Things to Do

Returning to the Second Space following the success of last year’s event, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre will be playing host to some of darts’ sporting legends in An Exhibition of Darts taking place on Sat 24 Aug in the Second Space.

Something different is coming to the annual Linslade Canal Festival in Tiddenfoot Waterside Park this year.

Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury Vale, Bucks, is a popular destination across the Home Counties.

As the Wimbledon tennis tournament enters its second week, the Ring-tailed lemurs at Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire have been joining in the fun with masks of some of the sport’s biggest stars, including Rafael ‘Rafa’ Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

The parish will once again welcome the “remarkable spectacle” of the Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard truck convoy on Saturday, June 8.

There will be over 40 street food vendors from around the world with delicacies from Sri Lanka, Italy, Brazil and Morocco alongside specialities from New York, Germany and Jamaica in the High Street at this year’s Big Lunch Food Festival in Leighton Buzzard .

The only dedicated UK Cheese and Chilli Festival is coming to Bedford Park over the bank holiday weekend for the first time this year, taking place in Bedford Park this weekend - Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26.

Bedford International Kite Festival returns to Russell Park next month.

The Leighton-Linslade Fundraising Group for Macmillan Cancer Support is holding a day of entertainment at Leighton Buzzard Library Theatre on Saturday, May 18.

A Leighton Buzzard man, who is chairman of the Hertfordshire Agricultural Society, is inviting locals to attend a bank holiday farming extravaganza which is expected to attract up to 35,000 visitors.

It’s time to shake off the winter blues and have some fun at the largest single day event in Bedfordshire.

Leighton Buzzard’s splash park should be open in time for the town’s May Fayre on Monday, May 6, the town council has told the LBO.

Train enthusiasts should make tracks for Flitwick this Saturday (April 27) as Luton Model Railway Club stages an ‘0’ Gauge (7mm) model railway exhibition.