Pharmacy opening times for the Easter weekend
Pharmacy opening times for the Easter weekend have been confirmed by NHS Bedfordshire.In Biggleswade Boots in the market square will be open from 10am to 4pm today (Friday), from 8.30am to 5.30pm...
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Retail giants Marks & Spencer and Next will be opening stores in a Biggleswade retail park, it has been confirmed.Developers LXB, who are revamping the London Road Retail Park have exchanged...
View ArticleVisit the Signals Museum open day
The Signals Museum at RAF Henlow will be open on Saturday, April 6.Stop by from 10am to 4pm. Just go to the guard room with Photo ID for a free entry ticket. To find out more visit...
View ArticleGeoff Cox DVDs: Silver Linings Playbook
Using mental illness to get laughs might seem a poor substitute for genuine, character-based humour.And when Hollywood actors put on their no-make-up, serious faces to play people in psychiatric...
View ArticleBiggleswade Rotary Club’s fundraising
Rotarians raised more than £1,300 for charity.Biggleswade Rotary Club President, Velma Butcher, presented the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust with a cheque for £1,355 to help patients undergoing therapy...
View Article‘Dangerous’ rapist jailed for 12 years after attacks on two women
A rapist who attacked two women he met on internet dating sites has been jailed for 12 years.Sean Smith, 46, of Clifton was sentenced by Judge Gareth Hawkesworth at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday,...
View ArticleReflecting with the bishop
The Bishop of Bedford, the Right Reverend Richard Atkinson, visited the area on Thursday, March 14.He led Lenten Reflections at Eaton Socon, Wrestlingworth, Sutton and Potton, and led a pilgrimage...
View ArticleNursery cooks compete to create the best tasting healthy meal
Nursery staff held a cook-off competition to introduce their new cookbooks.The contest was held at Treetops Nursery in Biggleswade, formerly Toybox Nursery.The cooks from the Biggleswade, Sandy and...
View ArticleSpecial measures for failing upper school
Ofsted inspectors have slammed an upper school.They visited Sandy Upper School in mid-February and the report, which was made public this week, has rated the it as “inadequate” in all key areas,...
View ArticleThe Next big thing is coming to Biggleswade
Developers who are revamping a Biggleswade retail park hope to attract more big-name stores now Next and Marks & Spencer are on board.LXB have confirmed that two or three other household name...
View ArticleAn artist’s trail through China
Jennifer Fairhurst goes in search of a China beyond The Great Wall and discovers Guilin, where the scenery has been immortalised in iconic brush paintings.If I had been plucked from London and dropped...
View ArticleCouple’s shock as caravan is towed off drive
A couple were stunned when the 26ft caravan parked on their driveway was towed away by thieves.CCTV cameras captured the gang taking the vehicle from Andrew and Lois’ Stackhouse’s home in Dunton on...
View ArticleSpirit of the Ritz at this tea party!
Residents at a sheltered accommodation complex dressed up for a tea party.Quince Court in Sandy was the venue for the Ritz at Quince event on Monday, March 25.Tea and cakes were served and there was...
View ArticleShared home was perfect idea for Jake and parents
A family have taken up a home offer with a difference to help their disabled son.Denise and Christopher Ambler live with their son, Jake, who has Duchene musclar dystophy and is autistic.The family...
View ArticleDiarmuid was the centre of attention
Crowds gathered at a garden centre when a celebrity made an appearance there on Saturday, March 23.Celebrated Gardeners’ World presenter Diarmuid Gavin pulled in the punters at Frosts Garden Centre in...
View ArticleRunner’s latest run will help out coeliacs
A fundraiser will be helping to conquer coeliac disease.Richard Warriner of Sandy will run the Vigin London Marathon to raise funds for Coeliac UK. His 11-year-old daughter, Beth, suffers from the...
View ArticleMatt Adcock’s film review: GI Joe - Retaliation
“Let’s move! The world ain’t saving itself!” saving itself!”Q. How do you go about making a sequel to a big budget but entirely shallow action movie based on a range of plastic figures?A. Break out a...
View ArticleNo longer a load of old rubbish with scientists
Schoolchildren carried out waste busting activities.Pupils at Langford Lower School, Caldecote Lower School in Upper Caldecote and Edward Peake Middle School in Biggleswade all joined in with EDF...
View ArticleSt Mary’s Singers’ concert rescheduled
A Potton based choir’s concert has been rescheduled.St Mary’s Singers had to cancel their spring concert, which was due to be held on March 23, because the weather was too bad.It is probably the first...
View ArticleMembers process between churches
Churches joined together to mark a special Easter occasion.On Good Friday members of Sandy Churches Together carried the cross in a procession from Sandy Methodist Church to St Swithun’s Church.
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