Monday 21 May 2012

Luton on Sunday Letters

If you don't correct spelling mistakes there will be problems

Sir - South West Bedfordshire Conservative MP Andrew Selous (pictured) is quite right; it does children no favours to allow spelling mistakes to go deliberately uncorrected

What about the right to lead a normal life?

EDL leader, Tommy Robinson

SIR - I don't know what Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson) hoped to accomplish in the EDL march last week, but let's look at what he did achieve.

'Left seething' after St George's Day parade cancelled

Sir - I am seething after reading about the scouts march being cancelled because they couldn't afford the £2,000 to police it, but we can afford the EDL march costing £1million-plus.

Changing the way attendance is now recorded

SIR - We welcome your newspaper's move last week to scrutinise councillor attendance at Luton Borough Council meetings.

'It's my job to represent the views of those who elected me'

SIR - I write in response to Mrs Marsh (LoS April 29) who referred to me as a 'Luton Conservative'. While I would be honoured to represent any part of Luton...

New attendance figures reveal some have still dropped

SIR - I read with interest Lib Dem Councillor David Franks' long letter in Luton On Sunday (April 15) about councillors' attendance records. Cllr Franks pointed out that some of the figures...

If you don't correct spelling mistakes there will be problems

Sir - South West Bedfordshire Conservative MP Andrew Selous (pictured) is quite right; it does children no favours to allow spelling mistakes to go deliberately uncorrected

Luton & Dunstable News

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Julian Hughes-John

Men guilty of drill torture

Two men were found guilty of kidnapping and torturing a Luton man on Friday.

Officers to help during Olympics

Bedfordshire Police

More than 200 police officers will be deployed to help the Metropolitan Police during the Olympics.

New medical unit is open for business

Staff at the formal opening of the Short Stay Medical Unit Houghton Regis

A new short-stay medical unit has been opened.

Boy missing for two months

Ranveer Chumber has been missing since March

Police are concerned for the safety of a 14-year-old boy who has been missing from his foster home for two months.

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Features

The history of stolen prized medieval jug

Karen Perkins with a replica of the Wenlok Jug

Last Saturday one of Luton's most prized possessions - a rare medieval jug, one of just three in the world - was dramatically stolen from its high-security case at Stockwood Discovery Centre.

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Sweet backs Buckle to bring home the title

L-R: Paul Buckle, George Pilkington and Stuart Fleetwood before the Blue Square Bet Premier play-off final

Gary Sweet has vowed that Luton Town will not go through the pain of the play-offs again with Paul Buckle in charge for a full season

Willmott hits out at non-league officials

Robbie Willmott

Robbie Willmott slammed the officials' failure to spot the offside goal that broke Hatters hearts and said that poor decisions occur too often in the Conference

Buckle slams 'shocking' decision

Paul Buckle

Paul Buckle has described the linesman's decision not to flag for the offside goal that promoted rivals York City to the Football League as "shocking."

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