History website upgrade
Sandy Historical Research Group have begun to upgrade their website.Group chairman, Mick Reynolds, said: “We have had the website for over ten years now and we know it’s popular but we have started to...
View ArticleAlan Dee’s film preview: The kid’s aren’t all right, but Kev’s flexing his...
This week’s big new release is a boy meets girl story with a tearjerking twist – the twee twosome fall for each other at a cancer support group, so you know the changes of happy ever after are somewhat...
View ArticleChair for service
A new chair will lead Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Authority.Councillor Colleen Atkins was appointed at the annual meeting on Tuesday, June 17.Ms Atkins, of Bedford Borough Council, said: ““Having...
View ArticlePictures stolen
Thieves stole memories when they broke into a car.They entered the silver Vauxhall Zafira by smashing a window.The car was in Grange Street in Clifton when the theft occurred between midnight and 7am...
View ArticleParade day will be a summer blockbuster
It’s party time!The highlight of the Biggleswade Carnival celebrations takes place tomorrow with the Grand Parade of Floats.Hundreds of people are expected to take to the streets to watch the colourful...
View ArticleBike rides for the weekend
Get on your bike and start pedalling.Gamlingay Environmental Action Group (GEAG) is celebrating National Bike Week with two bike rides.There is a five mile route and a longer 25 mile route.This year...
View ArticleAn enterprising group meeting
Enterprising Mums will be meeting on July 2.The networking group will meet at the Sandy Town Council offices from 10am to noon.The subject for this month is about social media shortcuts and corner...
View ArticleArtists to work on King’s Reach
Artists have been commissioned to produce bespoke artwork for the next phases of the Kings Reach development in Biggleswade.David Appleyard, local artist Wendy Briggs and Martin Heron have all been...
View ArticleBlack Cat work starts next week
Work on a multi million pound scheme to reduce congestion on the Black Cat roundabout on the A1 is set to begin next week.The £5.6 million scheme will ease congestion at this important roundabout,...
View ArticleHousebuilder gets friendly with bees
Leading local homebuilder David Wilson Homes South Midlands is helping to protect the British honey bee by planting bee friendly plants at its Bedfordshire developments. Teaming up with leading bee...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: 3 Days To Kill can be Taken as another ‘dangerous...
“My job is to hunt terrorists. I don’t negotiate. Within three days, I will find you. You can start counting.”Meet Ethan Renner (Kevin ‘Man Of Steel’ Costner) – a grizzled, wrinkly CIA hit man who is...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVDs: Non-Stop, Ride Along, The Pretty One, 13 Sins
Liam Neeson has found a niche with leading roles in solid, workmanlike thrillers. There’s the usual non-stop action in, erm, NON-STOP (12: Studio Canal) in which he’s a veteran air marshal on a flight...
View ArticleStarlight Hike
Walk to help a hospice.There will be a registration day for the Starlight Hike at Biggleswade’s Saxon Pool and Leisure Centre on Wednesday, July 2.The annual walk raises money for St John’s Hospice in...
View ArticleFirst World War history display in Sandy
Sandy Historical Research Group will have a display of historical documents and photographs at the SAFFA First World War commemoration event at the weekend.
View ArticleBoost for new engineering department
An academy has won a bid with a private engineering consortium to help develop its new department.Robert Bloomfield Academy in Shefford has been working behind the scenes to gather support for the...
View ArticleFlying the flag for Armed Forces Day
A special armed forces flag will fly above South Cambridgeshire District Council’s offices this week in honour of Armed Forces Day.Councillor David Bard, the council’s Chairman, raised the flag at the...
View ArticleCar thief last of 12 caught in gang sending stolen vehicles to Poland
A man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison and is the last of 12 caught in a police operation going back six years. Bartosz Dolata, 29, a Polish national, had been moving stolen vehicles across to...
View ArticleAlan Dee: A cable conundrum that threatens to strangle us all
I call them marshmallow jobs – the sort of tasks that you think won’t take long and will give you some simple domestic satisfaction, but instead turn out to leave you feeling decidedly queasy after...
View ArticleHistorical Willington
The next meeting of Sandy Good Afternoon Club will be on Friday, July 4 at 2.15pm in the meeting room at Sandy Library.Dorothy Jamieson and Mervyn Askew will be giving an illustrated talk about...
View ArticleNew cancer centre is welcoming patients
A new cancer unit has welcomed its first patients.The new centre at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, which has been funded jointly by Macmillan Cancer Support and the East and North Hertfordshire NHS...
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