Crime

Police swooped to shut down an illegal rave over the weekend and arrested a woman from Bedfordshire.

Bedfordshire Police has experienced its most diverse intake of new police officer recruits.

A Chicksands man has pleaded guilty to a number of sexual offences against children and making and distributing indecent images of children.

Detectives investigating a burglary in Leighton Buzzard have released CCTV images of a man and a woman they would like to speak to as part of their enquiries.

A woman whose classic car was stolen from a garage in Leighton Buzzard is pleading for the public’s help to trace it.

Police are asking people to reconsider using “old school” methods to prevent the theft of keyless cars, after a spate of high-end vehicle thefts in Luton, Barton le Clay, Bedford, and Marston Moretaine.

Police investigating an assault in Leighton Buzzard have released CCTV images of two men they would like to speak to.

A Billington man has been charged over an aggravated burglary in Luton, which saw a getaway car driven at two police vehicles.

A council-led crackdown on Blue Badge disabled parking fraud saw two unscrupulous drivers successfully convicted of wrongful use of a disabled person’s badge on Tuesday (April 23).

Police are investigating after three firearms were stolen from a house in Totternhoe on Wednesday afternoon.

The police watchdog is investigating after a man in his 20s died after being detained by police at a house in Caddington.

A serial stalker has been given a suspended sentence after breaching a restraining order against a well-known jazz singer from Leighton Buzzard.

St John The Baptist Church is holding an open day on Saturday to raise money to replace lead that was stolen on Thursday, February 7.

A man has been fined over £700 after he was convicted of a racially-aggravated attack on a traffic warden in Leighton Buzzard.

A man from Luton has been charged after Bedfordshire Police’s Boson team executed five warrants in locations across the county on Friday (April 12).

Four men wearing balaclavas and armed with baseball bats and wooden poles broke into a house in Little Billington and threatened the occupants.