X Factor visit for a brave teenager
A brave teenager was a special guest on the X-Factor set.Danielle Leefarr from Potton met the X-Factor finalists and judges at Fountain Studios in London on Friday and Saturday. The 13-year-old was...
View ArticleMayor relishes new challenge
Biggleswade mayor Councillor Tim Woodward is looking forward to representing the town’s interests at Central Beds Council.Conservative candidate Mr Woodward won the Biggleswade South seat at the...
View ArticleHouses’ silver award
An affordable housing project was given a silver award by the Campaign to Protect Rural England.The development at Pear Tree Piece in Old Warden was recognised in the historic and new buildings...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: End Of Watch
“I am the police, and I’m here to arrest you. You’ve broken the law. I did not write the law. I may disagree with the law but I will enforce it. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I...
View ArticleNadine’s back in the UK
Mid Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries has touched down at Heathrow Airport after time away to appear on I’m A Celebrity.It had been thought at Ms Dorries, who was first to be voted out of the jungle...
View ArticleBookworms will delight in travelling fair
Bookworms can pick up a novel or two at a school fair.The Travelling Books Book Fair will be running at Edward Peake Middle School in Biggleswade from Wednesday, November 28 to Tuesday, December 4.The...
View ArticleAlan Dee: Time for a little Christmas chocolate crabbiness
It’s around this time of year that I start getting a bit tetchy about Christmas, and I don’t think I’m being unfair in blaming this fairly and squarely on Mrs Dee.A generous woman to a fault, she racks...
View ArticleSandy businessman on television
An entrepreneur is starring on a Channel 4 television show.Max McMurdo, who owns Sandy company, Reestore, will be on George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces next week.He attracted the show’s attention when he...
View ArticleWhip not restored yet for Nadine
Mid Beds MP Nadine Dorries has not had her Conservative Party whip restored after a meeting this morning.Nadine met with Chief Whip Sir George Young in Westminster earlier today to justify her...
View ArticleCoronation Street star to appear at pound shop
Coronation Street star Mikey North will be making an appearance at a new pound shop on Saturday (December 1).Mikey, who plays Gary Windass in the soap will be at the new Poundland in Biggleswade from...
View ArticleSupermarkets give our appeal a helping hand
Two supermarkets have stepped up to assist the Biggleswade Chronicle Families in Need Appeal.ASDA in Biggleswade and Budgens in Sandy will be doing their bit to help us help the needy in the...
View ArticleFirms shortlisted for Local Business Accelerators’ glory chance
Eleven brilliant businesses from across Beds, Herts and Bucks have been shortlisted in the Premier Newspapers’ Local Business Accelerators competition.More than 50 young companies entered for the...
View ArticleChristmas lights switch on events
Strings of lights, twinkling and shining in the streets above our shops is one of images that epitomise the festive season.And each year our towns’ Christmas lights are switched on amid a flurry of...
View ArticleSandy author to sign books
An author will be signing copies of her debut novel.Denise Board, of Abbey Grove in Sandy, will be in Sandy Library on Saturday from 10.30am to 11.30am with copies of her book, A Summer Murder.The...
View ArticleTennis courts available at leisure centre
A recreation centre is seeking tennis players who can book its courts.A long-term customer who has previously booked the Stratton Leisure Centre courts in Biggleswade twice a week can no longer do so...
View ArticleNeil Fox on film: Rise Of The Guardians, Alex Cross, Great Expectations
Rise of the GuardiansAfter the surprise success of Shrek heralded a new rival to Pixar and Disney, Dreamworks really took their foot off the gas, delivering average movie after average movie, pretty...
View ArticleCouncillor and civil servant to support Commissioner
A councillor and a civil servant have been chosen to support Bedfordshire’s new Police and Crime Commissioner.Olly Martins said his assistant and deputy commissioners would help “strengthen the links...
View ArticleFinally a museum for Sandy?
A museum is on the horizon for Sandy.Sandy Historical Research Group (SHRG) has long been searching for premises in which to open a museum within the town.On Tuesday (November 27) SHRG met with town...
View ArticleSchool standards in Central Bedfordshire
Lower schools in this area are in the top 10 per cent nationwide.On Tuesday (November 27) education watchdog, Ofsted, published a report which revealed that 83 per cent of lower schools and primary...
View ArticleAn Ideal contest for gardeners
College students will be creating an indoor garden at a national show.The team from Shuttleworth College near Biggleswade will be taking on four rivals at the Ideal Home Show in London next year.The...
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