Leisure & Lifestyle


SKF celebrates a century of enterprise

A display showcasing images and memorabilia to celebrate 100 years of a company is to begin this week at Wardown Park

Flower and produce show

In return for a donation, you can take home not only gourds but also other vegetables, fruit, cut flowers, plants and even homemade jams and cakes

‘Punk Poet’ ready to deliver his northern realism

John Cooper Clarke

Legendary punk poet and Bard of Salford, John Cooper Clarke (left), will be performing his unique rapid-fire delivery of his poems...

Big weekend of music coming to Luton

The Blockheads

Following from the success of two jazz concerts, Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton steps it up a gear with a full weekend of top bands.

Volunteers with green fingers needed for project

Volunteers are being sought for a community garden scheme in Lewsey.

Brit Award winners start search for concert choir

BLAKE

Classical Brit Award Winners BLAKE are looking for a choir to perform on stage with them at Grove Theatre in Dunstable.

The hunt is on for talent acts to star in charity concert

British Red Cross and SOS Vocal Training are looking for acts to perform in a fundraising concert to take place in Luton in October.

Fun for all the family at RSPB’s wildlife day

RSPB FAMILY FUN DAY Stockwood Discovery Centre, Luton Wednesday, 11am-3.30pm HELPING nature and wildlife is at the heart of an exciting family fun event in Luton this week. The RSPB has teamed up with

Find out all there is to know about bats and their fascinating lives

Bat

BATS IN THE BELFRY Wardown Park Museum, Old Bedford Road, Luton Now until Friday, August 20 OKAY, it's not really a belfry, but there are bats in the loft. Now visitors have a chance to find out all

America’s Got Talent Texan tenors’ tour hits town

THE TEXAS TENORS

THE Texas Tenors are searching for a choir to join them on the stage part of their first ever UK tour.

Seize the chance to dance the night away

BUSTIN’ Loose, the quarterly club night, is back next weekend, featuring a mix of danceable jazzfunk, boogie, soul, Nu Grooves and dancefloor jazz.

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that jazzy swing

Five star

FOLLOWING their recent performance at Dame Vera Lynn’s Charity Ball in London, the In the Mood show will be making a matinee appearance in Barton-le- Clay.

Bats in the Belfry

Bat

Okay, it's not really a belfry, but there are bats in the loft.

Travel Reviews


Canal in Amsterdam

Amsterdam days are just as lively as nights

I was told three things about Amsterdam before I went on my trip; it always rains, there aren’t any decent restaurants and it’s all about the ‘coffee shops’ and red light



Five extra days in Madeira? They were a piece of cake

Not volcanic ash, just some clouds over Madeira

Last october, STEVE LOWE and family visited Madeira and fell in love with the island. Over Easter they returned and had a longer holiday than planned

Set sail for sun, fun... and tequila!

Sapphire

MEXICO: Believe it or not, there is more to Mexico than Cancun

Sin City exposed

Las Vegas

Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire . . . never has a song lyric been so true about a city




Features

Fundraising mother will never get over losing baby Daniel

Penny Green

Birthdays are normally joyous occasions for the all the family - but for Penny Green, every one is a nightmare. Her son, little Daniel, was just 100 days old when, as a Down's Syndrome sufferer, he

David’s fight to keep British fish swimming

Typical Catch

A documentary about a Butterfield-based university professor's research into cryobanking has just been aired on CNN. Here, Professor David Rawson talks to SOPHIE SCOTT about the pioneering worldwide

TaeKwon-Do teenager lives up to the tradition of her family’s success

Family affair: From left Prit, Gav and Gurlaine at the World Championships in South Korea

A schoolgirl has just got back from South Korea after competing in the Tae Kwon-Do World Championships - and it turns out it is a real family affair.

Bat-boosting work takes flight as cash helps group’s cause

In action: Noctule flying from a tree. Picture by Hugh Clark from the Bat Conservation Trust

More than two decades after it was first formed, Bedfordshire Bat Group is still going strong with around 100 members across the county.

Kidney transplant gives sportswoman Ottilie a whole new lease of life

Ottilie reflects on the events of the last few years

Nearly four years ago, a 24-year-old Ottilie Morgan was at the stage of almost total kidney failure. But in a life-saving operation her mother bravely donated one of her kidneys.




Movie Reviews

Up In The Air

George Clooney in Up In The Air

When my parents’ generation went to the cinema, it was more to see the star than the movie ...

Where The Wild Things Are

Where This Wild Things Are

I never thought one of the hardest movies to review this year would be Where the Wild Things Are. I still can’t actually make up my mind whether this supposed kids movie is a piece of genius from

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That man has done it again. Twelve years ago James Cameron provided us with the biggest movie of all-time in Titanic – now his pet project has changed the face of cinema for the next generation. With


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