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Summer show sets up shop

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:53:10 GMT

A stunning selection of art and other creative work will be showcased in Central Bedfordshire College’s Summer Show, starting this week.

Time-lapse video shows how new Center Parcs has grown

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:11:40 GMT

Center Parcs has released a time-lapse video showing how construction of its new Woburn Forest venue in Bedfordshire has progressed from September 2012 to June this year.

Monthly rents still inching up – to an average of £800 by 2015

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:48:35 GMT

The operations director at the largest lettings agency in the UK has outlined her predictions for the future of private renting.

Travel: A taste of real Turkey

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:27:45 GMT

Turkey may be one of this summer’s major tourist destinations, but it’s still possible to escape the crowds.

Jazz up weekend with village fete

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:25:41 GMT

Fun for all the family has been lined up for this year’s Whipsnade Summer Fete, from 1pm to 4.30pm on Saturday, June 22.

Dirty politics with If Only

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:22:48 GMT

Fans of political dramas will be well served by David Edgar’s new play, If Only, which has its world premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre this week.

VIDEO: Record turnout as open-air show strikes the right note

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:29:47 GMT

They were singing in the rain at the start of the Dunstable Live! free open-air ska and reggae concert, but it was all brolly good fun.

VIDEO: Roller derby fun at the weekend

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:52:26 GMT

It was a roller derby derby on Saturday (June 15) with two local teams going head to head the Bunyan Sports Centre.

Alan Dee’s movie preview: World War Z, Snitch, A Haunted House

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:40:09 GMT

The first thing to get sorted about Brad Pitt’s new summer blockbuster is whether you’ll be able to order tickets through that infuriating automated service so many multiplexes mistakenly swear by.

Matt Adcock’s film review: Man Of Steel

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:31:29 GMT

What if a film dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?

125 years on, Ripper’s yarn is still a draw

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:13:53 GMT

Of all the cold cases in the big drawer marked ‘unsolved’ the Jack the Ripper killings must be the chilliest.

Book in for a session of sex, drugs and crime...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:10:40 GMT

Novelist Ruth Jacobs, who also campaigns against sexual exploitation, will be at Waterstones bookshop in St Albans tomorrow, Thursday, from 7pm.

Connells spreads the word as ‘help to buy’ offer boosts market

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:24:50 GMT

The Help to Buy scheme is providing a welcome boost to the new homes market and construction industry with developers across the area reporting a strong take up of the government initiative.

Curtain up on music hall in Eaton Bray

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:53:58 GMT

It’s back to the good old days when DAOS present an Old Time Music Hall at Eaton Bray Village Hall this weekend.

Don’t open the gate for crooks as you enjoy the great outdoors

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:20:38 GMT

With summer finally here many of us are likely to spend more time socialising or relaxing in the garden, or away from home altogether on a seasonal break.

Geoff Cox’s DVDs: Hitchcock

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:02:57 GMT

HITCHCOCK (12: 20th Century Fox), a fact-based account of the making of the famous film director’s Psycho, is a disappointingly inconsequential affair.

Cali-R’s new venue has a ‘wow’ factor

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:06:52 GMT

Cali-R nights will break new ground on Saturday, July 13 when promoter Sid Hudson takes the ever-popular soul event to the Dunstable Conference Centre at 51 High Street North, Dunstable.

Later living homes are selling fast

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:39:13 GMT

McCarthy & Stone’s Later Living development, Elliot Court in Dunstable, has proved so popular with buyers that nearly half of the properties have already been reserved off plan.

Harry Potter star’s magic night at pub

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:45:20 GMT

Actor Rupert Grint, aka Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, was at The New Greyhound pub in Dunstable with his family on Friday, June 7.

Thirtysomethings are quitting the costly countryside, says report

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:54:21 GMT

People in their thirties are moving out of the South East countryside in a stark demographic shift as house prices rise faster in rural areas than in urban areas, despite incomes rising more slowly.