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Loo of the Year Awards: The Swan, Leighton Buzzard

Loo of the Year Awards: Leighton Buzzard pub gets ‘platinum rating’

Bucks Fire and Rescue Service

Bucks Fire and Rescue Service needs to make 'urgent improvements'

Swiss Cottage Care Home. Image: Google Maps

Care home still in special measures as CQC takes action to protect residents

Pupils at Brooklands Middle School. Picture: Brooklands Middle School

Leighton Buzzard school ‘proud' after receiving 'good’ Ofsted rating

Elm Lodge on Stoke Road - Google Maps

Leighton Buzzard care home needs to improve says care watchdog

Ofsted logo pictured on a laptop screen

Pre-school Requires Improvement according to latest Ofsted report

Mary Bassett Lower School (Google)

School with 'good' rating is recommended for 'graded' inspection

UK theme parks and fairgrounds face major health and safety checks after high speed incidents - list of rides

Extra safety checks on 100 fairground and theme park rides across UK

An Ofsted banner (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Wing nursery receives 'good' rating in latest Ofsted inspection

Ruth Perry was the headteacher at Caversham Primary School (Photo: Brighter Futures for Children)

Headteacher blocks Ofsted inspection after death of fellow head

Cheddington Combined School

New Ofsted report states combined school 'needs improvement'
The school was marked down for its quality of education, and leadership and management

Buttons Preschool celebrates an Outstanding Ofsted report. Image: Buttons Preschool.

Stoke Hammond preschool 'over the moon' to receive Outstanding Ofsted report

Gilbert Inglefield Academy. Image: Google.

Leighton Buzzard school judged as 'Good' - but would mark have been lower?

Protestors outside Central Beds Council's HQ in Chicksands

SEND progress still too slow in Central Beds says Care Quality Commission

Protestors lined up pairs of shoes to represent each child without a SEND place

Reinspection date for Central Beds' troubled SEND provision announced

File photo of school girls walking to school.

Ofsted inspectors praise 'warm and friendly' pre-school given 'good' rating

School stock image

91 per cent of Central Bedfordshire primary schools are 'good' or 'outstanding'

A Barbary macaque at Woburn Safari Park

Monkey escapes from primary enclosure at Woburn Safari Park three times in one d...

Leighton Buzzard Police Station, Hockliffe Road

Leighton care home could close if new one is built

Westlands Care Home, Leighton Buzzard

Leighton Buzzard care home's dirty chairs '˜smelled of urine'

'˜We won't stop until we're outstanding' '“ says school

Library image.

Police are improving domestic abuse action

East Anglian Air Ambulance. Picture courtesy of Jim Garnett.

Seal of approval for air ambulance

CPS praised for work to improve service in Beds

Adoption service ‘good’ says watchdog