- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Tributes paid to funnyman Carson
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
Community
Pancake race is bigger and batter! video
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.
Peace and goodwill over Leighton’s Christmas weekend
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.
Puppy left for dead in bin
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).
Singing out for charity events
CLOSE HARMONY is a group of 11 friends who enjoy a bit of a singsong in aid of charity.
Community News
Target some money with the LBO
IS your local school, club, charity or youth group collecting LBO Target Stamps?
VIDEO: Sweet smell of success, but what the Dickens is going on? video
ALWAYS feeling a lot younger than my actual years, this week I even got the chance to feel like a kiddie in a sweet shop again, writes Sarah Holmes.
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CLUBS: Leighton Buzzard Writers
There will be a Manuscript Reading Evening of the Leighton Buzzard Writers Group on Tuesday, February, at the Friends Meeting House, North Street, commencing at 7.30pm.
Leighton Buzzard Children’s Theatre present Annie
Watch out “Annie” is coming to the Leighton Buzzard Theatre!
Announcements
Monica (Mon) Prior : Obituary
Published in the LeightonBuzzardOnline.co.uk on 21 February 2012
Jacqueline Ann Cheval : Obituary
Published in the LeightonBuzzardOnline.co.uk on 21 February 2012
Barry Ord (Baz) : Obituary
Published in the LeightonBuzzardOnline.co.uk on 21 February 2012
Marion Gailer : Obituary
Published in the LeightonBuzzardOnline.co.uk on 21 February 2012
Grandad Albert : Birthday
Published in the LeightonBuzzardOnline.co.uk on 21 February 2012
Local Businesses
High pods are set to open up a new market for hilltop zoo video
EIGHT “luxury camping pods” are being planned at Whipsnade Zoo as charity chiefs aim to make it a year-round attraction.
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Airport’s ambitions for eco-friendly travel
A NEW strategy to increase the number of passengers and staff travelling to Luton Airport by public transport has been announced.
Tax rise ‘will keep bobbies on beat’
TAXPAYERS will pay more for policing from April after Bedfordshire Police Authority members voted to reject a government grant.
Airport plans to hit the heights with growth plan
A SIX week consultation kicked off on Monday on plans to expand Luton Airport and create up to 6,000 new jobs.
‘This council is the business’
A COUNCIL has signed an agreement with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) to support local companies, to consult them and to listen to their concerns.
Local Information
ANDREW SELOUS MP: Jobseekers given a sporting chance with Intraining
ONE of the reasons I am incredibly privileged to do my job is the sheer variety it brings with it.
Nostalgia
The bell tolls for Dunstable
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.
In the bleak Luton midwinter
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.
History rises from the ashes
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.
Celebrating the Coronation
LBO reader Susan Roscoe sent us in this week’s Down Memory Lane photographer.
Stumped on team names
THERE’S no one still alive who would have remembered this match but we’re hoping that some cricket enthusiasts may be able to help identify the officials either side of the teams who attended the cricket week held in August 1895 in Aspley Guise.
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Weather for Leighton Buzzard
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Sunny spells
Temperature: 9 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 2 C to 12 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: West
