- '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'
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.
Royal connections
THE White Horse pub in Church Street, a haunt of highwaymen and complete with a secret room, was one of the historic buildings of Dunstable sacrificed to allow the road to be widened in 1963.
How times have changed
THE photo of Park Street, Luton, in 1949, featured on the Yesteryear page four weeks ago, showed how very different the road was then to how it looks today.
Memories of Costin’s
SAD to read in last week’s Gazette of the death of Brian Costin, a former director of the Dunstable coach company which bore his name.
Multi purpose pool gets ready for spring
LUTON’S former swimming baths in Waller Street were opened in 1913 by the town’s MP at the time, Cecil Harmsworth.
A noble visitor for Gilbert Inglefield school
THE LBO steps back to April 13, 1965 this week and features a Leighton person whose name is captured in history for all to remember through the naming of a town school.
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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
