police...
View ArticleAggravated burglary foiled in Dunstable
Three men forced their way into a Dunstable home with a knife before being chased away by the occupants on Tuesday evening (May 7).The incident happened at around 5.45pm as the female victim went to...
View ArticleQuirky and funny stories in the Dunstable area
They say the past is a foreign country – so I really have been on my travels this week.An old friend looking at archived negatives of the News/Gazette found some fun pictures of me many moons ago, as a...
View ArticleCautions for sex crimes and burglary
More than 70 cautions for sex offences have been given out by Beds Police in the past five years.A caution is usually used for “low-level” offences. But a Freedom of Information request showed forces...
View ArticleNew plan for derelict pub site is revealed
A long-vacant town centre pub is set to ‘help regenerate the area’ if a request to convert it into a restaurant is accepted by Central Beds Council.The currently-dilapidated Winston Churchill in Church...
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