11-Mar-2007: It was 30 years ago today when we first landed on your doormat. Well not quite. On March 6, 1977, the people of Bedford woke up on Sunday morning to something new ...
(05/04/2007)
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FRANK BRANSTON
11-Mar-2007: It nearly never happened. One morning, in January 1977 I got a letter from Canada. It was from an old newspaper friend who was working for the Toronto Star and was ...
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11-Mar-2007: In August 2005, the Branston family sold LSNmedia, which includes Bedfordshire on Sunday, to Iliffe News and Media, part of Yattendon Investment Trust plc. Yattendon chairman Lord Iliffe, said: "The ...
(05/04/2007)
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FRED PLESTER
11-Mar-2007: Fred Plester soared across the Bedford skies like an ungainly comet, coming out of nowhere on its way to goodness knows what fate. For many of the seven years he worked ...
(05/04/2007)
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HIGHLIGHTS 1980-82
11-Mar-2007: Two men died from drugs overdoses in January 1980. Drug abuse was high on the news agenda in those days ...
(27/04/2007)
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HIGHLIGHTS 1983-85
A woman was locked up in a psychiatric ward for violent patients because she turned down a council flat, according to the splash in July 1983 ...
(27/04/2007)
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BoS Lifers
These are personal commentaries from some of the workers at BoS, who have been here at least ten years. They would get time off for good behaviour but none of ...
(27/04/2007)
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A6 murder
The Hanratty case is perhaps Bedfordshire's most notorious murder. On the evening of August 22, 1961, a car containing the lovers Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie, was parked by a field ...
(27/04/2007)
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