New partner for accountancy firm
Chartered accountancy firm George Hay, which has a Biggleswade office, has recruited an additional tax partner. The role is required following substantial growth and new client wins in recent...
View ArticleGeoff Cox’s DVDs: Hope Springs, Sinister
There may be a lack of spark in the bedroom, but there’s dry wit in abundance in HOPE SPRINGS (12: Momentum), with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a couple trying to recapture that old...
View ArticleChecks on town for the disabled
A community stalwart will be ensuring a town is disability-friendly.Ken Lynch will be checking kerbs and pavements in Sandy.He is keen to make sure the town is fully accessible to wheelchair users. To...
View ArticleA dating show with a difference
A dating show with a difference that was launched at Millbrook Proving Ground is being aired on televisions this month.BBC Three’s brand new series The Year of Making Love is an experiment where...
View ArticleWoman criticises owners of cemetery after detour
A woman has criticised the operators of a cemetery after she was denied access to a side gate at the site.Marilyn Buck was angry when she unable to use the side entrance to the cemetery in Stratton...
View ArticlePub feeling chipper after clinching top food award
A pub in is frying high after its chips were voted as the best in the UK.The Crown in Henlow has wrapped up the Best Pub/Restaurant Chips category in the 2013 Choice Chip Awards after claiming the most...
View ArticleWorker quits over ‘irregular’ pay slip figures
A former warehouse worker has had to quit his job due to irregularities with his pay slips.Andy Penn, of Biggleswade says he had to leave his role after being paid expenses he never claimed – and only...
View ArticleNew programme for youngsters
A new project is encouraging young people to become good citizens.Speak Up for Society has been launched partly by the Beds Fire and Rescue Service (BFRS).It also hopes to boost young people’s...
View ArticleFears over wind farm noise levels
The developer of a controversial wind farm has denied claims that it is trying to change its planning application.Villagers have voiced their concerns that the Co-operative Group – which is building...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: Cloud Atlas
“Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?Everything is connected in this bonkers, beautiful and totally...
View ArticleBiggleswade Blockbuster store to close
The Biggleswade branch of Blockbuster is to close down, it has been confirmed.Administrator Deloitte is pulling the plug on the Market Square store – after it was saved from the axe when the first 129...
View ArticleCouncil tax freeze for third year running
Central Beds Council has frozen its council tax for the third year running.Councillors agreed the move at a meeting on Thursday last week (February 21).The budget for 2013/14 sets out plans for...
View ArticlePotton: Gypsy and Traveller sites meeting
More than 240 people attended a meeting about potential Gypsy and Traveller sites.Potton Town Council led the public meeting at the Mill Lane Pavilion on Wednesday evening (February 20).The aim was to...
View ArticleFuzzy logic behind TV numberplates
Look, it doesn’t really matter but it’s been gnawing away at me for a little while, so I thought I would share just in case can someone tell me. So what exactly is going on with car numberplates on the...
View ArticleGive blood in Biggleswade and Sandy
Save a life just by donating a little of your blood.A blood donation session will be held at the Weatherley Centre in Biggleswade on Wednesday, March 6. Go along between 1pm and 3.30pm or from 5pm to...
View ArticleWhat does a horseburger taste like? We find out
Like everyone in Europe I was appalled to hear illegal, untraceable, and potentially unsafe horsemeat had entered the food chain.And like every editorial office around the country the Advertiser and...
View ArticleMeeting of disco and karaoke
Disco will meet karaoke at a pub on Friday (March 1).The Red Lion in Biggleswade will be holding a Disco-araoke night.On Saturday (March 2) there will also be a 1970s disco party at the pub.A further...
View ArticleThey know their onion palletisers
Onions will be automatically stacked onto pallets at a fruit and vegetable suppliers.Bedfordshire Growers in Biggleswade has completed trials of a new onion palletiser device.The new automated...
View ArticleMP Burt welcomes social care plans
North-East Beds MP Alistair Burt has welcomed plans to reform the social care system.He said they would benefit the area.Mr Burt said: “I was pleased to hear Jeremy Hunt’s announcement last week of...
View ArticleNeil Fox’s films: Hansel and Gretel, Safe Haven
Hansel And Gretel: Witch HuntersIt hasn’t quite happened for Jeremy Renner has it? He broke through in scintillating fashion in the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.But since then his screen appearances...
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