- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'over-paid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'Anxious' teacher 'set self alight'
- 'Crush racism' in football: PM
Community
Councillors hold surgery
IF you’ve got a beef about something in you area, come along and have your say.
Mecca’s in the money!
MORE THAN £4 million – that’s the staggering amount of prize money Mecca Bingo in Luton’s Skimpot Road paid out to customers last year.
More choice for senior citizens
Just because you’re over 55 doesn’t mean giving up on life and going into a home.
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Singing out for charity events
CLOSE HARMONY is a group of 11 friends who enjoy a bit of a singsong in aid of charity.
Announcements
Gordon Usher : Obituary
Published in the Luton News on 22 February 2012
John Every : Obituary
Published in the Luton News on 22 February 2012
John Charles Davis : Obituary
Published in the Luton News on 22 February 2012
Brenda Mary Barnwell : Obituary
Published in the Luton News on 22 February 2012
George Irene Bunyan : Memorial
Published in the Luton News on 22 February 2012
Local Businesses
High pods are set to open up a new market for hilltop zoo video
EIGHT “luxury camping pods” are being planned at Whipsnade Zoo as charity chiefs aim to make it a year-round attraction.
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Airport’s ambitions for eco-friendly travel
A NEW strategy to increase the number of passengers and staff travelling to Luton Airport by public transport has been announced.
Road block for M1 gantry work
POLICE will put a rolling road block in place while the Highways Agency installs new gantries on the M1 on Friday night (February 24)
Anti-squatting lobby set for victory as new law heads to Queen
SQUATTING. It’s a word that creates fear and loathing among residential landlords.
Mind your business: Paul Mayhew answers our Q&A
PAUL Mayhew, 32, is sales director of Carnoisseur Leasing, The Car Leasing Store, which has its head office in High Street South, Dunstable. Here we find out what makes the franchise owner tick.
Nostalgia
The bell tolls for Dunstable
THIS extraordinary photo dates back to 1899 and shows the bells of Houghton Regis Church at the rear of the building after being lowered from the tower for rehanging.
In the bleak Luton midwinter
WINTRY weather finally arrived last week and Luton News photographers were out and about capturing snowy scenes. So we’ve delved into our archives and found these pictures of Luton winters in bygone years.
History rises from the ashes
WHEN builders moved into the launderette in Hockliffe Road at the beginning of January little did they expect to find the remains of an old oven in the basement.
Celebrating the Coronation
LBO reader Susan Roscoe sent us in this week’s Down Memory Lane photographer.
Stumped on team names
THERE’S no one still alive who would have remembered this match but we’re hoping that some cricket enthusiasts may be able to help identify the officials either side of the teams who attended the cricket week held in August 1895 in Aspley Guise.
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Weather for Luton
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Light rain
Temperature: 9 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 28 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 9 C to 15 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: South west
