IT was all flipping good fun at this year’s pancake race in Heath and Reach when teams from the village, and the school children, took part.

THE choppy waters have been calmed between the town council and the I Love Leighton Buzzard Group over plans for this year’s Christmas Shopping Weekend.

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Ignorance and panic were blamed for a Leighton Buzzard woman discarding a puppy she believed to be dead in a wheelie bin, Luton Magistrates Court heard yesterday (Monday).

CLOSE HARMONY is a group of 11 friends who enjoy a bit of a singsong in aid of charity.

A LEIGHTON pensioner is calling on safety experts to block access to an alley used as a children’s rat-run to school after a series of near-misses with moving vehicles.

THE Speaker of The House, Aylesbury Vale MP John Bercow, turned up at a roadshow in Drayton Parslow to throw his weight behind the campaign to halt a controversial wind farm.

ARTISTS working in the area are moving into the digital age by ditching their exhibitions in galleries and moving their work online.

THIS extraordinary photo dates back to 1899 and shows the bells of Houghton Regis Church at the rear of the building after being lowered from the tower for rehanging.

Hagglers, savvy-shoppers and sale-seekers are on the increase according to new research from Santander Credit Cards.

The number of drivers over the age of 80 has now topped one million according to information obtained by motoring charity the IAM following a freedom of information request to the DVL.

LAUNCHING a business when you have two small children to care for would be seen as an act of lunacy by most mums but Pitstone entrepreneur has won national recognition for her enterprise.

Linslade’s Dean Dibsdall has made it into the semi-finals of Channel 4’s Playing It Straight despite being the victim of a bitchy gossipy campaign by one of the other contestants.

WINTRY weather finally arrived last week and Luton News photographers were out and about capturing snowy scenes. So we’ve delved into our archives and found these pictures of Luton winters in bygone years.

WHEN builders moved into the launderette in Hockliffe Road at the beginning of January little did they expect to find the remains of an old oven in the basement.

LBO reader Susan Roscoe sent us in this week’s Down Memory Lane photographer.

THERE have been 21 Silver Lining groups at Keech Hospice Care since the hospice opened its doors 21 years ago.

TAKE your time and breathe, and you could be on your way to much better health.

THE TODDINGTON mum fighting a courageous battle against cancer is now confined to a wheelchair.

Road safety charity the IAM offers weekly motoring tips from Britain’s top advanced driver, Peter Rodger.