Matt Adcock’s film review: Kick Ass really does what it says in the title...
“You don’t have to be a bad-ass to be a superhero. You just have to be brave.”When Kick Ass burst onto the cinema scene in 2010, Mark Millar kinetically blew the doors off the whole comic book genre -...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVDs: Olympus Has Fallen, Chronicle, I’m So Excited, Rebellion
The influences are clear to see in fast-paced action movie OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (15: Lionsgate).If you substitute the White House with a Los Angeles skyscraper, you’ve essentially got the first Die Hard...
View Article£91m busway set to open next month
The £91 million Luton Dunstable Busway will officially open on Wednesday September 25.Billed as “fast, frequent and reliable”, the busway will provide services between Luton and Dunstable as often as...
View ArticleVIDEO: Beds brewers and boozers at the Great British Beer Festival
All hail the ale and raise your glasses to the great British Beer Festival, which was bigger and better than ever this year.The Campaign For Real Ale’s five-day event at Olympia London was attended by...
View ArticleBrightest students on top form
Dunstable’s best and brightest celebrated fantastic GCSE results on Thursday, despite national grades being at their lowest for 25 years.Manshead School saw an improvement in the number of students...
View ArticleNew Churchill links with historic mansion house
This year marks the 65th anniversary since Sir Winston Churchill addressed a crowd of a staggering 110,000 people in front of the Mansion House at Luton Hoo Hotel, and thanked them for their support...
View ArticleSailing adventure floats Becky’s boat
An inspirational teen cancer survivor from Dunstable set sail on the adventure of a lifetime with solo yachting legend Dame Ellen MacArthur.Becky Griffiths, 15, who finished treatment for optic nerve...
View ArticleA town centre shop before Xmas? Pop the question...
Dunstable town centre will get the first ‘pop up shop’ in Beds, Herts or Bucks on September 19 as part of a nationwide business initiative in the run-up to Christmas.With funding from the Dunstable...
View ArticlePub’s Bank Holiday live music event
The Wheatsheaf hosts the third annual live music event for charity, Reason 2 Rock, this weekend.The team hope to double last year’s £400 raised for Help For Heroes. Call 01582 753245 for more details.
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 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 ArticleMP welcomes drop in unemployment
MP Andrew Selous has welcomed news that unemployment in South West Beds in July 2013 was just 1,863 – 3.4 per cent of the economically-active population.The number of claimants is 339 fewer than in...
View ArticleLand and lead mines are a talking point
Tea Time Tales resume with a talk on land and lead mines owned by the Priory. The session is 2.30pm-4pm on Thursday, September 5, at Priory House, High Street South, Dunstable.
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 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 ArticleFive candidates get set for by-election
Five candidates will compete for the vacant Central Beds Council seat in Dunstable Northfields Ward in a by-election on September 12.They are: Bev Coleman, Independent; Jeannette Freeman, Conservative;...
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 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 ArticleQuirky and funny stories in the Dunstable area
Christmas pud just like great-grandma used to make really is a tasteful idea.Now the sweet success of Nanna’s Christmas Pudding has put a fledgling Houghton Regis business in the same league as...
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