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Daz will be performing at The Wheatsheaf

Leighton Buzzard pub gig aims to help children’s charity

Tory ministers will not be happy with the new ‘no plus-one’ rule for King Charles III coronation - Credit: Getty Images

Tory ministers in uproar after major king’s coronation rule change

Construction has begun on the UK’s first Lego themed holiday village at the Legoland Windsor Resort

Construction begins on UK’s first Lego holiday village

Emergency Services Day Flag Raising Ceremony with (L to R) Mohammed Nawaz (Councillor for Kempston Central & East Ward and Deputy Speaker of Bedford Borough Council); Eric Masih (High Sherif), Leon Meredith (Midshires Search and Rescue); Alison Kibblewhite (Assistant Chief Fire Officer); Councillor Lucy Bywater (Bedford Borough Council); Mohammad Yasin MP (Bedford and Kempston); Garry Forsyth (Chief Constable); Michael Headley (Bedford Borough Council); Tom Barker (East of England Ambulance Service); Dave Hodgson (Mayor of Bedford Borough).

Bedfordshire raises the flag to pay tribute to emergency services

Police officers patrol the area around a house in Liverpool, north west England (PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Enhanced stop and search powers and 24-hour tags among new measures in crime pla...

Theresa May wants international travel to return - after receiving £40k worth of gifts from Heathrow Airport (Photo by Niklas Halle'n - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Theresa May wants international travel to return - after receiving £40k worth of...

These are all of the MPs who voted against England’s second national lockdown

Primodos was available throughout the 1960s and 1970s (Photo: Shutterstock)

The Primodos medication scandal explained - and what Theresa May said about it

A Black Trans Lives Matter march was held on June 27, 2020 to campaign for reforms to the gender recognition act. (Getty Images)

57% of UK women are supportive of trans people’s right to self-identify

Your Place Comedy with Simon Brodkin and Maisie Adams on-line on Sunday May 10 -...

The full list of Brit Awards 2020 winners as Lewis Capaldi, Dave and Billy Eilis...

The five candidates for SW Beds

SW Beds candidates explain why they deserve your vote on June 8

Lake View, Persimmon

Reputations of housebuilders at stake over Leighton and Dunstable leasehold outr...

Reports claim that more than 20,000 police jobs could be slashed as a result of fresh spending cuts. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

‘22,000 police jobs could be axed’ due to spending cuts

PCC Olly Martins has repeatedly appealed for more funding

PCC Olly Martins slams MP for ‘talking utter rubbish’ over referendum

With the Olympics, money makes money (as my dad used to say)